Are Cell Phones Killing the Bees?

[Visitor]

Are cellphones killing bee colonies?

The world's bee colonies are dying mysteriously, and a study from Landau University suggests that mobile phones may be to blame. The colonies are subject to "Colony Collapse Disorder," (science-ese for "we don't know where all these bees have gone") and the disorder accounts for the death of anywhere from 50-70 percent of bee colonies. Since bees pollinate most crops, flowers and fruiting trees, the end of bees is seriously bad news for the world's food supply.
It's been long understood that bees respond to electromagnetic radiation. Dr Jochen Kuhn at Germany's Landau University has shown that bees don't return to their hives when cellphones are present. The study doesn't prove that cellphones are responsible for CCD, but it does provide evidence that mobile phones are implicated in the death of hives.

The alarm was first sounded last autumn, but has now hit half of all American states. The West Coast is thought to have lost 60 per cent of its commercial bee population, with 70 per cent missing on the East Coast.
CCD has since spread to Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece. And last week John Chapple, one of London's biggest bee-keepers, announced that 23 of his 40 hives have been abruptly abandoned.

Other apiarists have recorded losses in Scotland, Wales and north-west England, but the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs insisted: "There is absolutely no evidence of CCD in the UK."

The implications of the spread are alarming. Most of the world's crops depend on pollination by bees. Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, "man would have only four years of life left".


If I'd known cell phones was going to cause the demise of mankind I'd have got one years ago....muha muha muhahahahaha...or however Dr. Tamra laughs.

hellifiknow

[Appaloosa]

Visitor,
so now they know how to kill the killer bees then...but sorry bout th e rest of the bees....

[Anditsdeeptoo]

Visitor,

this is the tip of the iceberg, watch in 30 years after all the brain tumors, loss of bees, sterility, loss of hearings, etc. we'll all wonder why these things were ever legal... But damn if I leave home without mine!!!!

[bingolong]

Anditsdeeptoo,
Yep we are dependent

[tamra]

bingolong,

cell phones, huh? yanno, if yall mofos would just stop farting, they just may come back. yup, JTF & Murph and their fart contests. I saw a bee standing in an airport line w/a clothespin over its nose. that right there was serious.

but honestly, my $$ is on some shit hellifiknow may have done. notice how quiet he is during this discussion.

[hellifiknow]

tamra,
yup, blame the redheaded stepchild as usual ;p ...but look on the bright side, all the worry about global warming was for nothing because we're all going to starve to death long before the ice caps melt...yayyy!

hopefully they'll ban cell phones, the bees will make a comeback and everybody will start driving better too.

[abnormalandbitchy]

hellifiknow,
Shhh dont tell but i have heard rumor that with the recent increase in Alien activity that the Bees have Developed allerigies to pollen and honey.. That the word in the bee world but hell i cant swear it...

[hellifiknow]

abnormalandbitchy,
I might have jumped the gun on that one, after reading your post last night I decided to do my part to save the bees and drove my wife down to the border and threw her ass out of the truck, I was halfway home when I realized thats not the kind of Alien you meant. ;p

I read something that said the bees are developing allergies and the inability to digest because of the way we been messing with plant genetics and hybrids.

[Visitor]

hellifiknow,
yeah guess i should have pointed out wish one..man hope she forgives ya hun .. Could well be the hybrids and all but shit gotta be careful sayin that you know know some PC person will say you being raciest by not allowing inter racial flower breeding...

[bingolong]

tamra,