Are mobile phones wiping out our bees? – Independent Online Edition > Wildlife

Interesting. And alarming. Time to give up the cell phones maybe.

One Response to “Are mobile phones wiping out our bees? – Independent Online Edition > Wildlife”

1. Steve says:

   April 20, 2007 at 10:35 pm

   There seems to be a lot of theories thrown around, and not a lot of science on this subject. Wikipedia (Yes, I know, take it with some salt–hey, salt could be causing the collapses, I mean, salt is toxic too!) has a good article on the subject. There is a lot of smoke and mirrors, and not a lot of hard data to hang your hat on. The list of possible causes is rather long, from genetically modified crops to the stress put on the bees by renting them out to pollinate plants in many areas. Of course, synergistic effects are even more likely–i.e., more than one factor combining to have the collapse effect. And the environment is changing all the time, and rarely for the better, as far as what is around now is concerned. I certainly don’t know what is causing this, or how widespread it really is, but if the honeybees go in America (where they are an introduced species, by the way) a third of the food crops here are going to have a hard time getting it on successfully, so to speak.

   Off-topic here, but I’m running Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn from a live CD as I post this. Seems to work pretty well. Of course, a gig of RAM helps…