Study looks at using mite to kill wasps

[prakel]

Just came across this article from 22nd April: http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/242237/study-looks-at-using-mite-to-kill-wasps

I've checked but can't see an existing link to the story.

Any article deserves a link when it has a line like this


The two most serious wasp species beat up bees and raid their hives

[Calum]

Hi
only the weak ones - we need wasps to control other pests, and to thin out the weaklings in our bee stocks...
Wasps however annoying have their place too!

[prakel]

Hi
only the weak ones - we need wasps to control other pests, and to thin out the weaklings in our bee stocks...

Well, my experience of NZ bees (and no, I'm not talking about the more recent line of bees bred from NZ queens inseminated with carnica semen, of which I have no experience) is that that might be the problem!