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Nice, looks tasty! So, Kudzu? Or Industrial waste like in France around 2012? https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/blue-and-green-honey-makes-french-bee
by Borrible 9mo ago
Nice, looks tasty!
So, Kudzu?
Or Industrial waste like in France around 2012?
https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/blue-and-green-honey-makes-french-beekeepers-see-red-idUSBRE8930MR/ https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/blue-and-green-hon...
https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/blue-and-green-honey-makes-french-beekeepers-see-red-idUSBRE8930MR/ https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/blue-and-green-hon...
And on Banggi, a Malaysian island, there is supposedly green honey!
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361629042_Physicochemical_Properties_of_a_New_Green_Honey_from_Banggi_Island_Sabah https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361629042_Physicoch...
- cainxinth 9mo agoIn NYC, they found red honey which was coming from bees drinking at a maraschino cherry factory: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/nyregion/30bigcity.html https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/nyregion/30bigcity.html Unrelated, but that led to the police finding a marijuana grow operation in the basement: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/nyregion/secret-marijuana-farm-beneath-brooklyn-cherry-factory-leaves-many-mysteries.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/nyregion/secret-marijuana...
- pama 9mo agoPerhaps this was not unrelated after all, as the bee detectives might have sensed the smell of the flowers.
- Rebelgecko 9mo agoThe New Yorker article about it also has some additional details: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/23/the-maraschino-moguls-secret-life https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/23/the-maraschino...
- js2 9mo agoAn NC state professor previously determined it's aluminum reacting with acid in the bees' stomachs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501058 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501058