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Question? My kindergarten class would like to know, can a person be stung by a dead bee?


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You can place the stinger into the skin. However, the muscles that are used to inject the venom will not work. No pain should be felt. One note: the muscles that inject the venom can operate after the bee is dead, maybe for a half an hour or so.

Steve Sample


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