Introduction. The 16th-century Spanish explorer and conquistador Hernando de Soto (c. 1496-1542) arrived in the West Indies as a young man and went on to make a fortune in the Central American slave trade. He supplied ships for Francisco Pizarroâs southward expedition and ended up accompanying Pizarro in his conquest of Peru in 1532.
take a look on this site bumblebees can sting at least the queens and workers can and their sting is not barbed like that of the honeybee so they can sting more than once the photographs on the left shows the sting of a bombus lapidarius queen i found her dead in the garden one morning
The same is true for wasps. So most bees and wasps can sting you, pull the stinger out of your skin, and fly off before you can yell Ouch!. Solitary bees, bumblebees, and wasps do not die when they sting you. In honey bee workers, the stinger has fairly large, backward-facing barbs on the lancets.