Bees seeking blood, sweat and tears is more common than you think
- Written by Manu Saunders, Research fellow, University of New England
Known sweat-collecting stingless bees, Tetragonula sp., from the bee family Apidae.Tobias Smith, Author provided
The recent story of four live bees pulled from inside a woman’s eye quickly grabbed people’s attention. News reports claimed the bees were “sweat bees”, the common name for species in the bee family Halictidae.
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