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A comment on Black Beekeepers Are Transforming Detroit’s Vacant Lots into Bee Farms (2018).

Re:Black Beekeepers Are Transforming Detroit’s Vacant Lots i... by robocat on Monday August 12, 2019 @06:54PM (#20680969)
Are there any dangerous substances in an urban environment that are picked up by bees and that would end up in the honey?
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Re:Black Beekeepers Are Transforming Detroit’s Vacant Lots i... by Zenst on Monday August 12, 2019 @10:10PM (#20682181)
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...

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Re:Black Beekeepers Are Transforming Detroit’s Vacant Lots i... by whalesalad on Monday August 12, 2019 @08:10PM (#20681504)
No more than the dangerous shit that all of us are taking in constantly living in the same environments.
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Re:Black Beekeepers Are Transforming Detroit’s Vacant Lots i... by egocodedinsol on Monday August 12, 2019 @10:12PM (#20682190)
I'm not sure that logic holds - swimming in the ocean isn't the same as eating swordfish with respect to mercury, for instance.
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Re:Black Beekeepers Are Transforming Detroit’s Vacant Lots i... by adrianN on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @07:34AM (#20684709)
You're forgetting bio-accumulation.
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Re:Black Beekeepers Are Transforming Detroit’s Vacant Lots i... by IfOnlyYouKnew on Monday August 12, 2019 @10:56PM (#20682396)
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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