Honey bee forage in Brundage, Texas

When is the honey flow in Brundage?

• First forage: Jan 1 (roadside weeds (clover, dandelion, sweet clover, mustard), dandelion, native wildflowers)
• Main flow: Feb 1 to Apr 30, peaking late Feb (roadside weeds (clover, dandelion, sweet clover, mustard), summer-flowering trees (locust, linden), summer-flowering shrubs)
• Dearth: Jun 16 to Jun 30
• Season ends: Dec 31

Forage available to a colony through the year at the center of Brundage, 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 13.

What the honey is made of

• Spring honey (March to June): roadside weeds (clover, dandelion, sweet clover, mustard), summer-flowering trees (locust, linden), summer-flowering shrubs, clovers: white, alsike and red; extra light amber, mixed: part of it sets quickly, part stays liquid
• Summer honey (July and August): rabbitbrush, fall wildflowers (goldenrod, aster), garden flowers, roadside weeds (clover, dandelion, sweet clover, mustard); amber, mixed: part of it sets quickly, part stays liquid
• Fall honey (September to November): rabbitbrush, fall wildflowers (goldenrod, aster), garden flowers; dark amber
• Whole season (March to November): roadside weeds (clover, dandelion, sweet clover, mustard), summer-flowering trees (locust, linden), summer-flowering shrubs, rabbitbrush; extra light amber, mixed: part of it sets quickly, part stays liquid

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 48 acres in a typical year, nearest 1 mi W, blooms late Apr – late May (grown 1 of the last 5 years)
• Canola: about 5 acres in a typical year, nearest 1.8 mi NW, blooms early Mar – late Apr (grown 1 of the last 5 years)
• Watermelons: about 3 acres in a typical year, nearest 1 mi W, blooms early Apr – late Jul (grown 1 of the last 5 years)
• Cotton: about 4 acres in a typical year, nearest 1 mi W, blooms late May – late Jul (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 Brundage

Mostly: Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub; Great Plains Comanchian Ruderal Shrubland; Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub.

Nearest mapped water: creek, wetland or wet meadow 0.48 mi NE; mapped stream or canal (may be dry in late summer) 0.49 mi NE.

Things to watch

• Bee crops nearby that are often sprayed. Watermelons: insecticides used on about 38% of surveyed US acres (2024); Cotton: insecticides used on about 39% of surveyed US acres (2025). 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 Brundage ranks

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

About 91% 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

Big Wells 6 mi · Chula Vista 10 mi · Asherton 10 mi · Carrizo Hill 11 mi · Carrizo Springs 12 mi · Crystal City 12 mi

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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. The point is the Census Bureau's published center of Brundage (28.574, -99.6701); 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.