Alienated Romantic
Pretty pimped pollen sacks in slick metallic blue
Scilla yields blue pollen
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pollen_sources
The color of pollen below indicates the color as it appears when the pollen arrives at the beehive. Bees mix dry pollen with nectar and/or honey to compact the pollen in the pollen basket. Dry pollen, is a food source for bees, which contains 16–30% protein, 1–10% fat, 1–7% starch, many vitamins, but little sugar. The protein source needed for rearing one worker bee from larval to adult stage requires approximately 120 to 145 mg of pollen. An average bee colony will collect about 20 to 57 kg (44 to 125 pounds) of pollen a year
Apparently, the honey can get a certain hue based on the pollen sources.
However, not quite like in this story:
futurism.com/day-honey-tuned-blue
Bees were near a bio gas plant and waste from manufacture of M&Ms was stored out in the open. A real feast for them and made for some exciting colour honey.
Eventually, it was discovered that the bees had been feasting on the shells of colorful M&M. As it turns out, just 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) away from the beehives, Mars had a biogas plant that was processing waste from producing M&Ms. After the plant discovered the problem, they rectified it by cleaning and covering all of the outdoor containers that the M&M waste was stored in.
As an interesting (and unfortunate) aside, the strange colored honey isn’t technically honey. This is because, in order to produce honey, bees collect nectar from flowers. And since the M&M concoctions came from non-floral sources, it’s not really honey. Why is this a problem? Because the colored honey didn’t meet France’s standards of honey production (as it was not obtained from the nectar of plants), and so it could not be sold. This is rather bad news for a region that produces tons of honey annually.
Pretty pimped pollen sacks in slick metallic blue
Scilla yields blue pollen
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pollen_sources
The color of pollen below indicates the color as it appears when the pollen arrives at the beehive. Bees mix dry pollen with nectar and/or honey to compact the pollen in the pollen basket. Dry pollen, is a food source for bees, which contains 16–30% protein, 1–10% fat, 1–7% starch, many vitamins, but little sugar. The protein source needed for rearing one worker bee from larval to adult stage requires approximately 120 to 145 mg of pollen. An average bee colony will collect about 20 to 57 kg (44 to 125 pounds) of pollen a year
Apparently, the honey can get a certain hue based on the pollen sources.
However, not quite like in this story:
futurism.com/day-honey-tuned-blue
Bees were near a bio gas plant and waste from manufacture of M&Ms was stored out in the open. A real feast for them and made for some exciting colour honey.
Eventually, it was discovered that the bees had been feasting on the shells of colorful M&M. As it turns out, just 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) away from the beehives, Mars had a biogas plant that was processing waste from producing M&Ms. After the plant discovered the problem, they rectified it by cleaning and covering all of the outdoor containers that the M&M waste was stored in.
As an interesting (and unfortunate) aside, the strange colored honey isn’t technically honey. This is because, in order to produce honey, bees collect nectar from flowers. And since the M&M concoctions came from non-floral sources, it’s not really honey. Why is this a problem? Because the colored honey didn’t meet France’s standards of honey production (as it was not obtained from the nectar of plants), and so it could not be sold. This is rather bad news for a region that produces tons of honey annually.