Your Cell Phone is Probably Killing All The Bees

Remember a while back when there were all these reports of massive honeybee deaths, and no one knew why? Well, at least in the case of this die-off, scientists think they know what's going on. And it's pretty crappy.

Turns out that our cell phones, you know, the things we're glued to day and night, might be causing all those poor bees to kick the bucket. The Daily Mail recently ran a story about a former Swiss biologist who put a cell phone underneath a beehive and watched as the bees completely freaked out.

"...[T] the bees were able to tell when the handsets were making and receiving calls. They responded by making the high pitched squeaks that usually signal the start of swarming," another news outlet reported of the biologist's experiments, going on to quote the scientist as saying, "this study shows that the presence of an active mobile phone disturbs bees -- and has a dramatic effect."

And it's not like it's just this one dude who's making accusations against our iPhones and Androids. About a year ago, scientists from Punjab University in India made very similar discoveries.

While some researchers still maintain it's pesticides and disappearing wildflowers causing the massive bee deaths, personally, I'm gonna side with the cell phone folks. It just makes so much sense. Cell phones aren't magic. It's not like a magician created a device to call people with an invisible cord – there's radiation and energy and probably lots of other stuff that if I was smarter I'd know about involved.

Now the only question is, if cell phones really do turn out to be the culprit of an overwhelming honeybee disappearance – what the heck are we going to do about it?