Yeah, now they are. The wonderful irony is that you now have to sting yourself with a pen that hurts way more than the bee sting, just to keep breathing.
This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at June 28, 2017 8:28 AM MDT
I got stung by a yellowjacket (people often call them "bees", but they're not. They're much more aggressive and nasty than bees) when I was 5 years old. I cried :(
Yes it does. Luckily, whatever stung me wasn't really potent. I didn't see the darn thing, just felt it later. Some jellies in other parts of the world are quite deadly.
Never by a bee, numerous times by wasps. (Wasp nests tend to be hard to notice, at least by me.)
For those interested:
Wasp venom achieves this effect by waging a staged attack against the nervous system on a cellular level.
The stinger delivers the venom to the victim's blood stream. Peptides and enzymes in the venom break down cell membranes, spilling cellular contents into the blood stream. When the cells in question are neurons, which serve the central nervous system, this breach causes the injured cell to send signals back to the brain. We experience these signals in the form of pain. To make sure the pain keeps coming, other substances in the venom, such as norepinephrine, stop the flow of blood. This is why the pain of a wasp sting can last for several minutes, until the blood stream can carry the diluted venom away. Finally, hyaluronidase and MCDP (mast cell degranulating peptide) pave the way for the membrane-destroying elements in the venom to move onto other cells by melting through the connective tissue between them. This spreading factor leads to the swelling and redness associated with most insect stings.
I once put my hand into an interior mail box and quickly withdrew it because of a sharp pain. Upon inspection, I removed the intact body of a wasp that had been dead so long that it was essentially dried up. The body was rigid, and the stinger was extended. It had just slightly penetrated my hand. It did not hurt as much as a sting by a live wasp who would have been actively injecting venom into my hand, but I could definitely identify it as a "wasp sting."
You are just one of those people who get stung. What can I say? LOL
That has NEVER happened to me even once. I am a person who gets cut by glass breaking a lot more than most people. So, we suffer equally but for different reasons.
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