I like honey bees

So, in talking with my good ole chum pals, I'm getting more and more frustrated with how little everyone knows about Colony Collapse Disorder and the American Honeybee.

I recently signed up for digg.com, which is an interesting little place to post/rank and discuss news, and while reading a story about the extinction of the Caribbean Monk Seal, I found a little comment thread of the theme "how much bad stuff has to happen before humans take a careful look at how their activities lead to extinction?"

One of the comments said, maybe if the honeybees all die and we have a food crisis, we'll all start caring. The next commenter said, humans have nothing to do with honeybees dying. ::le sigh::

So I posted this on Digg, and I'm pretty proud of it, so I'm reposting here.
1. Last I heard (let me know if you've heard something more recent) Colony Collapse Disorder was more likely the effect of a virus, not a fungus.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-09/aaft-vna083107.php

2. Whenever you have viruses, you see that some individuals in a population are genetically able to resist them.

3. Most honey bees in the U.S. are kept by bee keepers and their hives are rented to orchards and other farms. These bees are genetically uniform, meaning if one of the bees in the hive can get sick form a virus, it's highly likely that all the others are susceptible too. (This has been demonstrated through the collapse, i.e. deaths, of 50 to 90% of the American honey bee colonies kept in the U.S. in 2007.)

4. Habitat destruction (humans) reduces genetic diversity. Not only do we breed genetic diversity out of the kept hives, when we destroy habitats, the wild honey bees suffer too because the majority of these bees end up dying off as opposed to relocating.

THE POINT
Human's attempt to control the honey bee population could be the ultimate reason honey bees drift toward failure.

Luckily honeybees reproduce like mad, unlike mammals. So that have that going for them.

A little off topic from monk seals... but still...