Just a thought, without bee's we have no food.
2007-06-08 01:18:17 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
No one knows for sure yet.
But, cell phone usage seems an unlikely cause. If it were the cause, it should be obvious that the bees are getting lost in places where there is high cell phone use and lots of transmission towers compared to sparsely populated rural areas where I can't get any reception.
The other thing that should be obvious if the cause is cell phones is which frequencies are used in which places. If cell phones are the cause, it seems to me that it would be a narrow band of frequencies causing the problem and not cell phone usage in general.
2007-06-08 03:42:47 · answer #1 · answered by Joan H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's speculation at best. The research that is usually cited was actually done with cordless phone base stations embedded in honey bee hives - not really that closely related to standard cell phone use. I think parasites, disease, or pesticides are more likely causes of the bee decline, but it may be a while before the real causes are identified.
2007-06-08 09:09:20 · answer #2 · answered by Niotulove 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, the whole CCD problem, though it hasn't been determined at this point, will, I'm sure, have more than one cause that is working to cause what we see. That is generally the case with most things. I would not be at all surprised though to find that the increases in electromagnetic pollution, of which cell phones surely add to, to be just one more nail in the coffin. It is part of that total environment of which we share with all else, but that we wield with little or no concern for the rest of the population of living things.
2007-06-08 08:26:13 · answer #3 · answered by mike453683 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell yes! The little bastards are flying around making calls and crashing into all sorts of things. Insurance premiums hit the roof, and they could no longer afford food leading to their demise.
A sad harbinger for our species which is also addicted to the cell phone (they make us feel important and that's worth gold to the average homo sapien, I of course am better than all of you) (that's another self-importance joke)
2007-06-08 08:34:31 · answer #4 · answered by michaelhobbsphd 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, new zeland has lots of cell phones, and no demise of any bees at all, so perhaps in whatever country your in, its related to something else?
2007-06-08 08:25:08 · answer #5 · answered by Dani 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we can live off burgers you know~
Yes, we are to blame. Perhaps beehives should be placed much closer to the flowers, so the bees don't get lost. Or maybe this signals the end of the vegetarian age. I'm buying shares in McDonald's immediately.
2007-06-08 08:23:03 · answer #6 · answered by thingamabob 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't know that bees used cell phones. LOL!
2007-06-08 08:21:30 · answer #7 · answered by Charlie P 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
or global warming perhaps? Bee populations in europe fluctuate intensely from one year to the next... it's natural there's not too many around right now. perhaps next year they'll be so populus that you'll be plucking them out of your hole
2007-06-08 08:22:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