Yes, female carpenter bees do have the ability to sting you, say Brannen Basham and Jill Jacobs, the co-owners of Spriggly’s Beescaping, a nature education and habitat restoration business in ...

Carpenter bees, common in California, bore into untreated wood, causing structural damage but rarely sting; only females can sting and do so only if provoked, while males cannot sting.

A singular killer bee's venom is similar to the venom of a regular honey bee, however, since killer bees are known to swarm and sting in large numbers, there can be more severe reactions, such as ...