Do you live in NY? Ever been to East Lawn Cemetery in Ithaca?
If so, you may have unwittingly walked over one of the largest and oldest populations of regular miner bees ever recorded.
"... between 3.1 and 8.0 million bees."
"... could have existed for ~90 years."
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