{"product_id":"the-hive-detectives","title":"The Hive Detectives","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Loree Griffin Burns\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Hive Detectives\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\n\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","brand":"PSB Bookstock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50730817683696,"sku":"xsl1793764737861","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/1309\/7968\/files\/the-hive-detectives_1.jpg?v=1793764745","url":"https:\/\/wearhubboutique.shop\/products\/the-hive-detectives","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}