In a message dated 05/01/2007 00:41:27 GMT Standard Time,  
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If you  visit Alberta in summer, you will find thousands 
of acres covered with  yellow canola flowers. It looks like a yellow 
carpet. This is a  monoculture of one crop grown on thousands of acres in 
one location.  


So outside the flowering period it might just as well be a desert with no  
flowering plants. No wonder there are few wild bees in those parts.
 
Chris

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