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Are there any dangerous substances in an urban environment that are picked up by bees and that would end up in the honey?


Honey that bees have harvested from Rhododendron nectar would be one I know of and is recorded in history as the first ever chemical weapon.

Highly recommend this fascinating article about the subject: https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/hidden-poison-rhododendro...


No more than the dangerous shit that all of us are taking in constantly living in the same environments.


I'm not sure that logic holds - swimming in the ocean isn't the same as eating swordfish with respect to mercury, for instance.


You're forgetting bio-accumulation.


No. The pollen is digested by the bees, which end up with all the gunk accumulating in their bodies.

Honey from cities tends to also taste better than rural, because the variety of flowers is far higher.




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