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Title: Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
Post by: cindianna_jones on May 16, 2007, 04:38:09 PM
Post by: cindianna_jones on May 16, 2007, 04:38:09 PM
Now this is down right terrifying if true:
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife/article2449968.ece (http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife/article2449968.ece)
I hope it is not.
Cindi
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife/article2449968.ece (http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife/article2449968.ece)
I hope it is not.
Cindi
Title: Re: Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
Post by: Pica Pica on May 16, 2007, 04:41:10 PM
Post by: Pica Pica on May 16, 2007, 04:41:10 PM
I'd happily ditch mobile phones to keep bees...honey is much better than telephones.
Title: Re: Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
Post by: cindianna_jones on May 16, 2007, 04:44:51 PM
Post by: cindianna_jones on May 16, 2007, 04:44:51 PM
Here's another article which points to genetically engineered plants as a potential cause:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,473166,00.html (http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,473166,00.html)
This has the potential to really create a worldwide famine within a couple years.
This is unbelievable.
Cindi
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,473166,00.html (http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,473166,00.html)
This has the potential to really create a worldwide famine within a couple years.
This is unbelievable.
Cindi
Title: Re: Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
Post by: J.T. on May 16, 2007, 05:18:44 PM
Post by: J.T. on May 16, 2007, 05:18:44 PM
yeah, i seriously hope we figure it out. Bees are good!! I kinda hope it is cellphones, 'cause i really can't stand them.
Title: Re: Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
Post by: Doc on May 18, 2007, 06:45:39 PM
Post by: Doc on May 18, 2007, 06:45:39 PM
I keep bees.
I think it's probably the GM plants. The 'bt' varieties of them produce their own insecticide. Pests that try to eat the plants are poisoned before they do much damage. But the plant produces the insecticide throughout its body -- its nectar is poison, its pollen is poison. There is a theory, and evidence, that this is also responsible for the frightening decline in the population of Monarch butterflies.
My bees are fine, though there has been plenty of cell-phone use and cell-phone towers out here for years. As I understand it the areas that first reported this 'dissapearing bees' thing are heavily agricultural regions -- areas where bees are bound to be encountering GM crops.
I think it's probably the GM plants. The 'bt' varieties of them produce their own insecticide. Pests that try to eat the plants are poisoned before they do much damage. But the plant produces the insecticide throughout its body -- its nectar is poison, its pollen is poison. There is a theory, and evidence, that this is also responsible for the frightening decline in the population of Monarch butterflies.
My bees are fine, though there has been plenty of cell-phone use and cell-phone towers out here for years. As I understand it the areas that first reported this 'dissapearing bees' thing are heavily agricultural regions -- areas where bees are bound to be encountering GM crops.
Title: Re: Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
Post by: Jonie on May 18, 2007, 10:20:42 PM
Post by: Jonie on May 18, 2007, 10:20:42 PM
I heard that the "organic" farms that keep bees haven't lost any, it's just happening to the geneticly altered bees.
Title: Re: Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
Post by: Ell on May 19, 2007, 08:11:13 PM
Post by: Ell on May 19, 2007, 08:11:13 PM
i have noticed a lot dead and dying bees on the sidewalk while walking my dog, within the past year. they are always by themselves, walking aimlessly, or just outright dead.
Title: Re: Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
Post by: LostInTime on May 21, 2007, 12:17:04 PM
Post by: LostInTime on May 21, 2007, 12:17:04 PM
a news report the other day stated that they were looking into the bee food to see if it had any melamine in it.
Title: Re: Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
Post by: cindianna_jones on May 21, 2007, 12:32:20 PM
Post by: cindianna_jones on May 21, 2007, 12:32:20 PM
I hope they find it fast. This could seriously affect the worlds food supply... not to mention the ecological disaster if othe plants can not be pollinated.
Cindi
Cindi
Title: Re: Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
Post by: LostInTime on May 21, 2007, 01:06:56 PM
Post by: LostInTime on May 21, 2007, 01:06:56 PM
One of the colleges near where I work are offering up free hives in an attempt to up the bee population.