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
Other bees such as the bumble bee and the carpenter bee are different. These beesâ stingers are actually quite smooth â like wasps â and so the sting usually does not get caught in the vicitm. Some bees are even less of a threat to man and their stings are unable to even pierce the human skin. The mining bees which you see in lawns are an example of such bees.