Three feet or three miles - really?

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Really? I thought that in the season, when bees have a lifespan of about 6 weeks, they only spent the last 1/3 of that foraging- so although they would have some very local knowledge from orientation flights, I wouldn't have expected that to be more than a few yards. Or are you specificcally referring to moving hives within an apiary?

Yes - i think Finman was thinking Bees as a single entity i.e. the colony's 'memory' is six weeks long - after six weeks there are no bees alive who lived at the original location