Do magnets affect honey bees?

So it is with pardonable pride that beekeepers have been known to endorse quotes like the one attributed to Albert Einstein: “If the bee disappears from the surface of the Earth, man would have no more than four years left to live.”

Varroa mites feed off of the honey bee fat body, similar to the human liver, and transmit diseases if left unchecked. This is the biggest threat to honey bees currently.

Disruptive effect They found that the material can be magnetized using a strong permanent magnet and that magnetizing the abdomen of a live honey bee disrupts its ability to navigate using local magnetic fields .