Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Mobile phones killing the bees?

There's an extremely interesting article out in the UK Independent which reports on evidence that the transmissions from millions of cell phones may be at the root of the collapse of honey bee colonies around the world. Research at Germany's Landau University suggests bees will avoid a hive if cell phones are place nearby. Interesting theory, and I'm sure it will get quite a bit of testing.

If it turns out that our cell phones are destroying honey bees, and thereby imperiling the fruit and berry crops pollinated by these bees, what should be done? Should we choose to unplug until the problems are solved?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I think that the bee/cell phone connection is an AT&T
propoganda plot to drive customers back to their AT&T
land lines.
Have you read "Shame of a Nation: the Return of
aparthied(sp)to American Schools? by Jonathan Kozol.
One person is trying.