Citizen Scientists : Be a Part of Scientific Discovery From Your Own Backyard
Kirkus Reviews Citizen-science projects involving butterflies, birds, frogs and ladybugs span the seasons and involve people of all ages in meaningful observation of the world around us. Burns describes the work of scientists who have enlisted the help of children and adults in their work. They tag migrating monarch butterflies in the fall, count birds […]
The Hive Detectives : Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe
School Library Journal: Gr 5?8?The mystery of the vanishing honeybees began in the winter of 2006 when beekeeper Dave Hackenberg inspected 400 of his 3000 hives in Florida and discovered that 20 million bees had simply disappeared. He frantically alerted state bee inspectors and other beekeepers that there was some strange new ailment affecting these […]