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Anna Featherstone
Our bees are enjoying a colourful, all-natural pollen feast this month

Our bees are enjoying a colourful, all-natural pollen feast this month

Do you remember the story of the French bees from the town of Ribeauville? Back in 2012 they got stuck into waste shells from coloured M&M’s (yes, the chocolates!) that were being processed at a nearby biogas factory. The bees’ quick sugar fix turned their honey all shades of weird including blue and green, as you can see in the photo from National Geographic here. But the photo you can see with our post here, was taken this week, and is of some stunning coloured, all-natural pollen that our bees have been collecting from ground flora, different weeds and shrubs....

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