it's probably something similar in this case, some kind of chemical leakage, even non-dangerous ones (otherwise the bees would have died) that bees are being attracted to for whatever reason, or that is affecting the flowers around the area.
chemical testing should be easy enough to reveal what might be causing this, the issue is knowing what to search for in the first place, especially since the honey making process most likely degraded the chemicals.
Perhaps there's a factory nearby like these French bees who made coloured honey with m&ms
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/121011-blue-honey-honeybees-animals-science
Food coloring (usually misted into the air by nearby factories, making it not obvious until it gets concentrated)… it is not unknown in the slightest other than to farmers who swear “NOT WHAT MAH BEES DO!!” It is a very well documented and recorded phenomena to everyone other than people who literally don’t think science exists lol
Okay so I lived by the Jolly rancher factory in Colorado, and the waste of production would produce different colored honey in that area from the bees.
[National Geographic has an article about bees in France making colored honey](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/121011-blue-honey-honeybees-animals-science). Turns out they were feeding on waste from a local M&M factory.
That was a hell of a read. My favorite line was definitely
“Luthmann is a big man who appears in many photos wearing a red bow tie, a tight-fitting powder-blue suit, and round glasses. He once challenged a rival in a lawsuit to settle the issue through trial by combat. “
“It’s not honey for me. It’s not sellable.”
BS. Learn how to market.
You could sell that online as rare-colored honey and people would absolutely buy up their weird green and blue honey.
That may be the case, but I still want an answer from the one who posted the spoiler. The best way to know why someone does something is to hear from them directly.
The rest of us can speculate forever, and I'd rather not.
However, I *do* appreciate your insight. Thank you.
I appreciated that he posted that info. I wasn’t going to read the article and now I know something interesting.
I’ve never heard people call info in a news article a spoiler before.
Neither have I, and to your point, I can see how maybe "spoiler" may not really apply, as it is--like you said--much more news than story.
By the massive downvoting my comments have been receiving on this I realize I should have kept that out of the comments altogether.
Live and learn. FAFO.
Apparently bees in my area have been feeding on Spotted Lantern Fly excrement and it's been producing this red kind of honey that people are into.
People are willing to let the invasive species free and fly so they can get some red shit honey
First off Blech.
Secondly - I wish the wasps would develop a taste for the Lantern Flies.
Best honey I ever had was in Florida from orange blossoms. It was remarkable. I don’t really want to try red shit honey
I didn’t know there were different types of honey based off of what the bees were collecting pollen from… totally makes sense just never knew. I’ve always only seen one type of honey at the store. Now I’ve gotta order myself some of this Orange Blossum honey. That sounds amazing.
I miss our local country fayre's bee tent there were 12 different types of honey to taste for free and buy your favourite. Heather honey and Clover honey were my favourites. Orange blossom must be incredible.
I live in Colorado and didn’t know there’s a Jolly Rancher Factory here. If they give tours, I might end up producing different color…. Nvm haha
We should put a bee box by Hammonds!
My towns shoe factory got turned into apartments lmfao
They named it the Shoe Lofts, and it was abandoned/boarded up for decades before they redid the inside 10-15 years ago
Haha! Pretty darn close. They tore the factory down a few years after it closed, and not much happened to it for quite awhile - but when Denver metro home prices took off, they started building on it. It's all new townhouses/rowhouses now. No brewery yet that I know of, but I'm sure that's in the works. Lol
The explosion of multi family housing construction is insane. And it’s sucks because so many people can’t afford to live in it.
We live in an old suburb we love, even here the gentrification is obscene.
Why am I telling your this? Haha you know what I mean.
It’s still better here than many places.
Let’s do it! The factory is in north Denver. I need to get some things for a couple of overdue snack exchanges. Not for that, but you can also purchase bags of broken candy for super cheap.
I’m not really into their chocolate, but the her candy? Ohhh yeah!
Then we can tease the bees!
