Honey bee forage in Airport Road Addition, Texas

When is the honey flow in Airport Road Addition?

• First forage: Jan 1 (dandelion, clovers: white, alsike and red)
• Main flow: Jan 1 to Apr 15, peaking early Feb (clovers: white, alsike and red, dandelion)
• Fall flow: May 1 to May 31 (clovers: white, alsike and red, dandelion, roadside weeds (clover, dandelion, sweet clover, mustard))
• Season ends: Dec 31

Forage available to a colony through the year at the center of Airport Road Addition, from what grows within flight range (about 3.7 miles) and when it blooms here. Dates are the model's estimate for a typical year; the spring index for this spot falls on Feb 7.

What the honey is made of

• Spring honey (March to June): clovers: white, alsike and red, dandelion, roadside weeds (clover, dandelion, sweet clover, mustard); extra light amber, likely to set over some months
• Summer honey (July and August): fall wildflowers (goldenrod, aster), clovers: white, alsike and red, cotton, dandelion; light amber, mixed: part of it sets quickly, part stays liquid
• Fall honey (September to November): fall wildflowers (goldenrod, aster), rabbitbrush, garden flowers; amber
• Whole season (March to November): clovers: white, alsike and red, dandelion, fall wildflowers (goldenrod, aster), roadside weeds (clover, dandelion, sweet clover, mustard); extra light amber, likely to set over some months

Nectar-source estimate (plants weighted by how much bees favor them), not a pollen analysis. Full honey estimate.

Bee crops within flight range

• Sorghum: about 7 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.4 mi SE, blooms early Apr – early May (grown 1 of the last 5 years)
• Cotton: about 3 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.5 mi S, blooms late May – early Jul (grown 2 of the last 5 years)
• Peas: about 1 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.6 mi W, blooms early Feb – late Mar (grown 1 of the last 5 years)

From USDA's crop maps for 2021–2025; fields rotate, so a crop counts by how often it was grown. Listing a field says nothing about its owner.

The land and water around Airport Road Addition

Mostly: Western Warm Temperate Pasture and Hayland; Tamaulipan Savanna Grassland; Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub.

Nearest mapped water: creek, wetland or wet meadow 0.18 mi SE; pond, lake or river 0.2 mi SE.

Things to watch

• Bee crops nearby that are often sprayed. Cotton: insecticides used on about 39% of surveyed US acres (2025); Squash: insecticides used on about 71% of surveyed US acres (2024). Figures are from USDA's Agricultural Chemical Use Survey, matched by crop type from the crop map. The survey counts any insecticide use in the crop year (not seed treatments) and doesn't say when; ask nearby growers about spray timing.

How Airport Road Addition ranks

Percentiles among 3,000 random land points in each region, scored the same way: land in general, not beekeepers' apiaries.

About 90% of the land here is scored with national averages for its vegetation type rather than measured plant cover, so the wild-plant part of this estimate is rougher than the crop part.

Nearby

Flowella 2 mi · Falfurrias 3 mi · Cantu Addition 4 mi · Premont 10 mi · Sarita 19 mi · Riviera 19 mi

All towns in Texas · National map · How the scoring works

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. The point is the Census Bureau's published center of Airport Road Addition (27.219, -98.0981); a yard a mile or two away can differ, so check your own spot. The FEMA flood map was not checked for this page. Benchmark 2026.5, built 2026-10-19. How this works · All sources.