Sunday, April 15, 2007

Are mobile phones wiping out our bees and with them the Human Race?

Interesting situation.. I've heard other things about bees dying off, but this (if accurate) seems significant.

Are mobile phones wiping out our bees? - Independent Online Edition > Wildlife

Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, "man would have only four years of life left".

UPDATE ---- Instapundit has some better info...

For instance, there was this claim: "Most of the world's crops depend on pollination by bees."

That's wrong. Corn, wheat, rice, rye, barley, and all the other grain crops do not rely on insects for pollination, and they make up the majority of the calories consumed by the human race.

It's true that there are a very large number of crops which do rely on insects, but many of those do not rely on honey bees, or at least do not have to. In many areas, they use a different kind of bee that looks a lot like a honey bee but is much different in life cycle. These bees don't produce honey, and all the females are fertile, with each producing 5-10 grubs. They work collective laying sites with the grubs being placed in holes in wood.

Is this another case of MASS HYSTERIA that mankind is somehow going to kill the planet?

UPDATE #2
Besides, Einstein may never have said anything about BEES

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