Honeybees Threatened From Cell Phones and Towers

Honeybees Threatened From Cell Phones and Towers so much so that they can not find their way home because of CCD or colony collapse disorder.

Bee studies have brought out evidence to support the theory of colony collapse disorder aka/CCD, among honeybees due to bioactive microwave radiation from cell phones and their relay towers.

Poor little bees. Now I hate cell phones and I love bees and honey…so, you know that I have my queen sized tighty-whities in a wad!

Honeybees have been here since 14 million years ago and it just takes 10 years of cell phone usage to ruin their eco-sytems.

Recent bee studies have found that worker bees fail to return to their hives when their navigation skills are interfered by the mobile microwaves.

What they did was place cell phones near beehives and these hives collapsed completely in 5 to 10 days, with the worker bees failing to be able to return to their homes.

Honeybees Threatened From Cell Phones and Towers and not only that…but the radiation also causes damage to the nervous system of the bee and it becomes unable to fly. Poor little things.

Perhaps you are thinking…so what…well. this affects the whole ecology.

Even the parasites, wildlife and other bees that would normally raid the honey and pollen left behind when a colony dies, refuse to go anywhere near the abandoned hives. How spooky is that?

The phenomenon of CCD and resultant crop loss were first noticed in America several years ago and has spread to most European countries by 2007.

Honeybees Threatened From Cell Phone Towers and the threat of losing entire honeybee colonies is far more serious than just a farmer losing his livelihood or you having to go without honey for a while.

That little bitty honeybees is a very important component of agriculture. Homey bees are used to pollinate many of the nuts, fruits and vegetables that feed the world.

In America alone, one third of the U.S. food supply depends on pollination from bees.

Do you like apples? Well, to give you an example…apple orchards, for just “one” example, require one colony of bees per acre to be adequately pollinated.

In California, the almond crop alone requires 1.3 million colonies of bees, and bees actually add an estimated $15 billion in value to crops like these.

So, if our bee colonies continue to be killed out in unprecedented numbers, major food shortages could result, adding to the current food crisis and more hungry people.

Beekeepers expect to incur losses of between 5 and 10 percent. But what was reported in 2007 really shocked Americans’ beekeepers. The USDA Agricultural Research Service reported a total loss of about 36 percent of their bee colonies, up from 13.5 percent the year before.

When nature’s pollinators start to mysteriously die off, it is a huge clue that something in nature is out of balance.

This weird, unwholesome or disordered condition has been dubbed “colony collapse disorder” or CCD and while a definitive cause has yet to be determined it seems cell phones may be playing a role.

So, the next time you spend an hour on your cell phone, yacking about NOTHING…think about how “Honeybees Threatened From Cell Phones and Towers,” and get off the phone.