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The UN is expressing great concern over food shortages in the world. A lot of things contribute to this perceived shortage. Whatever the cause, the cost of food is going up worldwide and reserve stocks of food, even in a country like the US, are now at rock bottom levels.

An interesting aspect to increasing food shortages is a burgeoning shortage of honeybees. The public, that is you and me, has yet to feel the results of the great honeybee crisis, but if nothing is done to stop the disappearance of honeybees we will find out just how important they are to each and every one of us.

About 1/3 of the food we eat is dependent on pollination by honeybees. More than 100 fruit and vegetable crops will fail if honeybees continue to disappear.

This disappearance is called Colony Collapse Disorder. For all practical purposes, the bees fly off and simply never come back. There is a lot of speculation as to why this is occurring with pollution, global warming, pesticides and viruses being cited as somehow responsible. At this point in time, nobody knows why.

Perhaps it is time for some serious thinking outside of the box, as the saying goes. The popular notions are that bees communicate by little dances and navigate by sun angle. We have no idea how bees actually communicate or how they actually navigate. Our lack of understanding as to how animals communicate is shown by two good examples.

It has only been in the last few years that mankind found out that elephants communicate at sound frequencies people cannot hear.

A hilarious example of how people can go off in the wrong direction when studying animal communication was seen a few years ago when some folks decided to play with cricket communications. Crickets are quite precise thermometers and their rate of chirping can tell you the temperature. The cricket guys decided to see if they could synchronize the crickets and get all the crickets in several acres to chirp in unison.

To do this they recorded cricket chirps on a good high-fi system, went out into their test field on a warm night and played the chirp recordings at 200 decibels, a deafening level of sound. They startled the stuffing out of the neighbors, but the crickets ignored their giant chirps.

It turns out that crickets do not hear the chirps they make that we hear. They communicate at a frequency people cannot hear.

So then, what does a honeybee hear and what can mess up the honeybee’s navigation system. For starters, the air around us is now truly saturated with electronic signals radio, TV, cell phones, telephones, GPS, electronic widgets of A descriptions, radar, computers from lap tops to processors in your vehicle, RFIDS and then massive emitting systems like HAARP and the military ELF systems.

It is more than passing possible that honeybees simply take off and find their navigation system is jammed and their communications garbled. It was not just simple sun angle and dances after all. We only know that there is a lot we do not know including possible problems with airborne genetically modified pollens from BT corn, soybeans, and Roundup Ready crops. These are all great unknowns in the world of the honeybee.

Before things get much worse our friendly Federal government should put some major resources into finding out just what the heck is going on. Otherwise a lot of our favorite foods are going to see dramatic price rises as they disappear from store shelves. I won’t panic over the demise of the broccoli industry but I will sure miss the honey on my pancakes.

Carl F. Austin is a Goose Creek rancher, geothermal explorationist and a lot of other things.
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