All three. The honey doesn't taste nice and you are best not to eat it anyway as there toxins in it. Studies have suggested that it doesn't make honey dangerous, but I still wouldn't want to eat a jar of it. There is a smell too, but I can't describe it. One colony of mine this summer turned much of their wax bright yellow at the same time as they were bringing in orange pollen. I was pretty sure which patch of waste ground they were heading for - quite near my home there is a disused railway station with lots of ragwort on the gravel areas.
The lady whose land has my heather site goes around pulling ragwort on her farm and I'm grateful for that.
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