KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (KGO) -- No matter how your day is going, at least you don't have bees living in your eyes. Doctors treating a Taiwanese woman for a swollen eye were shocked to find four tiny bees ...

Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60 -Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. Hopkin: They say it’s darkest before the dawn. And that’s just the way that sweat bees like it. These tropical insects ...

Mites not only inhabit the dust bunnies under the bed, they also occupy the nests of tropical sweat bees where they keep fungi in check. Bees and their young are healthier when mites live-in, report ...

There are nearly 1 million insect species that can be found across the globe, according to the Smithsonian. With this many creepy crawlers roaming around, there's a chance some can be in your backyard ...

Appearance: About 3/8 inch in length. Black or dark brown head and body with pale bands on abdomen. Fuzzy, rusty-orange colored hind legs. (H. rubicundus is one of 4,500 sweat bee species worldwide.

Sweat bees nest in the ground in either small colonies consisting of a queen and workers, or alone. Researchers compared the genes of social versus nonsocial bees to find correlations between genes ...