Posted by seumasach on May 11, 2011
11th May, 2011
For some, the mobile phone is the bane of modern life even as it .
But for bees it could be more than just an irritation.
Scientists claim to have proved that signals from mobile phones are behind the sudden decline of the world’s bee population, which plays a vital role in both agriculture and horticulture.
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Posted by seumasach on May 6, 2011
Daniel Favre
8th April, 2010
Abstract – The worldwide maintenance of the honeybee has major ecological, economic, and political implications. In the present study, electromagnetic waves originating from mobile phones were tested for potential effects on honeybee behavior. Mobile phone handsets were placed in the close vicinity of honeybees. The sound made by the bees was recorded and analyzed. The audiograms and spectrograms revealed that active mobile phone handsets have a dramatic impact on the behavior of the bees, namely by inducing the worker piping signal. In natural conditions, worker piping either announces the swarming process of the bee colony or is a signal of a disturbed bee colony.
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Posted by seumasach on October 9, 2010
Amidst fears that conspiracy theorists may undermine US national security by pointing out the effect of EM radiation on honey bees and other life forms and thereby compromising the top secret HAARP and the Total Information Awareness projects, the Department of Homeland Security has confirmed its leading role in investigations into the mystery of the disappearing bees. This follows up their brilliant research showing that bees can detect landmines, a discovery which underlines the importance of preventing their complete disappearance. Their unprecedented role in an apparently civilian project has brought them face to face with new challenges, not least of which is the technique required to mash up dead bees, if they can find any, for analysis.
6th October, 2010
Scientists and Soldiers Solve a Bee Mystery
It has been one of the great murder mysteries of the garden: what is killing off the honeybees?
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Posted by seumasach on September 6, 2010
30th June, 2010
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ITNT Archive: Disappearing Bees
For years, scientists have been trying to explain why the bee population has been drastically declining. A new study may hold the answer, CNN reports, and it could have an impact on humans, too. First, the study:
In a study at Panjab University in Chandigarh, northern India, researchers fitted cell phones to a hive and powered them up for two fifteen-minute periods each day.
After three months, they found the bees stopped producing honey, egg production by the queen bee halved, and the size of the hive dramatically reduced.
Andrew Goldsworthy, a biologist from Imperial College, London, told CNN that the reason may have to do with radiation from cell phones and cell towers disturbing the molecules of the chemical cryptochrome, which bees and other animals use for navigation. The “other animals” part there is key: it includes humans.
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Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2010
This is the emerging multipolar reality coming into play. In the West, media control has been simply awesome, keeping this connection out of popular consciousness, and dealing with the question, if at all, in the infantile manner which has become their hallmark. However, we no longer control India which is now moving to deal with an issue which threatens their food supplies.
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1st September, 2010
New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS) India will study the harmful impact of mobile phone towers on birds and bees, with the environment ministry constituting a committee that is also tasked with formulating guidelines on their installation.
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Posted by seumasach on July 2, 2010
1st July, 2010
Scientists couldn’t be more concerned with the stinging news that cellphone radiation could be the partial cause of the phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), according to a new study from Panjab University in Chandigarh, India. (via CNN)
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Posted by seumasach on June 22, 2010
Kev Boyle
22nd June, 2010
A major news item on the Radio 4 ‘Today’ show this morning was the announcement of a £10 million ‘Insect Pollinators Initiative’. The money will be spent trying to discover why our bees and other pollinating insects seem to be dying out.
This effect has been obvious to anyone with their eyes open for some years now. The disappearance of pollinators is clearly a potentially very serious issue indeed because of the possible effects on food production.
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Posted by seumasach on June 17, 2010
5th June, 2010
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ITNT Archives: disappearing bees
Humans will not be the lone beneficiaries of a study recently sought by the chief minister on the ill-effects of radiation from cellphones and Mumbai’s 1,000-plus cellphone towers.
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Posted by seumasach on June 6, 2010
6th June, 2010
Humans will not be the lone beneficiaries of a study recently sought by the chief minister on the ill-effects of radiation from cellphones and Mumbai’s 1,000-plus cellphone towers. The initiative may just come to the timely rescue of the city’s endangered honeybee population.
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Posted by seumasach on May 29, 2010
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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Posted by seumasach on May 29, 2010
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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