Do cell phones kill honeybees? Though you might have heard media reports that say so, the short answer is no, there’s no reliable evidence that cell phone activity causes bees to die . That’s according to renowned entomologist May Berenbaum of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Read moreWhat is causing the decline in the bee population?
Bees and other pollinators are declining in abundance in many parts of the world largely due to intensive farming practices, mono-cropping, excessive use of agricultural chemicals and higher temperatures associated with climate change , affecting not only crop yields but also nutrition.
Read moreWhat is killing American honey bees?
The cause of the loss of bees seems to be the sudden early death, in the field, of large numbers of adult workers [2]. Curiously, the dead colonies tend to be left alone by the two cleptoparasites that normally infest dead honey bee colonies: the wax moth Gallaria mellonella and the small hive beetle Aethina tumida.12 Haz 2007
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