As with many common names, however, the term "sweat bee" is also applied colloquially to other species of bees, despite its technical restriction to halictids.

The sweat bees made an orienting flight very similar to those used by bees active in daylight before they flew off.

I was stung at least a thousand times by mimis - tiny bugs with the jolt of a sweat bee.

Agapostemon texanus, also known as the green sweat bee, is a bee found in North America.

The flowers are a major host plant for a rare species of sweat bee, Sphecodogastra antiochensis.

She flicked her whip at a sweat bee that had also taken refuge in the privy.

The air is thick with sweat bees.

"The plant is pollinated by small, stingless sweat bees," he said.

Smoky fires were lit to keep off clouds of black flies and tiny sweat bees.

Halictus rubicundus is a species of sweat bee found throughout the Northern Hemisphere.