Bees make After Eight honey after eating mint fondant He said:"Usually the bees will find flowers from gardens, oil seed rape, limes trees, sycamore and chestnut as well as other meadow flowers. But this summer has been really naff with the rain and it has left the bee colonies starving because the summer flowers had not come out. Bees will search everywhere on reconnaissance flights and will travel up to three miles. Well, in this case one little guy has flown to the SugaRich plant about half-a-mile away and found this rich source of sugar and then returned and told all his fellow bees. When Mr Snowden first tasted the mint honey he was dumbfounded but he spotted which way the bees were flying from their hives and by tracing their flight path stumbled across them congregating around a skip. He said:"There was mint fondant leaking out of the skip and it was covered in bees and wasps. I'm not blaming SugaRich or the confectionary companies, you can't stop insects, I just think it is very unusual. Unfortunately Mr Snowden will not be selling the novel tasting honey. He said: "It's the damned aftertaste that spoils it. I'm going to keep a few jars, but I don't think I'll be having it on my toast. My main concern is that now the little bees know where the living is easy they will return next year to the same source, so I'm planning on moving the hives before next season and hopefully we will have a better summer. SugaRich, recycles waste from companies including Nestle, Cadbury, Mr Kipling, Kellogg's. The story echoes a case in France when apiaries in Alsace began producing honey in mysterious shades of blue and green. Keepers later discovered the colours came from residue from containers of M&Ms processed at a nearby plant. A spokesperson for Selby District Council environmental health said:"We were contacted by the beekeeper but it is a matter for DEFRA as it is concerned with animal feed."