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May 6, 2007

Cell Phones May be Why Honeybees Are Disappearing

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April 16, 2007

Scientists are having a difficult time explaining the rapid decline

of the honeybee population in the United States and Canada, known as

colony collapse disorder, that could affect crops depending on these

insects for pollination.

Research presented some four years ago speculates the radiation

emitted from cellular phones may contribute to the problem.

When cellular phones were placed near hives, the radiation generated

by them (900-1,800 MHz) was enough to prevent bees from returning to

them, according to a study conducted at Landau University.

Scientists believe the radiation produced by cellular phones may be

enough to interfere with the way bees " communicate " with their hives.

Cellular phones may create a resonance effect that interferes with

the movement patterns bees use as a kind of language.

The Independent April 15, 2007

Telegraph.co.uk April 16, 2006

Science a Go Go April 16, 2007

Dr. Mercola's Comment:

Although another study blamed the ongoing spread of genetically

modified crops for the disappearance, cellular phones may also very

well be contributing to the problem.

This comes as no surprise, considering all the harm mobile phones can

do to male sperm, for example, as well as to your head.

I have run many articles detailing the studies that expose how the

harmful radiation from cell phones can wreak havoc. I would encourage

you to review an article that was published in Lancet several years

ago; you can review my extensive summary of that article or you can

go to the journal directly and obtain the information.

Do you really want an acoustic neuroma (tumor) growing inside your

head? If you are fortunate enough to avoid nervous system

malignancies, then how will you contend with the cellular damage

these mobile phones cause?

While protecting your brain from harmful EMFs will do nothing to halt

the disappearance of bees, one of your best and safest options would

be to restrict your use of cellular phones to the speakerphone

function, or find a safe headset.

Remember, just because you can't see the EMFs does not mean that they

are not harming you. In many ways this scenario is very similar to

smoking 100 years ago. The average person was oblivious to the

possibility that smoking could be harmful.

What made it even worse was that the deceptive marketers of the time

used physicians to convince people that it was actually " cool " and

even healthy to smoke. Similar to cell phones, people would not drop

dead until many years later. This delayed effect obscured the damage

that was being done.

If you do not believe the data, then I strongly encourage you to

review some of the links below and rethink your decision on the

safety of cell phones. We won't know the full extent of the damage

these devices are producing for many years.

Hard to remember but cell phones are NOT that old. Although they were

developed in the '40s and '50s, most people did not adopt them much

more than 10 years ago. Think about it for a moment; I will bet you

and most people you know have not had cell phones for more than 10

years. Until the late 1980s they were too large to be carried in a

jacket pocket so they were permanently installed in the car as car

phones.

If most people had just started smoking 10 years ago we would have

virtually NO CLUE as to how dangerous it is.

Are you really willing to risk your life on the chance that these

devices are perfectly safe?

I certainly am not, which is why I ALWAYS use the safe headset or the

speaker phone. My first choice is the speakerphone, and I encourage

all of you to get a phone with that feature and use it. Keep that

darn phone away from your head.

Occasionally I do use the phone in my car, but I have a model that

can wirelessly connect to the phone through Bluetooth and it is

completely hands-free. My phone is four feet from me and I just talk

to the windshield and the sound comes through the car's audio system.

It really is pretty slick and not much different than talking as if

the person were in the car with you.

However, most of you will not be able to do this because your car

does not have that function. So, the bottom line is use the speaker

phone on your phone or use the safe headset that I use, which has an

air tube so the radiation doesn't transfer up to your brain.

Let's keep those brain cells healthy, folks!

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( 60 Comments )

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April 16, 2007

Let's not forget another MAIN culprit , on top of all those

mentioned by Dr. Mercola and Dr. Gussa - High Fructose Corn Syrup or

Invert Sugar Syrup - FORCE FED to the bees in factory hives with 24-7

lighting (to fool them into thinking it's late Spring or early

Summer) when natural pollen, sap, nectar and other botanical

materials are not readily available

Cell

May 6, 2007

I walked thru a field of clover the other day and hunted for a single bee. Not a one.

