Bibliographical citation: Burns, L.G., with photographs by Ellen Harasimowicz (2010). The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children. 66 pages. ISBN: 9780547152318.
Awards: ALA Notable Children's Books
Author's website: http://www.loreeburns.com/
Annotation: Exploring the world of honey bees as well as the honey extraction process, this Scientists in the Field title exposes the current threats to honey bees and discusses what is being done by scientists and beekeepers to save them.
Personal Reaction: This book in the Scientists in the Field Series discusses the importance of honey bees to our world for many reasons, specifically fruit and vegetable growth. The story starts out by following a company that has many hives and bees. It contains an overview of how hives function, the different parts of a hive, how to handle the bees, the different jobs of the bees, and the various bee titles. It also shows and explains the honey extraction process with plenty of pictures to illustrate each step. Creating the honey is not the most important thing that bees do, but their presence allows for the pollination of our fruit and vegetable plants. Without the bees, these items wouldn't exist. In 2006, when Dave Hackenberg of Hackenberg Apiaries in Dade City, FL finds 400 of his hives that seem to be abandoned without any sign of illness or infection, he reaches out to various bee experts to try and understand what has happened to his bees. At first people think it is a hoax, but they soon realize that this problem is mysteriously occurring in other places as well. Bee experts then realize that they must get to the bottom of this problem in order to save the bee population. This means taking samples of bees and studying them to see why they are dying. Scientists working to try to find out what is causing this sickness name this problem Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD, for short. Large, colorful illustrations that accompany the text help to explain the various processes and steps of study of the honeybees by scientists.
Front/Back Matter: Appendix, Glossary, Materials to Study, Acknowledgements, Select References, Index.*Bibliographical citation information, award information, as well as image retrieved from www.bwibooks.com (Titletales).
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