More CCD data
I got some interesting feedback from a
friend of a friend today regarding yesterday's post on CCD. Thanks,
Shelia.
Shelia's friend has been working with bees for years and is up to date on the latest
research.
He points to the fact that CCD has affected beehives as far away as
Alberta, Canada, which is pretty rural and presumably out of reach of
the GWEN warning system.
On a slightly different subject, he shared with me some fascinating lab work he was
doing for the State Department to investigate the effects of microwave
radiation on rats. The grant was awarded because the Russians were
bombarding the US embassy with microwaves back during the Cold War.
They zapped pregnant rats with 100 times the dose measured at the
embassy and tested the offspring. Turns out the zapped rats were able
to learn to navigate through mazes faster than the normal rats. Insert rat race joke here.
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