Sentence examples for barbed stinger from inspiring English sources

In fact, similar to the European honey bees, they're only able to sting once because their barbed stinger gets latched into the victim, along with half the bee's body.

That move was likely because the tail's barbed stinger can be dangerous when used in self-defense.

When a bee stings, it's a suicide act because it dies immediately after delivering its weapon into the flesh of its foe, the barbed stinger literally yanking its entrails out of its body as the bee flies away.

Indeed, in the case of stinging worker honey bees, there is not only cooperative labor but also, when necessary, the ultimate sacrifice in defense of the hive (at least where the invader is a mammal, stinging of which proves fatal to the bee as the barbed sting is torn out upon being deposited in the victim).

In comparison, the barbed stings of honey bees are relatively difficult to be withdrawn from fibrous tissues (e.g. skin), while the removal of paper wasp stings is easier due to their different structures and insertion skills.

Habit: Annual to subshrub; hairs needle-like, barbed, occasionally stinging.

Worker bees' stingers are barbed; once they sting a target, the barb catches and pulls the stinger from their abdomen, killing the worker.

The barbed spines of catfish sting and lock in place when the fish is under threat.

Bee stingers are barbed, causing them to tear out of the bee's abdomen when the target is stung, which also takes the bee's life.

Habit: Annual to perennial herb; hairs barbed to needle-like, not stinging; stems pale pink or generally +- white, branched or not.

If we want to properly contextualize shark attacks, we need to compare sharks to their peers -- bears and gators and the myriad other fanged barbed and venomous creatures that could sting us or bite us or otherwise ruin our day.