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[Michael Skeggs mike@bystander.net]

2009/3/30 Anne Hugo <anne.hugo at utas.edu.au>:
>> Not to mention the ecological impact of all of these devices.
>
> Not just in the ground when they become obsolete, but now, as we use
> them: mobile phone use has been blamed for the decline in bee
> populations, as bees become disoriented by all the signals we put out
> around the planet billions of times a day and can't find their way
> back to their hives:
>

Just on the bees ;-)
I understand this was a bit of a beat up.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2007/apr/26/alastwordon
"It's not my fault if people misinterpret our data,...This is a horror
story for every researcher to have your study reduced to this..."
I understand the current lead candidate to explain the colony
collapses is a virus carried by a mite that was potentially introduced
by Australian (!) bees imported tot he US (although I now read the AU
link has become more doubtful).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Collapse_Disorder
Regards,
Michael Skeggs