In spring 2022, an Ithaca, New York, resident named Rachel Fordyce noticed something strange in East Lawn Cemetery. Patches ...

Cornell Orchards, located about one third of a mile from the cemetery, may help support the massive bee population.

A casual walk through an Ithaca cemetery led to the discovery of a gigantic hidden bee population — roughly 5.5 million ground-nesting bees packed beneath the soil. Scientists believe it may be one of ...

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 ...

Bees are hovering over North Carolina yards — but you may want to think twice before racing to get rid of them. That’s because you’re likely seeing ground nesting bees, which are known to be docile ...

(Beyond Pesticides, December 3, 2024) In an article in Science, Sabrina Rondeau, PhD reviews her research from 2022-2024 showcasing species of ground-nesting bees, often found in crop fields, that are ...

The bees have been present at the cemetery since the early 1900s.

Relatively little is known about the nesting requirements of ground-nesting wild bees, although nesting sites are of central importance for most wild bee species. There are almost 600 wild bee species ...

A group — including children and adults — who were visiting a western Michigan park reported being stung by ground-nesting bees. Some in the group were stung multiple times, according to reports. The ...

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