Bees do more than just make honey. They fly around pollinating all sorts of fruit and vegetables, which end up on our plates. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, bees pollinate 80 percent of our flowering crops which constitute 1/3 of everything we eat, and they're in trouble.

In the past six years the annual die-off of bees has become increasingly dramatic, it's a phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder. There is no clear reason for the decline, but rather a combination of many factors including pesticides, pathogens, mites, and even starvation (less and less flowers for bees to feed on) are attributed.

What does it mean to you? Higher food prices. As the number of bees decrease, the demand for commercial honey bee pollination services increases, and this is an expense that is passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices. Commercial honey bee pollination services are brought in when there aren't enough naturally existing bees to do the needed pollinating.

What can you do? Plant native flowers, let flowering weeds grow where you can, reduce the use of herbicides which kill dandelions, clover, and other bee food, and celebrate the bee this weekend with my pro-bee recommendations.