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With the new news that they communicate using electrical signals through their wings, could it be EM "noise" from cell towers and wifi?
by brador 14y ago
With the new news that they communicate using electrical signals through their wings, could it be EM "noise" from cell towers and wifi?
- L0j1k 14y agoBees are like condors or something, very susceptible to environmental influences. It's tremendously unfortunate (for the understatement of the century) that they are critical to a large part our food supply.
- andreasvc 14y agoThat's backwards. It's unfortunate that (apparently) our modern farming methods disrupt the natural order of things, in this case pollination.
- Gravityloss 14y agoOne could say it's not a case of "fortune". It's like throwing a rock into a crowd and being surprised if someone gets hurt badly.
- nooneelse 14y agoThat is a point good enough to deserve an attempt to encapsulate it in a memorable saying. "Don't let your ecological web depend too much on indicator species" doesn't work. How about: "Don't depend on canary eggs when you live in a coal mine."
- wcoenen 14y agoThe news was that they could detect stable electric fields, probably via electrostatic force on their hairs. That's very different from high frequency radio waves. http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2013/9163.html http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2013/9163.html