Author: Liz Rodriguez
Position: Concerned Citizen
Institution: Technology Transfer Lawyer
E-mail: erodriguez@umassp.edu
Submitted Date: August 01, 2007
Published Date: August 3, 2007
This comment was originally posted as a “Reader Response” on the publication date indicated above. All Reader Responses are now available as comments.

You indicate that the bees' communication dances are important and are being disrupted by unknown causes. NASA is reporting movement and perhaps even reversals of the magnetic field on Earth and the Sun. Is it possible that these shifts could cause the bees to have problems with communications and travel? I would appreciate hearing opinions on this and references to reliable studies on the subject.