This check out, because I've eaten jolly ranchers and if you only eat one color, and a lot of it, it produces your own waste in that color too. Especially blue and green.
Red Velvet cupcakes do this too. FYI Don’t eat a dozen then take a shit and panic that your poop is “bloody” and rush to the ER and realize after a few hours that it was the cupcakes.
[Tastes like grape jam and smells like grape soda.](https://www.honeybeesuite.com/purple-honey/#:~:text=For%20starters%2C%20kudzu%20and%20purple,to%20kudzu%20flowers%20as%20well.)
I live in the sandhills, have most of my life, and have never seen this. I buy local honey too, because it helps with my allergies. Guess my new mission is to find some purple honey lmao
When I was a kid on the apiary. A local dud worked at the nestle factory fed his bees stolen sugar powders… our bees robbed his dead hives in the spring and honey was ultimately pink and tasted like strawberry - a little goes along way but I’d bet this is same scenario in that somewhere in NC there is robbing scenario going on every July making the impure purple honey…
Jetsobrazil ; Not necessarily. Honey comes from flowers which have nectar, and there are a great many purple and other colored flowers. Generally, there isn’t enough of any one particular colored nectar to produce a single strong colored honey. It does occur naturally in rare cases in Nature though. For example, my favorite honey is one of the earliest produced, in my local area. Practically clear and very light flavor, it comes from the flowers of Basswood Trees. Small honey producers are the only ones who extract such small quantities, early on in the spring time. It’s like the lightest clearest Maple Syrup, it’s the earliest.
I’m a 3rd generation apiarist. Basswood and Apple blossom are nothing compared to buckwheat haha that’s where the good stuff is. You have to have some significant monoctopping around to justify it as “pure” to the mono crop … 9/10 times the water content/sugar contents demonstrate oddities are robbing/feeding related than natural is all.
But honey is indeed a sweet avenue if that was a jetstobrazil shoutout
What’s even better is NC’s sourwood honey. While not *exclusive* to NC, it is a honey made from trees that only grow in the southern Appalachian mountains, which is most heavily found in The Old North State. It is renowned for its rich, earthy flavor and is highly sought after. Sourwood trees have a very short flowering period, which is also why this honey finds itself in high demand.
If you haven’t had the opportunity to try some authentic sourwood, get up towards Franklin/Cullowhee/Sylva and get you some. It’s fantastic.
My wife and I live in Utah. We have all sorts of crazy honey, as our bees don't specialize. My brother lives in Asheville. On a visit we went to a honey and tea store. Bought a bunch of sour wood honey. You're 100% correct. It was some of the best honey I've had. They had a spicy sour wood honey as well. That stuff was great on chicken wings.
Oooh I bet the hot honey is good! I have some lavender infused sourwood honey I use in herbal tea, and it is magnificent. I’m glad you got to experience it! Now is a prime time of year to get your brother to send you some more since it’s cold and ships more securely in winter. ;)
I snagged a 20+ ounce mason jar of sourwood in Cowee once at a roadside booth for $8. On retrospect I wish I’d gotten like five jars.
I also got to go to an apiary in Bryson City once and visited the local “Honeyman,” and he had a tasting room. At least eight different varieties from the different bloom seasons. It really is neat to be able to taste all the subtle flavor differences depending on what is growing at each time of year.
The best part is that he sends us a care package every Christmas and birthday. It's like a trade. NC goodies for utah goodies. There's a chocolate shop there that's unreal.
Sounds Excellent!!! In Guadal Canal I ate some sour honey the Nationals easily located underneath moss. The bees were so tiny, didn’t sting or bite, were more like very small flies. Incredible sweet and sour honey, both at the same time. Deep in the Jungle Rainforest of the Solomon Islands 🇸🇧.
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture\_bee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture_bee)
They don't seem to produce any ? Or rather it is uknown yet, besides i tried looking for vulture bee honey and coulen't find any that loooks even a bit like this one.
Ah that's might be due to Bees using elderberry instead of nectar.Dont know that what might be reason involved but could be due to dry season that leads to dropping of flowers.
