Beneath this cemetery, 5.5 million wild bees form a giant underground city vital to spring pollination

To save money, Rachel Fordyce parked her car for free at Ithaca's East Hill Plaza and walked through East Lawn Cemetery to her job as a technician in an entomology lab on Cornell's campus. One spring day in 2022, she walked in to work with a jar full of bees.

Originally published at Phys.org