Discovery of ancient bee nests in fossils points to a never-before-seen behavior

In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.

Ancient bees laid eggs inside bones

Bees are frequently associated with large queen-serving colonies featuring hundreds if not thousands of insects. In actuality ...
Live Science

Ancient burrowing bees made their nests in the tooth cavities and vertebrae of dead rodents, scientists discover

Scientists made a unique discovery in a cave on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola: dozens of fossilized bee nests inside ...
Scientific American

Ancient Bees Burrowed Inside Bones, Fossils Reveal

Bones of now extinct species became a haven for bee babies thousands of years ago, scientists report in a first-of-its-kind ...

When the Bones Were Good, These Bees Buried Their Babies

A cave in the Dominican Republic concealed thousands of years worth of animal bones that had been turned into nests by ...
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Fossils Suggest That Some Ancient Burrowing Bees Made Their Homes in Rodent Skulls

While cleaning fossils retrieved from a cave on a Caribbean island, a researcher noticed something strange in the hollow ...

Fossilized Bee Nests Inside Skeletons Are Unlike Anything We’ve Seen Before

For the first time ever, paleontologists have found fossil traces of burrowing bees nesting inside the buried bones of other ...
Utah Public Radio

This scientist studies how parasites and flowers spread disease between bees

Wild bees across the west face a growing threat from microscopic parasites. Last week an Oregon researcher visited USU’s ...
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Do carpenter bees eat wood? What they actually consume (and why it matters)

Bees are fantastic pollinators. Without them, ecosystems would not thrive. Unfortunately, over the last 15 years, there has been a significant decline in both bee colonies and individual bees due to ...