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pepper
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daytona, Florida, US
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Bees & Cell Phones
Has anyone heard the theory on Bees and why they seem to be disappearing, lately?
The theory goes that cell phone signals mess with the 'radar' that bees use to get back to their hives and they wind up dying instead of coming back. Farmers are saying and scientists too, that if a way isn't found to correct this, that it could have a serious impact on the world's economy and food supply.
I can't wrap my head around it. Part of me wants to scoff, but what if it could be true? can anything 'bee" done?
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| May 16, 2007, 15:44 |
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Re: Bees & Cell Phones
I can't beelieve that!!! Sorry,  but seriously, i have noticed where i live that there seems to be less bee's. If that's true, it is terrible and i hope someone thinks of a way to resolve it.
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| May 16, 2007, 15:48 |
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funlovingpair
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Frozen Tundra, Minnesota, US
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Re: Bees & Cell Phones
There have beeen no studies on this theory. So far its someones non supported theory. Now isn't that a stinging theory.
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| May 16, 2007, 16:18 |
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Re: Bees & Cell Phones
I have been trying to follow the missing honeybee story...it's just unnerving when a major part of our ecosystem goes haywire!
I live very close to a cell phone tower,about a block, block and a half away and there's no shortage of bees of all kinds pollinating my gardens.
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| May 16, 2007, 17:21 |
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funlovingpair
59 / couple
Frozen Tundra, Minnesota, US
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Re: Bees & Cell Phones
I just wonder how much solar flare activity has been going on. We all know that will screw up a lot of radio transmissions. 
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| May 16, 2007, 17:27 |
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Re: Bees & Cell Phones
Cell phones causing the appearent decline of the honey bee population? Sounds like a bunch of bs (bee shit) to me!!
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| May 17, 2007, 06:40 |
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GG317
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Bowl of Granola, Massachusetts, US
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Re: Re: Bees & Cell Phones
QUOTE (voyeurbill @ May 17, 2007, 06:40)Cell phones causing the appearent decline of the honey bee population? Sounds like a bunch of bs (bee shit) to me!!
Hell, I believe it... I just read the other day that obesity is caused by, "Salt". The Surgeon General has determined that salt makes people eat more and bigger portions, than if the food was bland and untasting...lol. DOH!... 
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| May 18, 2007, 15:45 |
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So, that's why all those killer bee swarms we heard so much about ten years ago has not really made its mark.
Now if only Chazzy can read that book about defending planet Earth, maybe the signals will screw up ET's friends, too.
ha ha
 
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| May 19, 2007, 01:59 |
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Mooant
41 / male
New Britain, Connecticut, US
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Re: Bees & Cell Phones
I'm sorry, but I don't believe that. Bees see in the infrared spectrum and they navigate the land by memorizing the patterns in the area. They've done a lot of studies to prove that, and cell phones don't affect the way that light works.
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| May 19, 2007, 14:00 |
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smitty6044
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A whoop and a hollar from Dallas, Texas, US
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Re: Bees & Cell Phones
Lets see....pesticides, killer bees, avian flu, global warming what else can the media find to alarm us today. Nature is cyclic just like the weather. There will be more or less the same number of honeybees in the whole world tomorrow, just temporarily less in an area or areas today. The main concern is with ratings and "doom and gloom" always gets more attention. When was the last time you heard a whole newscast with only positive, uplifting stories?
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| May 20, 2007, 02:20 |
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rawk35
56 / couple
valley, Oregon, US
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Re: Bees & Cell Phones
this may bee a true problem but< I was out cuttin the grass and waterin the petunias and I set down my beer. when i went for a swig a damned hunny bee stung me on the lip! now they may be disapearin but there is enuf sexy woman on web naughty to sure enuf replace any hunny shortage that may arise! so rest easy my enviormental peeps. your appetite will be quenched if ya just pursue in the right manner! LMAO!!! god bless WN!!!   
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| May 21, 2007, 14:18 |
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rawk35
56 / couple
valley, Oregon, US
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P.S. luv ya pep!!!  3some .gif">  
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| May 21, 2007, 14:20 |
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Mooant
41 / male
New Britain, Connecticut, US
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Re: Bees & Cell Phones
I talked with my Dad about this yesterday and it turns out the media got it wrong by blaming it on the cell phones. There's a kind of gnat in Europe that has found its way over to the States and these gnats became an invasive species that competes with the bees for food.
This is why I don't watch the news, they never tell the whole story.
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| May 22, 2007, 00:09 |
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columbus17
58 / male
Memphis, Tennessee, US
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Re: Bees & Cell Phones
I think it's more of a loss of habitat than anything else.
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| May 22, 2007, 10:18 |
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pepper
56 / female
daytona, Florida, US
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QUOTE (rawk35 @ May 21, 2007, 14:20)
No problem, Rawk, I didn't believe it, just was kinda thinkin out loud, y'know?
Mooant---I talked with my Dad about this yesterday and it turns out the media got it wrong by blaming it on the cell phones. There's a kind of gnat in Europe that has found its way over to the States and these gnats became an invasive species that competes with the bees for food.
This is why I don't watch the news, they never tell the whole story.
I wondered about that, roo, Mooant, they never seem to get anything straight, now do they?
 
