First there was colony collapse disorder where bees were dying off by the millions. Now it is the bats that are dying in the northeast of the US which means more mosquitoes and other flying insects await us all this spring.
Alan Hicks, a wildlife biologist with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, said he fears a catastrophic collapse of the region's bat population and is urgently enlisting experts around the country to find the cause.
Scientists think perhaps humans are spreading the bat killing disease from cave to cave. The dead bats which number in the thousands so far have a ring of white fungus around their nose and scientists do not know if this is a symptom or the reason the bats are dying. Some surmise however the fungus could be a result of the bats being too sick to groom themselves.
Hopefully scientists will be able to find the cause and cure for this problem. I sincerely hope the problem isn't related to WiMAX or some other new technology. If global warming is the cause, perhaps this will be more of an incentive for the world to try to reverse this trend.
This may be unrelated but I have noticed that this year and last... birds near my house in Connecticut seem to have stopped flying south. Could this be somehow related to the bat problem? Hey, I am no scientist but I am a MacGyver fan.
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Alan Hicks, a wildlife biologist with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, said he fears a catastrophic collapse of the region's bat population and is urgently enlisting experts around the country to find the cause.
Scientists think perhaps humans are spreading the bat killing disease from cave to cave. The dead bats which number in the thousands so far have a ring of white fungus around their nose and scientists do not know if this is a symptom or the reason the bats are dying. Some surmise however the fungus could be a result of the bats being too sick to groom themselves.
Hopefully scientists will be able to find the cause and cure for this problem. I sincerely hope the problem isn't related to WiMAX or some other new technology. If global warming is the cause, perhaps this will be more of an incentive for the world to try to reverse this trend.
This may be unrelated but I have noticed that this year and last... birds near my house in Connecticut seem to have stopped flying south. Could this be somehow related to the bat problem? Hey, I am no scientist but I am a MacGyver fan.
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I feel like I have a rubber band around my jaw, and I have microwave sickness. My tongue is coated white upon exposure, too.
It's the wireless boom. I'm not sure which, or if it's all of them combined, but please google the Biointiative Report.
I think personally that the cell towers that have been put up through out the United States might have something to do with the bees and the bats dying. No one has really done any big research on the radiation that comes out of these towers. We just sit back and listen to what the government wants us to hear. Does the owners of these towers have the government in their back pockets. I would like to be sent information about the radiation effects from these towers. Thank you. Cornice
Cornace, the Biointiative Report is a collection of studies that indicate that exposure to electromagnetic and microwave fields do indeed have biological effects. The media has all but ignored these reports.
Bioinitiative Report:
http://www.bioinitiative.org/report/index.htm
Dr. Lai's research is another good source of info.
Neurological Effects of Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Radiation Relating to Wireless Communication Technology - Dr. Henry Lai
Blood-Brain Barrier, Cellular Morphology of the Brain, Neural Electrophysiology, Changes in Neurotransmitter Functions, Metabolic Changes in Neural Tissues, Cytogenetic Effects:
http://www.emrnetwork.org/research/laibrussels.pdf
Neurological Effects of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Radiation - Dr. Henry Lai
http://www.emrnetwork.org/research/laivienna.pdf
Memory and Behavior - Dr. Henry Lai
http://www.emrnetwork.org/research/laiwho.pdf
I have microwave sickness (electromagnetic hypersensitivities) myself and have been ill, so I have been blogging every piece of information I can get my hands on regarding the health effects of EMR, so feel free to browse my blog in the upper right-hand corner:
Elves Against ELF (& RF)
myspace.com/unplugurcell
EMF Refugee (for those who suffer from Microwave Sickness):
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/emfrefugee/
I have had hundreds of dead bees by my house, thought maybe the homeowners association was overspraying with too much pestacide. The above comment regarding cellular site problems is very interesting. I'ts a very disturbing problem.
In reference to the bats and bees dying off.....my personal opinion says to look at the "blanket" pesticide spraying that is going on nationwide. Look at the spraying that is going on or about to take place in the Bay Area (CA). Our food chain/supply is very dependent on the bats and bees. They are systematically being exterminated after they eat these poisoned vegetations.