French Bees Produce Blue and Green Honey

jones_supa writes "Since August, beekeepers around the town of Ribeauville in the region of Alsace, France have seen their bees starting to produce honey in an odd blue or green color. Mystified, the beekeepers embarked on an investigation and discovered that a biogas plant 4 km away has been processing waste from a plant producing colorful M&M candies. Subsequently the bees had been carrying the waste to their nests. Agrivalor, the company operating the biogas plant, said it had tried to address the problem after being notified of it by the beekeepers. 'We discovered the problem at the same time they did. We quickly put in place a procedure to stop it,' told Philippe Meinrad, co-manager of Agrivalor."

Comments

Video (with pics)

[Anonymous Coward]

The BBC has video, where you can actually see it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19840555

Re:Video (with pics)

[alexhs]

There also are photos from a local newspaper (if you use noscript, allow www.lalsace.fr, there are 12 photos, not only one).

Google Image in French has a few others.
I like the green one.

Also, this is not innocuous, as the queen bees have stopped to lay eggs due to the unusual food (source in French).

Finally, clickable link for the BBC video, for the lazy :)

(Aside note : Slashdot also removes UTF-8 in URLs, I had to use %E9 instead of é.)

Re:why no pics?

[innocent_white_lamb]

Pics:

http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/colourful-honey-france.jpg

http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/colourful-honey.jpg

http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/green-honey-france.jpg

From this article:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/05/french-beekeepers-blame-mms-candy-for-mysterious-blue-and-green-honey/