- Reminds me of the "discovery" of synchronous fireflies in 1990:
>Scientists got wise to the presence of synchronous fireflies in the U.S. in the 1990’s, thanks to the efforts of Faust, a citizen naturalist. “Growing up in east Tennessee, we called them lightning bugs. They're just part of summer,” she says.
In the early 1990’s, Faust read an article in a science news magazine that said there were no synchronous fireflies in the Western Hemisphere. “I thought, ‘Ours are synchronous – who do I tell this to?’” she recalls.
She wrote a letter to researchers, who came to Tennessee and studied those fireflies for the next twenty years.
[src] https://www.npr.org/2024/05/24/g-s1-935/synchronous-fireflie...
There's a lot of stuff in the world that's unique and special, but isn't common knowledge on the internet. I think more people should go out and look around for themselves!
- Nice, looks tasty!
So, Kudzu?
Or Industrial waste like in France around 2012?
https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/blue-and-green-hon...
https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/blue-and-green-hon...
And on Banggi, a Malaysian island, there is supposedly green honey!
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361629042_Physicoch...
- any soft drink plants in the area? A bottler near where I used to stay got caught dumping out expired flavourant packs when honey in the area started turning red.
- Reminds me of the story about the red (and not great tasting) honey bees were making in Brooklyn... from sipping up liquid from the local maraschino cherry factory.
- Fun fact about North Carolina: Venus Fly Traps only grow naturally within about a 75-mile radius around Wilmington, NC.
- There’s a hopefully unrelated concept called purple urine bag syndrome I have seen. Not completely understood either but this paper thinks due to a combination of dietary tryptophan breakdown from constipation and colonic E coli load, urinary bacteria, and reaction with the plastic tubing of the catheter and bag.
- Is there an M&M plant nearby???
https://www.npr.org/2012/10/05/162347192/the-last-word-in-bu...
- Why hasn’t the honey been tested, if this has happened for such a long time?
I’d bet on some kind of contamination as others have already mentioned.
- Wasn't there also drug honey a few weeks ago?
Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45803097
We also got blue honey ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32801032 ) and cannabis honey ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11221651 )
- The book "All the Colors of the Dark" has a plot line around rare purple honey being a sort of treasure map to a place in North Carolina. I thought it was an odd made-up plot point.
I guess it turns out it was not.
Despite not liking that part of the plot, it was a beautifully written book, that permanently changed some of my reading habit's.
- Funny story: I came across some money and instead of buying Bitcoin (which at the time was selling for ~$30) I bought 6 big pails of honey from a local farm. Honey never goes bad, and during an economic collapse it would easily have the same value as Bitcoin.
I ended up eating all of it in a year instead.
- These effects can arise from much more mundane sources.
https://www.npr.org/2012/10/05/162347192/the-last-word-in-bu...
- Here's an article from 2010 I submitted a few years ago along with other links I was able to dig up at the time:
- And bees can also make radioactive honey:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/23/honey-nuclea...
- Just a couple days ago I was able to try white honey from Montana. I don’t believe there is any rarity to it but it was new to me and tasted great.
- If it's in North Carolina, maybe it's Cheerwine.