To Sting or Not to Sting
Bombus queens and monarchs of the Apis
melifera
can sting you more than once.
Their daughters can defend themselves,
Alas, not so the sons.
A Honeybee uses her stinger to protect
the hive,
if she stilletos another insect she may
remain alive.
She'd rather not attack a mammal for fear
of her mortality,
But African bees will sting en masse
with a mob mentality.
Princess bees and the queen will fight
each other to the death,
But the elder queen would rather swarm
to avoid regicidal stress.
All male bees are amorous and really
quite defenseless.
Bald faced hornets will not hurt us if
we keep our distance.
The same can be said of mostly all the
female Vespas,
But giant Japanese hornets are
Hymenoptera horribilus.
They make all other wasps and bees seem
but an inconvenience.
Madame Beespeaker, Oct. 30, In the Year of Our Bee 2013
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