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Cell Phones May be Why Honeybees Are Disappearing POSTED BY Dr. Mercola View Dr. Mercola's Profile Add Dr. Mercola to Friends Receive Updates from Dr. Mercola By News Feed April 16, 2007 Scientists are having a difficult time explaining the rapid decline of the honeybee population in the United States and Canada, known as colony collapse disorder, that could affect crops depending on these insects for pollination. Research presented some four years ago speculates the radiation emitted from cellular phones may contribute to the problem.When cellular phones were placed near hives, the radiation generated by them (900-1,800 MHz) was enough to prevent bees from returning to them, according to a study conducted at Landau University.Scientists believe the radiation produced by cellular phones may be enough to interfere with the way bees "communicate" with their hives. Cellular phones may create a resonance effect that interferes with the movement patterns bees use as a kind of language.The Independent April 15, 2007Telegraph.co.uk April 16, 2006Science a Go Go April 16, 2007Dr. Mercola's Comment:Although another study blamed the ongoing spread of genetically modified crops for the disappearance, cellular phones may also very well be contributing to the problem.This comes as no surprise, considering all the harm mobile phones can do to male sperm, for example, as well as to your head.I have run many articles detailing the studies that expose how the harmful radiation from cell phones can wreak havoc. I would encourage you to review an article that was published in Lancet several years ago; you can review my extensive summary of that article or you can go to the journal directly and obtain the information.Do you really want an acoustic neuroma (tumor) growing inside your head? If you are fortunate enough to avoid nervous system malignancies, then how will you contend with the cellular damage these mobile phones cause? While protecting your brain from harmful EMFs will do nothing to halt the disappearance of bees, one of your best and safest options would be to restrict your use of cellular phones to the speakerphone function, or find a safe headset.Remember, just because you can't see the EMFs does not mean that they are not harming you. In many ways this scenario is very similar to smoking 100 years ago. The average person was oblivious to the possibility that smoking could be harmful.What made it even worse was that the deceptive marketers of the time used physicians to convince people that it was actually "cool" and even healthy to smoke. Similar to cell phones, people would not drop dead until many years later. This delayed effect obscured the damage that was being done.If you do not believe the data, then I strongly encourage you to review some of the links below and rethink your decision on the safety of cell phones. We won't know the full extent of the damage these devices are producing for many years. Hard to remember but cell phones are NOT that old. Although they were developed in the '40s and '50s, most people did not adopt them much more than 10 years ago. Think about it for a moment; I will bet you and most people you know have not had cell phones for more than 10 years. Until the late 1980s they were too large to be carried in a jacket pocket so they were permanently installed in the car as car phones.If most people had just started smoking 10 years ago we would have virtually NO CLUE as to how dangerous it is. Are you really willing to risk your life on the chance that these devices are perfectly safe? I certainly am not, which is why I ALWAYS use the safe headset or the speaker phone. My first choice is the speakerphone, and I encourage all of you to get a phone with that feature and use it. Keep that darn phone away from your head. Occasionally I do use the phone in my car, but I have a model that can wirelessly connect to the phone through Bluetooth and it is completely hands-free. My phone is four feet from me and I just talk to the windshield and the sound comes through the car's audio system. It really is pretty slick and not much different than talking as if the person were in the car with you. However, most of you will not be able to do this because your car does not have that function. So, the bottom line is use the speaker phone on your phone or use the safe headset that I use, which has an air tube so the radiation doesn't transfer up to your brain. Let's keep those brain cells healthy, folks!Related Articles:If Mobile Phones Were a Type of Food, They Simply Would Not be LicensedCell Phone Industry Just as Health Harming as Big TobbaccoCell Phones 'May Trigger Alzheimer's Disease'Next Generation Cell Phones May Cause Nausea, Headaches( 60 Comments ) +34 Points BY Russ Bianchi View Russ Bianchi's Profile Add Russ Bianchi to Friends Receive Updates from Russ Bianchi By News Feed April 16, 2007 Let's not forget another MAIN culprit , on top of all those mentioned by Dr. Mercola and Dr. Gussa - High Fructose Corn Syrup or Invert Sugar Syrup - FORCE FED to the bees in factory hives with 24-7 lighting (to fool them into thinking it's late Spring or early Summer) when natural pollen, sap, nectar and other botanical materials are not readily available Cell

May 6, 2007

I've done the same through dandelions and bluets. I have a few lawns that I cut. Some are actually fields. 3-4 acres of dandelions, and one bumblebee. I heard one honey bee. At the church yard that I cut, another 3 acres, it is a carpet of dandelions. I noticed more bees there, honey bees. But, for a particularly sunny and spring warmth day, that lawn should have had a small swarm of bees on it. I was picking them out and probably the entire acreage, if counted, would have had a couple dozen bees on it, judging by the density that I saw.

Me thinks that we might be in trouble, because it appears that for whatever reason the honeybees are in trouble. Wind, sweat bees (nickname), wasps, bumblebees, all do pollination as well as honey bees. But the honeybees are particularly good at it and it would appear that they direct themselves to that job.

I don't see any here at home, and am wondering as to whether or not I should plant anything that requires them this year as it might well be wasted effort.

In relation to the dandelions I am waiting to see if they go to their see pod stage. I don't know whether or not it requires pollination for them to go from flower to seeds.

