Nectar flow in Yucatán, Mexico
This week
Strong flow70 · rising · Medium confidence
In flower: Sage and rosemary
Next month: Sunflower, Acacia, and Squash
Read at the region's reference point (21.00, -89.60). The flow changes with altitude and distance: open the map at your own apiary.
Through the year here
The strongest flow is in June and November–January.
What flowers, month by month
- January
- Sage and rosemary and Chaste tree
- February
- Sage and rosemary and Cotton
- March
- Sage and rosemary and Chaste tree
- April
- Sage and rosemary, Sunflower, Chaste tree, and Neem
- May
- Cotton, Sage and rosemary, Chaste tree, and Neem
- June
- Sage and rosemary and Chaste tree
- July
- Sage and rosemary and Sunflower
- August
- Sage and rosemary and Chaste tree
- September
- Sage and rosemary, Jujube (sidr), Cotton, and Chaste tree
- October
- Sage and rosemary
- November
- Sage and rosemary, Sunflower, Acacia, and Squash
- December
- Sage and rosemary
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