I would be happy to accept that bees are able to detect signals from mobile 
phones or mobile phone masts.  Whether this affects their foraging behaviour 
or survival is open to question and requires much more research.  I suspect 
that the impact of man's ever increasing generation of electromagnetic 
signals may well have an impact (unspecified) not only on insects such as 
bees, but perhaps the human population.

I would agree that placing mobile phones in hives appears to be OTT, but if 
it shows that bees are affected by the very high signal levels, then we 
might wish to consider what effects the general background - and ever 
increasing, mobile phone signals - might have at what might be described as 
a subliminal level.

I do not really have a firm position on this - just curious and not willing 
to dismiss the idea.

Best wishes

Peter
52.194546N, -1.673618W 

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