Presentation
to the Beekeepers Association, Glastonbury 9th
August 2008
Mr Ferguson purchased a Georgian house in
Bath. The only problem appeared to be 30
nests of bees sharing the same property.
Everything was tried to rid his house of bees, but all efforts
failed. Then Mr Ferguson installed a
WiFi system; the bees left and never
returned. (1)
Similarly, when University Scientists placed a DECT phone near hives,
both the weight of the honeycomb and the numbers of bees returning to the hive
decreased. During one experiment, no
bees at all returned. (2)
The common denominator here is that both WiFi and DECT transmit
microwaves, common to mobile phones, TETRA, all similar devices and their
transmitters. Microwaves are made up of
both electric (like static) fields and magnetic (like magnets) fields.
Bees use the Earth's magnetic field to help them both position
themselves and navigate. To do this,
they have magnetic materials in their heads, thoraxes and abdomens. (3) These particular magnetic materials can be
re-magnetised by a stronger magnetic field (it is one way of making
magnets). Once magnetised this stronger
field will remain. Subsequently, their
particular directional finding mechanisms can inadvertently misdirect them.
Let's put this into some sort of perspective:
Honeybees have been shown to be sensitive to magnetic field differences
of (1nT) one thousand millionth of one magnetic unit (the Tesla). (4) The Earth has both an horizontal and
vertical magnetic field which the honeybee will both detect and use for
positioning. Permitted magnetic field
levels from transmitters are roughly 640 times greater than that of the bee's
most sensitive level; this is without
considering any pulsing and accumulative effects from other nearby transmitters
- e.g. mobile phones and WiFi. The
Earth's magnetic field is a static field, whereas the transmitters use an
oscillating field; these fields have
different properties. Imagine you are
driving along a strange motorway and, instead of seeing one traffic sign, you
see 640!
A problem humans living near transmitters often encounter is acoustic
vibration (vibrating pipes, metallic conduits, even bed-springs), sometimes called resonance. Any constant rhythmic variation from a force
(wind/electromagnetic/mechanical) can cause resonance in the atomic layout if
the recipient/object is "tuned in" to that frequency.
Both the brain and the body of a honeybee can vibrate (resonate) from
some of the frequencies used by the Communications Industry. Bees also "waggle-dance" to communicate
within the hive; this "waggle-dance"
sends vibrations used for communication throughout the honeycomb. (1)(5)
The frequency of vibrations for the honeybees' "waggle-dance" are set
at around 200-300 Hz (vibrations per second).
This also is the pulsing frequency used by some mobile phone
transmitters. (6) Hence, it is a viable
proposition to assume that some hives near transmitters must be continually
forced to vibrate, day and night, sending possible inappropriate signals.
The Varroa mite is often mentioned, along with other infestations or
diseases, as a cause of the demise of bees.
However, colonies of Varroa-resistant bees are also suffering. (7) As both Dr Carlo (8) and Alex Roslin (9)
say:
Firstly - the problem is sudden and
global, suggesting it is a global source;
the coincidence here is the tripling of global microwave background
radiation. Secondly - normally with a
disease or virus the bees die within or near their hives, but now, in most
reported cases, the bees are simply disappearing.
As one bee-keeper said on Spotlight BBC News from the Royal Cornwall
County Show (6.6.08) "It is like a giant hoover just comes out of the sky
and sucks them up".
In other situations where bees have maintained their usual numbers, it
is reported that their immune systems are collapsing (10) and/or their metabolic rate is suppressed.
(2) This is not surprising. I believe the proof has been staring us in
the face for years, but it has been overlooked.
When Universities embark upon lengthy research studies concerning
microwave radiation and resulting cellular effects, they often use small
mammals and/or invertebrates. The
resulting data is written up and published.
However, in all of the range of research I have studied, one critical
conclusion has not been clearly identified:
there is a direct, indisputable correlation between what is shown
under experimental conditions and what is already happening within the natural
environment. This is to say, if
low-level microwave radiation has been found to suppress the immune system
(using everyday levels) in the Laboratory, it will also suppress
the immune system outside the Laboratory - in everyday living.
Exacerbating everything already mentioned is "HAARP". Using approximately 180 transmitters spread
over 30 acres, with a power rating of 3.6 million watts or more, this Alaskan
super-transmitter could probably disorientate the best part of a country's
entire bee population if it were aimed in that direction, at an appropriate
angle (to reflect from the ionosphere). (11) (12) "HAARP" may be the biggest transmitter in
the World, but it is by no means the only super cluster of transmitters to be
found. A look at any military site will
show this.
Within my capacity as a scientific adviser, I receive many research
papers from all over the World and I believe that what is happening to bees is
also happening to other living things. I
have a plethora of research on:
Butterflies, trees, plants, birds
(including white stork, pigeons, sparrows and migratory birds), swamp life,
frogs, bats, ants (who use the Earth's magnetic field for direction) cattle and
whales ("HAARP" can be used to communicate to submarines).
The common denominators are: all
have suffered from the installation of nearby microwave transmitters (as used
by the Mobile Phone Companies), and they either use the Earth's magnetic field
for navigation, or they are exposed to ground-currents (or both).
It seems that this scenario follows the worldwide proliferation of the
Communications Industry. I can no longer
find a trouble-free country where mobile phones, WiFi, TETRA, blue-tooth, etc.,
are being used.
Bees use similar thinking mechanisms as humans - that is, they can
memorise and organise.(13) (14) If a
strong magnet is placed near a hive under construction, a strange-looking comb
will be produced. (5)
The bee is this planet's most sensitive proprioceptive animal (using
Earth's magnetism and vibration to feel, position and orientate). Clearly, if a cluster of
magnetic-wave-transmitting antennae are introduced into the bees' environment,
it will try to find a more tolerable territory - possibly exhausting it's energy
and dying in the process.
Not only are we interfering with the physical properties of this
planet, upon which our evolution has been based, but we are putting at risk the
very foundations of our food chains and webs.
As a physicist and teacher of science, if I were asked to devise a
mechanism to eliminate bees from the planet, I would suggest the deployment of
communications transmitters, using pulsed (modulated) microwaves, which
penetrate every part of this planet.
There is absolutely nowhere the bees can go to escape such microwaves.
CONCLUSION
I believe that microwaves from the new communications
systems are suppressing the immune responses of the bee, leaving them
susceptible to infection, causing their magnetic orienting capability to become
compromised.
THE WAY FORWARD
There is a new law; it is called
the European Habitat Directive, which states "It is illegal
to harm protected species or disrupt their habitat".
Barrie Trower
Scientific Adviser to: Radiation Research Trust (UK), H.E.S.E (International), Electrosensitivity (UK)
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