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Default Bees die when they sting human beings.

The answer by the dear friend is little in correct
the correct answer is
The worker bee's stinger is a complex organ that allows a bee to defend itself and the hive from most mammals. Typically, the stinger can be used only once in an act of defense, known as a bee sting, as it becomes forever detached from the bee in the process. Upon delivering the stinger, the bee will subsequently die from dehydration, since the portion where the stinger bulb was removed becomes raw and exposed. The impending doom of death for such a bee can be justified by well known principles of evolution. Nevertheless, in the evolutionary context, the survival of the individual worker bee is not significant, since they do not directly contribute to the survival of the colony's genes and genetic transmission is achieved by other means.
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