Honeybees behaviour in a Faraday-shielded hive: Mandatory Schumann resonance for colony survival

International Journal of Research
Daniel Favre – Olle Johansson – 30apr2025.

Abstract.
Research shows that low-level anthropogenic electromagnetic fields negatively impact various species in their behaviour, affecting orientation, migration, foraging, reproduction, nesting, territorial defense, vitality, and survival. Many insects, like honeybees, rely on Earth’s electromagnetic fields for orientation and foraging. The honeybees react negatively to anthropogenic multi-frequency interference through multi-sensory mechanisms. In order to circumvent the potentially negative effects of external electromagnetic influence, the honeybees were kept in Faraday hives. Placing honeybees in such Faraday-shielded cages, which block external electromagnetic fields, effectively isolates them from natural electromagnetic frequencies. However, the long-term survival of the honeybees in such Faraday hives was only possible with the artificial re-introduction of the Earth’s natural electromagnetic environment, the Schumann resonance. Honeybees placed in Faraday cages without access to the Schumann resonance experience a range of effects, including physiological impairments to the queen of the honeybees’ colony, which stops laying fertilized eggs. This is leading to the collapse of the colony, which is finally containing only immature female workers and drones. These findings highlight the significance of natural electromagnetic fields in maintaining homeostasis and normal biological functions of honeybees. Further research is needed to explore factors like electromagnetic radiation affecting honeybee physiology and behaviour. The combined effect of multiple stressors, interacting across space and time, likely plays a central role in the global decline of honeybee health.

Faraday shielded hive in the anechoic chamber

Olle Johansson commented via email as follows.

Given the recent very alarming media coverage of the dramatic decline of honeybees, bumblebees, and of other insects (and birds feeding on them), our results must be considered central to any attempts to save the pollinators from complete extinction. If we don’t act NOW, it may very well soon be too late.

More than 90% of the bumblebees are gone in the USA, more than 90% of the honeybees in Canada, and more than 75% of the honeybees in the USA and in Europe, and with these declines also goes wasps, other hymenopterans, birds foraging on insects (I have had several very disturbing calls from Canada and the USA about these losses), squirrels, mice, rats, cats, etc. So the situation is far, far, far worse than what first meets the eye.

Also take a look at this particular article, and the illustrations which were published 11 years ago.

Extract – “..Whole Foods Market removed all of the fruits and vegetables dependent on pollinators from its produce section to create a striking visual of what our supermarkets would look like without these important creatures as part of its Share The Buzz campaign. The store ditched a shocking 237 items, or 52 percent of the normal product mix...”

Your produce choices with or without bees

“….Bees, beetles, butterflies and their pollinating brethren are essential in the production of nearly 75 percent of our crops, and without them, you could count out all those foods — and many, many others…“

Daniel and I tried to warn, yes, but so very few have listened – their interests have been elsewhere.

And the major institutions are actively turning their backs to me. A few days ago I wrote to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Sweden, and the head ( Ms Charlotte Permell ) of the WWF Sweden replied and said that “…this is a bit beside the point of what we write about in WWF Magazine, as we primarily talk about WWF’s work for nature and climate”. IF INSECTS, POLLINATORS, HONEYBEES, BIRDS, BACTERIA, etc., ARE NOT NATURE AND NOT CLIMATE THEN ……. What kind of an actual official agenda is there? And who decides it? ( Definitely NOT the pollinators! )

Daniel and/or I can do a lot more, both regarding this topic, as well as about other issues, such the functional impairment electro-hypersensitivity, the impact of artificial, man-made non-evolutionary-adapted radiation/synthetic radiation on human health as well as on biology, WiFi / 5G in schools, bacterial antibiotic resistance after exposure to cell phone and WiFi router EMFs, impact on fertility, sperm cell quality, the Bluetooth MAC Address issue, impacts of 5G etc.

And you may ask yourself: “What can I / we do?” The answer is multifaceted, there is a lot one can do, and one thing is to, please, read our fundraiser call, https://research.radiation.dk , and share it – as widely as you ever can.

Now is the time for action.
(Olle Johansson, associate professor)

Daniel Favre
A.R.R.A., P.O. box 138, CH-1860 Aigle, Switzerland

Olle Johansson
Associate Professor, Retired from the Karolinska Institute (In Nov 2017, Still Active), Department of Neuroscience, Head of the Experimental Dermatology Unit, Stockholm, Sweden, and Adjunct Professor, Previously at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

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