Are Cell Phones Killing the Bees?

Some scientific evidence has emerged that shows that the radiation emitted by cell phones causes bees to have navigational issues and fail to return to their hives.  It is theorized that this is the main reason beehind (pun intended) the massive disappearance of pollinating bees in recent years.  In the US, apparently 60% of the West Coast’s and 70% of the East Coast’s bee populations have died.

Bees are important.  They are very important in pollinating essential crops that we eat.  If bees disappear, there will be a serious food shortage problem.  According to the World Health Organization, as of 2000, one out of every three people is malnourished.  This malnourishment problem would be exacerbated without bees.

I read in The New Economy of Nature that part of the reason pollinating bees were disappearing was because Africanized bees that were transported to South America had migrated northward and were cross breeding with honeybees, making them too mean to be social pollinators.

The world had better hope that this scientific evidence is wrong.   First-world society is addicted to cell phone usage.  I know I am.  I use my cell phone all the time… and if I didn’t have it I would bee less productive (pun intended).  We’ll have to see how the evidence pans out…