Sunday 7 October 2012

This Story Is A Couple Of Days Old,

but this is a better picture of the phenomena,

in and around the area of the town of Ribeauville in the region of Alsace, beekeepers have found that their bees produced honey in shades of blue and green, it has all been very mysterious until now, it is believed residue from containers of M&M's candy processed at a nearby biogas plant in northeastern France is the cause, the bees then take the sweet residue back to the hive and the result is coloured honey,

Agrivalor, the company operating the biogas plant, said it had tried to address the problem after being notified of it by the beekeepers, Mars operates a chocolate factory near Strasbourg, around 100 km (62 miles) away from the affected apiaries,


there are about 2,400 beekeepers in Alsace who tend some 35,000 colonies and produce about 1,000 tonnes of honey per year, according to the region's chamber of agriculture, France is one of the largest producers of honey within the European Union, producing some 18,330 tonnes annually,

but this could be the start of a new approach to introducing people who have not tried it to honey, just imagine pots of M&M’s kaleidoscope of coloured honey on the shelves in your local store.

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