Bees
Increasingly, awareness is growing about the plight of the honeybee. "Colony Collapse Disorder" is the term used for the mysterious and alarming decline in bee populations worldwide. Mites have been blamed, and loss of habitat, and chemical effects, but until now, electromagnetic and radiofrequency fields have been ignored as a possible player in this environmental catastrophe.
Now, new studies are emerging to indicate harm from wireless sources, implicating them, and the biological stress they cause, as significant contributors to the problem.
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2011
Can Electromagnetic Exposure Cause a Change in Behaviour?
Studying Possible Non-Thermal Influences on Honey Bees - An Approach within the Framework of Educational Informatics
"In recent years the public discussion has been focused increasingly on possible unhealthy effects
of high-frequency electromagnetic fields (particularly of mobile-phones) on human beings.
Whereas thermal effects of this radiation could be explained very well, non-thermal effects could
hardly be clarified. In our last works, we pointed out that - from view of Educational Informatics
- honey bees are suitable bioindicators to serve as a model of a living being to study learning
processes especially in this aspect.
"In this paper, we describe a first pilot study, which explores the non-thermal influence of high-frequency electromagnetic fields. Therefore we observe the behaviour of honey bees (apis mellifera carnica) by exposing them to the radiation of DECT-phones. In this study four respectively
eight bee-colonies were used as experimental group and were irradiated, whereas the same numbers of comparable bee-colonies was field-free. The observed parameters were the building behaviour of the bees within the beehive, its weight and especially the bees' returning behaviour . . ."
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