Are Cellphones Decimating Bee Colonies?

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Cell phone radiation may be messing with bees’ navigation systems, throwing them off track on their way back to the hive. Via New Scientist, this latest explanation for the decimation of American bee colonies comes from Jochen Khun’s team at Landau University in Germany. Bees disoriented by cell phones signals? It makes more sense to me than than an earlier theory reported by the New York Times: “It could just be that the bees are stressed out.”