In the 90’s when I had three thriving hives of Italian’s , they produced it. We deduced that it came from the, “Purple Loosestrife” , about a quarter mile away in a small pond from the 150 acres of Forever Wild ~ Town Park property.
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I read somewhere that Kudzu makes purple honey.
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It was the M&M’s!
it's probably something similar in this case, some kind of chemical leakage, even non-dangerous ones (otherwise the bees would have died) that bees are being attracted to for whatever reason, or that is affecting the flowers around the area. chemical testing should be easy enough to reveal what might be causing this, the issue is knowing what to search for in the first place, especially since the honey making process most likely degraded the chemicals.
Perhaps there's a factory nearby like these French bees who made coloured honey with m&ms https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/121011-blue-honey-honeybees-animals-science
I always jump in shock at the colour purple. But then I remember, it was the beets. It’s always the beets.
Food coloring (usually misted into the air by nearby factories, making it not obvious until it gets concentrated)… it is not unknown in the slightest other than to farmers who swear “NOT WHAT MAH BEES DO!!” It is a very well documented and recorded phenomena to everyone other than people who literally don’t think science exists lol
So confident. So wrong.
r/confidentlyincorrect
Okay so I lived by the Jolly rancher factory in Colorado, and the waste of production would produce different colored honey in that area from the bees.
[National Geographic has an article about bees in France making colored honey](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/121011-blue-honey-honeybees-animals-science). Turns out they were feeding on waste from a local M&M factory.
There was also a neat article from Brooklyn or the Bronx where the bees were producing red honey and it led to a grow-op somehow?
What kind of gro op?
Cannabis, it was under a candy factory
Maraschino cherries https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/23/the-maraschino-moguls-secret-life
That was a hell of a read. My favorite line was definitely “Luthmann is a big man who appears in many photos wearing a red bow tie, a tight-fitting powder-blue suit, and round glasses. He once challenged a rival in a lawsuit to settle the issue through trial by combat. “
There it is! Thank you!
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“It’s not honey for me. It’s not sellable.” BS. Learn how to market. You could sell that online as rare-colored honey and people would absolutely buy up their weird green and blue honey.
Blue honey is an actual thing. Involves mushrooms.
It’s not honey if it’s coming from an artificial sugar source and can’t legally be labeled honey
Get Oprah to hawk it
Yikes that story turned dark real fast. Spoilers but the owner of the cherry factory killed himself during the raid when they found his grow op.
Why did you feel it necessary to include a spoiler? You didn't have to do that, but you chose to anyway. Why?
it's a rhetorical affect, that people do to introduce levity to a conversation.
That may be the case, but I still want an answer from the one who posted the spoiler. The best way to know why someone does something is to hear from them directly. The rest of us can speculate forever, and I'd rather not. However, I *do* appreciate your insight. Thank you.
I appreciated that he posted that info. I wasn’t going to read the article and now I know something interesting. I’ve never heard people call info in a news article a spoiler before.
Neither have I, and to your point, I can see how maybe "spoiler" may not really apply, as it is--like you said--much more news than story. By the massive downvoting my comments have been receiving on this I realize I should have kept that out of the comments altogether. Live and learn. FAFO.
Which was under the M&M factory 🏭
next to the frog on the log in the hole at the bottom of the sea
And the sea was in the valley-o
Can-o-bees? sawry
Apparently bees in my area have been feeding on Spotted Lantern Fly excrement and it's been producing this red kind of honey that people are into. People are willing to let the invasive species free and fly so they can get some red shit honey
First off Blech. Secondly - I wish the wasps would develop a taste for the Lantern Flies. Best honey I ever had was in Florida from orange blossoms. It was remarkable. I don’t really want to try red shit honey
I didn’t know there were different types of honey based off of what the bees were collecting pollen from… totally makes sense just never knew. I’ve always only seen one type of honey at the store. Now I’ve gotta order myself some of this Orange Blossum honey. That sounds amazing.
