Vanishing honeybees mystify scientists

Reuters ^ | 9:40 p.m. EDT, April 22, 2007 | Reuters

[Tulsa Ramjet]

Global sWarming. ......The bees have moved on due to Al Bore's smoke...and mirrors.

[RichRepublican]

They think it’s cell phones.

[Jeff Chandler]

You Been Goofin’ With the Bees? (Get The Point?)

[Tulsa Ramjet]

I think its the apocalypse. Bird flue being spread by world-wide bird migration, bees dying world-wide due to cell phones resulting in food shortages, and finally finding out, after a world-wide search, who the father is of Anna Nicole Smith’s child.

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

This ain’t one to dismiss lightly. Bees are a fundamental part of modern agriculture.

Canaries dying in coal mine

[familyop]

I doubt that wireless transmissions are causing the problem. Wireless tends to run in GHz ranges, and animal tissues don’t do anything in those frequency ranges. Microwaves won’t hurt living things on this planet, except for living things that are very close to and in front of transmitters of such frequencies.

My best guess is that something is eating the bees.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

but if your soul is saved, who cares?...ha ha...just kidding, sort of.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

but how do they home in on flowers, and then go back to the hive and share with others? that little dance/jig they do? Puhleez, and its not even in time. (jk) Maybe there is some variations of the frequencies around towers that effect the frequencies, or lack there of, that might be used? Like a little EMP sub-frequency disaster. Ergo, my “Global Swarming” tag.

[RunningWolf]

I agree it is a serious problem. The ‘amount of work honeybees do’ cant be quantified.

[since1868]

What if it turns out that cell phones are killing bees?
I mean what will they do? What can they do?

[John Valentine]

They think it’s cell phones.

Sure. As the article says, "The phenomenon was first noticed late last year in the United States..."

That would be right after the introduction of cell phones in the USA last fall. Or maybe it took this long for the bees to get listed.

A more reasonable suggestion faults the sunspot cycle.

[AFPhys]

Probably the bees have been called home by all the cell phones.

Going to a new part of the universe, just like the dolphins in “Hitch hiker’s guide to the galaxy”

[Jeff Chandler]

The ‘amount of work honeybees do’ cant be quantified.

The illegal aliens Jorge Bush invites in will do the work the bees don't want to do.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Since about one-third of the U.S. diet depends on pollination and most of that is performed by honeybees, this constitutes a serious problem, according to Jeff Pettis of the U.S. Agricultural Research Service.

So I'm guessing the free market can't solve this problem, right. Grow the food in a controlled environment and use a machine to cross pollinate or do some gene splicing or something. Sheesh.

[Jeff Chandler]

“So long, and thanks for the pollen.”

[DeaconRed]

They joined the Teamsters and will be demanding MO MONEY

[RunningWolf]

yeh okay

out

[familyop]

"but how do they home in on flowers, and then go back to the hive and share with others? that little dance/jig they do? Puhleez, and its not even in time. (jk) Maybe there is some variations of the frequencies around towers that effect the frequencies, or lack there of, that might be used? Like a little EMP sub-frequency disaster. Ergo, my “Global Swarming” tag."

LOL!

[familyop]

"What if it turns out that cell phones are killing bees? I mean what will they do? What can they do?"

If that is found by both electrical engineers and biologists to be the case, then there will probably be some way to use bees instead of cell phones for our communications. [g]

[Jeff Chandler]

Hey, 13 posts in and no illegal alien posts, it’s my duty to provide one.