Bees don't just produce honey. Your food supply depends on them. Apiarist Dave Hackenberg's bees have a busy travel schedule, pollinating around the United States from February to July. So when Dave inspected four hundred of his hives and found that the bees had simply vanished, a dream team of bee scientists got to work.

4) Life on Surtsey, Iceland's upstart island

Author

Burns, Loree Griffin

Series

Scientists in the field (Houghton Mifflin)

Pub. Date

[2017]

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2

Description

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"In this addition to the Scientists in the Field series, readers join scientists as they tackle something unusual in the world of ecosystems: colonization. Not a colonization by people, but one of cells, seeds, spores, and other life forms that blow in, fly in, float in, and struggle to survive on the beautiful but harsh new island of Surtsey."--

5) Tracking trash: flotsam, jetsam, and the science of ocean motion

Author

Burns, Loree Griffin

Series

Scientists in the field (Houghton Mifflin)

Pub. Date

2007.

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 2

Appears on these lists

"Oceans of Possibilities" 2022 Summer Reading Picture Books & Chapter Books
Earth Day - April 22, 2021
Spanish Peaks Library District - Summer Reading 2022

Description

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Describes the work of a man who tracks trash as it travels great distances by way of ocean currents.

6) Beetle busters: a rogue insect and the people who track it

Author

Burns, Loree Griffin

Series

Scientists in the field (Houghton Mifflin)

Pub. Date

[2014]

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2

Description

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This book about the tree-killing Asian longhorned beetle reveals how the help of everyday people, their neighborhoods, teams of beetle-sniffing dogs, and a nationwide effort from bug scientists to tree doctors are working to eradicate this invasive pest.