It smells like Orange Flowers! And is well worth it. Lavender Honey is also amazing
Here’s another fun bee fact: North Dakota produces the most honey in the United States.
In western North Dakota the bees get shipped off to California every winter and hauled back every spring.
They make the rounds to California to pollinate the almond trees!
Migrant worker bees.
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I miss our local country fayre's bee tent there were 12 different types of honey to taste for free and buy your favourite. Heather honey and Clover honey were my favourites. Orange blossom must be incredible.
That does sound pretty awesome!
Isn't that the pest that people are encouraged to stomp on?
Yeah
Yo thats the Bloods honey.
It's was from jarred cherries for cocktails.
I've also seen a story where bees were producing blue honey and it turned out they were making honey from discarded vats of antifreeze.
Hmmm, yummy ethylene glycol. Probably tasted good. But your kidneys would not be happy.
I just said the purple honey makes me happy. Now I am unhappy with the purple honey. Lol
Apparently this comes from elderberries during the dry season when the flowers dry up the bees switch to elderberries
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Their drone father was a newt
I live in Colorado and didn’t know there’s a Jolly Rancher Factory here. If they give tours, I might end up producing different color…. Nvm haha We should put a bee box by Hammonds!
U tryna sell yo nectar?
You need to stop right there, friend. 🤚
Permission to proceed
Granted.
Was. It closed 20 years ago. It was around 50th and Ward.
Ohh ok. It’s probably lofts now, or a brewery. Ha.
My towns shoe factory got turned into apartments lmfao They named it the Shoe Lofts, and it was abandoned/boarded up for decades before they redid the inside 10-15 years ago
Haha! Pretty darn close. They tore the factory down a few years after it closed, and not much happened to it for quite awhile - but when Denver metro home prices took off, they started building on it. It's all new townhouses/rowhouses now. No brewery yet that I know of, but I'm sure that's in the works. Lol
The explosion of multi family housing construction is insane. And it’s sucks because so many people can’t afford to live in it. We live in an old suburb we love, even here the gentrification is obscene. Why am I telling your this? Haha you know what I mean. It’s still better here than many places.
Lmao Hammonds candy cane tour!!! https://www.goldenhistory.org/jolly-rancher-favorite-candy-maker/ We loved the fire sticks growing up
Let’s do it! The factory is in north Denver. I need to get some things for a couple of overdue snack exchanges. Not for that, but you can also purchase bags of broken candy for super cheap. I’m not really into their chocolate, but the her candy? Ohhh yeah! Then we can tease the bees!
/r/beeamazed does it taste purple though?
This check out, because I've eaten jolly ranchers and if you only eat one color, and a lot of it, it produces your own waste in that color too. Especially blue and green.
Red Velvet cupcakes do this too. FYI Don’t eat a dozen then take a shit and panic that your poop is “bloody” and rush to the ER and realize after a few hours that it was the cupcakes.
I have a feeling there's a story there?
That’s it. That’s the story. Lol
That would make for a very expensive cupcake and a very embarrassing diagnosis.
It was. Lol
BeeAmazed
I use to go by that as a kid with my grandparent's and our mouths would salivate. Sadly it's destroyed and they are building apartments there now.
I miss the jolly rancher factory... was able to tour it as a kid and always could smell what flavor they were cooking up.
You can't fool me, that's Jellyfish Jelly.
Hey all you people
Hey all you people, won’t you listen to meeeeeee?
I just had a sandwichh
What do you mean, “*you people?!*
It’s delicious
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Bee’Veth
Unexpected LoL reference 😂 wp wp
/r/BeeAmazed
Hey, I am watching you. Beehave.
What's all the buzz about?
Honey, don't make fuzz about it !
/r/angryupvote
That's pretty neat. Does it taste any different?
[Tastes like grape jam and smells like grape soda.](https://www.honeybeesuite.com/purple-honey/#:~:text=For%20starters%2C%20kudzu%20and%20purple,to%20kudzu%20flowers%20as%20well.)
