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description: By now you've probably heard that bees are disappearing--but they aren't the only species at risk. Populations of fireflies butterflies and ladybugs have all been declining in recent years too. This middle grade nonfiction explains the growth spread and recent declines of each of these four types of insects. Exploring human causes like the Baltimore electric company that collected fireflies to attempt to harness their phosphorescent lighting source to natural occurrences like the mysterious colony collapse disorder that plagues bee populations master nonfiction storyteller Mark Kurlansky shows just how much bugs matter to our world.
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title: Bugs in Danger: Our Vanishing Bees, Butterflies, and Beetles
publisher: Bloomsbury UK