Where Have All the Bees Gone?: Pollinators in Crisis

by Rebecca E. Hirsch

Book Overview

Apples, blueberries, peppers, cucumbers, coffee, and vanilla. Do you like to eat and drink? Then you might want to thank a bee.

Bees pollinate 75 percent of the fruits, vegetables, and nuts grown in the United States. Around the world, bees pollinate $24 billion worth of crops each year. Without bees, humans would face a drastically reduced diet. We need bees to grow the foods that keep us healthy.

But numbers of bees are falling, and...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541534638
• ISBN13: 9781541534636
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 11 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 6 to Postsecondary