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a wonderful wooden reason
Maybe it's 802.11.
It's just the Independent doin it's Daily-Mail-for-the-liberal-classes scare stuff.
I'm not convinced by this. I mean, there's all sorts of radiation whizzing around the place all the time, and mobile phones aren't particularly powerful transmitters. Furthermore, the vast majority of both phones and masts are going to be found in towns and cities, not out in the countryside where most bee are found, and they don't have huge ranges. What about mobile phones in the 80s, or even CB radio in the 70s - sure, far fewer people used them, but I expect they gave off far more radiation because receiver technology would have been that much more primitive. And what about WWII/Cold War-era radar installations blasting the country with megawatts of metre-wavelenght radio waves?
I'm not saying there's nothing in it, it just seems too 'neat' and obvious an explanation for something that probably has multiple causes.
how do the bees pick up on the radiation from mobile phones? what sensory organ of theirs is it that is enhanced beyond the level of ours?
could one explanation be the increased use of pesticides on the plants the bees pollinate?
just a thought...
The incident happened just two days after a swarm of 20,000 bees descended on Bournemouth Pier.