https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdS-_hfhc-o
I am thrilled to announce the release of the new documentary, "Natives"! This project that I've been working on for three years, delves into the world of Sco

https://www.snhbs.scot/natives-saving-scotlands-original-honey-bees/
Published on 18/06/2024 by SNHBS. We are honoured and delighted to have been able to assist Maxim Nekliudov to create his most recent masterpiece - NATIVES: Saving Scotland's Origi n al Honey Bees. He chronicles our efforts to try to re-establish our native honey bee species. It has almost disappeared in most of Scotland in its pure form.

https://www.beekeepercentral.uk/blog/preserving-the-original-honey-bees-of-scotland
The survival of Scotland's native honey bees, Apis mellifera mellifera, is jeopardised by a range of threats, both human-induced and environmental. Understanding these threats is crucial for developing effective conservation strategies. One significant threat is the mass importation of non-native bees.

https://www.snhbs.scot/
NATIVES - Saving Scotland's Original Honey Bees Published on 18/06/2024 18/06/2024 by SNHBS We are honoured and delighted to have been able to assist Maxim Nekliudov to create his most recent masterpiece - NATIVES: Saving Scotland's Original Honey Bees.

https://www.snhbs.scot/history-of-the-native-honey-bee-in-scotland-2/
He used locally sourced native bees as did later beekeepers in the area, Willie Robson from Chainbridge and George Hood from Ormiston (East Lothians). Willie Smith, probably Scotland's first full-time commercial beekeeper. After he retired from beekeeping many of his hives went to George Hood and others to local beekeepers.

https://blogs.gov.scot/rural-environment/2021/10/18/reviewing-scotlands-first-honey-bee-health-strategy/
We have published the Review of Scotland's first 10-year Honey Bee Health strategy published in 2010. The Honey Bee Health Strategy is an extension of the Scottish Government's commitment towards the highest standards of animal health and welfare for all animals in Scotland. The Review, conducted in conjunction with Scotland's Bee Health

https://www.thenational.scot/news/15117048.new-buzz-around-drive-to-save-scots-honey-bee/
A NEW campaign has been launched to save Scotland's endangered native honey bee, which is under threat from disease and imported honey bees. A NEW campaign has been launched to save Scotland's endangered native honey bee, which is under threat from disease and imported honey bees. Newsletters; Puzzles; Reader Rewards; Donate;

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/can-we-save-the-bees-absolutely-lets-start-with-the-natives-commentary/
To many people "Save the Bees" equals "Save the Honey Bees.". The wording needs to change. For comparison's sake, saying we need to save the bees, meaning honey bees, is like saying we

https://nihbs.org/2021/06/24/the-scottish-native-honey-bee-society-snhbs/
We in the Scottish Native Honey Bee Society strongly support the actions being taken by our sister organisation in Ireland, the Native Irish Honey Bee Society, to attempt to strengthen the protection of the precious reserves of Apis mellifera mellifera on the island by preventing further imports of non-native honey bees. The case for prompt

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-39456644
A leading biologist says Scotland's native honey bees are being threatened by imports brought in because of the hobby's growing popularity. A new group, the Scottish Native Honey Bee Society, has

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-39456644
31 March 2017. The native honey bee is more resistant to the Scottish climate than imported varieties. By Kevin Keane. BBC Scotland's environment correspondent. A leading biologist says Scotland's

http://www.dave-cushman.net/bee/snhbs.html
The Scottish Native Honey Bee Society The granting of reserve status in 2013, to protect Andrew Abrahams' native bees on Colonsay and Oronsay; the wish to avoid importing bees given the threat of small hive beetle; the commissioning by the Scottish Government of Gavin Ramsay's research into Restocking Honey Bee Colonies in Scotland, published in 2015: all these have contributed to a growing

https://www.gov.scot/publications/honey-bee-health-strategy-2022-2032/
This new strategy aims to address the challenges facing honey bees and beekeepers and is aimed at achieving a sustainable, environmentally balanced and healthy population of honey bees in Scotland, for pollination and honey production. This strategy follows in the steps of the first Strategy, published in 2010.

