Bee forage check

How good is this spot for honey bees?

Enter an address or tap the map. You'll see which bee plants and crops are within flight range (about 3.7 miles, with nearer land counting more), when the honey flow comes and when there's a dearth, nearby water, a few things worth checking, and how the spot ranks against random sites in your state and across the country.

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The colors are the national forage map: every square kilometer of the lower 48, scored the same way. See the honey flow for your state and town, the best and worst spots we found, or how the scoring works.

Forage report for 35.0971, -107.9057

Estimated forage here is better than about 27% of sites in New Mexico. Against other New Mexico sites it ranks highest in summer and fall (47th percentile) and lowest in spring (25th). Nearest mapped water: mapped stream or canal (may be dry in late summer), less than 0.1 mi away.

Ranking

Continental US: 9th percentile (spring 23rd, summer 24th, fall 61st)
New Mexico: 27th percentile (spring 25th, summer 47th, fall 47th)
Arizona/New Mexico Plateau: 43rd percentile (spring 46th, summer 62nd, fall 40th)

Percentile among 3,000 random land points across New Mexico, scored the same way; land in general, not beekeepers' yards.

Season

First forage: Mar 16 — Native wildflowers, Weedy mustards, Spring-flowering shrubs
Main flow: Apr 16 to Aug 31 — Spring-flowering shrubs, Summer-flowering shrubs, Native wildflowers
Fall flow: Sep 16 to Oct 31 — Green/yellow rabbitbrush, Rabbitbrush, Rubber rabbitbrush
Season ends: Oct 31

What the honey would be made of

Spring honey (March to June): Spring-flowering shrubs, Native wildflowers, Summer-flowering shrubs, Native wildflowers; light amber
Summer honey (July and August): Summer-flowering shrubs, Green/yellow rabbitbrush, Native wildflowers, Rabbitbrush; amber
Fall honey (September to November): Green/yellow rabbitbrush, Rabbitbrush, Rubber rabbitbrush, Fall wildflowers (goldenrod, aster); dark amber
Whole season (March to November): Spring-flowering shrubs, Summer-flowering shrubs, Native wildflowers, Green/yellow rabbitbrush; amber

Things to watch

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An estimate from public maps (USDA crop maps 2021-2025 averaged, LANDFIRE vegetation), not a survey of the ground. Maps can't see garden plantings, understory density, other beekeepers' hives, or this year's weather. Honey composition is a nectar-source estimate, not a pollen analysis. Benchmark 2026.5. How this works.