December 18, 2010
Ugh...Honey? Uh, I Mean Bees! Red!??

New York City beekeeper Cerise (seh-REEZ') Mayo was puzzled when her bees started showing up with mysterious red coloring. Their honey also turned as red as cough syrup.

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I cannot wait for my house in the country so I can have my small bee colony!

Posted by Ellen at December 18, 2010 12:29 PM

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The problem, as usual, is that the animals have a different set of priorities than the humans that try to "help" them. As far as the bees are concerned, they've stumbled upon the world's biggest jackpot of high energy food, one that doesn't even have predators lurking around it like flowers often do, and given how most animals live in a state of nearly continuous starvation, they probably wouldn't care less that it's red even if their eyes worked the same way as ours.

Posted by: Tatterdemalian on December 18, 2010 04:15 PM
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