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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 35.7486, -106.0314

Estimated forage here is better than about 34% of sites in New Mexico. Spring, summer and fall all rank about the same against other New Mexico sites. Nearest mapped water: mapped stream or canal (may be dry in late summer), 0.17 mi N.

Ranking

  • Continental US: 11th percentile (spring 34th, summer 21st, fall 56th)
  • New Mexico: 34th percentile (spring 43rd, summer 41st, fall 40th)
  • Arizona/New Mexico Plateau: 52nd percentile (spring 76th, summer 53rd, fall 32nd)

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

Season

  • First forage: Mar 1 — Dandelion, Native wildflowers
  • Main flow: Apr 16 to Jun 30 — Clovers: white, alsike and red, Spring-flowering shrubs, Dandelion
  • Fall flow: Jul 16 to Sep 30 — Rabbitbrush, Green/yellow rabbitbrush, Dandelion
  • Season ends: Oct 31

What the honey would be made of

  • Spring honey (March to June): Clovers: white, alsike and red, Dandelion, Spring-flowering shrubs, Native wildflowers; light amber
  • Summer honey (July and August): Rabbitbrush, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Dandelion, Spotted and diffuse knapweed; light amber
  • Fall honey (September to November): Rabbitbrush, Green/yellow rabbitbrush, Rubber rabbitbrush, Dandelion; dark amber
  • Whole season (March to November): Clovers: white, alsike and red, Dandelion, Spring-flowering shrubs, Native wildflowers; light amber

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.