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Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Mon May 26, 14 8:48 pm Post subject: Propably a better sort of industrial waste...
But blue honey is a bit disturbing... https://sciencealert.com.au/news/20142405-25561.html

OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
Posts: 2737
Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Tue May 27, 14 5:28 am Post subject: Re: Propably a better sort of industrial waste...

Hairyloon wrote:

But blue honey is a bit disturbing...

https://sciencealert.com.au/news/20142405-25561.html

Not at all attractive - wonder if it has a similar side effect to eating beetroot?

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15965

Posted: Tue May 27, 14 6:18 am Post subject:

This isn't new. It has been reported in several places over the years. Bees will pick up any sweet substance, so the waste from any sweet factory is just a type of forage for them.

If you want bees on unlikely things, they also go for urine of any sort. I consulted a 16th century bee keeping book some years ago and they described urine as a 'physic' for the bees. They still go for it in the 21st century. Permission to go 'uuk'.

robkb

Joined: 29 May 2009
Posts: 4205
Location: SE London

Posted: Tue May 27, 14 9:35 am Post subject:

Mistress Rose wrote:

If you want bees on unlikely things, they also go for urine of any sort. I consulted a 16th century bee keeping book some years ago and they described urine as a 'physic' for the bees. They still go for it in the 21st century. Permission to go 'uuk'.

Permission granted. But at least I know how to attract bees to my allotment if the flowers fail

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46207
Location: yes

Posted: Wed May 28, 14 5:38 pm Post subject:

Mistress Rose wrote:

potassium salts in solution?

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15965

Posted: Thu May 29, 14 7:04 am Post subject:
Probably quite a lot of salts. They used to get phosphorus from urine, and nettles often mark old settlement sites because of the phosphates in the ground.

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