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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 35.9037, -109.0309

Estimated forage here is better than about 69% of sites in New Mexico. Against other New Mexico sites it stands out most in summer (85th percentile) and lowest in fall (61st). Nearest mapped water: mapped stream or canal (may be dry in late summer), 0.16 mi SW.

Ranking

  • Continental US: 25th percentile (spring 45th, summer 43rd, fall 70th)
  • New Mexico: 69th percentile (spring 62nd, summer 85th, fall 61st)
  • Arizona/New Mexico Mountains: 88th percentile (spring 69th, summer 92nd, fall 87th)

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 — Dandelion
  • Main flow: Apr 16 to Jul 15 — Clovers: white, alsike and red, Dandelion
  • Fall flow: Aug 1 to Sep 30 — Dandelion, Green/yellow rabbitbrush, Spotted and diffuse knapweed
  • Season ends: Oct 31

What the honey would be made of

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