Bees collecting from inappropriate sources

[Anthony Appleyard]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayanotoxin describes "mad honey", a hazard known of since ancient times, made by bees collecting nectar made by poisonous plants. In the main beekeeping areas nowadays, what plants can cause this hazard, and where?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayanotoxin describes "mad honey", a hazard known of since ancient times, made by bees collecting nectar made by poisonous plants. In the main beekeeping areas nowadays, what plants can cause this hazard, and where?

google it and find out

 

[Erichalfbee]

Yes. Wiki will know

 

[Barbarian]

Over the years you hear tales of problems.

In the York area there was a problem with waste from a chocolate factory.
In Halifax, a farmer was using waste from a plant making medicated sweets to mix with his cattle feed. The bees found the stack and the honey was unsaleable.
In the US, bees found that the red waste from a marachino plant was to their liking. Red honey ??
Years ago, the finger was pointed at a honey blending plant where empty imported honey drums gave access to bees and there was an outbreak of a bee disease.
In Brazil, hives were lost when locals used a cockroach bait containing a broad-spectrum insecticide.

 

[thorn]

And the bees of at least one beekeeper in the Pontefract area found the Haribo factory.

 

[Murox]

And the bees of at least one beekeeper in the Pontefract area found the Haribo factory.

Does that make the Bees clever opportunists or the factory less that scrupulous in its hygiene ?

 

[thorn]

Does that make the Bees clever opportunists or the factory less that scrupulous in its hygiene ?

I believe that a pipe burst, and the opportunists beat the plumbers to it.