Researchers from the American University of Science and Technology in Beirut, Lebanon,​ wanted to test establish the effects on honey bees from mobile phones. They recorded the normal noises of the bees, then placed a mobile phone in standby-mode near the hive. The bees behaved in the same way they had without the phone. After this, the researchers made a phone call to the bees. It takes bees time to realize the presence of electromagnetic radiation. The bees stayed relaxed for approximately ten minutes, producing sounds at normal frequencies. After this, they started an intense buzzing sound, reaching up to 1520 Hz. The sound is considered an alarm to inform the colony that something abnormal is present. After the call ended, it took three to four minutes before the bees resumed their normal sounds. 

 

Another experiment was performed. For a month a mobile phone was kept by the hive, and a fifteen-minute call made once a day. At the end of the month, 80% of the bees were gone. Bee eggs were not transformed into larva. 

Radiation generated by mobile phones' antennas disturb the life cycle of honeybees and affect both the bee's reproduction system and honey producing.

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Bee Culture warning

The magazine of American Beekeeping: Bee Culture reports on the significant effects on Queen Bees and the problems with Radio frequency identification devices (RFIDs) scientists use on bees.

bee keeping organisation Bee Culture https://www.beeculture.com/electromagnetic-radiation-part-2/

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Butterflies, hoverflies, and key wild pollinators change fertility and abundance

Research on key wild pollinator groups (wild bees, hoverflies, bee flies, remaining flies, beetles, butterflies, and wasps was carried out in Greece. All pollinator groups were affected by radiation from antennae. several insect guilds negatively, and changed the composition of wild pollinators in natural habitats, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10841-016-9868-8

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Research by Panagopoulos et al found there was a huge drop in insect reproduction when exposed to cell phone tower frequencies, insect reproduction of fruit flies found a 50-60 % drop.

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Frog eggs exposed to

cell phone tower radiation

had a 90% death rate

In Spain, researcher Alfonso Balmori preformed a two month

experiment with frogs in a tank on a fifth floor terrace, 

140 metres away from several antennae on a tall building.

He took the experiment from the egg stage to advanced

tadpole stage. He protected one lot of frogs from the radiation

using a Faraday cage.

 

In the unprotected group:

The tadpoles had a 90% mortality.

The tadpole tails waved slowly

The tadpoles swarm remaining tilted or sideways and

also swarm in closed circles

The didn't react to a bang on the side of the tank. 

They showed little interest in stimulus or food

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In the protected group:

The tadpoles had 2.4% mortality

The tadpoles tails moved quickly

They swarm normally, no sideways or tilted swimming, the didn't swim in circles, they swarm correctly.

When food was supplied most reacted quickly

Sudden stimulus also created a quick reaction

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This research may have huge implications for the natural world, which is now exposed to high microwave radiation levels from a multitude of phone masts. Deformities and disappearance of amphibians and other organisms is part of the global biodiversity crisis. Since the mid-1990s striking deformities have turned up in more than 60 species of frogs, toads and salamanders in 46 US states and on four continents. The number of disfigured animals in some populations averages around 25 percent—significantly higher than in previous decades (Blaustein and Johnson, 2003. Chemical pollutants and parasites are part of the problem. 

 

Frogs are an indicator species

They have long been regarded as important indicators of the earth’s
health because their unshelled eggs and permeable skin make
them extremely sensitive to perturbations in the environment.
Chances are good that factors affecting these animals harshly
today are also beginning to take a toll on other species.

When the world is blanketed by signals from the proposed many thousands of satellite transmissions, so that every part of the world can get a signal, to usher in the Internet of things, we will be lucky not to get an electronic silent spring. 

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Bats

New Zealand has two species of bats: long-tailed and short-tailed, the lesser short-tailed bat is found nowhere else in the world and is thought to have been here 25 million years ago. They are an important pollinator of some native plants.  Both long and short-tailed were a common sight to early settlers, but are now endangered species. There is plenty to blame for their demise, in New Zealand, habit loss—their need to roost in old trees with the right kind of protective cavities, insecticides, introduced competitors and so on. They have recently declined in Malborough and vineyard insecticides are being blamed, however, they face a new double whammy. Overseas researchers Balmori et al, on bats, the researchers found a colony exposed to a cell tower 80 metres away had colony decrease. During the study, the number of bats decreased so much that the control (ringing) works had to be interrupted. 

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What is the likely effect on other species given mice studies make them infertile between 3 and five generations?

We should not wait to protect our flora and fauna. Safe ICT NZ is concerned about the research done on our native species using radiofrequency trackers. The research on how artificial radiation lowers fertility in diverse species: from chickens, to mice to fruit fly with mice becoming completely infertile within 3-5 generations, would recommend we apply the precautionary principle. 

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Rodents

There is more research on these species than any other, they have niche in the eco-system, if we are harming them, then we are also taking away an important food source from other creatures, herons, falcons and owls to name a few.

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