Sugar processing plant

[Zante]

I was considering the possibility of setting up a couple of hives near home, the problem is that within range of the bees there is a Tate & Lyle processing plant.

Will the bees ignore that for flowers or pollute the honey with pickings from the plant?

 

[Fatbee]

Those bees in France found the M&M factory and brought back coloured sugar!

Don't know to be honest

 

[BeeJayBee]

I'd be tempted to write to Tate and Lyle and ask about their biosecurity (or whatever it's called), because bees stealing from sugar factories, sweet factories, drinks factories etc used to happen every now and then, so they're meant to have procedures in place to stop it.

Then you can tell us what they do.

 

[For want of a better word]

I knew a beekeeper who had bees on a rooftop overlooking York Road in Battersea Lundon.

He thought his bees would forage in Battersea park... but his honey was VERY sweet.... Carsons Glucose was across the road... and Prices Candles... not forgetting Youngs and Charringtons brewery establishments plus Fuller across the Thames... and the glue factory... the place stank, but you got used to it!

Never too sure of these Urban environments... can see where Ebineezer Howard was coming from!!!

Yeghes da

 

[Nige.Coll]

The bees will go to the easiest food source what ever that is.

If they find easy food at the sugar factory then they will stay fixed on that and ignore everything else. You will have loads of honey that is illegal to sell.

do as suggested already and check the sugar factory practices first before putting the bees near it.
good luck

While your there ask them for some waste sugar to feed your bees in winter. They throw tonnes of it away with husk in.

 

[Zante]

Ok, I will get in touch with them once I'm back home (on holiday right now).
Just to be helpful I will also ask what their general policy is, not just this plant, so maybe I can be helpful to someone else.