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Why Millions of Adorable Bees Are Emerging From This Cemetery
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At first glance, a cemetery is silence, grass and lined tombstones. But in East Lawn Cemetery, in Ithaca, New York State, the ground tells another story because a Cornell University team has estimated that there emerged in the spring of 2023 about 5.56 million wild bees of the species Andrena regularis. What is striking is not just the number, but the context. Who would say that a bee that does not form hives can concentrate at just 6,523 square…
Why millions of adorable bees are emerging from this cemetery
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, sometimes sporting patches of yellow as it collects pollen. The critter is at once peculiar to humans and highly regular in the natural world: We might expect it to form huge colonies like honey bees, but in fact it’s among the 90 percent of bee species th…
The discovery of more than 5 million bees living under a cemetery in New York City reveals a surprising phenomenon and reinforces the importance of unexpected environments for the preservation of species essential to ecological balance. Far beyond traditional hives, these bees show how nature finds efficient ways to survive and thrive, even... The post More than 5 million bees were found under a cemetery appeared first on The Antagonist.
Every spring, millions of buried creatures emerge from the ground of a cemetery in Ithaca, New York. This is not a zombie horror movie, but one of the greatest known…More...
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