# Bee with no abdomen **URL:** \ **Category:** General Bee Chat\ **Created:** [July 10, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/bee-with-no-abdomen/7823 "2016-07-10T04:19:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![harrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e99b99/32.png) [@harrya](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/harrya)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/bee-with-no-abdomen/7823/1 "2016-07-10T04:19:26Z")
Found this bee walking around near the hive. Rather odd. I thought the reason bees die after they sting is that their guts are pulled out. ![](https://cdck-file-uploads-us1.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/2X/e/e8987e1d15a68ee178a3d11e568c22e1cf0a3a52.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![Dawn\_SD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/dawn_sd/32/15954_2.png) [@Dawn\_SD](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Dawn_SD)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 5:02am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/bee-with-no-abdomen/7823/2 "2016-07-10T05:02:57Z")
Probably attacked by an insectivorous wasp or hornet. 😢 ---
**Author:** ![Dee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/dee/32/5840_2.png) [@Dee](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Dee)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 6:45am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/bee-with-no-abdomen/7823/3 "2016-07-10T06:45:41Z")
Yep…wasp ate it. It just took a little while to die. That’s what wasps do to bees when they are sweet feeding. The cut off the abdomen to feast on the honey, saves having to get into the guarded nest ---
**Author:** ![harrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e99b99/32.png) [@harrya](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/harrya)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 11:52am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/bee-with-no-abdomen/7823/4 "2016-07-10T11:52:22Z")
I’ll be on the lookout for the culprit then. we h=can’t have that sort of bad behavior in the yard. ---
**Author:** ![Eva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@Eva](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Eva)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/bee-with-no-abdomen/7823/5 "2016-07-10T14:15:48Z")
Gruesome…never seen this before. Glad you posted it, motivates me to put out a wasp trap! ---
**Author:** ![Dee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/dee/32/5840_2.png) [@Dee](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Dee)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/bee-with-no-abdomen/7823/6 "2016-07-10T14:25:35Z")
> [@Eva](#): > > put out a wasp trap Careful how you position it. have a look here for a really comprehensive treatise on wasp IPM [https://www.waspbane.com/?page\_id=1000](https://www.waspbane.com/?page_id=1000) ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Bush](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/michael_bush/32/1024_2.png) [@Michael\_Bush](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Michael_Bush)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 12:24pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/bee-with-no-abdomen/7823/7 "2016-07-11T12:24:42Z")
Or it got injured by the beekeeper… They can live quite a while with no abdomen. ---
**Author:** ![Dusty](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/dusty/32/10839_2.png) [@Dusty](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Dusty)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/bee-with-no-abdomen/7823/8 "2017-09-29T14:58:46Z")
![download (14)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/2X/0/061df8414398b2d94d975e76fd9f7a5f5e709c57.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Dawn\_SD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/dawn_sd/32/15954_2.png) [@Dawn\_SD](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Dawn_SD)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/bee-with-no-abdomen/7823/9 "2017-09-29T17:26:44Z")
Probably a wasp/hornet attack. Poor bee. 😢 ---
**Author:** ![Anon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@Anon](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Anon)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/bee-with-no-abdomen/7823/10 "2017-09-29T19:10:13Z")
Further proof that insects do not feel pain? If my abdomen got torn off I’d be writhing in pain. ---
**Author:** ![Semaphore](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/semaphore/32/14994_2.png) [@Semaphore](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Semaphore)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2017, 1:10am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/bee-with-no-abdomen/7823/11 "2017-10-01T01:10:07Z")
mercifully- probably not for long… ---
**Author:** ![fffffred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@fffffred](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/fffffred)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 1:21pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/bee-with-no-abdomen/7823/12 "2020-10-18T13:21:45Z")
Just witnessed this phenomenon myself… a bee found its way into my house tonight and met it’s fate with a fly swat which separated it’s abdomen from the thorax… the bee continued to act fully functional thereafter. I ended up squishing it to put it out of her misery. Similar to this but a bit more livelier: [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/3X/e/d/ed720335786fbe798c217ab5820104d79bbda02d.jpeg "The Bee With No Abdomen") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQtwAUaR_8M) ---
**Author:** ![Natalie\_Lister](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/natalie_lister/32/29330_2.png) [@Natalie\_Lister](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Natalie_Lister)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/bee-with-no-abdomen/7823/13 "2023-07-20T19:19:42Z")
Was just searching for how long a bee can live without its abdomenand found this. I found a bumble bee without one