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A 1.5-acre cemetery in upstate New York holds a bee population comparable in number to more than 200 honeybee hives, because roughly 5.5 million solitary mining bees nest beneath its lawns — each female digging her own burrow, with no hive and no qu - Space Daily

SpacedailySeptember 15, 2026
A 1.5-acre cemetery in upstate New York holds a bee population comparable in number to more than 200 honeybee hives, because roughly 5.5 million solitary mining bees nest beneath its lawns — each female digging her own burrow, with no hive and no qu - Space Daily
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Rachel Fordyce used to save on parking. A technician in a Cornell University entomology lab in Ithaca, New York, she left her car at a plaza and cut across East Lawn Cemetery to work and one spring m…

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