How many foraging trips will a worker do in a day?

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Hi yesterday I observed a worker collecting nectar from the oregano 15 times from 3pm untill around 8ish she might of done it more definitely more!
I have three hives 30 metres from the garden two blacks and one tan queen she was a tan worker .
I’m interested to know if anyone has had the same observation.
 
How do you know it was the same bee?
Could of been her sister 😂 but I’m pretty sure it was the same bee just from looking at her markings should of caught her and marked her .
There is also only my hives up here and she was going back to the same hive .
 
How many trips a day? About one with this darned weather. Likely spend the majority of the day getting dried off and preparing to fly again!!!
 
10 trips as per that article sounds around the right number, though obviously if there is a great nectar source very close by it will be more.
Consider a hive with a forager leaving every second for 10hrs. That's 36000 trips. If they average 10 trips each it gives a foraging force of 3600 workers which seems about right, maybe a bit low, for a small-medium sized colony.
 
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