A LiveScience.com article, today, reports on the results of honey bees attracted to colorful sugary waste rather than wildflowers for nectar.
Near Ribeauvillé, France, local bees have acquired a taste for processed sugars at a biogas plant that processes waste from a nearby Mars chocolate factory, where M&M candies are made. With dyes from the processed sugars turning their honey blue and green, though, the beekeepers can't sell their honey. Apparently it still tastes like honey, but they consider it something completely different. The planned solution is to keep the waste M&Ms better contained so that the bees can no longer get to them.
Watch for "designer" honey products based on this principle in the future.
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