what bee can sting the longest?
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A really BIG one.  Stinger might be up to 1/2 inch long!  OUCH.....!!
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If you look at the upper surface of the abdomen of a carpenter bee, you will see that it is hairless, black and shiny, while a bumble bee will hairy or at least have some yellow markings.\n\nBumble bees usually nest in the ground while carpenter bees tunnel into wood to make their nests.  Carpenter bees prefer bare, unpainted or weathered softwoods, especially redwood, cedar, cypress or pine.\n\nAfter mating in the spring, the female will lay their eggs in a series of small cells, each egg wrapped in a leaf with a ball of pollen for food.  The tunnels in the wood are perfectly round and about the diameter of your finger.\n\nOver the years, they can do considerable damage to wooden structures.\n\nKeeping wood painted and well maintained is probably the best way to keep carpenter bees at bay.\n\nFemale carpenter bees are not terribly aggressive, and will only sting if extremely provoked.  Male carpenter bees can be quite aggressive, flying into people's faces and even hovering directly in front of them, but fortunately they are completely harmless and have no stinger.
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Actually a highly venomous spider after death would not be wise to touch. A dead bee if you touch the stinger you will be stung and injected with venom even though it is dead. A poisonous spider would be one that is fatal to eat. The word poisonous and the word venomous in regards to animals have two separate meanings.
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Somebody's got a bee in their bonnet!
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bees are most attracted to brightly colored flowers with a strong scent.\nso i would say the colorfull ones!
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Q: WHAT KIND OF BEES GIVE MILK?\n\nA: BOOBIES!!!!
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miapia87 is incorrect...bees dont eat other insects...they consume nectar...the sting that they have is for defense...and when they sting...the whole stinger and part of the abdomen will come off...that is why bees die after they've stung something...bees usually need to defend the nest from other queen bees who try to overthrow the dominant queen...and also from wasps and hornets...these insects do eat other bugs...anyway wasps and hornets don't die once they've sting you...they are more vicious than bees...their venoms are more potent...and...they can sting you again and again...so please avoid them...at all cost!!!
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clipped from www.wisegeek.com\n\nFor sheer length you can't beat a female Giant Walking Stick (Phobaeticus serratipes). Found in Malaysia and Singapore, looking like an assemblage of twigs, it is perfectly camouflaged among the branches where it lives. The longest specimen on record was an amazing 21.8" (55.5cm). Some people even keep these huge insects as pets.\n\nThe Giant Walking Stick may be long, but it doesn't have much mass. For that you have to turn to the giant scarab beetles. Among them, entomologists have settled on 5 contenders:\n\nThe South American Longhorn Beetle (Titanus giganteus) of French Guiana makes perhaps the most impressive showing with a body length over 6.5" (16.7cms).\n\nA shorter but far thicker competitor is the Acteon Beetle (Megasoma acteon) of South America. Males can grow to 5.3" (13.5cms) long by 1.6" (4cms) thick. \n\nThe Elephant Beetle (Megasoma elephas) found in Mexico and Venezuela has a shorter body than the Aceton, but a longer snout, making its total recorded length 5.4" (13.7cms).\n\nBringing up the rear are two species of Goliathus: regius and goliatus, both measuring in at 4.3" (11cms).\n\nIn 1874 the Rev. J. G. Wood published Insects Abroad, in which he claimed to have in his possession a 9" (22.8cm) South American Longhorn Beetle (Titanus). A specimen this large has never been documented since, and no one is quite sure what method he used to measure the bug. Therefore the accepted recorded length remains at 6.5" (16.7cms), which still leads the top five contenders.\n\nAlthough the Giant Walking Stick and scarab beetles win for length and mass, for sheer weight you'll have to turn to the giant wetas (Deinacrida heteracantha) of New Zealand. A pregnant female can top the scales at over 2 ounces (71gms)! \n\nThere are well over 1 million insect species known, with an estimated 10 million still undocumented. However, the title of world's biggest insect remains a matter of what constitutes "biggest" to you: length, mass or weight!
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Honey bees have a "search" radius of 12 miles from the hive.
