Colony Collapse Disorder
 About me-- my name is Randy Enburg and I have been working with migrating birds for over 20 years (racing pigeons). Also, I am one of the individuals that are able to hear the low frequency sound that many people refer to as the Taos Hum. This is what prompted me to explore the losses of racing pigeons and honey bees and its possible relationship to the recent changes made to broadcasting technology and frequencies.
Honey Bee Research and Extension Laboratory
”Beekeepers around the United States have reported higher-than-usual colony losses since the fall of 2006. Some beekeepers in states reporting Colony Collapse Disorder have lost 50 to 90% of their colonies, often within a matter of weeks. This translates into thousands of dead colonies and millions of dead bees. In a country where honey bees contribute billions of dollars in added revenue to the agriculture industry, these bee losses cannot be taken lightly.”
http://pestalert.ifas.ufl.edu/Colony_Collapse_Disorder.htm
Honey bees and racing pigeons have something in common. They both use a mineral called magnetite which is connected to nerve endings for homing purposes. Scientists have also discovered micro-bits of magnetite inside other animals such as dolphins, sea turtles, salmon, monarch butterflies and whales.
The honey bee may receive directions at the hive to find a particular location when leaving but I hypothesize that it relies on its magnetite to find its way back to the hive. Similarly, a racing pigeon, ¼ mile from home, may not find its way back to the loft even though it was released within eye sight of its loft. Large flocks have also exhibited this behavior. I believe that the honey bee is acting in a similar fashion-- lost, flying miles in the wrong direction, unable to find its way home. Honey bees, along with racing pigeons, have both been disappearing at an astonishing rate. I doubt the timing of these events to be coincidental.
Honey Bee Magnetite
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/265/5168/95
Homing Pigeon Magnetite
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16900396
Monarch Butterflies Magnetite
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=24152
I hypothesize that many species, including the honey bee, use earth’s extremely low frequency (ELF) / super low frequency (SLF) for navigating and migrating. Also, that ground water acts as an amplifier for earth’s (ELF) / (SLF) and that magnetite is not used to detect the earth’s magnetic field directly but works as a receiver for its (ELF) / (SLF) vibrations, similar to tuning in a radio station, helping the honey bee find a general location.
I theorize that broadcasters of digital (HD) high-definition frequencies are broadcasting (ELF) / (SLF) hertz, having a direct influence on most migrating species including the honey bee.
Extremely low frequency (ELF) is the band of radio frequencies from 3 to 30 Hz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_low_frequency
Super Low Frequency (SLF) is the band of radio frequencies from 30 and 300 Hz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_low_frequency
Radio and Television Frequency
“Band III is the name of a radio frequency range within the very high frequency part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Band III ranges from 174 to 230 MHz, and it is primarily used for radio and television broadcasting.“
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_III
Measured ELF Components of Radio-Communication Systems
“It has been shown by some studies that biological effects appear when the microwave carrier is amplitude modulated at an extremely low frequency (ELF) while they do not appear when the carrier is not modulated (CW). On the other hand the amplitude of the microwave carrier of some radio-communication systems is modulated at low frequencies for synchronization or multiple access purposes. This process introduces ELF components on the microwave radiated signal.”
http://www.emic.ucl.ac.be/pdfPublis/Stockbroeckx/article proceedings.pdf
Earth Produces Its Own ELF / SLF Frequencies
When reviewing information about the Taos Hum and the earth's continuous free oscillations you would think they are two separate things, but I hypothesize that they are in fact one and the same, only acting differently because of earth’s geography.
Taos Hum is a low-pitched sound heard in numerous places worldwide
http://www.crystalinks.com/taoshum.html
Excitation of Earth's continuous free oscillations
http://seismo.berkeley.edu/~barbara/hum.html
Over 1,700 HD Radio stations are broadcasting across the nation
http://www.ibiquity.com/hd_radio/hdradio_find_a_station
“TV stations serving all markets in the United States are airing digital television programming today, although most will continue to provide analog programming through February 17, 2009. At that point, full-power TV stations will cease broadcasting on their current analog channels, and the spectrum they use for analog broadcasting will be reclaimed and put to other uses.”
http://www.dtv.gov/whatisdtv.html
Randy Enburg
1309 10th Ave.
Rock Falls, IL 61071
August 27, 2008
The above information was originally intended to be submitted for peer review. Although, at this time, there may not be qualified people involved with peer review who might understand the possible connection between the racing pigeon, the honey bee, and low frequency sound.
In my opinion this problem might be resolved simply by not modulating radio communication below 55 hertz.
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