p2pnet - rss feed: Cellphones as honey bee killers
p2pnet.net news:- There’s ongoing concern that constantly holding a cellphone to your ear can cause health problems, although Britain’s Health Protection Agency doesn’t seem overly worried. But are phone signals possibly dangerous to honey bees as well?
Welsh bee-keepers, “are being urged to pool their ideas on a phenomenon that is wiping out their colonies,” says icWales.co.uk, going on:
“Nearly one in seven hives dies out naturally each winter, but beekeepers want to know whether discoveries of deserted hives this spring are signs that the mysterious colony collapse disorder - CCD - sweeping America and Europe has emerged in Britain.”
“People are experiencing losses and it’s a complete mystery,” the story has association secretary John Taylor saying. “Some are finding empty hives and saying it’s down to CCD, but this goes back years and we used to call it the Marie Celeste syndrome.”
But the unusually high number of honey bee deaths in Britain this year may be caused by radiation from mobile phone signals, say experts, according to The Telegraph.
A German study suggests radiation, “can interfere with bees’ navigation systems,” says the story. “In some cases, 70 per cent of bees exposed to radiation failed to find their way back to the hive after searching for pollen and nectar, according to the research by Landau University.
“The researchers placed cordless-phone docking units, which emit electromagnetic radiation, into bee hives.”
However, there are also all kinds of other possibilities, says icWales, among them, environmental stress, malnutrition, unknown pathogens, the use of antibiotics, the varroa mite and the small hive beetle, pesticides and genetically modified crops.
“Thousands of colonies in Spain are reported lost, and up to 40% of Swiss bees are reported to have disappeared or died in the past year,” says the story.
“Heavy losses are also reported in Portugal, Italy and Greece.”
Also See:
The Telegraph - Bees ‘killed by mobile phone signals’, April 16, 2007
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April 17th, 2007 at 9:37 am
I would buy this theory, but the problem is that parasites, animals and other insects refuse to enter the hives of colonies wiped out by “CCD.” If nothing will go into these hives, then the invaders must “know” something we don’t.
November 26th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
I think this story might actually be true, but there are dozens of other possibilities. It could be because of the queen bee ATTACKS all the other bees and frame it. _ _
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