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 38.0043, -108.0354

Estimated forage here is better than about 21% of sites in Colorado. Against other Colorado sites it ranks highest in summer (40th percentile) and lowest in fall (17th). Nearest mapped water: creek, wetland or wet meadow, 0.16 mi SW.

Ranking

Continental US: 18th percentile (spring 22nd, summer 55th, fall 51st)
Colorado: 21st percentile (spring 35th, summer 40th, fall 17th)
Southern Rockies: 29th percentile (spring 62nd, summer 30th, fall 21st)

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

Season

First forage: Mar 16 — Willows, Dandelion, Early trees (maple, willow, poplar)
Main flow: May 16 to Aug 15 — Summer-flowering shrubs, Snowberry, Spring-flowering shrubs
Fall flow: Sep 1 to Sep 15 — Snowberry, Summer-flowering shrubs
Season ends: Oct 31

What the honey would be made of

Spring honey (March to June): Spring-flowering shrubs, Native wildflowers, Summer-flowering shrubs, Dandelion; light amber
Summer honey (July and August): Summer-flowering shrubs, Snowberry, Native wildflowers, Spring-flowering shrubs; light amber
Fall honey (September to November): Snowberry, Summer-flowering shrubs, Spotted and diffuse knapweed, Fall wildflowers (goldenrod, aster); light amber
Whole season (March to November): Summer-flowering shrubs, Snowberry, Native wildflowers, Spring-flowering shrubs; light 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.