The Case of the Vanishing Honeybees: A Scientific Mystery
Sandra Markle The Case of the Vanishing Honeybee A Scientific Mystery Millbrook Press Minneapolis
It's a Mystery On a warm day in October 2006 Dave Hackenberg went to check on his workers Hackenberg is a beekeeper and his workers are millions of honeybees As he walked among a group of nearly four hundred beehives he expected to see the air full of bees It wasn't Curious Hackenberg lifted the cover of one hive and peeked inside Three weeks earlier when he drove this group of beehives to Florida from Pennsylvania each hive was home to about thirty thousand bees Now he found only the bee colony's egg laying queen and her brood developing young inside the hive Thousands of worker bees were missing
Worried Hackenberg checked dozens more hives He discovered they were nearly empty too But there weren't any dead bees to be found inside the hives or on the ground around the hives In his fifty years as a beekeeper Hackenberg had never seen anything quite like this What had happened to all the bees
