Nectar flow in Sonora, Mexico
This week
Dearth6 · steady · Low confidence
A flow is expected to start in about 87 days
Next month: Phacelia, Goldenrod, and Milkvetch
Read at the region's reference point (29.83, -110.95). The flow changes with altitude and distance: open the map at your own apiary.
Through the year here
The strongest flow is in February–March.
Little or no nectar in October–December.
What flowers, month by month
- January
- Tamarisk and Acacia
- February
- Phacelia, Acacia, Sunflower, and Sweet clover
- March
- Phacelia, Sunflower, Sweet clover, and Acacia
- April
- Sunflower, Chaste tree, and Thistle
- May
- Sunflower, Chaste tree, Acacia, and Woundwort
- June
- Sunflower, Chaste tree, and Acacia
- August
- Sunflower, Woundwort, and Acacia
- September
- Cotton, Sage and rosemary, Sunflower, and Thistle
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