You can help out bees by planting a bee-friendly garden and providing them a place to rest, pollinate and forage. Some helpful tips offered by The Honeybee Conservancy include:

• Avoid hybrid flowers, which may be sterile and have little or no nectar or pollen

• Skip the double flowers, which lack pollen

• Make sure you’ll have blooms for bees year round.

• Plant flowers in patches – bees like to focus on one flower type at a time

• Leave an undisturbed plot for ground-nesting bees