Ask AP: Importance of housing starts, honeybees (AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/personalfinance/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_bi_ge/ask_ap"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081121/capt.a3a7aeb0b0884b8e97551f65f194e743.ask_ap_ask102.jpg?x=94&y=130&q=85&sig=b1guKaA_xZrRu2txvNYlhg--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="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)" border="0" /></a>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 little help from good old American bugs whose ancestors were here before Columbus?</p><br clear="all"/>


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