It would be nice if all honey was inspected on the way in to the country. The illegal honey from China and a few other asian countries makes it difficult for US beekeepers to make a living and it subjects US consumers to a disturbing amount of antibiotics and chemicals.
The only way to be sure that what you are buying is actually honey, buy local. Most farmer’s markets have local honey available. Prices vary, but the flavor will be much richer than the imitation “honey”.
Tests Show Most Store Honey Isn’t Honey
Tests Show Most Store Honey Isn’t Honey. Ultra-filtering Removes Pollen, Hides Honey Origins. by Andrew Schneider | Nov 07, 2011. More than three-fourths of the honey sold in US grocery stores isn…
It seems that a researcher in Switzerland found that signals from cell phones might have a negative effect on a hive and deserves more extensive studies. The researcher theorizes that the electromagnetic fields cause the foragers and older bees to not return to the hive. Read the article.
Seems that the article/”research” has been debunked as lacking proper sources and validity.
It’s probably a good thing I never got around to installing the wireless temperature and humidity sensors in to the hives. If I ever finish building them, I’ll need to conduct my own experiment by not installing them in every hive.
A collaboration between the army and academia resulted in identifying that Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is caused by a fungus and a virus infecting the hive. It’s an interesting read and hopefully this leads to an effective way to prevent CCD.
Now, a unique partnership — of military scientists and entomologists — appears to have achieved a major breakthrough: identifying a new suspect, or two.
A fungus tag-teaming with a virus have apparently interacted to cause the problem, according to a paper by Army scientists in Maryland and bee experts in Montana in the online science journal PLoS One.
The New York Times has the full article.
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