JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Eighty-seven people gathered at the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Museum Saturday to learn how to keep bees, as organizers work to recruit new beekeepers amid what experts are calling the worst honeybee die-off on record.
Between last June and March, beekeepers nationwide lost an estimated 1.6 million colonies. Commercial beekeepers reported losing an average of 62 percent of their hives.
Randy Stagg, co-owner of Dragonfly Hives and a member of the Central Mississippi Beekeepers Association, said the need for new beekeepers is real…