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Four bees lived inside a woman's eye and fed off her tears, reports say
The four sweat bees, properly known as Halictidae, sustained themselves on her tears, according to multiple reports.
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A young woman in Taiwan reportedly had four bees living beneath her eyelid and "feasting on her tears."
That's according to the Guardian, which cited a press conference where a doctor at Taiwan's Fooyin University Hospital described how he found the insects squirming within the woman's eye.
"I saw something that looked like insect legs, so I pulled them out under a microscope slowly, and one at a time without damaging things inside," said Hung Chi-ting, the hospital's head of ophthalmology, at the conference, per CNN.
The four insects measured less than a quarter of an inch in length, the network reported, and are known as "sweat bees" or Halictidae. The insects, which are typically non-aggressive, are drawn to human perspiration that "offers them precious moisture and salts," the Missouri Department of Conservation notes.