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The Hive Detectives
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Scientists in the Field

The Hive Detectives (2010) (edit title/settings)

Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe

by Loree Griffin Burns (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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Title: The Hive Detectives
Author: Loree Griffin Burns

This book is awesome, very informational! When Dave Hackenberg discovers,
here aren't alot of bees flying around the hive he left in carnival lot! He starts to get worried...
Then his worst fears are confirmed, 400 out... read more

Title: The Hive Detectives
Author: Loree Griffin Burns

This book is awesome, very informational! When Dave Hackenberg discovers,
here aren't alot of bees flying around the hive he left in carnival lot! He starts to get worried...
Then his worst fears are confirmed, 400 out of 3000 hives are gone! How could this have
happened all hives were healthy from Daves point of view..; and then the investigation
starts, the hive detectives are in full effect. With the crew: Dave Hackenberg, Dennis vanEngelsdorp
, Jeffery S. Pettis, Diana Cox-Foster and Maryann Frazier. It is later determined that the
mysterious vanishing of the (bee's in 400 hives) is CCD (Colony collapse disorder, the name
used to describe a huge and as-yet unexplained die off of honeybee colonies around the world).
Also pesticides used to actually help bee's and flowers.

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  1. Loree Griffin Burns (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 0547152310
Page Count: 80

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