Observed arrival · 2026-09-19
Nectarcast, a forecast for the honey flow
A beekeeping tool that predicts when nectar flows will start at a particular apiary.
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- Beekeepers timing work at individual apiaries
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- Forecast thresholds use sixteen seasons of weather and can be refined by logging when each flow begins.
Field notes
The page explains growing degree days as accumulated warmth, with each day above roughly 10 °C contributing to the seasonal total. Its example compares a blackberry threshold across warm and cool seasons in north-west Tasmania, where the same 211-degree-day mark arrived thirty days apart. New sites may use anonymized nearby calibration, while apiary names, coordinates, and raw observations are described as private.
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