If mobile phone kill off bees, what about people?
Are the mobile phones responsible for the bee dying?
http://tinyurl.com/yopvn4
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Bees & Mobile phones
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/dr_george_c_mcgavin_oxford_university_entomologist.htm
ABC News link: Where are all the bees?
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3044826
plus print article
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=3044926&page=1
Enough coverage yet??
With kind regards
Sarah Dacre MSc ACIB
London, UK
http://www.hese-project.org/hese-uk/en/heseuk/who.php
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NEW SCIENTIST
Monday, April 16, 2007
Are cellphones wiping out bees?
HERE IS ARTICLE
The bizarre and sudden vanishing of bees that started in the US, and has now spread to Europe, has left apiarists stumped as to the cause. Now, researchers in Germany have come up with an explanation that, in the absence of a better theory, will probably be seriously considered: cellphones.
Radiation from mobile phones is interfering with bees' navigation systems, preventing the insects from finding their way back to the hive, according to a preliminary study by Jochen Khun's team at Landau University in Germany.
If it is true, it's difficult to know what can be done about it, since cellphones are now so ubiquitous. But colony collapse disorder (CCD), as the mystery bee demise is known, is a serious problem, with as many as 80% of bees affected in some parts of the US. It occurs when all the hive's occupants suddenly disappear (nobody knows where) leaving just the queen, her eggs and a few immature workers. And it has huge implications for agriculture because bee-performed pollination is vital for most of the world's crops.
Previous studies have shown that bees' behaviour changes near power lines, although the areas around power lines also provide an untouched haven for the creatures.
From Mast Sanity/Mast Network
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Cellular phone uses linked to bee deaths
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/204247
From Paul Raymond Doyon
MAT (TESOL), MA Advanced Japanese Studies, BA Psychology
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"
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More on bees and mobile phones
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/more_on_bees_and_mobile_phones.htm
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=bees
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bees
http://tinyurl.com/yopvn4
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Bees & Mobile phones
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/dr_george_c_mcgavin_oxford_university_entomologist.htm
ABC News link: Where are all the bees?
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3044826
plus print article
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=3044926&page=1
Enough coverage yet??
With kind regards
Sarah Dacre MSc ACIB
London, UK
http://www.hese-project.org/hese-uk/en/heseuk/who.php
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NEW SCIENTIST
Monday, April 16, 2007
Are cellphones wiping out bees?
HERE IS ARTICLE
The bizarre and sudden vanishing of bees that started in the US, and has now spread to Europe, has left apiarists stumped as to the cause. Now, researchers in Germany have come up with an explanation that, in the absence of a better theory, will probably be seriously considered: cellphones.
Radiation from mobile phones is interfering with bees' navigation systems, preventing the insects from finding their way back to the hive, according to a preliminary study by Jochen Khun's team at Landau University in Germany.
If it is true, it's difficult to know what can be done about it, since cellphones are now so ubiquitous. But colony collapse disorder (CCD), as the mystery bee demise is known, is a serious problem, with as many as 80% of bees affected in some parts of the US. It occurs when all the hive's occupants suddenly disappear (nobody knows where) leaving just the queen, her eggs and a few immature workers. And it has huge implications for agriculture because bee-performed pollination is vital for most of the world's crops.
Previous studies have shown that bees' behaviour changes near power lines, although the areas around power lines also provide an untouched haven for the creatures.
From Mast Sanity/Mast Network
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Cellular phone uses linked to bee deaths
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/204247
From Paul Raymond Doyon
MAT (TESOL), MA Advanced Japanese Studies, BA Psychology
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"
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More on bees and mobile phones
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/more_on_bees_and_mobile_phones.htm
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=bees
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bees
Starmail - 16. Apr, 13:06
