Someone Found 5.5 Million Bees Living Underground in a New York Cemetery

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[00:00:00]Someone took a casual walk through a cemetery [music] in New York and accidentally found 5.5 million bees living directly underneath their feet.

[00:00:07]Scientists [music] in Ithaca, New York were doing a routine survey of a local cemetery when they noticed unusual bee activity [music] near the ground. When they investigated, they found one of the most extraordinary things ever discovered in nature. Roughly 5.5 [music] million ground-nesting bees had built a massive colony directly beneath the cemetery soil. Thousands of individual [music] nesting sites packed so densely together that scientists believe it may be the single largest [music] bee aggregation ever documented anywhere on Earth. Here is the part that will mess with your head. These bees have almost [music] certainly been there for years. People have been walking over them, standing on them, and having funerals directly above millions of bees without ever knowing. The ground was alive the entire time.

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