Re: [scifinoir2] Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe

2010-05-03 Thread Martin Baxter
I also think that there's something about cellphone towers and bees. There used to be a T-Mobile cell tower near my house, and bees here were almost non-existent. They took it down last year, and the bees have returned. On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [scifinoir2] Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe

2010-05-03 Thread Mr. Worf
It could be a combination of the cell phone towers and lack of diversity in the bee population that allowed them to become exposed to different diseases. Most of the bees that are used come from just a couple of sources this creates potential weaknesses. Back in the late 80s / early 90s the

[scifinoir2] Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe

2010-05-02 Thread brent wodehouse
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/02/food-fear-mystery-beehives-collapse Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe The world may be on the brink of biological disaster after news that a third of US bee colonies did not survive the winter Alison

Re: [scifinoir2] Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe

2010-05-02 Thread Martin Baxter
Sweet Deity... When WILL humankind get the memo?[?] On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 2:48 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/02/food-fear-mystery-beehives-collapse Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee

Re: [scifinoir2] Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe

2010-05-02 Thread Mr. Worf
Thank you for mentioning this article. I was thinking about this topic yesterday. I suspect that because the bees were mostly from the same source that they don't have any resistance to whatever it is that is ailing them. (it could also be cellphones) Whatever it is they need to figure out