The hive detectives : chronicle of a honey bee catastrophe / Loree Griffin Burns ; with photographs by Ellen Harasimowicz.

Title:

ISBN:

9780547152318

Personal Author:

Burns, Loree Griffin

Publication Information:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2010.

Physical Description:

66 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.

Awards Note:

A Junior Library Guild selection

Summary:

Bees don't just produce honey. Your food supply depends on them. Apiarist Dave Hackenberg's bees have a busy travel schedule, pollinating around the United States from February to July. So when Dave inspected four hundred of his hives and found that the bees had simply vanished, a dream team of bee scientists got to work.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.5 2.0 136418.

Subject Term:

Colony collapse disorder of honeybees

Bee culture

Honeybee

Audience:

1120L Lexile

Series Title:

Scientists in the field.

Series Sequence:

Scientists in the field