Phone Signal Annoying Bees

In experiments conducted by Dr. Daniel Favre, a bee expert, two mobile phones were put under a beehive. A tape recorder was also placed to record the sound of bees when the phone is active, disabled, and is in standby mode (stand by). Then, the reaction of the bees were observed carefully.

During observations, the bees turned out to react when the phone is being used to make or receive calls. They responded by issuing a high-pitched sound that is usually used as a signal to start clustered.

"During the 20-40 minutes after the phone is switched on, they began to make a sound that," Favre said. Two minutes after the call on the phone to stop, they went back to calm.

In these experiments, the bees are not clustered, even after 20 hours of test cell phone signal. Still, cell phone signal proved to be the cause of the bee flying erratically. However, this is not to kill the bees in the colony.

Dr Favre, a former teacher biologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, said that this study shows that current mobile phones can interfere with bees and dramatic effect.