Title:
Beetle busters : a rogue insect and the people who track it / Loree Griffin Burns ; photographs by Ellen Harasimowicz.
ISBN:
9780547792675
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014]
©2014
Physical Description:
64 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Contents:
Prologue: the cut -- The beetle -- A life in rings -- The trees -- Tree ID -- The team -- Beetle busting -- The forest -- More beetle busting -- The data -- The hard truth.
Summary:
This book about the tree-killing Asian longhorned beetle reveals how the help of everyday people, their neighborhoods, teams of beetle-sniffing dogs, and a nationwide effort from bug scientists to tree doctors are working to eradicate this invasive pest.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.3 2.0 169508.
Added Author:
Interest age level:
Ages 1-14.
Interest grade level:
Grade 7 to 8.
Audience:
1100L Lexile
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Series Sequence:
OCLC Number:
ocn870529726
Availability:
~0
