[whatshisface]

Is the author suggesting that bees have been inhabiting tear ducts for thousands of years, or have they just scanned across thousands of death-related cultural artifacts in order to find a few that involved bees?

[codycraven]

This article seems to really be stretching to hopefully hop on the hype train of a recent newsworthy event without any citations that are actually similar.

Tears turning to bees is far different than bees entering an eye socket and feeding on tears.

[notfed]

"Once I began looking for tears linked with bees, I found them everywhere"

I suspect this to be a case of confirmation bias. Besides, bee stings hurt, which I would suspect is why there are so many hits.