Sunday, May 15, 2011

Turn Off Your Phone and Read a Book — you could save the planet


"A new study by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology reports that honeybees are 'fatally confused by the electromagnetic signals coming out of cell phones.'"
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" [...] mobile phones produce what the study called 'a dramatic impact on the behavior of bees, namely by inducing the worker piping signal.' A worker piping signal tells a bee that it's time to swarm — or that the colony has been disturbed."
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"The first in-depth national study of wild bees in the U.S. has uncovered major losses in the relative abundance of several bumblebee species and declines in their geographic range since record-keeping began in the late 1800s."
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1 comment:

  1. The author's idea is too great. We can hardly believe that mobile phones will affect the survival of bees and other creatures. In order to protect these creatures, we should definitely use less mobile phones and read more books.

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