Disturbing honeybees' behavior with EMF: a methodology

Abstract

Disturbing honeybees' behavior with EMF: a methodology Danial Favre. Disturbing honeybees' behavior with electromagnetic waves: A methodology.J Behav 2(2): 1010 (2017). Abstract Mobile phone companies and policy makers point to studies with contradictory results and usually claim that there is a lack of scientific proof of adverse effects of electromagnetic fields on animals. The present perspective article describes an experiment on bees, which clearly shows the adverse effects of electromagnetic fields on these insects' behavior. The experiment should be reproduced by other researchers so that the danger of man- made electromagnetism (for bees, nature and thus humans) ultimately appears evident to anyone. jscimedcentral.com

AI evidence extraction

Main findings

This perspective article describes an experiment on bees and states that it clearly shows adverse effects of electromagnetic fields on honeybees' behavior, and calls for reproduction by other researchers.

Outcomes measured

• honeybee behavior

Limitations

• Perspective article (not clearly described as a controlled experimental study in the abstract).
• No exposure parameters (e.g., frequency, intensity/SAR, duration) reported in the abstract.
• No sample size or quantitative results reported in the abstract.

Suggested hubs

• who-icnirp (0.2)
  Mentions policy makers and claims about lack of proof, but no specific WHO/ICNIRP content is provided.

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