Saturday, May 14, 2011

Bee Alert on Your Cell Phone


Something that has puzzled bee studiers is why there has been a mysterious worldwide decrease in the bee population. They are dying at an alarming rate. I'm not sure how they came up with this, but one scientist guy placed a cell phone underneath a bee hive and monitored the reaction of the bees. When a call came in, the bees made a high pitched squeak... similar to the same news to signal the start of a big swarming. In another part of the world, other scientists discovered that the cell phone caused the queen egg to lay a lot less eggs. One study said that 4 of the 8 species they studied have declined as much as 96%! So besides distracted driving, and people being addicted to their tweets, texts and email... cell phones are now dangerous to bees. Look, this little Chi-Bee kind of looks like Chimmie.