More Study Needed

In real life, of course, you won't find mobile phones in beehives.   And further studies are needed--those that place cellphones at greater distances from the bees--to study the connection between odd honeybee behavior and mobile phone-generated electromagnetic fields.

Favre points to a recent experiment suggesting that cellphones and cellphone towers located near beehives hamper honeybee navigation.

"In one experiment, it was found that when a mobile phone was kept near a beehive it resulted in a collapse of the colony in 5 to 10 days, with the worker bees failing to return home, leaving the hives with just queens, eggs, and hive-bound immature bees," he writes.

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