
Why are honeybees disappearing?
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The Role of Cell Phones in Colony Collapse Disorder
The Israeli acute paralysis virus seems to be the most important factor in colony collapse disorder, Rabel Rouse says. There's a study done in Germany as to whether or not cell phone and cell phone towers were putting off radiation that was screwing with bees' homing abilities. And apparently the opposite was picked up by the news cycle to the point where the guy who conducted the study wrote the APA letter saying, we found no link between colony collapse disorder and cell phones. But they were linking that and journalists were linking that.
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