Natives – Saving Scotland’s Original Honey Bees

Maxim Nekliudov’s excellent new documentary, Natives – Saving Scotland’s Original Honey Bees, follows the efforts of some Scottish beekeepers to re-establish our native black bee, Apis mellifera mellifera, in an environment surrounded by non-native honey bees.

As a reminder, Maxim’s previous documentary, Ode to the Beekeeper, features North East Aberdeenshire beekeepers, and can be seen here.

You can watch both documentaries on YouTube, or use links to both from our Members’ pages.

Natives – Saving Scotland’s Original Honey Bees:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdS-_hfhc-o

Honey, please don’t go

HONEY, PLEASE DON’T GO

In the beautiful opening passage of his epic poem The Song of Hiawatha, HW Longfellow has his subject waiting, watching from the doorway of his wigwam:

All the air was full of freshness, All the earth was bright and joyous, And before him, through the sunshine, Westward toward the neighboring forest, Passed in golden swarms the Ahmo, Passed the bees, the honey-makers, Burning, singing in the sunshine.

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