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  • From: Bill Shoemaker <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
  • 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: Sun, 15 May 2011 11:16:37 -0500 (CDT)

A fundamental rule of research is to scrutinize the information, evaluate the
integrity of research method, compare to other research on the same topic and
determine your degree of confidence in the results. I think this is not high
caliber research. There needs to be much more investigation before results
prove useful.

Bill

---- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 21:30:40 -0400
>From: "Road's End Farm" <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
>Subject: Re: [Market-farming] FW: GO NOFA Forum Cellphones Cause Bees to
>Swarm to Their Death, Says a New Study
>To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
>
> On May 13, 2011, at 8:38 PM, Road's End Farm wrote:
>
> I'll let this list know if I get a useful answer.
>
> OK, this is, according to the poster on the other
> list, the study being referred to:
> Mobile phone-induced honeybee worker piping
> http://www.kokopelli.asso.fr/documentation/favre.pdf
> and, having read it, the below is what I had to say
> about it:
> What it appears to show is that, if you put a cell
> phone inside a beehive and keep the phone in a state
> of receiving a call for extended periods of time,
> the bees will make disturbed noises.
> It does not show that the bees were caused to leave
> their hive, become disoriented, or die. None of
> these things happened during the course of the
> study.
> I can't tell from this study whether the bees were
> disturbed by the cell phone, or by the continuous
> sound of the radio "constantly playing the France
> info program" over the cell phone inside the hive,
> as I can't tell whether the radio signal which was
> used to keep the phone active was audible to the
> bees. There didn't seem to be a control that had the
> radio itself, or a recording of the radio show,
> within a hive.
> Even if it was the phone in itself, it would still
> only apply if the phone was actually inside a
> beehive.
>
> -- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
> Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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