#2392276 - 05/13/11 04:50 PM
Cell Phones Cause Worldwide Bee Deaths?
|
Dodge Man
12 Point
Registered: 10/15/03
Posts: 5612
Loc: Dyersburg, TN
|
Online
|
|
Cellphone transmissions may be responsible for a mysterious, worldwide die off in bees that has mystified scientists.
Dr. Daniel Favre, a former biologist with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, carefully placed a mobile phone underneath a beehive and then monitored the reaction of the workers.
According to a story in The Daily Mail, the bees were able to tell when the handsets were making and receiving calls. They responded by making the high pitched squeaks that usually signal the start of swarming.
"This study shows that the presence of an active mobile phone disturbs bees -- and has a dramatic effect," Favre told the Daily Mail.
Favre believes this to be evidence of something other scientists have suggested: Signals from mobile phones are contributing to the decline of honeybees. Favre thinks more research could help confirm the link between cell signals and "colony collapse disorder" -- the sudden disappearance of entire colonies over winter -- which has halved the bee population, according to some estimates.
R http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/1.../#ixzz1MGuwVwX6
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
#2392280 - 05/13/11 04:54 PM
Re: Cell Phones Cause Worldwide Bee Deaths?
[Re: Dodge Man]
|
Trapper John
TnDeer Old Timer
16 Point
Registered: 03/13/99
Posts: 11271
Loc: La Vergne,TN/Decaturville, TN
|
Offline
|
|
Well I'll bee...
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#2392336 - 05/13/11 06:23 PM
Re: Cell Phones Cause Worldwide Bee Deaths?
[Re: Trapper John]
|
RUGER
Arachnophobic
Non-Typical
Registered: 11/19/99
Posts: 4097488
Loc: TN
|
|
Offline
|
|
Don't really think I believe that one.
_________________________
Youth is wasted on the young.
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#2392481 - 05/13/11 10:12 PM
Re: Cell Phones Cause Worldwide Bee Deaths?
[Re: RUGER]
|
BigAl
16 Point
Registered: 07/31/01
Posts: 18814
Loc: Fayette County, TN US
|
|
Offline
|
|
I'm suprised no one's blamed it on Obama yet.
_________________________
Walls: Leading the way outdoors.
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#2392484 - 05/13/11 10:15 PM
Re: Cell Phones Cause Worldwide Bee Deaths?
[Re: BigAl]
|
utfan1
10 Point
Registered: 12/31/06
Posts: 3598
Loc: cleveland,tn
|
|
Offline
|
|
I'm suprised no one's blamed it on Obama yet.
lol,it was implied!
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#2392515 - 05/13/11 10:45 PM
Re: Cell Phones Cause Worldwide Bee Deaths?
[Re: utfan1]
|
Whitehorse
TnDeer Old Timer
16 Point
Registered: 08/23/99
Posts: 10593
Loc: Pegram TN USA
|
|
Offline
|
|
Looking at the actual study - they put cell phones inside the bee hives. In the real world, how many bee hives have their own cell phones? Do beekeepers use wireless telemetry monitoring or is there widespread use of cameras wirelessly transmitting close-up images of bee hives? It's like feeding someone Big Macs & only Big Macs until they get sick, & them blaming just the Big Macs...
_________________________
The greatest among you will be servant of all
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#2392522 - 05/13/11 10:59 PM
Re: Cell Phones Cause Worldwide Bee Deaths?
[Re: Whitehorse]
|
Camp David
10 Point
Registered: 05/31/03
Posts: 4980
Loc: TN
|
|
Offline
|
|
They will come up with an app to counter that.
_________________________
Why are we trying so hard to develop artificial intelligence when we should be trying to cure natural stupidity.
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#2392531 - 05/13/11 11:51 PM
Re: Cell Phones Cause Worldwide Bee Deaths?
[Re: Whitehorse]
|
catman529
spiderboy
16 Point
Registered: 11/10/10
Posts: 10906
Loc: Franklin TN
|
|
Offline
|
|
Looking at the actual study - they put cell phones inside the bee hives. In the real world, how many bee hives have their own cell phones? Do beekeepers use wireless telemetry monitoring or is there widespread use of cameras wirelessly transmitting close-up images of bee hives? It's like feeding someone Big Macs & only Big Macs until they get sick, & them blaming just the Big Macs...