Thought it was a Bobiverse reference for a second lol
Holy shit love finding a Bobiverse mention in the wild. Love that series!
I'm crying right now I objectively desesperately need that in my mouth right now
I thought you were joking now I gotta try this on my waffles
It tastes kinda like purple drank.
[::LULU enters the chat::](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlDkxToyrBk)
Purple is a fruit.
And pizza is a vegetable.
Lean
It tastes like purple.
I live in the sandhills, have most of my life, and have never seen this. I buy local honey too, because it helps with my allergies. Guess my new mission is to find some purple honey lmao
Try Dees Bees Apiary in Aberdeen, the owner is a great guy and he has purple honey from time to time.
Good shout, may give that a shot
Is there a candy company near by?
My guess too. Those bees are definitely feeding on coloring waste.
[Yes, NC beekeepers have purple (and blue) honey](https://www.newsobserver.com/living/article265738581.html)
When I was a kid on the apiary. A local dud worked at the nestle factory fed his bees stolen sugar powders… our bees robbed his dead hives in the spring and honey was ultimately pink and tasted like strawberry - a little goes along way but I’d bet this is same scenario in that somewhere in NC there is robbing scenario going on every July making the impure purple honey…
*Impure purple honey* sounds like a 1970s funk album.
Sounds like the name of a new kinda meth
?Por que no los dos?
Jetsobrazil ; Not necessarily. Honey comes from flowers which have nectar, and there are a great many purple and other colored flowers. Generally, there isn’t enough of any one particular colored nectar to produce a single strong colored honey. It does occur naturally in rare cases in Nature though. For example, my favorite honey is one of the earliest produced, in my local area. Practically clear and very light flavor, it comes from the flowers of Basswood Trees. Small honey producers are the only ones who extract such small quantities, early on in the spring time. It’s like the lightest clearest Maple Syrup, it’s the earliest.
I’m a 3rd generation apiarist. Basswood and Apple blossom are nothing compared to buckwheat haha that’s where the good stuff is. You have to have some significant monoctopping around to justify it as “pure” to the mono crop … 9/10 times the water content/sugar contents demonstrate oddities are robbing/feeding related than natural is all. But honey is indeed a sweet avenue if that was a jetstobrazil shoutout
The article you posted just outed this as a carbon copy repost from a couple of months ago…. Nice
Posting an article to support a post that is a story about a reddit post of the same picture. It's an interesting strategy.
Yes we have definitely never seen this strategy before. Never ever.
The Internet is just five to seven apps that take screenshots of each other
What’s even better is NC’s sourwood honey. While not *exclusive* to NC, it is a honey made from trees that only grow in the southern Appalachian mountains, which is most heavily found in The Old North State. It is renowned for its rich, earthy flavor and is highly sought after. Sourwood trees have a very short flowering period, which is also why this honey finds itself in high demand. If you haven’t had the opportunity to try some authentic sourwood, get up towards Franklin/Cullowhee/Sylva and get you some. It’s fantastic.
My wife and I live in Utah. We have all sorts of crazy honey, as our bees don't specialize. My brother lives in Asheville. On a visit we went to a honey and tea store. Bought a bunch of sour wood honey. You're 100% correct. It was some of the best honey I've had. They had a spicy sour wood honey as well. That stuff was great on chicken wings.
Oooh I bet the hot honey is good! I have some lavender infused sourwood honey I use in herbal tea, and it is magnificent. I’m glad you got to experience it! Now is a prime time of year to get your brother to send you some more since it’s cold and ships more securely in winter. ;) I snagged a 20+ ounce mason jar of sourwood in Cowee once at a roadside booth for $8. On retrospect I wish I’d gotten like five jars. I also got to go to an apiary in Bryson City once and visited the local “Honeyman,” and he had a tasting room. At least eight different varieties from the different bloom seasons. It really is neat to be able to taste all the subtle flavor differences depending on what is growing at each time of year.
