Honey bee forage zone - 3km view per your apiary

[Finman]

Most of the bee books, going back years, say "bee will forage up to 3 miles".
Now we say 3 km.
1 mile = 1.609344 kilometres.
Sound to me the average distances bees will forage is 3 km.
But they will go up to 4.6 km.
And may be more if no food around.

But if you read researches, they tell something else.

It is not so as you write Mosquito. If you want records, you are right but if you want honey as a beekeeper, those records have no value.

Please, read here http://www.lasi.group.shef.ac.uk/pdf/rbeeimpr2000.pdf

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