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- From: "Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>
- To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [NAFEX] Cell towers and bees, OT again
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:57:07 -0500
My husband found
this article online somewhere. The trouble is that
there is a cell phone tower not much more than a mile from our place, and the
honeybees seem to have rebounded very well. They were actually on white
clover this summer, scenes from my childhood. (Since my teen years were
spent in the Florida wilderness) Oh, it may be that the
beekeeper is out of the range of the tower, and that the bees are
reasonably safe at our distance from the tower. Donna
Something ELSE That May be
Killing Bees
04-Sep-2009 Here's another reason why honeybees may be disappearing: the
electromagnetic waves given off by cell phone towers may cripple their
navigational abilities.
A recent study done in India reveals that a sudden decrease in the bee population in New Delhi is linked to the installation of a series of new cell phone towers there, as phone companies increase their networks. The researchers found that when a cell phone was kept near a beehive, worker bees were unable to find their way home, leaving the hives with only the queens and eggs. The affected bee colony collapsed with 10 days. The Physorg.com website reports that researcher Sainuddin Pattazhy predicts that If towers and cell phones increase much more, honey bees might be wiped out in 10 years. |
- [NAFEX] Cell towers and bees, OT again, Kieran &/or Donna, 09/04/2009
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