When Ross Main tracked down the abandoned beehives his grandfather had kept in a disused quarry, he was surprised to find that the bees were still there.
The fine art graduate now manages dozens of colonies and millions of bees across Fife – and they are all descended from his grandfather’s hive.
Ross grew up in Dunbar and was often taken to the East Lothian quarry near Innerwick during his childhood.
When he became a father for the first time in 2015, he was inspired to try and find the old hives.
He thought his family had sold them off several years earlier, so did not expect to find much.
Ross, 36, drove from his home in Fife and tracked down the location, hundreds of metres down an old track which was overgrown with gorse.
