Honey bees
By lucy02
@lucy02 (5016)
United States
May 3, 2007 9:08am CST
Over the last month I have been hearing about the extreme loss of our honey bee population and even more in the last couple of days. I had never thought about this but our life depends largely on these honeybees. Without their pollenation we could lose a large amount of our food supply. It's really scary when you thing about it. They are dying at an alarming rate and the experts are not really sure why. It is suspected that cell phone towers are affectine their fertility and their ability to find their way back to the hive. Does this mean we should get rid of the cell phones? I would hate to give it up but I would if that is the case.
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5 responses
@Perry2007 (2229)
• Philippines
8 May 07
Gee this is alarming indeed.. In our place there are bee keepers, They take care of bees, culture them and extract honey from them. I hope they do not have problems with cell sies.
@Dolcerina (3376)
• Hungary
3 May 07
I have not heard about it. It sounds very interesting. In fact I do not want to believe that the bees are affected by the radiowawes.... I rather suppose that the bees dye because of the chemicals the people use in gardening, on the fields. And just do think of the many factories that let many toxic substance into the nature.
@peaceful (3294)
• United States
3 May 07
This is just one more sign that we must take action to restore our Planets ecological balance, if we are to survive along with other species, it's not just honeybees, some species of frogs are becoming extinct because they are producing females only, a sure sign of a biological emergency...
The Venus Project may be the answer, but we've got to get started on this...
http://www.thevenusproject.com
@ironstruck (2298)
• Canada
3 May 07
You are right, honey bees are very important to the growing areas.
Also, did you know that honey is the only food in the world that will not go bad?
It has to do with the enzymes provided by the bees. It you put a far of liquid honey in a time capsule to be opened in 200 years, it would become solid, but would become liquid again as soon as it is heated up.
We need those bees!!
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@umitcicek (463)
• Turkey
16 May 07
Honey bees are the not the only thing which is useful for us and we damaged and destructed their lives.You are right up to some degree,radiation originating from mobile phones and wireless devices we use in our daily life cause the destruction of honey bee colonies.This is the result of current researches on this subject.Radiation coming from our cell phones interferes with bees' navigation systems.As a result of these,bee colonies can't find way back to their hives.I don't know how effective this change in our ecology would be.
