BeeRadar.

A live flight map for honeybees. Watch simulated foraging flights leave the hives, where they go, how fast they fly and what's in flower, minute by minute.

Open the live map

Running for the hives at Rose Farm, Moore. Works on phones too.

A pencil-drawn hive with bees following curving flight paths
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What you can see

Flight-tracking tool

Track every simulated foraging trip the way a flight radar tracks planes: flight ID, destination, height and speed. Follow one bee, or look up any flight by its ID.

BZ1-00042

Speeds in mph

Outbound and homebound speeds, slowed by heavy loads and pushed by the wind.

OUTBOUND / HOMEBOUND

Land and flowers

Crops, woodland, hedgerows, gardens and water within 3 km, and what's in flower this month.

NECTAR / POLLEN

Weather and pollen

Live weather sets when bees can fly; daily pollen counts with Met Office bands.

The 2026 season

Replay the hottest, wettest and best flying days, compare 2026 with the 2016–25 average, and line up each year since 2012 against official honey survey figures.

Search any postcode

Drop a pin and see how far it is from the hives, what grows there and how many bees visit.

Flat map or 3D

Opens on a clean flat map; tap 3D for Google's photorealistic 3D view.

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How it works

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    Map the land

    OpenStreetMap, the Forestry Commission tree map and the RPA crop map score every ~40 m square for nectar and pollen by month.

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    Add the weather

    Hourly temperature, rain, wind and sunshine decide how many foragers fly.

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    Fly the bees

    Each flight picks a destination by forage value and distance, then flies a realistic path at measured honeybee speeds.

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Who it helps

Beekeepers

See your apiary the way your bees do.

  • Know your forage: what's in flower within 3 km each month, and where the gaps are, so you know what to plant or where a second apiary might do better.
  • Read the season: flying hours, rain and a nectar-weather index show when bees could work and when a drought likely dried up the flow, so you check stores sooner.
  • Compare years: put your own harvest next to the BBKA North West survey averages and the weather of each year, to see whether a poor crop was the weather or something in the hive.
  • Explain bees to others: show neighbours, customers and farmers how far the bees travel and which crops and hedges they work.

Researchers, students and teachers

A transparent model you can question.

  • Every assumption is written down: flight speeds, foraging ranges and flower calendars come from published studies, and every data source is linked in the map's Sources tab.
  • Explore foraging distance against landscape and season, the pattern waggle-dance studies record (bees fly further in summer when forage runs short).
  • Year-by-year table: modelled flying weather from ECMWF ERA5 for 2012–2026 alongside BBKA honey survey yields and Defra's national honey production, with the sources for each figure.
  • Repeatable: the same flight ID on the same day always replays the same trip, so results can be shared and checked.
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Coming soon

Coming soon

Add your own hives

Drop a pin for your apiary and get the flight map, forage and season for your own bees. Hive locations won't be shown publicly.

Coming soon

Find the best spot for a hive

Check foraging before you move bees. Compare possible sites side by side: what's in flower within 3 km month by month, where the gaps fall in the season, and how far the bees would have to fly. Try a few spots and see which gives the steadiest flow.