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Re: [Market-farming] FW: GO NOFA Forum Cellphones Cause Bees to Swarm to Their Death, Says a New Study
- From: Richard Stewart <rstewart AT zoomtown.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] FW: GO NOFA Forum Cellphones Cause Bees to Swarm to Their Death, Says a New Study
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 22:56:40 -0400
Here is a link that the article links to, which is another article that discusses much more information and has a better title: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1385907/Why-mobile-phone-ring-make-bees-buzz-Insects-infuriated-handset-signals.html And here is the actual data/abstract about the researcher and the paper that was published. Mobile phone-induced honeybee worker piping Daniel FAVRE. Apidologie Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Received 24 June 2009 – Revised 29 March 2010 – Accepted 8 April 2010 Online First™, 13 April 2011 Abstract – The worldwide maintenance of the honeybee has major ecological, economic, and political implications. In the present study, electromagnetic waves originating from mobile phones were tested for potential effects on honeybee behavior. Mobile phone handsets were placed in the close vicinity of honeybees. The sound made by the bees was recorded and analyzed. The audiograms and spectrograms revealed that active mobile phone handsets have a dramatic impact on the behavior of the bees, namely by inducing the worker piping signal. In natural conditions, worker piping either announces the swarming process of the bee colony or is a signal of a disturbed bee colony. http://www.apidologie.org/ (you need to pay to get the whole paper, one of the reasons why I like researchers that release via places like Plos ONE that lead to more transparency to avoid headlines that claim things the paper does not). This has been discussed over on the Bee-L list. I honestly thought this was a completely different study. It was not. No where in the paper does the researcher or his work link deaths of honeybees to cell phones. I think its important to note that A) lots of beekeepers keep bees near cell phone towers and under power lines and that B) many losses from CCD have happened in regions where there are no cell phone towers. That is not to say that the research is not interesting, it is and I'd like to see something a bit more solid in the research like say an actual RF transmitter that is shielded to prevent signal leak and then an easy on and off. This research was done a shoe string and shows more, I think that bees, maybe use more methods of communicating and directional awareness than we understand than it does anything about deaths of honey bees. It take nearly a half hour of exposure to the transmitting phone before the bees react, which is curious. Why so long? Does it have TRUE real world impact and if so what? Not enough info yet it seems. Hopefully they will get more money to do more research and find out what it is that actually causes the distress. Its also interesting to note that doing a story on Honey Bees and Disaster gets a massive amount of traffic, regardless of content. :) On a market related note, we are now up to 60 colonies. We just placed two on the Carew Tower in downtown Cincinnati as a part of a local food program for the Hilton Hotel. Richard Stewart Carriage House Farm North Bend, Ohio An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1855 (513) 967-1106 On May 13, 2011, at 8:50 PM, Road's End Farm wrote:
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[Market-farming] FW: GO NOFA Forum Cellphones Cause Bees to Swarm to Their Death, Says a New Study,
Beth Spaugh, 05/13/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] FW: GO NOFA Forum Cellphones Cause Bees to Swarm to Their Death, Says a New Study,
Richard Stewart, 05/13/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] FW: GO NOFA Forum Cellphones Cause Bees to Swarm to Their Death, Says a New Study,
Road's End Farm, 05/13/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] FW: GO NOFA Forum Cellphones Cause Bees to Swarm to Their Death, Says a New Study,
Road's End Farm, 05/14/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] FW: GO NOFA Forum Cellphones Cause Bees to Swarm to Their Death, Says a New Study,
Bill Shoemaker, 05/15/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] FW: GO NOFA Forum Cellphones Cause Bees to Swarm to Their Death, Says a New Study, carla puller, 05/16/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] FW: GO NOFA Forum Cellphones Cause Bees to Swarm to Their Death, Says a New Study,
Bill Shoemaker, 05/15/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] FW: GO NOFA Forum Cellphones Cause Bees to Swarm to Their Death, Says a New Study,
Road's End Farm, 05/14/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] FW: GO NOFA Forum Cellphones Cause Bees to Swarm to Their Death, Says a New Study,
Richard Stewart, 05/13/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] FW: GO NOFA Forum Cellphones Cause Bees toSwarm to Their Death, Says a New Study, pureprairiefarm, 05/13/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] FW: GO NOFA Forum Cellphones Cause Bees to Swarm to Their Death, Says a New Study,
Road's End Farm, 05/13/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] FW: GO NOFA Forum Cellphones Cause Bees to Swarm to Their Death, Says a New Study, Richard Stewart, 05/13/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] FW: GO NOFA Forum Cellphones Cause Bees to Swarm to Their Death, Says a New Study,
Road's End Farm, 05/13/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] FW: GO NOFA Forum Cellphones Cause Bees to Swarm to Their Death, Says a New Study, ecoponderosa, 05/13/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] FW: GO NOFA Forum Cellphones Cause Bees to Swarm to Their Death, Says a New Study,
Richard Stewart, 05/13/2011
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