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Most biodiesel (I own a vw diesel) comes from vegetable oils with
soybean the greatest contributor. I do not know how much commercial
pollinators are involved with soybean pollination, so that would be the
the link of bees, pollination and education. Corn, obviously is not.
Other players are canola, which is commercially pollinated as well as
sunflowers, which have a major increase in seed production from honeybees.
So the key is soybeans, and what I have seen is that there is an
increase (small to .95x depending on variety) in production by bees, but
not the many-fold increase as with other crops like sunflowers (3x or more).
Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine
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