- Google search words
- date
- location
I picked my "honey bee season" search words and time range in a trial-and-error manner and arrived at these choices:
Google Trends search words & why
- "bee removal" - surrounded by quotes, this filters for these two words in this order. Here I'm using this as a surrogate for the "bloom season" or "honey bee season" and trying to avoid other Google searches which include the "bee" search word (for example, spelling bee).
Google Trends time range & why
- 5 year range - accumulates search results into weekly bins which reduces noise
Viewed at United States scale, Arizona, California, Florida, Texas and Nevada are top contributors to these Google search words. These data points are noisy with the lowest number of Google searches at the start of each year. I used a triangle (saw tooth) curve fit as dashed lines and the peak signal date appears on the graph.
I choose 4 states that are located in the eastern third of the continent, which stack more or less south-to-north and which have sufficient data points to analyze. State based data points are even more noisy than the combined states data points. I set my noise concerns aside and fit each year using my triangle curve method. In general and consistent with the south-to-north bloom calendar, Georgia or North Carolina peak first and Pennsylvania or Michigan peak last.
Georgia | North Carolina | Pennsylvania | Michigan |
---|---|---|---|
April 1, 2017 | August 26, 2017 | August 12, 2017 | August 19, 2017 |
June 30, 2018 | July 28, 2018 | September 2, 2018 | August 19, 2018 |
April 6, 2019 | April 20, 2019 | September 7, 2019 | August 18, 2019 |
May 10, 2020 | April 4, 2020 | August 22, 2020 | August 22, 2020 |
(week number) | (week number) | (week number) | (week number) |
13 | 34 | 32 | 33 |
26 | 30 | 36 | 34 |
14 | 16 | 36 | 34 |
20 | 14 | 34 | 34 |
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