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Largest: Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus)\nSmallest: Bumblebee bats (Craseonycteridae)
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A bee. With its life-saving honey. I will call her Queen. :)
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Here's one that is over a foot long ...\n\nhttp://www.designtoscano.com/jump.jsp?itemID=4293&itemType=PRODUCT&path=1%2C2%2C66%2C69\n\nAlso, there's a several-foot long fire ant statue in Northport, Alabama
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Yes - there are impulse responses to the stinger that "fire" automatically.  These can react long after the bee is dead (even if only the back-half of the bee remains).  Since the stinger is really nothing more than a hypodermic needle with poison set on a spring mechanism, the reaction of being stung requires no conscious thought from the bee.  Doesn't even require the bee to be alive.  The bee only lines up the stinger to the target - if you do that work yourself, you'll get stung.
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My daughter is exactly the same but she has been like right from the first time she was stung. The only way we know she's been stung is when we find bee stings stuck in her skin.\nShe & you are very lucky but don't get complacent because if you get stung too many times at once you could go into anaphylactic shock.
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I think it's possible, but only if the person was covered with the appropriate scent markers.  Otherwise the bees would get quite annoyed.
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It depends on whether the bees are a swarm or actually ensconced within the tree.  Actually, It really doesn't matter.  Once bees swarm you have about 1/2 hour after they coalesce to get them into a hive (or they will find their own place).  So you have to have all the necessary equipment available beforehand.  Thus, the expiration of your time limit is rapidly approaching.\n\nCollecting swarms is very easy.  Bees are essentially robots, behaviourally programmed.  While swarming, most other behaviours are bypassed.  Swarming bees are amazingly tolerant of handling (for example: if a swarming bee tangled in your hair, you will get stung because YOU panic, if you sit quietly, the bee will untangle itself and fly off).  \n\nSwarming behaviour consists of:\n1) The queen leaving the hive;\n2) A mass of bees joins her;\n3) The swarm leaves the near vicinity if the hive;\n4)  The swarm coalesces (usually on a branch), and sends scouts out.\n5)  The scouts search for a new "enclosed" space for the colony.\n6)  Upon finding a new home, the scout returns to the colony and conveys this info.\n7)  The colony moves to the new location.\n\nI collect bees with the following:  a hive box and a 3'x4' piece of canvas (page of newspaper will do).  You may also need a 20"x20" (or similar size) cardboard box, ladders, loppers, and other tools.  I would also recommend a bee bonnet and a smoker,\n\nUpon arriving at the reported location of the swarm:\n1)  I locate the swarm, and place tarp on the ground near the swarm (generally under it).\n2)  I place the hive box, with  the opening just on one edge of the tarp with the remainder of the tarp in front of the hive box.\n3)  I cut the branch off the tree and lay it on the tarp.  OR\n4)  If the branch is too thick/long to easily cut and handle, or if someone doesn't want their tree butchered, I hold the box directly under the swarm, grab the branch and shake vigorously one or two times.  This will dislodge the swarm into the box.  I immediately place the box on the tarp on one side with the opening near the hive box opening (using the box method, I have collected swarms up to 20 feet up in a tree).\n5)  I move the bees ONLY AFTER NIGHTFALL!  If you move them during daylight, some bees will be out foraging and when they return their HOME will not be there.  There is nothing more ornery than a bee that returns home and finds it gone.  Also, the hive must be moved at least three, preferably five miles from it's location.  This distance causes the foraging bees to reprogram the new location of the hive and return to the new location.\n\nYour options:\n\n1)  If the bees are inside the trunk of the tree, fumigate the tree.  Removing bees from an enclosed space is nigh on impossible unless you have  access to the queen.\n2)  There are multiple sources on the web for good answers on beekeeping.  Try google.com or yahoo.com.  \n3)  Read The "Hive and the Honey Bee" by .Dadant & Sons; Rev. ed edition .  Also "The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture"  A.I. Root.  Best general texts available.\n\nYou may use this information to help your dad, or to further your quest for understanding the world of Bees and beekeeping.  If you use this because you are too lazy to do homework, May you be Stung on the Tongue!
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A bee hive.  Yum yum\n\nisn't honey lovely?  My fave is acacia