Are mobile phones killing bees?
Unless you’re talking about using your phone as a rather expensive bee-swatter, there is no scientific evidence to support this idea. There was an article which appeared in April 2007 in “The Independent” (a UK newspaper) which reported on research done in 2006 at Landau University in Germany. However, the newspaper article misreported what the research had tested, then went on to link several separate strands of information about honeybees. It’s a classic piece of garbled reporting: its result was to create an impressive — but unproven — theory of their own (and a lot of newspaper sales.) Neither reporter appears to know much about bees; I suspect that they know no more about electromagnetic radiation. Anyway, the Landau study actually had nothing to do with mobile phones (or mobile phone masts) so it proves nothing about their effects on honeybees. What the Landau researchers had done was to install a DECT base (the kind used for household and office cordless landline phones) insid
