Effects of Electric Charges on Honeybees
Posted by seumasach on February 7, 2009
We need more research- this is the mantra, endlessly repeated, as we are confronted with the grim scenario of disappearing bees and pollinators. What about looking at existing research? Here is a 1976 study which looks highly pertinent. Note, in particular, this observation, which prefigures CCD:
“Bees in strong electric field became aggressive, stinging each other to death; communication was disturbed….Bees left the hive if they could.”
Click here to read this 1976 study by Ulrich Warnke
Over thirty years later Warnke is still on the case and has produced this definitive, comprehensive study:
https://inthesenewtimes.com/2008/09/29/the-birds-the-bees-and-mankind/
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