Comment by Borrible
6 days ago
Nice, looks tasty!
So, Kudzu?
Or Industrial waste like in France around 2012?
https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/blue-and-green-hon...
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_Physicoch...
In 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
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...
The New Yorker article about it also has some additional details: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/23/the-maraschino...
Perhaps this was not unrelated after all, as the bee detectives might have sensed the smell of the flowers.
An NC state professor previously determined it's aluminum reacting with acid in the bees' stomachs:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501058