>banning honey bee hives from the vicinity of mandarine orange groves
will not prevent native pollinators from their [perhaps smaller?]
contribution to seeds in the oranges.  Is this the case?

Apparently not the case in studies performed.  Trailer loads of migratory 
bees are the issue.
Randy Oliver

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