Mobile phone towers a threat to honey bees: study

[Po_d Mainiac]

He found that when a cell phone was kept near a beehive, the worker bees were unable to return, leaving the hives with only the queens and eggs and resulting in the collapse of the colony within ten days.

http://www.physorg.com/news170920128.html

[havocmom]

1. Wonder about cell phone transmission and a lot of things

:popcorn:

[Fotoware58]

2. Just say NO

to excessive cell phone use! For some people their cell phone use is off the table. Some will never stop using them, regardless of the effects.

[drm604]

3. The article doesn't make a lot of sense.

It says that electromagnetic waves emitted by the phone towers are causing problems for the bees, but he "proves" this by placing a cell phone near a hive. If this proves anything, wouldn't it be that the phones cause problems rather than the towers? Wouldn't it take some kind of statistical study involving proximity of hives to towers (rather than phones) to show that the towers are a problem?

[joshcryer]

4. Correct, it also would require a variety of cell phones to test for a connection.

One cell phone by a beehive does not constitute a scientific study. The cell phone could be causing all sorts of interference.

[Po_d Mainiac]

7. The article leaves lots of questions unanswered

The premise is well worth a serious study. That honey bees are on the decline is well documented. That the further loss of honey bees would be catastrophic to world's food supply, is also accepted truth.

Over a very short time frame we have clogged much of the bandwidth. If by doing so, we have managed to interrupt a fundamental link in the food chain is frightening.

Add this semi-study to recent reports that indicate cellphones are linked to brain tumors.

:tinfoilhat: or :nuke: ? YMMV

[Botany]

5. I think this has been debunked

[TommyO]

6. I think so too

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/27/1724239&from=rss

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/apr/26/science/sci-bees26

[hunter]

8. High Fructose Corn Syrup, Insecticides, or something like that.

I'm betting someone knows.

So far as the guilty party is concerned, the more noise made about cell phones, the better.