The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe

by Loree Griffin Burns

Book Overview

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 beekeeper Dave Hackenburg's horror when he discovered twenty million of his charges had vanished. Those missing bees became the first casualties of a mysterious scourge that continues to plague honey bee populations today. In The Hive Detectives, Loree Griffin Burns profiles...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547152310
• ISBN13: 9780547152318
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 11.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7