These are all interesting theories, but the use of cell phones and WIFI have been increasing for a long time and other countries have higher cell phone use than the USA. Why did it just now hit the bees?
Who's next? I expect the cockroaches will be fine.
Quote from loufah:
Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious 'colony collapse' of bees
By Geoffrey Lean and Harriet Shawcross
Published: 15 April 2007
It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But some
scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food
shortages, as the world's harvests fail.
They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones
and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre
mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of
the bees that pollinate crops. Late last week, some bee-keepers claimed that
the phenomenon - which started in the US, then spread to continental Europe -
was beginning to hit Britain as well.
The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees'
navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from finding
their way back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem, there is now
evidence to back this up.
