A recent study has found that radiation from cell phones may be killing the honey bee population.
In a recent report in the journal Current Science, scientists are claiming that mobile phones are behind the disappearance of honey bees in Europe and North America.
They say radiation from cell phones is getting in the way of honey bees' navigation senses, making them so confused they lose their way home.
This new research may explain why the bee population has declined for years in what's being called Colony Collapse Disorder.
NBC 25 talked with Gary Briggs, a local beekeeper who says something needs to be done about this, because it's becoming harder and harder to keep his bees alive.
"If we keep losing bees, pretty soon we are going to lose our food supply. So it's a serious deal, and the sooner they can find out what's causing it or what culmination of affects, is what I think we need to get to," said Beekeeper Gary Briggs.Biologists are saying that the signal coming from cell phones and their towers can be modified so that it doesn't produce the frequency that disrupts a bees' navigation.
And while Briggs says cell phone radiation may play a role, he's convinced an increased use of insecticides is also contributing.
Read the article in Current Science here. . .
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The thing I find encouraging about articles like this is that scientists seem to be a little less ham-strung with regard to what they are allowed to explore without the ridicule factor being activated.
We are, of course, not allowed to question the "benevolence" of non-ionizing cell phone radiation, but the people who finance CCD studies are not necessarily the same people who study cell phone safety. A bit of truth can slip past the academic thought police and manage to find itself reported in respected science journals. Whoda thunk it?
Of course, once people make the connection, "Hmm. Honey Bees are living things. . , and Human Beings are living things. . , so if Honey Bees can be affected by cell phone radiation. . . WHOA! Now just waidagoshdurnminit! That's sacrilege, mister!" (ahem) the next step will be to mudsling the research protocols of the above study and raise enough reasonable doubt so that everybody can get back to their love affair with gadgets without any nagging doubts to plague them.