A new study has been released that shows that bees in urban areas are building their nests out of plastic. The study observing the ecology of modern bees, as reported in EcoSphere, has surprised the scientific community with its findings. "It’s not like they mistook it for plants – they actively sought it and developed a new mechanism to process it for their nests. Markings showed that the bees chewed the plastic differently than they did leaves, nor were the leaves hard to come by in their nests’ vicinity."