Archive for November 21st, 2008

Ask AP: Importance of housing starts, honeybees (AP)

Written by on Friday, November 21st, 2008 in Latest News.

In this Thursday, Aug. 16, 2007 file photo, Professor Emeritus Robbin Thorp holds a specimen of a Franklin's bumblebee queen in his office at the University of California Davis bee biology department in Davis, Calif. A reader-submitted question about bees is being answered as part of an Associated Press Q&A column called 'Ask AP'.  (AP Photo/Steve Yeater)AP – American farmers have long worried about the declining population of honeybees, a key crop pollinator. But honeybees originally came from Europe, so can’t U.S. farms get by without them ? with a small help from excellent ancient American bugs whose ancestors were here before Columbus?

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