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Do cell phones cause bees to get lost?

Some say mites, some say pesticides, some say overworking…now you can add another possible cause for the decline in honeybee populations…cell phones. Researchers in India fitted cell phones to a bee hive and powered the phones up for two, fifteen-minute periods each day. In three months time, the bees stopped producing honey, the queen bee’s egg production was cut in half and the size of the hive was dramatically reduced.

Biologist Andrew Goldworthy with the Imperial College in London says bees use the earth’s magnetic field for their sense of direction and the electromagnetic field of cell phones could be interfering with that. Hence, the bees can’t find their way back to the hive. Goldworthy says a change in the frequencies used by cell phones could remedy the situation.

The U.K. Mobile Operators Association tells CNN researchers have identified possible causes for Colony Collapse Disorder and exposure to radio waves is not among them.

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