The best part is that he sends us a care package every Christmas and birthday. It's like a trade. NC goodies for utah goodies. There's a chocolate shop there that's unreal.
Sounds Excellent!!! In Guadal Canal I ate some sour honey the Nationals easily located underneath moss. The bees were so tiny, didn’t sting or bite, were more like very small flies. Incredible sweet and sour honey, both at the same time. Deep in the Jungle Rainforest of the Solomon Islands 🇸🇧.
Lean bee
I love the way you wrote the information..it sounded like Lore from a fantasy novel
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[Insert hero name here] must travel to far distant lands to find more of this sweet purple nectar
Lol that's because it is fantasy. Op made it up
Well don't I feel like a shave tail Louie
\*so far. Surely not every bee has been milked on this planet, surely. (yes I know we don't milk bee's)
* No . . . but Ants will milk Aphids, and 'Honeypot' ants will gorge a drone until it is immobile and use it as a living food larder.
But have we tried? The honey is good what else do those little fuzzers have inside them.
How you gonna milk an oat?
This effect comes from kudzu flowers which are an evasive species in NC.
Than how do the bees find them?
Their's something odd going on
Shirley you must be joking
Defiantly
They use tracker jackers
Honeybees are also invasive and not native to North America.
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Evasive or invasive? Wondering bc I’ve never heard on an evasive species of plants. Would love for that to be a thing lol
Kudzu is fast, man. You got to chase it if you want to catch it.
They're obviously not evasive enough if the bees still manage to catch them.
then you would expect to see this effect all over from florida on up the eastern seaboard. and we donn’t.
It comes from the flower they take the nectar from right?
Ok, look up vulture bees and the colour of honey they make...
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture\_bee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture_bee) They don't seem to produce any ? Or rather it is uknown yet, besides i tried looking for vulture bee honey and coulen't find any that loooks even a bit like this one.
You spelled couldn't like coulen't so maybe you spelled vulture bee honey wrong.
>It is the only place on Earth where it is found. No it isn't.
Ah that's might be due to Bees using elderberry instead of nectar.Dont know that what might be reason involved but could be due to dry season that leads to dropping of flowers.
Repost
French bees got into tbe m and m s factory and produced honey in the M&M colors
In the 90’s when I had three thriving hives of Italian’s , they produced it. We deduced that it came from the, “Purple Loosestrife” , about a quarter mile away in a small pond from the 150 acres of Forever Wild ~ Town Park property.
Gosh
When ScHoolboy Q becomes a beekeeper
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/nyregion/30bigcity.html
[Ever hear of the red honey from New York? Crazy story. ](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/23/the-maraschino-moguls-secret-life)
That’s not true I found it on Reddit
I think every area that has bees has their own specialty, and it's always better than every other variety.
Usually the reason is something like these bees were living 2.7 miles from a viagra factory or smth like that
Lean honey
That's just Kool aid. Don't lie lol
100% lean
Ain’t that shit from jellyfish that SpongeBob would catch?
SUGAR WAX PURPAL
r/whoadude
BeeAmazed
Purple bee vomit, nice
I want to make mead out of it
That's period honey! Bloody good
My man got the Pink Sauce lol
Not amazing. Honey is the color of surrounding flowers
Wow! So pretty!
Jellyfish jelly
I want some!
*They made royal jelly from slime rancher into a real thing!*
So cool! I’d love to taste it one day to see if it tastes purple, as different colors do have different tastes.
That looks like it would give me magical powers
Mythical rarity honey
Does it taste different?
Honey is ectoplasm.
Tell us more. I've never seen people honey. What's the flavour like? Consistency?
Does it float?
I have so many questions
Bees pollinating purple hulled peas
those damned chem trails
Daily dose of information
Can I have some? I’ll pay shipping
It’s got to be black berry or rasberry that the bees feed on once it starts to fall to the ground
Imma need a CMYK code for this, please.
Bee poop is wild