What is even more shocking is that the Laudau University (Germany) exploration and pilot study was about cordless phones, not cell phones or PCS phones. They embedded DECT cordless phone base stations into only the study group hives and not into the control hives. Personally, I don't know of any bee hives that are purposely deployed on a cell tower or cordless phone base. During the course of their study one half of their bee colonies died out. These were both control hives and hives that were being exposed to RF. Their exploratory study found nothing. Their study did not link their cordless phone experiment with CCD.

It appears that The Independent invented the link to CCD and changed the subject of the study from cordless phones to "mobile phones" implying Cell and PCS phones.

(See the Wikipedia article about Colony Collapse Disorder, section 2.8 - Electromagnetic Radiation. It's well documented with links to the Univ. Landau studies in English)

It looks to me like the need for producing entertaining or shocking stories has outweighed reporting the truth in England too. The Independent story has launched a huge red herring that is keeping people from finding out the true cause of CCD.

RE: Birds, bees, mobile phones, and the apocalypse