When a yellow jacket stings you does the bee die?

yellow jackets and bees are not the same thing...bees die when they sting you, it is their last line of defense a yellow jacket or wasp can sting several times.

A yellow jacket is not a bee, it is a wasp. Wasp and hornets have stingers shaped like thorns with no barbs on them. They can and do sting you many times with no consequences to them other than running out of venom. A bee on the other hand, has a stinger shaped like an arrow or harpoon. Once the stinger is in your skin, the bee is locked on to you. To brush it away will leave the stinger in your skin, but tears the bee's abdomen out and so the bee dies after only one sting. If you let the bee walk around in circles it can sometimes work the stinger out and so live. But that doesn't happen often. The stinger of a bee will continue to pump venom after the bee is gone. The best way to get it out is by scraping not pinching. Bees will leave you alone unless threatened although Africanized bees are more aggressive. Wasps will sting for just about any reason. For either a wasp sting, or a bee sting, a very quick antidote is to pack the area with wet tobacco. There has also been quite a lot of success in bee sting therapy for multiple sclerosis.