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When bees sting, their stingers get trapped inside the skin because there are barbs sticking out that snags the skin. The bee will try to get away soon after, and since the stinger and bee are going opposite ways it rips. This injury is fatal and the bee dies withing several minutes. Wasps do not die when they sting; they just fly away.

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