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

Wait 5 sec.

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.