Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is lesson 129. Today we're going to look at the difference between
sting and bite. Yeah let's take a look at the definition of sting first. If someone
is stung by a plant, animal or insect you feel a sudden sharp pain because a sharp point of the
plant animal insect etc. has been pushed into your skin. This is one, this is a key
point of sudden pain usually when you're stung it's like OUCH ! Right away and you
know that you have been stung. I think I think the confusion comes in a lot of
students or even just a lot of people in general think we think of sting we think
of an insect that has what we call a stinger which looks like like a little
needle and we think well those insects must sting and the other insects bite.
It's not completely right. It's partially it's it's most of them that have
stingers do sting but that's not completely true there are a lot of
exceptions to this. So let's look at the first example she was stung by a bee.
Yeah a bee has a stinger and that you do feel pain you will feel like OUCH !
Right away if a bee stings you. Let's look at number two though. When Jane sat
by that bush she was stung by some fire ants. Right now fire ants they don't have
any singers but they sting their ants. How do they sting ? They just they bite
but the fact is that you feel pain. OUCH ! If anybody has ever been has been bitten by fire ants
and you feel that pain immediately. So we say fire ants sting so sting so that's one of the
key ways about it. So with sting you feel a sharp pain
immediately. All right let's take a look at bite. If you are bitten by a small
insect it leaves a mark or hole on your skin that could lead to some swelling or an itchy feeling. And this is your typical sort of a bite. Again but a lot of times
with uh with bites you may not notice it right away. Just like you know the
perfect example we use is mosquito. Sometimes you you could you " oh damn' I
got a mosquito bite. but you didn't even know you might have had it for an hour
already. It may take a while before you may actually feel the itchy feeling . So
let's take a look at that. All right here's another note to note. Some people say
this that venomous insects sting and non-venomous insects bite. It's mostly
true. All right let's look at this example. I woke up with two mosquito bites again this is this is one where
the mosquito does have a needle they do have a stinger but they don't sting. When
you get a mosquito bite you don't feel pain right away. So we say mosquitoes
bite we don't say that mosquitoes sting. Okay and ticks. Tick bites all right let's
take a look at the note here. Number three she fell asleep in the park and woke up with some flea bites.
Flea bite also they don't sting. Okay good and well here's
just some of the most common ones that we might use with sting and bite. So
obviously bees sting, wasps sting , Hornets sting Yellowjackets sting scorpions
sting and fire ants sting. Al right and with bites of course mosquitoes bite, fleas bite,
ticks bite chiggers bite, and of course there are more. But I hope you got the point. So
one of the key parts with sting is usually you feel pain immediately right
away and they tend to be more poisonous. Yeah you never really hear anybody dies
of a mosquito bite. You know you might you might scratch it. It may get infected
but you know nobody nobody could die. If someone was allergic to bees they could
die from from a bee sting. Okay and the other
point of course is you know the amount of venom. There this this definitely has
been. This you know that they have they obviously you feel uncomfortable you
feel inches but it's it's not a deep poison so well anyway I hope that's
clear thank you for you