GSM 900 MHz radiation inhibits ants' association between food sites and encountered cues.
Cammaerts MC, De Doncker P, Patris X, Bellens F, Rachidi Z, Cammaerts D. · 2012
View Original AbstractCell phone radiation completely blocked ant memory formation and erased existing memories within hours instead of days.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed ant colonies to GSM 900 MHz cell phone radiation and studied how well the ants could learn to associate food locations with visual and scent cues. Under radiation exposure, the ants completely failed to form these memory associations, and when the radiation was removed, they could only partially recover their learning ability. Most dramatically, ants that had already learned these associations lost their memories within hours when re-exposed to the radiation, rather than the normal gradual forgetting over days.
Why This Matters
This study provides compelling evidence that cell phone radiation disrupts fundamental cognitive processes in insects at the cellular level. What makes this research particularly significant is that it demonstrates both immediate learning impairment and accelerated memory loss under GSM 900 MHz exposure - the same frequency used by cell towers and mobile devices worldwide. The researchers found that visual memory was more severely affected than smell-based memory, with complete erasure occurring within hours rather than the normal gradual decline over days. While this study focused on ants, the implications extend to other insects that rely on similar memory processes, including bees and other pollinators critical to our food supply. The reality is that these findings add to a growing body of evidence showing that wireless radiation affects biological systems in ways we're only beginning to understand.
Exposure Information
Specific exposure levels were not quantified in this study. The study examined exposure from: GSM 900 MHz
Study Details
The aim of this study is to observe GSM 900 MHz radiation inhibits ants' association between food sites and encountered cues.
In the present work, the same experiments were conducted on six other naive identical colonies of M....
In this situation, no association between food and either olfactory or visual cues occurred. After a...
The impact of GSM 900 MHz radiation was greater on the visual memory than on the olfactory one. These communication waves may have such a disastrous impact on a wide range of insects using olfactory and/or visual memory, i.e., on bees.
Show BibTeX
@article{mc_2012_gsm_900_mhz_radiation_1944,
author = {Cammaerts MC and De Doncker P and Patris X and Bellens F and Rachidi Z and Cammaerts D.},
title = {GSM 900 MHz radiation inhibits ants' association between food sites and encountered cues.},
year = {2012},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22268919/},
}