Honey bees prefer to sleep in the dark recesses of their hive, but on hot nights they will instead sleep outside. As the planet heats up, nights are warming faster than days, meaning honey bees could soon be spending more evenings outdoors, exposed to light pollution.

Researchers at UC San Diego discovered that artificial light significantly disrupts the circadian rhythms of honey bees, which affects their health and essential pollination activities. Honey bees, key to ecosystem stability and global food security,

In an emerging red flag for the digital era, sleep experts have warned us to avoid screen time in bed, sounding the alarm that light emitted from phones and other electronic devices can disrupt our sleep patterns.

The issue has serious implications as disruption to pollinators' body clocks harms "vital" ecosystems, according to scientists.