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Are Mobile Phones Killing the Bees?
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by Jordan Yerman | April 15, 2007 at 08:49 am
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Following up earlier posts, here is a new development in the honeybee die-off mystery. Scientists are positing that honeybees are refusing to return to hives when a mobile phone is nearby, leading to the mass abandonments that characterize Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), which makes ghost towns out of beehives.
[S]ome scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world's harvests fail.They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops. Late last week, some bee-keepers claimed that the phenomenon - which started in the US, then spread to continental Europe - was beginning to hit Britain as well.
The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees' navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from finding their way back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem, there is now evidence to back this up.
The article goes quite a bit further, indicting mobile phones as harbingers of brain tumors and early senility, both of which are are not yet proven results of ongoing mobile phone usage.
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at 12:31 on April 15th, 2007
massive food shortages, as the world's harvests fail.
I'm thinking the majority of the worlds food isn't grown in the "city" where the majority of the cell phones are.
I've been out to the "worlds harvest fields"
My cell won't work there.