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Honeybees are livestock bred and raised on a farm. As such, we often treat them using various veterinary substances to reduce or prevent disease (nosema, trache
by bregma 4y ago
Honeybees are livestock bred and raised on a farm. As such, we often treat them using various veterinary substances to reduce or prevent disease (nosema, tracheal mites, varroa mites, fouldbrood, etc). Many of these treatments taint the honey, making it unfit for human consumption. To that end, colourants are often added so the farmer can identify such honey if any makes it out of the brood box and into the honey supers.
I don't understand why there is any mystery.
- pvaldes 4y agoI like the explanation. Including a dye to mark the honey unfit to markets would have a lot of sense. Is pretty smart.
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- tsol 4y ago>While the honeybee flies and forages, it is fueled by the nectar in its honey stomach. When Ambrose field-stripped bees in his study, the bees arriving at the blue honey hives never had blue in their stomachs, but the bees leaving the hive did. >“That tells you something is happening to the nectar after it reaches the hive to change the color,” Ambrose says. Sounds like it's a different issue. They are saying they can't determine exactly what the source is