Study: Cell phones could be killing off bees!?

Mon Jun 07, 2010 3:03 pm » by **Illuminated**

Study: Cell phones could be killing off bees

The reason behind a massive die-off of honey bees over the last several years has largely eluded scientists, but researchers at Punjab University now say radiation from cell phones is probably responsible for the decline. The technology is interfering with bee navigational senses and tampering with inner-hive life.

Researchers at the university used two hives in the experiment over a period of three months, exposing one to a cell phone turned on twice daily for 15 minutes at a time. The report shows a dramatic decrease in the number of bees spawned in the cell phone hive compared with the one not exposed to the technology. The number of worker bees returning to the hive also decreased, resulting in a drop in nectar production.

Prior research has faulted a combination of pesticides, disease and loss of habitat for the bee die-off.

MORE: Gang of factors causing bee die-off
http://www.publicradio.org/columns/mark ... e_kil.html

Mon Jun 07, 2010 3:06 pm » by **Illuminated**

this is somehow Very Relevant!

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cough cough :wink:

Mon Jun 07, 2010 3:22 pm » by **Oldscho0l**

When was the last time any of you saw a bat flying around the lights at night catching bugs? I suspect that cell phones are destroying the bats ability to navigate and hunt. I have not seen a bat for 3-4 years and the insect numbers here are insane. We are going to have a plague without the bats.

No food without the bees.

Mon Jun 07, 2010 5:29 pm » by **Svaha**

There are lot's of bees in my garden, none of them uses a cell phone.
Lot's of plants and animals / insects that are rare elsewhere, I designed and made my garden specially for all these beings.
I started with plants for butterflies / bees, made 'houses' for birds / bees and during the years more and more animals / insects came.
Bees disappear elsewhere because of the monoculture / pesticides / fertilizers and so on, this was pretty much predictable.
So to me this is yet another useless science project.