And, two old apple trees, loaded with blooms. No bees on them either.

ed

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bobjudy

Sunday, May 06, 2007 11:05 AM

Re: Cell Phones May be Why Honeybees Are Disappearing...

I walked thru a field of clover the other day and hunted for a single bee. Not a one.

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Cell Phones May be Why Honeybees Are Disappearing POSTED BY Dr. Mercola View Dr. Mercola's Profile Add Dr. Mercola to Friends Receive Updates from Dr. Mercola By News Feed April 16, 2007 Scientists are having a difficult time explaining the rapid decline of the honeybee population in the United States and Canada, known as colony collapse disorder, that could affect crops depending on these insects for pollination. Research presented some four years ago speculates the radiation emitted from cellular phones may contribute to the problem.When cellular phones were placed near hives, the radiation generated by them (900-1,800 MHz) was enough to prevent bees from returning to them, according to a study conducted at Landau University.Scientists believe the radiation produced by cellular phones may be enough to interfere with the way bees "communicate" with their hives. Cellular phones may create a resonance effect that interferes with the movement patterns bees use as a kind of language.The Independent April 15, 2007Telegraph.co.uk April 16, 2006Science a Go Go April 16, 2007Dr. Mercola's Comment:Although another study blamed the ongoing spread of genetically modified crops for the disappearance, cellular phones may also very well be contributing to the problem.This comes as no surprise, considering all the harm mobile phones can do to male sperm, for example, as well as to your head.I have run many articles detailing the studies that expose how the harmful radiation from cell phones can wreak havoc. I would encourage you to review an article that was published in Lancet several years ago; you can review my extensive summary of that article or you can go to the journal directly and obtain the information.Do you really want an acoustic neuroma (tumor) growing inside your head? If you are fortunate enough to avoid nervous system malignancies, then how will you contend with the cellular damage these mobile phones cause? While protecting your brain from harmful EMFs will do nothing to halt the disappearance of bees, one of your best and safest options would be to restrict your use of cellular phones to the speakerphone function, or find a safe headset.Remember, just because you can't see the EMFs does not mean that they are not harming you. In many ways this scenario is very similar to smoking 100 years ago. The average person was oblivious to the possibility that smoking could be harmful.What made it even worse was that the deceptive marketers of the time used physicians to convince people that it was actually "cool" and even healthy to smoke. Similar to cell phones, people would not drop dead until many years later. This delayed effect obscured the damage that was being done.If you do not believe the data, then I strongly encourage you to review some of the links below and rethink your decision on the safety of cell phones. We won't know the full extent of the damage these devices are producing for many years. Hard to remember but cell phones are NOT that old. Although they were developed in the '40s and '50s, most people did not adopt them much more than 10 years ago. Think about it for a moment; I will bet you and most people you know have not had cell phones for more than 10 years. Until the late 1980s they were too large to be carried in a jacket pocket so they were permanently installed in the car as car phones.If most people had just started smoking 10 years ago we would have virtually NO CLUE as to how dangerous it is. Are you really willing to risk your life on the chance that these devices are perfectly safe? I certainly am not, which is why I ALWAYS use the safe headset or the speaker phone. My first choice is the speakerphone, and I encourage all of you to get a phone with that feature and use it. Keep that darn phone away from your head. Occasionally I do use the phone in my car, but I have a model that can wirelessly connect to the phone through Bluetooth and it is completely hands-free. My phone is four feet from me and I just talk to the windshield and the sound comes through the car's audio system. It really is pretty slick and not much different than talking as if the person were in the car with you. However, most of you will not be able to do this because your car does not have that function. So, the bottom line is use the speaker phone on your phone or use the safe headset that I use, which has an air tube so the radiation doesn't transfer up to your brain. Let's keep those brain cells healthy, folks!Related Articles:If Mobile Phones Were a Type of Food, They Simply Would Not be LicensedCell Phone Industry Just as Health Harming as Big TobbaccoCell Phones 'May Trigger Alzheimer's Disease'Next Generation Cell Phones May Cause Nausea, Headaches( 60 Comments ) +34 Points BY Russ Bianchi View Russ Bianchi's Profile Add Russ Bianchi to Friends Receive Updates from Russ Bianchi By News Feed April 16, 2007 Let's not forget another MAIN culprit , on top of all those mentioned by Dr. Mercola and Dr. Gussa - High Fructose Corn Syrup or Invert Sugar Syrup - FORCE FED to the bees in factory hives with 24-7 lighting (to fool them into thinking it's late Spring or early Summer) when natural pollen, sap, nectar and other botanical materials are not readily available Cell