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| May 24, 2007, 14:03 |
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Re: Bees & Cell Phones
Its the poison out this way...if you guys only knew !!!
 
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| May 24, 2007, 17:28 |
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pepper
56 / female
daytona, Florida, US
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Re: Bees & Cell Phones
Interestingly, I ran across this article today, I'll post part of it and if you want to read the rest, it's on Yahoo's fron page.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A newly discovered virus may be killing bees or may be making some bees vulnerable enough to disappear, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.
While the virus probably does not alone account for what scientists call colony collapse disorder, or CCD, it could help explain what is happening to bees across the United States, they said.
The virus, called Israeli acute paralysis virus, or IAPV, was discovered in Israel in 2004 and is new to science.
CCD hit an estimated 23 percent of all beekeeping operations in the United States during the winter of 2006-7. "These beekeepers lost an average of 45 percent of their operations," the researchers wrote in their report, published in the journal Science.
Beekeepers do not find bees dead -- they simply find the hives nearly empty, with the queens alone and workers gone.
Hmmm, guess our cells are safe for the moment....
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| September 6, 2007, 15:46 |
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Re: Bees & Cell Phones
I did notice that this year, although I did some some bumble bees, that I did not get many tomatoes from my garden this year, and this fall no hickory or walnuts, no pine cones, no pears from the pear tree...
Dammit, had to go to the farm and home store for squirrel feed! That's a first...
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| February 18, 2008, 08:44 |
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60 Minuted did a segment on the disappearing of bees a few months back..it is real and the apparent decline in the bees is and will inevitabley affect our agriculture...bees pollinate...therefore perpetuating the plant life cycle on land anyway.....honey production is down too...
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| February 18, 2008, 09:21 |
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It appears that very little polination went on in my area...no nuts, fruit...which really not only affects the plants, but is a real upset to the little critters that depend on the nuts and fruit, and the predators that depend on the little nut and fruit eating cuties for their food.
A definite ripple in the whole food chain.
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| February 20, 2008, 06:03 |
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Re: Bees & Cell Phones
You could pollinate your garden yourself using a sable paintbrush. Works great.
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| February 20, 2008, 13:40 |
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pepper
56 / female
daytona, Florida, US
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Re: Bees & Cell Phones
yes, but how do you pollinate the top of the trees?
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| February 20, 2008, 17:15 |
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QUOTE (pepper @ February 20, 2008, 17:15)
i'll hoist you on top of my shoulders, pepper..or we can call NRG and have him do a "fly by"
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| February 21, 2008, 09:16 |
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QUOTE (Mori @ February 20, 2008, 13:40)You could pollinate your garden yourself using a sable paintbrush. Works great.
If the bees don't come back next summer, I'm sure I'll have to do something with the tomato plants.
Usually our yard is so covered in acorns and hickory nuts, it's like trying to walk on marbles. But the lawn was completely bare of them this year.
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| February 21, 2008, 09:28 |
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NRG4U
63 / male
Beaver City, Nebraska, US
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Re: Re: Re: Bees & Cell Phones
QUOTE (TropiFun @ February 21, 2008, 09:16) QUOTE (pepper @ February 20, 2008, 17:15)
i'll hoist you on top of my shoulders, pepper..or we can call NRG and have him do a "fly by"
If i do a fly by, i might have to land, just to see to it personally that everything of peppers gets "pollenated"
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| February 21, 2008, 09:57 |
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pepper
56 / female
daytona, Florida, US
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QUOTE (NRG4U @ February 21, 2008, 09:57) QUOTE (TropiFun @ February 21, 2008, 09:16) QUOTE (pepper @ February 20, 2008, 17:15)
i'll hoist you on top of my shoulders, pepper..or we can call NRG and have him do a "fly by" If i do a fly by, i might have to land, just to see to it personally that everything of peppers gets "pollenated"
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| February 21, 2008, 15:33 |
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Re: Re: Bees & Cell Phones
QUOTE (Chazzy @ February 20, 2008, 06:03)It appears that very little pollination went on in my area...no nuts, fruit...which really not only affects the plants, but is a real upset to the little critters that depend on the nuts and fruit, and the predators that depend on the little nut and fruit eating cuties for their food.
A definite ripple in the whole food chain.
I'm really wondering how all this will affect us all...At first in the spring, there seemed to be the usual amount of bees buzzing around, then by mid summer they had disappeared.
Now I have birds at my feeders that I don't normally see...a starving bird population can mean a very sick bird immune distressed population carrying diseases that can cross infect other animals and humans(west Nile virus being just one)...it all sounds like the start of some weird science fiction novel or movie!
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| February 22, 2008, 16:46 |
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QUOTE (TropiFun @ February 18, 2008, 09:21)60 Minuted did a segment on the disappearing of bees a few months back..it is real and the apparent decline in the bees is and will inevitabley affect our agriculture...bees pollinate...therefore perpetuating the plant life cycle on land anyway.....honey production is down too...
I did catch the 60 Minutes follow up on this orginal story, it seems they are still pretty stumped by it all and I learned that honey bees are responsible for 1/3 of the food we eat, that we are probably going to end up not being able to afford fruits and vegetables in the next year or two...
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| February 25, 2008, 10:58 |
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