Posted By WakeXX on 02/17/2007 8:01 AM
crazy...

he Independent newspaper cited a scientific study claiming it provided evidence for the theory that mobile phone masts are a major cause in the collapse of bee populations, with controlled experiments demonstrating a rapid and catastrophic effect on individual hives near masts.⎣] Mobile phones were in fact not covered in the study, and the original researchers have since emphatically disavowed any connection between their research, cell phones, and CCD, specifically indicating that the Independent article had misinterpreted their results and created "a horror story".

But the results are "highly preliminary" and are from only a few hives from Le Grand in Merced County, UCSF biochemist Joe DeRisi said. "We don't want to give anybody the impression that this thing has been solved."

Other researchers said Wednesday that they too had found the fungus, a single-celled parasite called Nosema ceranae, in affected hives from around the country — as well as in some hives where bees had survived. Those researchers have also found two other fungi and half a dozen viruses in the dead bees.

N. ceranae is "one of many pathogens" in the bees, said entomologist Diana Cox-Foster of Pennsylvania State University. "By itself, it is probably not the culprit … but it may be one of the key players."

Posted By Vrecknidj on 02/15/2007 7:26 PM
My wife cannot digest regular sugar, is allergic to corn (no corn syrup or fructose) and gets migranes from all the fake sweetners. She's on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet and so the only sweetner her body digests properly is honey. I buy it by the gallon from a local Amish guy, but, I really hope this doesn't drive my price up. It's expensive enough as is.

Dave