Bees have been attracting a lot of news coverage recently, mainly because of the disappearance of millions of them. And there is a special, symbiotic relationship between humans and bees. From an evolutionary point of view it was in the interests of both bees and humans to help each other improve on nature.
It is a fact these fascinating creatures have played an important part in the development of civilisation, pollinating the plants that drove the development agriculture, building elaborate structures that inspired many architectural advances and supplying us with honey. In turn we provided the bees with safe, weatherproof hives and planted fields of their favourite crops which made their "search and pollinate" tasks much more easy.

Scientists have come up with several feasible theories to explain the collapse of bee colonies: parasite attacks, they are being poisoned by pesticides and chemical fertilisers, or that microwave radio signals from cellphones and wi-fi networks are screwing up their very sophisticated navigational systems.

Nobody had considered another possible source of problems for bees until Boggart Blog asked those staff members who are not quite human to investigate.

It is known bees have a well developed means of communicating. What sounds like monotonous buzzing or a Westlife record to you is in fact a complex tonal language for passing information vital to group survival among hive members. Our researchers have discovered this communication has been disrupted and also have identified the source of the noise pollution that has rendered the BeeBC news useless.

The messages bees should be getting from the buzz around the hive are being mashed up by the buzz from MP3 player headphones.

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