Rick Archer wrote: > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 10:45 PM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Latest on missing bees > > > > Are <http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife/article2449968.ece> > mobile phones wiping out our bees? - Independent Online Edition > Wildlife > > > if this is true, why has the problem just shown up, while people have been > using mobile phones for years? The article doesn't address this question. > > > Plus mobile phone in general use frequencies that were used by television translators for rural areas (this was a means of rebroadcasting signals from stations in distant cities to areas where there were no local stations). These existed since the late 1950s until the FCC had them move to lower frequencies to open frequencies for mobile. Being in rural areas I would think there would have been a corresponding drop in bee population back then. However one might argue that cellular repeat towers would be much closer than the translator towers which were usually placed on top of mountains.
