Bee stings are not just a painful inconvenience; they are the result of a highly evolved biological defense mechanism. When a bee stings, it injects venom, which contains a complex mixture of proteins ...

Do you know what attracts or excites bees? Do you know how to handle a bee sting — or perhaps several? While usually not a major health issue, bee stings can sometimes cause a severe allergic reaction ...

In what may be the biological equivalent to getting struck by lightning, a very unlucky man in the Philadelphia area took a very rare bee sting directly to the eyeball—and things went badly from there ...

"This is not a normal behavior for these bees, to be this angry and want to kill you," a bee-removal specialist said Alexis Jones is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

A man was found to have a bee stinger lodged in his eye after being stung by an insect. The horrifying discovery was made after the 55-year-old, from Philadelphia, went to the Wills Eye Hospital ...

A Surprise man was recently sent to the hospital after being attacked by a swarm of bees while retrieving his mail, and four firefighters and a group of children were also stung, according to the ...

It did. The bee stings happened over at the loop behind me just as school was beginning this morning. The superintendent and the fire chief say that 40 students were stung. 40 students were stung.