{"product_id":"hive-detectives-chronicle-of-a-honey-bee-catastrophe-book-loree-griffin-burns-9780544003262","title":"The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe","description":"\u003cp\u003eWithout honey bees the world would be a very different place. There would be no sweet, delicious honey, no beeswax for creams and candles, and--worst of all--barely a fruit, nut, or vegetable to eat. So just imagine beekeeper Dave Hackenburg's horror when, in 2006, he discovered twenty million of his buzzing charges had vanished without a trace. Those missing bees became the first reported casualties of a mysterious scourge that continues to plague honey bee populations today.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn The Hive Detectives, Loree Griffin Burns profiles bee wranglers and bee scientists across the country who have been working to understand colony collapse disorder, or CCD: the Hackenburgs, who move their three thousand beehives from coast to coast in order to pollinate crops; Mary Duane, who raises bees and bottles blue ribbon honey; and Dennis vanEngelsdorp, Jeffrey Pettis, Diana Cox-Foster, and Maryann Frazier, who study bees from every possible angle in an attempt to discover what is killing them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this dramatic and enlightening chronicle of a modern honey bee catastrophe, readers explore the lives of the fuzzy, buzzing insects we ought to love... and join the human quest to protect them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A fascinating book from the Scientists in the Field series.\" --Booklist, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49552930832657,"sku":"CIN0544003268G","price":5.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49600391184657,"sku":"GOR009419666","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49852919611665,"sku":"CIN0544003268A","price":4.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":49942717530385,"sku":"CIN0544003268LN","price":4.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50202546012433,"sku":"CIN0544003268VG","price":4.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0544003268.jpg?v=1751104094","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/hive-detectives-chronicle-of-a-honey-bee-catastrophe-book-loree-griffin-burns-9780544003262","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}