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Honeybees Disappearance & Electromagnetism

04/16/2007 12:42 AM

Just read about honeybees who don't return to their hives due to electomagnetism throwing off their navigation systems. From 40% to 70% disappearance has already occurred in various locations of the US. Bees just fly off and die in the wild. Any comments? Optional discussion: Horror scenario - reduced pollination reduces total crop production; use of and increase of corn production reduces overall food supply. America's great natural resource, topsoil, seems to not be a concern to anyone. Are we looking at a great engineering disaster in the making? Not guns or butter, food or fuel.

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04/23/2007 4:47 AM

the FBI might well come calling

By phone ?

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04/23/2007 2:03 PM

Hey. They're just as welcome as anyone to call the hot-line. But with those little ear plugs and dark glasses, no one will know why they're smiling/blushing.

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04/24/2007 2:08 AM

May be you are true regarding some species of bees which are not tolerant to EM radiation.

In our native place I have seen plenty of bee hives just under an overhead water tank which near by a cell tower.

What ever! The awareness about this kind of thing is quite important.

Selecting pollution free place for bees and other birds and animal which are slowly disappearing is as important as now we are selecting a place for cell towers.

We should not try to make things too artificial, like some one mentioned inventing miniature robots to replace bees. If some thing we try to balance, some thing else will get imbalanced. As far as I belive, Mans hand should not be there on ecological balance. I think we have not enough intelligence to manipulate it.

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04/24/2007 2:14 AM

I agree with you, but the bees were brought from Italy a long time ago, so man's hand was there. Also, these bees have been moved around on flat bed trailers for years to provide pollination service for farmers all over America. So I would guess they're pretty used to odd surroundings. So why have they crashed now?

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04/24/2007 7:01 AM

Quite Interesting !...

Yeah !

Man is also an element in eco system.

We should use our intelligence in a naturally-productive way. I don't like inducing artificiality in nature.

Some weed plant which is submersible in water is brought from britan to india some 2 centuries back by britishers. It spreaded all over the country. It can flourish in ponds and lakes easily. Now it became necessary to kill them using chemicals. But no use ...It will again grow. The purity is distrubbed here.

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04/24/2007 7:36 AM

If it makes you feel better , we have a big problem with Japanese Knot-weed and a lot of other imports . Before you say it , they probably were bought back by British people but that's not exactly the fault of anyone alive (a bit like the weed you mention ) . I'd be interested to hear more detail . Non indigenous species are a global problem which plagues most countries - how that came to be can't be changed , but swapping info may eventually help to find solutions.

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04/25/2007 12:07 AM

Well, we got 'em, too. Of special note are the common garden snail, tumble weeds, and kudzu.

Some wealthy robber baron up in San Francisco wanted escargot, so he had them imported from France. They got loose and now we fight them every growing season.

As western as tumble weed seem to be, they came over in sacks of flax seed from Belgium. Yahoo, little buckaroos!

Finally, kudzu was imported to the south from Brazil. It was supposed to be a ground cover around highways. Well, it covers the ground alright, and the telephone poles and the telephone wires, and the highway... It's like driving through dark, green tunnels.

Does anyone want to talk about the zebra mussel?

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