At the same time, the bees continue to bite and sting at the queen. It's a fate every bit as terrifying as it sounds, with Bixler capturing an example of "queen balling" at close quarters in the ...

The queen honeybee has a different and smoother stinger with a much smaller barb than the worker bee, so it is able to sting you multiple times unharmed. This does not happen often though ...

Queen bees cost between $30 and $40 ... He would have started beekeeping much earlier, he said, but he was afraid of bee stings. He discovered on a trip to a beekeeper relative in Maryland ...

Now to understand why the honeybee has to die after she stings you, you need to realise that bees come in three 'genders' or 'sexes' or 'orientations'. First, there is one queen who is the only ...

If the queen can't find a nest site and ... Until the exoskeleton is set, bees and wasps can't fly to forage, or sting to defend. They also need time to develop a circadian rhythm.

The bees became aggressive ... safety of the hive or the hive's queen, NPS said. "Many victims of Africanized honeybee attacks have suffered from hundreds of stings, and a few have been stung ...