Telegraph of India

27th May, 2010

New Delhi, May 26: Concerns that cellphones pose a threat to honeybees, articulated by Shah Rukh Khan’s character in My Name Is Khan, have now been bolstered by Panjab University zoologist Neelima Kumar’s experiments.

Electromagnetic radiation from cellphones appears to alter the behaviour of bees, her experiments suggest and add fresh evidence to observations reported by a team of German researchers seven years ago.

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Reports of such a colony collapse in nature in develop-

ing countries like India where electromagnetic radiation

(EMR) based technologies are comparatively new are

absent. It is possible that the electrosmog that prevails in

the advanced countries of the world has not yet affected

these countries. We are fortunate that the warning bells

have been sounded and it is for us to timely plan strate-

gies to save not only the bees but life from the ill effects

of such EMR.

CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 98, NO. 10, 25 MAY 2010 1376

*For correspondence. (e-mail: neelimark@yahoo.co.in)

Changes in honeybee behaviour and

biology under the influence of

cellphone radiations

Ved Parkash Sharma1 and Neelima R. Kumar2,*

1

Department of Environment and Vocational Studies, and

2

Department of Zoology, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160 014, India

Increase in the usage of electronic gadgets has led to

electropollution of the environment. Honeybee behav-

iour and biology has been affected by electrosmog

since these insects have magnetite in their bodies

which helps them in navigation. There are reports of

sudden disappearance of bee populations from honey-

bee colonies. The reason is still not clear. We have

compared the performance of honeybees in cellphone

radiation exposed and unexposed colonies. A signifi-

cant (p < 0.05) decline in colony strength and in the

egg laying rate of the queen was observed. The behav-

iour of exposed foragers was negatively influenced by

the exposure, there was neither honey nor pollen in

the colony at the end of the experiment.

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And so the much derided University of Koblenz-Landau experiment has been pretty much replicated by Indian scientists with the same incriminating results regarding EM radiation as a disrupter of honey bee activity. Will western press hacks swarm menacingly or quietly ignore it? We now have a body of work coming out of India around this crucial issue and hopefully they will start to take preventive action. Meanwhile the dying western civilization dooms itself with its ignorant and self-destructive deployment of military-industrial technology.

New Delhi, May 28 (PTI) Electromagnetic rays emitted by cellphones may sound the death knell for the honeybee which has been found to have altered its behaviour leading to the complete collapse of bee colonies, says a new study.

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So Chinese scientists are cretins too!

Here we find some very dubious premises: if something hasn’t been proved you don’t investigate it: what matters is who you think should be blamed: if the radiation level isn’t high enough to heat the bee, it can’t be high enough to disturb its navigation system: it can’t be mobile phones because it might be something else.

In sum, whatever it is, it isn’t mobile phones.

If our future is in the hands of scientists like this, it is bleak indeed!

Click here for the evidence that EM radiation is responsible for the disappearance of the bees.

Smart Grid

15th May, 2010

NINGBO, Zhejiang, May 15, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) — A senior Chinese engineer said Saturday that no scientific evidence has proved that radiation from mobile phones had caused abrupt disappearance of bees since last Autumn.

“I don’t think handsets radiation should be blamed for the decrease of bees,” said Wu Hequan, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, at a forum on information and communication technologies in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Expo.

Some scientists are putting forward the theory that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees’ navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from finding their way back to their hives, according to a British newspaper The Independent.

Wu, also an expert in broadband information network, said radiation from mobile phones posed no verifiable threat to bees’ survival as the amount of radiation from a mobile phone base station was not even stronger than that from a microwave oven.

He pointed to rapid urbanization, decreasing plants and worsening ecological environment as a possible answer to the disappearance which started in the United States last Autumn and then spread to Europe.

“The British government’s National Bee Unit denies the existence of CDD over  here, blaming the bloodsucking varroa mite and rainy summers that have stopped  bees foraging for food.”

Despite the observable fact that there are no bees, and reports of their disappearance by beekeepers, the British government stands firm: there is no CCD in Britain.

“Pesticides are believed to be a key cause of a crisis known as Colony Collapse Disorder”

Note the use of the passive voice: but who, precisely, believes that? The official investigation has ruled out all specific causes. CCD is rife in areas where the suspected pesticides are not used, notably Spain.

The authorities persist in ignoring the very powerful case that CCD is caused by EM radiation.

They also fail to link CCD to the disappearance of other species such as bats, small birds, butterflies, beetles etc.

Daily Mail

3rd May, 2010

The world faces a future with little meat and no cotton because of a catastrophic collapse in bee colonies, experts have warned.

Many vital crops are dependent on pollination by honeybees, but latest figures show a third failed to survive the winter in the U.S.

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The world may be on the brink of biological disaster after news that a third of US bee colonies did not survive the winter

Alison Benjamin

Guardian

2nd May, 2010

Click here for role of EM radiation in causing CCD

Disturbing evidence that honeybees are in terminal decline has emerged from the United States where, for the fourth year in a row, more than a third of colonies have failed to survive the winter.

The decline of the country’s estimated 2.4 million beehives began in 2006, when a phenomenon dubbed colony collapse disorder (CCD) led to the disappearance of hundreds of thousands of colonies. Since then more than three million colonies in the US and billions of honeybees worldwide have died and scientists are no nearer to knowing what is causing the catastrophic fall in numbers.

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“Local beekeepers claim 90% of Moray’s wild honeybee colonies have been wiped out since 2007.”

With all due respect, “poor weather, bad management, a bee mite called varroa and pesticides” are unlikely to produce such a dramatic effect in so short a time. There has to be a new element and none of these is. The density and extent of electrosmog has increased exponentially in recent years and its impact on bees has long been known. The Moray beekeepers are aware of this factor but are discreetly, and perhaps wisely, failing to mention it such is the unpopularity of this thesis amongst certain powerful vested interests.

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Press and Journal

19th April, 2010

BEEKEEPERS in Moray launched a conservation project yesterday, with the first in a series of sessions outlining how people can help save the endangered honeybee.

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