Help Feed the Honey Bees!

With phenomenon like CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder) affecting the honey bee population worldwide, we need to do all that we can to nurture and protect the precious honey bees.
One way you can help is in your selection of organic pesticides to treat your garden. Certain pesticides that are in use in the USA have been banned across much of Europe due to their harmful impact on the bee population. Switching to an organic pesticide will help in more ways than you can imagine, not just in protecting the honey bee population but the human population too.
Pesticides are getting into our body/systems due to their widespread use. I heard a program on NPR just a couple nights ago that reminded us of just how harmful these products can be. When applied to a lawn or garden, the UV effect of the sun causes the chemical content to dissipate quite quickly, however, when we walk on a treated lawn surface, we bring the chemicals into our homes, where they can exist for a year or more in  our living environments. These are in many cases, cancer-causing pathogens, and our kids are exposed to them each time they play on the lawn!
Another way to protect the bee population is to encourage their growth by encouraging the type of plant growth that will attract and help to feed the honey bees. Here are a few plant types which will help -
Baby Blue-Eyes?Poppy?Purple Coneflower?Annual Sunflower ?Rocky Mountain Beeplan?Purple Prairie Clover?Black-Eyed Susan?Forget-Me-Not
Remember that the honey bee is essential to crop pollination and to keeping us supplied with our favorite royal jelly products!