The electromagnetic waves emitted by mobile phone towers and cellphones can interfere with the ‘navigational skills’ of the worker bees that go out to collect nectar from flowers to sustain bee colonies, a study published in India has concluded.An experiment conducted by Dr. Sainuddin Pattazhy in the southern state of Kerala found that a sudden fall in the bee population was caused by towers installed across the state by cellphone companies to increase their network, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.Dr. Pattazhy found that when a cell phone was kept near a beehive, the worker bees were unable to return, leaving the hives with only the queens and eggs and resulting in the collapse of the colony within 10 days.LEARN MORE
Mobile Phone Towers Threaten Honey Bees’ Inner GPS
