Researchers have pinpointed a possible cause of colony collapse disorder or CCD—aka, that thing that’s killing off all the honey bees. Neither cell phone towers, nor GM crops, nor Doctor Who aliens, the disorder seems to be the work of a virus and a fungus working together to first get the bees lost, and then slowly kill them far from their hives… Disclaimer: This could still turn out to be an incorrect theory, and we’re far from knowing how to stop or prevent the one-two punch.
via Researchers find possible cause(s) of Great Bee Death – Boing Boing.
We have so few bees here in southern California that I do not try to kill wasps, since they also pollinate my fruits and flowers.