Researchers at Cornell University believe about 5.56 million bees emerged in spring 2023 to mate and forage Scientists from Cornell University have estimated that about 5.56 million bees live beneath ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A New York State cemetery may be home to nearly 5.6 million ground-nesting bees, according to a new study. The colony is one of ...

Bees are commonly imagined as insects that live in hives hanging from trees. In reality, however, about 70 percent of native bees build their nests in the ground. And, according to new research, some ...

One of the largest and oldest recorded aggregations of ground-nesting bees in the world was hiding beneath a small cemetery in upstate New York. Nobody knew until a lab technician stopped to look. A ...

Ithaca, N.Y. — Rachel Fordyce just wanted to park for free. What the Cornell University lab technician stumbled upon instead was the world’s largest known cluster of ground-nesting bees. Fordyce’s ...

A miner haunts the East Lawn Cemetery in Ithaca, New York. It’s not the spirit of an interred workman, but Andrena regularis, also known as the regular miner bee. It’s black and tan and fuzzy, ...

When most people stumble across a large population of bees, their first instinct is to back away and find another route. Rachel Fordyce did the opposite — and it led to a remarkable discovery. Fordyce ...

The bees have been present at the cemetery since the early 1900s. In spring 2022, Rachel Fordyce walked through East Lawn Cemetery on her way to work at a Cornell entomology lab. She noticed bees were ...