Another reason to plant lots of chaya and other flowering plants.  The bees need lots of flowers to stay healthy and we need bees if we want to continue to eat vegetables.

A wonderful talk by Marla Spivak:
http://www.ted.com/talks/marla_spivak_why_bees_are_disappearing.html

Marla Spivak researches bees’ behavior and biology in an effort to preserve this threatened, but ecologically essential, insect.