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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“Animals, including insects, use cryptochrome for navigation,” Goldsworthy told CNN. “They use it to sense the direction of the earth’s magnetic field and their ability to do this is compromised by radiation from [cell] phones and their base stations . So basically bees do not find their way back to the hive.”
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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 .6 Ara 2011
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Radiation From Cellphones, Wi-Fi Is Hurting the Birds and the Bees ; 5G May Make It Worse. Technology is quite literally destroying nature, with a new report further confirming that electromagnetic radiation from power lines and cell towers can disorientate birds and insects and destroy plant health.
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It is possible that no effect might be seen in bee behavior or honey flow at the moment, but with the continuous increase in use of mobile phones and other devices, there might be an accumulated effect.
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Radio-frequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMFs) can be absorbed in all living organisms , including Western Honey Bees (Apis Mellifera). This is an ecologically and economically important global insect species that is continuously exposed to environmental RF-EMFs.
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