What are the symptoms and what should I look out for?
This means that they can sting multiple times. Wasps, on the other hand, preserve their sting on their body. It will remain there and can continue to pulsate venom into the area over a period of a few minutes. Bees have a barbed stinger that is injected into the skin. Though at first glance they have many similarities, bees and wasps fundamentally have a very different sting. Including those in the Hymenoptera species: bees and wasps. At the very least they can cause a sting with some localised pain and irritation, but depending on one’s sensitivity, can cause a major response in the body resulting in anaphylaxis.Īnaphylaxis is a severe allergic reaction that occurs when the body’s immune system releases a wave of chemicals in response to a specific stimulus that the body has become hypersensitive to.
