Hive Detectives (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781627651424)

A fascinating book. --"Booklist"

Without honey bees, the world would be a different place. There would be no honey, no beeswax for candles, and, worst of all, barely a fruit, nut, or vegetable to eat.So imagine the beekeeper Dave Hackenburg s horror when he discovered twenty million of his charges had vanished. In "The Hive Detectives, " Loree Griffin Burns profiles bee wranglers and bee scientists who have been working to understand colony collapse disorder, or CCD. In this dramatic and enlightening story, readers explore the lives of the fuzzy, buzzy insects and learn what might happen to us if they were gone.
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Author: Loree Griffin Burns
ISBN-10: 162765142X
ISBN-13: 9781627651424
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Language: English
Published: 04/16/2013
Pages: 69
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 11.20h x 9.00w x 0.40d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.5
Point Value: 2
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 136418 / Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe