UK Beekeepers And Scientists Tackle Sticky Problem Of Honey Fraud

Beekeeper Lynne Ingram tends to a hive in Somerset (Credit: AFP)

Lynne Ingram cuts a peaceful figure as she tends to a row of humming beehives in a leafy corner of Somerset, southwest England.

But the master beekeeper, who has been keeping hives for more than 40 years, has found herself in a fight against a tricky and evolving foe -- honey fraudsters.