Okay, posting my thoughts on it after listening to it and Movement several times. (If you don't want to read me rambling, feel free to skip. I'm trying to make up my mind which one to vote for.)
I found the two stories mirror each other. Both deal with change and timescale. Movement is slowed down into the space between pauses, and the narrator must struggle to live within her parents time differential. It takes place in the space of two days. I emotionally connected more with Movement because it is a study in character. And I felt strongly for the narrator. Feeling the universe move beneath my hands. I like how the narrator ties in elements of evolution with change, and what she sees and does ties into it all: glass, bug zappers, venus flytraps, ballet, the evolved internet, and her own circumstances. This is a contemplative story that is very strong. I think I would vote for this story if it wasn't for Wasps.
Wasps and Bees take place over several insect lifetimes. I thought the story had a detached state that made me hard to connect to, because there were so many characters. but not one individual was meant to be the star. It's all the wasps as a protagonist, bees the antagonists. They're all one collective whole character. In reading again, I was rooting for the bees. You have the rise and fall of regimes, the use of story and history passed on to the next generation, learning from their ancestors, using that knowledge to change themselves. The anarchist bees' deaths are tragic, but their legacy will carry on. And those dictating wasps find themselves suddenly the pawns of a higher power who will use them--and they can't even comprehend they're being used.
The delicate use of words in this story: a stinger sent back in a paper envelope. The use of pheremones to describe the treaty. The anarchists bees pressing down the last vat of honey, not knowing what will happen in the future, but hopeful that they will live on. All these delicious little sentences. And the world-building! So much in one story. Perfect.
If I knew more about Chinese history, I think this would pack a huge punch. As it is, I think this gets my vote.
And come on. Wasps on a paper boat piping sea chanties. Like pirates. PIRATE WASPS. (Mind blows again)