"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years left to live." - Albert Einstein

"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years left to live." - Albert Einstein

At Cornell Univ. honeybees in a hive relocated into a new building became disoriented. After extensive research ruled out other causes, someone noticed the hive was next to the building's electric transformer. The bees were confused by 60 hz magnetism strong enough to interfere with homing and communication to gather nectar and pollen.

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/RofD4.html

From Alfonso Balmori


In a recent study carried out with bees in Germany, only few irradiated bees (with DECT) returned to the beehive and required more time to reach the hive. The weight of honeycombs is also smaller in the bees that were irradiated.

Stever H, Kuhn J, Otten C, Wunder B, Harst W. Verhaltensanderung unter elektromagnetischer Exposition.Pilotstudie. Institut fu¨ r mathematik. Arbeitsgruppe. Bildungsinformatik. Universita¨t Koblenz-Landau; 2005. http://agbi.uni-landau.de/materialien.htm

See also

www.mikrowellensmog.info/bienen.html web from Dr. Ferdinand Ruzicka, Doz University.

and

http://canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz/ouruhia/

and

Firstenberg, A. 1997: Microwaving Our Planet: The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution. Cellular Phone Taskforce. Brooklyn, NY 11210.

With best regards

Alfonso Balmori. Spain

http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/?p=665



The effects of EMR are being felt by wildlife and the environment as a whole, Birds, bees, worms, trees are all being affected. We need to fight for not only the future of mankind but for the future of the whole environment.

Vienna physicians are displaying information posters in doctor's surgeries. They state radiation from mobile phones is far from being harmless as they have been told by the cell phone companies. They have therefore, in order to act responsibly, the Chamber of Doctors in Vienna, Austria, has decided to inform people about potential medical risks.

http://www.mast-victims.org/index.php?content=journal&action=view&type=journal&id=111

His findings, and subsequent related work by Dr Cyril Smith (Smith and Baker, 1982), seem relevant also to the earlier and more generally accepted studies on bees and homing pigeons, both of which are known to have receptors which are able to sense the Earth's magnetic field and its variations, which they use to help direct their survival behavior. My own extraordinary first experience of complete disorientation below the lines may also be relevant; I had never experienced this before, though I have done so since, most notably after I had held up a fluorescent tube for over an hour, to be photographed under the lines; the next day, after a distressingly sleepless night, I found what looked like a burn on that shoulder.

http://www.bewisepolarize.com/man-made%20emf%20sources.htm

Our cheap transistor radios can pick up and separate out hundreds of
radio signals at levels of a few hundreds of microvolts/metre. More
sophisticated communications receivers can work down to levels of about
10 microvolts/metre. Radio-astronomers work on informational signals
from stars at less than 1 microvolt/metre - this is a power level of
about 0.000 000 000 001 microwatt/cm2 (1 attowatt/cm2 !!). We can now detect
and create pictures from signals from spacecraft at our outer planets using
transmit powers similar to those use by mobile phones of a few watts!

Honeybees have been shown to be sensitive to magnetic flux differences
of 1 nanotesla (10 microGauss) [4][Theoretically humans could also be
sensitive down to less than this level (pineal thermal noise c. 0.24
nanotesla - Smith, 1985). Various sea creatures can detect voltage
gradients of a few 10's of microvolts/metre.

Biological stochastic resonance from regular pulsing EMFs can
effectively amplify coherent signals (like power EMFs) by vast amounts.

What arrogant nonsense to suggest that living systems need to be
"cooked" before they realize they are being bombarded by signals and
that microwaves of 100 volts/metre are harmless to us.

http://members.aol.com/gotemf/emf/animals.htm

Honey bees navigate by observing changes as small as 0.6% in the Earth's
magnetic field (2.5 mG out of 400 mG). Other studies have shown that
other animals, such as sea turtles and homing pigeons, can navigate using
the Earth's magnetic field as a guide. In order to navigate to
precision, it is necessary to have many magnetosomes with a permanent
dipole moment which are able to maintain their direction in the Earth's
magnetic field while being buffeted by Brownian thermal fluctuations.

V.3. Animals: Honey bees follow B fields (Walker/Bitterman, J. Comp.
Physiol. 157, 67-73, 1995, and Science 265, 95, 1994) down to a few mG DC
accuracy and sea turtles turn when B varies at earth's locations (Science
264, 661 (1994). [DH: Note that detection of DC fields is not detection
of AC fields, and it certainly is not cancer promotion. The honey bees
are insensitive to AC fields. See introduction and Sec. VIII.,
Bibliography for more data on animals.]

42. "Honeybees Can Be Trained to Respond to Very Small Changes in
Geomagnetic Field Intensity," M.M. Walker and M.E. Bitterman, J. Exp.
Biology 145, 489-494 (1989). (A)