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
However, only certain bees within a hive or colony are capable of stinging. Even though they are capable of it, most bees do not sting unless provoked. The female bees of both social and solitary species are able to sting when threatened. Male bees do not have stingers. Bumble bees, Bombus spp., are ground-nesting bees and have smaller hives than honey bees.