Product Description
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.Product Videos
Custom Field
Author Loree Griffin Burns
Binding Paperback
Series Scientists in the Field
Language English
Book Type Nonfiction
Grade Content 7
Grade Content W
Lexile 1120
Accelerated Reading Level 7.5
Subject Science
Standard S7L4c. Explain how resource availability, disease, climate, and human activity affect organisms, populations, communities, and ecosystems.
Copyright 2013
