Scots beekeeper finds grandfather's lost hives alive in quarry and turns them into huge colony
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dailyrecord.co.ukA beekeeper was astonished to find his grandfather's long-lost hives, abandoned yet flourishing in a quarry, which he then transformed into a colony of millions.
Ross Main, 36, spent his childhood with his grandfather William Main, a beekeeper and gamekeeper, who often took him along to check on his bees.
When William died after getting cancer in 2007 at the age of 77, Ross assumed that his hives had been sold off.However, after the birth of his own son in 2015, Ross felt inspired to search for them.
He journeyed from his home in Fife to the East Lothian quarry where his granddad used to keep his hives.To his amazement, Ross found an original hive still buzzing with an active colony that had been self-sustaining for years.
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