German research has long shown that bees’ behaviour changes near power lines. Now a limited study at Landau University has found that bees refuse to return to their hives when mobile phones are placed nearby . Dr Jochen Kuhn, who carried it out, said this could provide a “hint” to a possible cause.
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The radiation from mobile phone masts and similar wireless devices can therefore disrupt bee navigation , both by the sun and by the earth’s magnetic field. This can reduce the number of foraging bees returning to the hive and result in colony collapse disorder.
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