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.

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 ...

In the arid, cracked desert ground in Southern California, a tiny bee pokes its head out of a hole no larger than the tip of ...

In the first study to link social evolution to climate change, Cornell University entomologists show that the social behavior of many species of sweat bees evolved simultaneously during a period of ...

Today’s batch of burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal: Question: Why do “sweat bees” become so annoying this time of year? These look like little yellow bees, about a quarter ...

Go to a park on a hot summer day, and you will not be surprised to see bees buzzing in and out of flowers. They drink flower nectar and collect flower pollen. Then, depending on what kind of bees they ...

Just in time for the forecasts to hit triple digits and for us all to stock up on deodorant and tank tops, scientists say they’ve discovered and are now analyzing the Lasioglossum gotham, casually ...

Scientists recently identified a tropical sweat bee that’s male on its left side and female on its right side — a rare condition known as gynandromorphy Most animals are sexually dimorphic, where ...

Researchers have identified eight bee species never before recorded in Washington state. The discoveries were made in Chelan County during a University of Washington study on climate and wildfire ...