Study underscores need to 'bee' informed about species

SALT LAKE CITY — Despite an intense public information campaign about the importance of pollinators, a new study says few people know little about bees beyond the honeybee and bumblebee.The Utah State University-led study, published online Tuesday in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, said 99 percent of people surveyed deemed bees "critical or very important," but only 14 percent were able to guess within 1,000 of the actual number of bee species in the United States.According to th