think about this next time you use you cel phone.

[Hotzcatz]

Nope, not the cause. There isn't enough new cell phone use near the existing bee hives to cause the phenomenon. Generally, people don't hang around bee hives and the hives that are being abandoned have been there for awhile. It would need to be some new source of radio frequency radiation if that were the cause.

They did find some of the varroa mites in Manoa on Oahu, but so far the bees on our island have been mite free. I don't know if there has been any hive loss on either island but I haven't heard of any.