They Filled the Mojave Desert With Millions of Bees — One Year Later, Everything Changed

There is a story going around that someone released millions of bees into the Mojave Desert, and that a year later the whole ecosystem had transformed. It is the kind of headline that is easy to share and easy to believe. But when researchers actually looked, they found the story had it backward. Nobody needed to fill the Mojave with bees, because millions were already living there, hidden under sand so hot it can hit seventy degrees, doing something almost no one had ever studied. And what a single year of watching them revealed changed how scientists see this desert entirely.