Nectar flow in Chihuahua, Mexico
This week
Strong flow86 · falling · Medium confidence
In flower: Sage and rosemary, Sunflower, and Woundwort
Read at the region's reference point (28.64, -106.07). The flow changes with altitude and distance: open the map at your own apiary.
Through the year here
The strongest flow is in April–October.
What flowers, month by month
- January
- Sweet clover, Phacelia, Sage and rosemary, and Sunflower
- February
- Milkvetch
- March
- Milkvetch, Sweet clover, and Acacia
- April
- Dandelion, Clover, Sunflower, and Coriander
- May
- Sweet clover, Dandelion, Chaste tree, and Acacia
- June
- Sunflower, Alfalfa, Chaste tree, and Tree of heaven
- July
- Sunflower and Squash
- August
- Sunflower, Sage and rosemary, and Clover
- September
- Sunflower, Sage and rosemary, and Woundwort
- October
- Sage and rosemary, Sunflower, and Woundwort
- November
- Sunflower, Sage and rosemary, Phacelia, and Sweet clover
- December
- Sage and rosemary, Sweet clover, Phacelia, and Alfalfa
Beekeeping rules in Mexico
Every year you must requeen each colony with a European-origin or genetically improved queen, marking her thorax with that year's color (0/5 blue, 1/6 white, 2/7 yellow, 3/8 red, 4/9 green), replace any rustic hives with modern movable-frame hives, and wear light-colored protective clothing (NOM-002-SAG/GAN-2016, 4.2-4.4, 6.2.2).
In control zones your apiaries must be at least 200 m from populated places and main roads (or the distance set by state law), you may be asked to help capture swarms, any swarm you keep must be requeened with a queen from an approved breeder, and you cannot use honey in the candy for queen cages (6.2.1, 4.6-4.7).
All of Mexico's beekeeping rules