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by cainxinth 164 days ago
In NYC, they found red honey which was coming from bees drinking at a maraschino cherry factory:

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/nyregion/30bigcity.html

Unrelated, but that led to the police finding a marijuana grow operation in the basement:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/nyregion/secret-marijuana...

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The New Yorker article about it also has some additional details: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/23/the-maraschino...
Perhaps this was not unrelated after all, as the bee detectives might have sensed the smell of the flowers.