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5.5 Million Bees Found Living Underground in a Cemetery!

Thursday 28 May 2026 β€’ScienceDaily
5.5 Million Bees Found Living Underground in a Cemetery!

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Workers at a cemetery in New York discovered an ENORMOUS hidden city of bees living beneath the soil β€” about 5.5 million of them! These ground-nesting bees have been quietly living there for over 100 years, pollinating [helping plants make seeds by spreading pollen from flower to flower] apple orchards and farms all around them. It's one of the biggest bee colonies ever found, and nobody even knew they were there!
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