just, crap

[adrienmundi]

Bee depopulation and cell phones

Fuck if I don't want to go flush mine now. If true, we're so fucked, because no one will want to do without, and hey, it's not an immediate problem, right?

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[servingdonuts.livejournal.com]

and hey, it's not an immediate problem, right?

Good news, though: it's probably not even an actual problem.

http://www.biotunes.org/bioblog/2007/04/cell-phone-use-and-bees.html

http://www.kgadams.net/2007/04/15/are-cell-phones-wiping-out-bees-no/

Lots of pointers to discussions at http://instapundit.com/archives2/004182.php

Lots of discussion at http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/04/15/0727238.shtml

The FAQ for the Colony Collapse Disorder Working Group at www.ento.psu.edu/MAAREC/FAQ/FAQCCD.pdf says "Radiation transmitted by cell towers: The distribution of both affected and non-affected CCD apiaries does not make this a likely cause. Also cell phone service is not available in some areas where affected commercial apiaries are located in the west."