Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina
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#3Nice, looks tasty!
So, Kudzu?
Or Industrial waste like in France around 2012?
https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/blue-and-green-hon...
https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/blue-and-green-hon...
And on Banggi, a Malaysian island, there is supposedly green honey!
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361629042_Physicoch...
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#4Reminds me of the "discovery" of synchronous fireflies in 1990:
>Scientists got wise to the presence of synchronous fireflies in the U.S. in the 1990’s, thanks to the efforts of Faust, a citizen naturalist. “Growing up in east Tennessee, we called them lightning bugs. They're just part of summer,” she says.
In the early 1990’s, Faust read an article in a science news magazine that said there were no synchronous fireflies in the Western Hemisphere. “I thought, ‘Ours are synchronous – who do I tell this to?’” she recalls.
She wrote a letter to researchers, who came to Tennessee and studied those fireflies for the next twenty years.
[src] https://www.npr.org/2024/05/24/g-s1-935/synchronous-fireflie...
There's a lot of stuff in the world that's unique and special, but isn't common knowledge on the internet. I think more people should go out and look around for themselves!
Re: Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina
#5These effects can arise from much more mundane sources.
https://www.npr.org/2012/10/05/162347192/the-last-word-in-bu...
Re: Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina
#6Reminds me of the "discovery" of synchronous fireflies in 1990: >Scientists got wise to the presence of synchronous fireflies in the U.S. in the 1990’s, thanks to the efforts of Faust, a citizen naturalist. “Growing up in east Tennessee, we called them lightning bugs. They're just part of summer,” she says. In the early 1990’s, Faust read an article in a science news magazine that said there were no synchronous firef…
I didn't realize all fireflies didn't tend to synchronized. Fun read. Fireflies are one of the only "bugs" from the south that I miss. Cicadas, I suppose, have a bit of a soft spot with me. Everything else... nope.
Re: Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina
#7any soft drink plants in the area? A bottler near where I used to stay got caught dumping out expired flavourant packs when honey in the area started turning red.
Re: Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina
#8any soft drink plants in the area? A bottler near where I used to stay got caught dumping out expired flavourant packs when honey in the area started turning red.
oh great... grape flavored honey...
Re: Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina
#9any soft drink plants in the area? A bottler near where I used to stay got caught dumping out expired flavourant packs when honey in the area started turning red.
A bit of digging, and it turns out there's a Coca-cola bottler in Aberdeen, the same area as Dees Bees Apiary. I'm willing to bet that purple honey coincides with grape Fanta spills or dumps
Re: Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina
#10These effects can arise from much more mundane sources. https://www.npr.org/2012/10/05/162347192/the-last-word-in-bu...
Similarly: "The Mystery of the Red Bees of Red Hook"