Without Honey bees the world would be a very different place.
In 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 p...show more.
Those missing bees became the first reported casualties of a mysterious scourge that continues to plague Honey bee populations today.
So just imagine beekeeper Dave Hackenburg\'s horror when, in 2006, he discovered twenty million of his buzzing charges had vanished without a trace.
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.
Without Honey bees the world would be a very different place
