The Case of the Vanishing Honeybees: A Scientific Mystery

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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