Mobile phone towers threaten honey bees: study
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Mobile phone towers threaten honey bees: study
August 31, 2009
Bees collect pollen from a blue thistle plant, July 26th, in a
Vancouver backyard garden. An overnight rain supplied the much needed
moisture.
Bees collect pollen from a blue thistle plant, July 26th, in a
Vancouver backyard garden. An overnight rain supplied the much needed
moisture.
Photograph by: Ward Perrin, Vancouver Sun
NEW DELHI � The electromagnetic waves emitted by mobile phone towers
and cellphones can pose a threat to honey bees, a study published in
India has concluded.
An experiment conducted in the southern state of Kerala found that a
sudden fall in the bee population was caused by towers installed across
the state by cellphone companies to increase their network.
The electromagnetic waves emitted by the towers crippled the
"navigational skills" of the worker bees that go out to collect nectar
from flowers to sustain bee colonies, said Dr. Sainuddin Pattazhy, who
conducted the study, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.
He found that when a cell phone was kept near a beehive, the worker
bees were unable to return, leaving the hives with only the queens and
eggs and resulting in the collapse of the colony within ten days.
Over 100,000 people in Kerala are engaged in apiculture and the
dwindling worker bee population poses a threat to their livelihood. The
bees also play a vital role in pollinating flowers to sustain
vegetation.
If towers and mobile phones further increase, honey bees might be wiped
out in 10 years, Pattazhy said.
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> Mobile phone towers threaten honey bees: study
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> August 31, 2009
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> Bees collect pollen from a blue thistle plant, July 26th, in a
> Vancouver backyard garden. An overnight rain supplied the much needed
> moisture.
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> Bees collect pollen from a blue thistle plant, July 26th, in a
> Vancouver backyard garden. An overnight rain supplied the much needed
> moisture.
> Photograph by: Ward Perrin, Vancouver Sun
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> NEW DELHI - The electromagnetic waves emitted by mobile phone towers