Bees make blue honey by harvesting waste from M&Ms manufacturing
The beekeepers believe the source of the problem is a biogas plant close to Ribeauville in Alsace.
It is thought the bees have been eating the sugary waste from M&Ms, small chocolates in brightly-coloured shells.
The plant operator said it regretted the situation and had put in place a procedure to stop it happening again.
"We discovered the problem at the same time [the beekeepers] did. We quickly put in place a procedure to stop it," Philippe Meinrad, a spokesman from Agrivalor, the company operating the biogas plant, was quoted by Reuters as saying.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19835847
As for the blue honey, the beekeepers say it is unsellable
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Perhaps a harbinger of serious consequences from fowling our biosphere.
I was explaining to a right winger the other day, about how honeybees pollinate thirty percent of the world's food crops, and that they were under threat from pollution and parasites. He said, "Thirty percent? That's not that much."
