Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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(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 ...

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 ...

A Cornell University lab technician walking through a cemetery on her commute in 2022 collected a jar of bees she noticed emerging from the ground. That jar led to the documentation of one of the ...

A new study reveals alarming risks that pesticides pose to ground-nesting bees, which are crucial for pollination and food production. As agriculture increasingly relies on pesticides to protect crops ...

A quiet cemetery in Ithaca, New York, was hiding a huge working world just under the grass. Scientists estimate that about 5.56 million regular mining bees emerged from East Lawn Cemetery in spring ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- 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 ...

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