I think putting the cell under the hive created an amplified situation that had a more immediate effect. But possibly all the transmissions going through the air all the time between phones and cell towers could have a much more gradual effect... e.g. colony collapse disorder. A lot of poison will kill you quickly.... a little poison every day could kill you slowly.
_________________________
A good day in the woods is best finished off with an ice cold Sun Drop.
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#2392538 - 05/14/11 12:06 AM
Re: Cell Phones Cause Worldwide Bee Deaths?
[Re: Dodge Man]
|
Beekeeper
Good ol' Boys "Team Buckcreek"
16 Point
Registered: 08/26/09
Posts: 10957
Loc: McMinn Co. Tennessee
|
|
Offline
|
|
Check this article out. Cell phones and cell towers could have some impact on honeybees but this article list other things that have a much bigger impact in the bees.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/05/us-honeybee-deaths-idUSTRE7242C220110305
_________________________
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#2392571 - 05/14/11 06:01 AM
Re: Cell Phones Cause Worldwide Bee Deaths?
[Re: Beekeeper]
|
Nimrod777
18 Point
Registered: 09/28/03
Posts: 23223
Loc: Spring Hill, TN
|
|
Offline
|
|
I think the bees should switch to land lines and keep it that way.
In all actuality, the bee situation is crucial to our own personal food chains. The great pollinators of our food crops are in serious decline. I do not find it unreasonable that technology could have a detrimental effect upon the finely-tuned homing systems innate with bees. Die-offs have increased dramatically over the past decade.
_________________________
Some hunt for racks, some hunt for roasts. I hunt for sheer joy; the aforementioned items are merely fringe benefits.
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#2392604 - 05/14/11 07:52 AM
Re: Cell Phones Cause Worldwide Bee Deaths?
[Re: Nimrod777]
|
DCA-DEER
6 Point
Registered: 03/09/08
Posts: 769
Loc: Mckenzie, Tn. USA
|
|
Offline
|
|
Probably died texting while flying LOL
_________________________
Kill it and Grill it. Acts 10:13 Arise Kill and Eat
Some may see a cute forest creature I see a tasty grilled steak.
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#2392661 - 05/14/11 09:58 AM
Re: Cell Phones Cause Worldwide Bee Deaths?
[Re: DCA-DEER]
|
7mm08
10 Point
Registered: 09/12/07
Posts: 3884
Loc: In a river hopefully!
|
|
Offline
|
|
maybe their Google earth map was off on their cell phones....it would be funny if the very food we put in our mouths everyday didn't depend on these little guys!
I have read about this for years but one observation i have made and it's probably nuts, but the next time your at a convenience store and filling up next to a garbage can, look at how many bees are all over the soda cans....sugar yes, but caffiene in the cokes, red bulls, mountain dews....our kids can't handle the caffiene let alone an insect. Something so simple as a bee's brain can't handle this drug's effects. How would a drug induced bee get back to the hive and then give directions to the sugar source, and get back...crazy I know, but it is amazing what these guys do to find sources of food and direct a hive to it and back again.
http://www.watercure2.org/attention_deficit_disorder.htm
_________________________
If gun control was truly about "protecting the public", then the government would first outlaw and confiscate tobacco products! 600,000 Deaths per year!
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
Moderator: RUGER, Unicam, gtk, Tennessee Todd, Lakeland Charlie, Cuttin Caller, CBU93, stretch, Outdoor Lady, TurkeyBurd, MAN, Bobby G
|
12113 Members
38 Forums
116002 Topics
1412650 Posts
Max Online: 756 @ 11/20/12 09:10 AM
|
|
|
The TnDeer.Com Deer Talk Forum is for Tennessee Deer Hunters by Tennessee Deer Hunters. If you enjoy using our Talk Forum and would like to contribute to help in it's up-keep. Just submit your contribution by clicking on the DONATE button below and paying with PayPal or a major credit card. Any amount is much appreciated. Thanks for your support!
|
|
|
