David Hackenberg is an American commercial beekeeper [1] [2] who started Hackenberg Apiaries which runs beehives in several American states. [3]
Hackenberg witnessed the first case of what was going to be known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) in November 2006 [3] and reported it publicly in February 2007. [4]
Hackenberg has been featured in two documentaries about CCD – Vanishing of the Bees [5] and Colony: the Endangered World of Bees [6] . He has represented the beekeeping industry in front of Congress on issues concerning pesticides and received the President's award from the American Beekeeping Federation in 2008 [7] for bringing the plight of the honeybee to light in the world.