Hives of candy-crazy bees in France are reportedly producing honey colored blue and green.
But honey-lovers hoping for something strange to put on their English
muffins are likely to be disappointed: The oddly colored honey is not
for sale, according to France24.
The bees, which hail from apiaries near Ribeauvillé in France's Alsace
region, have acquired a taste for processed sugars at a local biogas
plant that processes waste from a Mars chocolate factory, the maker of M&Ms. Instead of mining local wildflowers for nectar, bees have been sucking up colorful sugar at the plant.
Continued: http://www.livescience.com/23754-candy-bees-colored-honey.html
Sunday, 7 October 2012
M&M-Loving Bees Make Colorful Honey
Labels:
coloured honey,
colourful sugar,
france,
Mars chocolate factory,
waste
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment
You only need to enter your comment once! Comments will appear once they have been moderated. This is so as to stop the would-be comedian who has been spamming the comments here with inane and often offensive remarks. You know who you are!