What’s old is new again. A Reddit post has gone viral for pointing out a fact that many North Carolinians already knew: The state has purple and blue honey, which is rare and not seen in other states.

As a Reddit post makes its internet rounds, teaching thousands about a purple-blue kind of honey that bees in North Carolina make, people are asking the same question: How can I get some of it? The ...

Purple honey, also known as blue honey, is shown on the left, with regular honey on the right. Purple honey is known to come from honeybees in the Sandhills of North Carolina, but local beekeepers and ...

Baby blue probably isn’t a color most shoppers expect to see in the honey aisle at their local supermarket. But that dissonance is exactly why Barkman Honey chose that color for its newly rebranded ...

About 20 students joined David Hoekstra, clinical assistant professor and UB Bees director, for a honey-jarring event on Sept. 30 in the Student Union. The honey comes from UB’s own backyard, from ...

Yet another sign that the end of the world is nigh: Recently a French beekeeper in Alsace found that his bees were producing honey in unnatural hues like blue and green. Genetic mutation? No — it ...

Q How do bees make honey? — Amelia Brown, Madison, Wis. A Johanne Brunet, professor of entomology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Most bee species do not make honey, but those that do, as you ...

Most bee species do not make honey, but those that do, as you might guess, are specifically called honey bees. They go into the center of flowers and collect nectar, a sugary water. Plants produce ...