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Could this in any way be related to the increase of wifi, cellular or any other EM waves that got a huge boom since the early 2000s? I ask this as in, is there
by stelonix 4y ago
Could this in any way be related to the increase of wifi, cellular or any other EM waves that got a huge boom since the early 2000s? I ask this as in, is there any research on how the EM waves we've been using the past 20-25 years interact with arthropoda in general?
- jl6 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations There are a lot of very plausible explanations to work through before you have to consider something exotic like EM sensitivity.
- malfist 4y agoProbably going to regret asking this, but is there any evidence that EM waves interact negatively in anything in the animal kingdom? Outside of literally cooking something.
- zamadatix 4y agoFor the "any other EM waves" portion sure, ionizing radiation damages in a very different way than heating something up. It's unrelated to things like Wi-Fi and celluar though and such non-ionizing radiation has not been found to have some other negative interaction. Extremely high power extremely low frequency radiation can also cause electrical flow but it's not been found to be problematic in humans at least. I doubt anyone has done a study on extremely low frequency radiation for arthropods in the specific time frame specified by the GP but I also doubt this portion of the EM landscape has changed significantly enough compared to before that time frame to be a relevant explanation.