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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 42.4064, -105.3871

Estimated forage here is better than about 23% of sites in Wyoming. Against other Wyoming sites it ranks highest in spring (48th percentile) and lowest in fall (1st). Nearest mapped water: mapped stream or canal (may be dry in late summer), 0.19 mi SE.

Ranking

  • Continental US: 13th percentile (spring 11th, summer 45th, fall 52nd)
  • Wyoming: 23rd percentile (spring 48th, summer 43rd, fall 1st)
  • Southern Rockies: 19th percentile (spring 38th, summer 20th, fall 22nd)

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

Season

  • First forage: Apr 16 — Native wildflowers, Dandelion, Spring-flowering shrubs
  • Main flow: May 16 to Aug 15 — Summer-flowering shrubs, Native wildflowers, Spring-flowering shrubs
  • Fall flow: Sep 1 to Sep 15 — Summer-flowering shrubs, Fall wildflowers (goldenrod, aster)
  • Season ends: Oct 31

What the honey would be made of

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