On Sun, 15 May 2011 08:01:37 -0700, "Steve B"
wrote:



"Dr. Daniel Favre, a former biologist with the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, carefully placed a mobile
phone underneath a beehive and then monitored the reaction of the
workers."

"This study shows that the presence of an active mobile phone disturbs
bees -- and has a dramatic effect," Favre told the Daily Mail.


This is interesting, since bumblebees do not form hives. They form nests of
up to 50 individuals, and the nests are usually cavities left from some
burrowing animal or a void in a structure. Sometimes the nest is only one
family of less than a dozen individuals. How would one put a cell phone
under a "hive" that is a tunnel in the ground? Dig it up? Wouldn't that
disturb the bees, and then the cell phone gets blamed for everything.

TrollOMeter rating 1.

Steve

Steve..the bees in question were not "bumblebees" but hive dwelling
agricultural type bees. I simply used Bumblebees as a slang term

Gunner

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