``A fascinating book.`` --Booklist Without Honey bees, the world would be a different place.
In this dramatic and enlightening story, readers explore the lives of the fuzzy, buzzy insects and learn what might happen to us if they were gone..
In The Hive Detectives, Loree Griffin Burns profiles bee wranglers and bee scientists who have been working to understand colony collapse disorder, or CCD.
So imagine the beekeeper Dave Hackenburg\'s horror when he discovered twenty million of his charges had vanished.
There would be no honey, no beeswax for candles, and, worst of all, barely a fruit, nut, or vegetable to eat. ``A fascinating book.`` --Booklist Without Honey bees, the world would be a different place