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
I have never been stung by a bumblebee, but I have heard that a bumblebee sting is less painful than a wasp sting, some say it is also less painful than a honey bee sting, others that it is more painful. Also the pain seems to be worse in certain parts of the body-the face and neck for instance.