Archive: https://archive.today/zrOzh From the post: >>At first glance, it looks like any other quiet cemetery, with rows of gravestones set against freshly cut grass and the occasional visitor passing through. But just beneath the surface, it is anything but quiet. Millions of bees have built an immense underground city, where they live out their entire lives below ground, building nests, raising young, and going mostly unnoticed. In a study published in Apidologie, researchers at East Lawn Cemetery in Ithaca, New York, uncovered one of the largest known aggregations of ground-nesting solitary bees ever recorded, estimating that an average of about 5.6 million bees emerge from a single section of lawn each spring, with totals ranging from roughly 3.1 to 8 million. Records show the species has been present at the site since the 1930s, raising the possibility that this population has remained active for decades beneath the same patch of ground.