How do Honey Bees process poison?

 Here's an interesting question:- Carol asked me (“Hi, Carol!”) about Aconites: why some had suddenly popped up in her garden, and whether the honey from them would be poisonous.

 Carol is talking about Aconitum, and the usual garden ones would be Aconitum napellus, or Aconitum carmichaelii: the common names of which include Wolfsbane (because it was reputed to be fatal to wolves, which were more of a pest back in medieval times than they are today), and Monkshood (because the shape of the flowers looks a wee bit like the hood of a monk, assuming it was a liberated order who wore shades of blue instead of the traditional brown, black or grey)......

 

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