[Scan-DC] The disappearance of bees...

[Shawnerz]

Steve (and all),
I work with a beekeeper that had 7 hives.  2 are
"gone."  Of the remaining 5, 1 is atop a cell tower.
(As a side note, since towers are relatively high, I'm
not exactly sure how the queen got up there.  I'm just
going by what he said.  It's his hive, so he should
know).
So, I've heard the cell tower argument before, but I'm
not buying it.
That said, European cell phone frequencies are at 900
MHz and 1800 MHz (vice 850 and 1900 MHz).

On a side note, there is website geared towards Linux
gurus called Slashdot (slashdot.org). There was an
article this past weekend on the subject.  The
prevailing theory there is genetically modified crops
are the culprit.

I don't think anyone really knows what's going on. 
But, it would be funny if the CTIA lobbying group that
forced the wonderful ECPA on us was brought to its
knees by a bunch of bees.
-Shawn

--- Steve Rigby <srigby at smart.net> wrote:

>    The prime suspect in the disappearance of bees
> all over the world are 
> telecommunication radiations in the higher
> frequencies.  This applies 
> to cell phones and all sorts of other microwave
> propagation currently 
> in great vogue.
> 
>    A number of controlled tests have been conducted,
> primarily in 
> Europe, that do appear to confirm that such
> radiation, even at the 
> reduced levels of power that would typically be
> present at locations 
> where most bees tend to live and feed and pollinate,
> interfere with the 
> navigation systems that bees use.  Bees in these
> tests were found to 
> individually fail to be able to navigate back to
> their hives, left to 
> die and thus unable to supply their hives with
> needed nutrients for the 
> survival of the colony.
> 
>    It has long been known by beekeepers that bees
> cannot be successfully 
> maintained in locations near high voltage power
> lines, and now it 
> appears as though high frequency radiation also
> destroys bee colonies.
> 
>    Since the entire world depends upon bees for the
> production of food, 
> if this current theory proves to be correct, will it
> be the bees that 
> have to go or the cell phones, etc.?  Just
> surmising.
> 
>    Steve
> 
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