A study on effects of mobile phone towers and cell phones on honey bees conducted in Kerala, India, has revealed that mobile towers and cell phone emit electromagnetic waves that may wipe out honey bees.

Cell phones when kept close to beehives drastically reduced the bee population within a short time span. A beehive is a colony that has the eggs, the queen bee and the worker bees. The job of the worker bees is to travel, collect nectar and reach back to its beehive.

Electromagnetic waves emitted by cell phones and the towers interfere with the navigational skills of the worker bees, as a result the worker bees fail to reach their home destination. Without the worker bees, the beehives are left only with the queen and the eggs resulting in a total collapse.

1 Lac people in southern state of Kerala are indulged in Agriculture. With too many mobile phone towers the bee population are drastically reducing and causing a concern to their livelihood.

A cell phone tower can collapse a colony in just 10 days. With more number of cell phone towers it is estimated that the bees may be extinct within 10 years.

- By Bud Clive