[ RadSafe ] Mobile [cellphones] towers threatening honey bees in Kerala', Press Trust of India, PTINews.com

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http://www.ptinews.com/news/256707_Mobile-towers-threatening-honey-bees-in-Kerala

N Muraleedharan

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 31 (PTI) Mobile towers are posing a threat to 
honey bees in Kerala withe electromagnetic radiation from mobile towers 
and cell phones having the potential to kill worker bees that go out to 
collect nectar from flowers, says a study.

A plunge in beehive population has been reported from different parts of 
Kerala and if measures are not taken to check mushrooming of mobile 
powers, bees could be wiped out from Kerala within a decade, 
environmentalist and Reader in Zoology, Dr Sainudeen Pattazhy says in 
his study.

In one of his experiments he found that when a mobile phone was kept 
near a beehive it resulted in collapse of the colony in five to 10 days, 
with the worker bees failing to return home, leaving the hives with just 
queens, eggs and hive-bound immature bees.