NATIVES: Saving Scotland's Original Honey Bees

[@kashuxable]

Thank you Gavin for the opportunity to buy one of the most delicious honey today. Best of luck with raising the awareness of protecting the native bees. 🐝👌

[@DiverPeg]

Nice to meet you yesterday Gavin - beekeepers are terrific

[@LaurieSyrett-Judd-mr7dv]

Thank you for creating this film. It was a pleasure to watch such a well produced piece on an important matter. I keep AMM in North Wales. We went up to visit Andrew in June 2022 which was an amazing experience. Our local bee keepers association is also strongly committed to breeding native bees.

[@m1nfy]

Excellent video. Great production, well structured and informative content!

[@won2winit]

Well worth the wait from when the trailer was teased.

[@honeybeesforsale]

If every bee keeper was to raise just two queens a year. Nice one Andrew!

[@alinerussell787]

Wonderful video - thank you

[@wolfane64616]

First video I've seen from this channel, incredibly well made and very informative. Was very surprised when I checked your other videos and the trailer for this was released nearly a year ago. Judging by all the masks much of the filming is from even several years ago. Awesome dedication to keep working on something like this for such a long time

[@gappo1301]

Took me almost three years this one. Glad you liked it✋🏻

[@wolfane64616]

@@gappo1301 I thoroughly enjoyed it, very well made. As an American all I knew was that the honey bee is actually invasive to the North American continent. I had no idea that the black bee even existed, or even any of the other types of bees, I've only ever known of "European" honey bees or "Africanized" bees. Super informative, and very well done. For what it's worth I think the effort to save at least some pockets of original species is well worth the effort. Can't wait to see more content, cheers

[@anais7915]

Beautiful job!

[@mikemilespitcairn]

Nice one Gavin.

[@wanderingmonk007]

I'm a beekeeper from America. Sounds heroically awesome what you're doing. Maybe try working with hobbyists in the different parts of Scotland, make it easier for them to get climate adapted blackbee queens than the imports. Winter is my enemy over here, and a lot of work goes into making sure the girls are alive in the spring. Cold weather adapted bees are so worth the effort. Good luck!!!!

[@jonnisack]

Good job👍 Thank you🙏

[@bullbreedpriderb]

Great video, I’m new to bee keeping and I’m very keen to keep only Black Bees

[@danushkajayasooriya574]

Really informative. 31.02 is nice way of education

[@ashapogosova6172]

Very informative indeed❤

[@ashapogosova6172]

Great video! ❤❤❤

[@AndrewMcAllister-i5c]

It's really great to see such an interesting video, which states all the issues around the black bee. Well done!

[@Earthstein]

Thank you for this presentation. I learned some vital information.

[@ashapogosova6172]

I see beehives on the background. Being a beekeeper myself I wonder if tabaco plant produce any pollen/ fourage fot the bees? Have you noticed any bee activity around the plants?

[@ApiaryManager]

It's not quite correct to say the drone is a clone of the queen @31:50 (it's mother). The queen has 32 chromosomes (16 from it's mother and 16 from its father). Her son (the drone) has only 16 (all from his mother as he came from an unfertilised egg). It would be more correct to say that a large number of her drones approximates to her genotype...or...the average effect is to approximate to her genotype.

[@michaelhansen6481]

👍

[@jscfb]

The economic interests is all that matters to government it's the same with wild Atlantic salmon decline economics favour the highly polluted salmon farms here in west of Scotland mainly

[@BarefootBeekeeper]

Good to see. Hilarious to watch people on a windy, remote Scottish islands wearing useless masks!

[@tonyjetton8352]

2024 and still wearing the useless mask.