You must not be allergic, then, because it lasts a lot longer than a stubbed toe, and much more painful than simply “irritating”.
I’d rather stub my toe 10 times than get stung by a bee — well, maybe not the same toe. :)
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One bee sting's effects will last about five days, give or take.
A dozen bee stings' effects will last about two weeks, give or take a few days.
A hundred bee stings is life-threatening.
All that w/o allergies.
When I was a kid and used to hay the fields on our farm in the summers, I would get stung quite a bit from the ground wasps being kicked up by the hay bailing machines. I got so used to it that it would literally be like a mosquito bite. Annoying for less than 30 seconds. That was years ago, and my tolerance for stings isn't that high any longer. But even today a sting will be bothersome for maybe ten minutes, and within an hour the reaction will be gone completely.
Bees sting with a lot more poison than wasps. That's because their stingers are barbed and if they pierce far enough into your skin the stinger and its poison bag and poison pumping muscle will not leave your skin unless you pull it. The bee will fly away, but in doing so it will rip its guts out and later die. The stinger will then pump way more poison into you than a wasp would -- the wasp's stinger is not barbed.