Do you know how large the animal is? Also, without doxxing yourself what’s the climate like?

Not not good

Likewise. It’s been a bit fractious here recently. A civil exchange like this gives me hope. Have a lovely morning/day/evening, wherever you are!

This confirms my comment to some extent as it also explains why the language of “unscrewing” is not appropriate. I would concede that if the lancets of the stinger are not deep enough for the barbs to gain traction then the bee can often live to fight another day. I have kept bees in the past and have observed some unenthusiastic stings!

Also untrue. Honeybees cannot unscrew their stings because their stingers don’t have a helical structure. They can remove their stings if they have stung another i however. A nice story but not a true one. The fatal sting evolved for a reason. If the stings were not fatal more honey bees would die defending the colony.