https://www.nwf.org/Home/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2021/June-July/Gardening/Honey-Bees
Colonists brought honey bees from Europe beginning in the 1620s as a source of wax and sugar. Legend has it they were known as "white man's flies" because Native Americans often spotted the insects before the human settlers. With the advent of modern agriculture in the 1930s—when huge farms displaced habitats that housed crop

https://www.snhbs.scot/scottish-native-honey-bee/
Scottish Native Honey Bee. [Download PDF] Scotland's native honey bee, Apis mellifera mellifera, is at serious risk of disappearing by being genetically swamped by cross-breeding with the non-native types now found across the country, rather like our native wildcat. Over many millennia, this honey bee adapted to our changeable and often windy

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/return-of-the-natives-how-wild-bees-will-save-our-agricultural-system/
In the fall of 2006 a now legendary beekeeper named Dave Hackenberg discovered that 360 out of his 400 hives in Florida were lifeless—no bees in sight. "They waited, fully stocked with pollen

https://www.fondazioneslowfood.com/en/ark-of-taste-slow-food/scottish-native-black-bees/
The native black bees of Scotland ( Apis mellifera mellifera) migrated into west and north Europe after the last ice age, so they are the traditional honeybees of Scotland. The bees of this sub-specie are typically small and stocky bees varying in colour from jet back to dark brown. No yellow should exist on native Apis mellifera mellifera bees

https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/strategy-plan/2021/10/review-scotlands-first-10-year-honey-bee-health-strategy/documents/h1-summary-review-2010-honey-bee-health-strategy-sustainable-healthy-population-honey-bees-h1/h1-summary-review-2010-honey-bee-health-strategy-sustainable-healthy-population-honey-bees-h1/govscot%3Adocument/h1-summary-review-2010-honey-bee-health-strategy-sustainable-healthy-population-honey-bees-h1.pdf
An oft repeated mantra throughout this period has been "we are hitting well above our weight"'. SG-LBI since 2019, Luis Molero MRCVS, comments that "this review will draw to a close the first Scottish Honey Bee Health Strategy and provide valuable information in the development of the next 10-year plan.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/scots-urged-to-help-save-frugal-native-honey-bee-2466877
A new project has been launched to identify and count native Scottish honey bees in an effort to save the hardy and 'mild-tempered' insects from extinction. All Sections Scotland's National Newspaper

https://blog.nwf.org/2021/06/to-bee-or-not-to-bee-a-discussion-on-honey-bees/
Honey bees are native to Europe and were first introduced to the United States in the 1600s for honey production. Now 400 years later, they are the most widely distributed livestock animal in the United States. We rely primarily on honey bees to pollinate 1/3 of the food we eat, making them paramount to commercial agriculture.

https://blog.nls.uk/rare-and-fascinating-beekeeping-books/
Moses Quinby (1810-1875) was an American beekeeper from New York State. He began beekeeping in 1828 and wrote and taught on the topic throughout his life. A devout Quaker, Quinby happily shared his knowledge and never patented his beekeeping inventions (such as the bee smoker with bellows) or copyrighted his books or publications. Sometimes

https://homegrown.extension.ncsu.edu/2024/06/18/promoting-a-honey-bee-haven-in-north-carolina/
While there are around 500 species of bees native to North Carolina, honey bees are not one of them. Arguably our most important import of all time - up there with penicillin and Lionel Messi - honey bees were first brought to America and the Virginia colony by the earliest European settlers around 1622. ... N.C. DMV offers "Save the

https://www.snhbs.scot/why-now/
Why native honey bees. The aims of the Scottish Native Honey Bee Society are to promote the conservation, maintenance, breeding and study of the honey bee which is native to Scotland and is endangered by the uncontrolled importation of honey bees unsuited to our Scottish climate. We believe that by natural selection the honey bee native to

https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/saving-the-insects/native-bees
In the United States there are about 4,000 native bee species, most of which are solitary bees that nest in the ground or cavities, with many that require just one or a few plant species for sustenance. Unfortunately at least 23 percent of U.S. native bees have declined, with bees in areas with heavy commodity-crop production particularly hard

https://www.delawareonline.com/story/money/business/2024/06/25/have-delaware-pennyslvania-beekeepers-invented-a-better-beehive/74197781007/
For 170 years, modern beehives has remained largely the same; Now two beekeepers, including Winterthur's keeper, may have invented a better hive