5.5M ground nesting bees make home in Ithaca cemetery

Research by Steve Hoge '24, an alumnus of Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, reveals that a cemetery in Ithaca, New York is home to one of the largest and oldest recorded aggregations of ground nesting bees in the world with an estimated 5.5 million individual bees. The published April 13 in the journal Apidologie.
Read the story in the Cornell Chronicle.

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		Photo illustration showing nine bees superimposed over photos of a cemetery and trees, cast in red on the left and yellow on the right
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