How far do bees fly

We have two hives at Goldsmiths, they are placed at a little piece of land that's quite wild. At the moment there are no plants on Goldsmiths ground that are planted especially for the bees but these bees have a very good foraging source due to the amount of back gardens and parks in the neighborhood.


On an average flight, bees will fly one mile (back and forth). You can see what they can reach in the two pictures below. The scale is different in these two pictures but the circle shows a distance of half a mile.

  
The furthest a bee will fly is 5 miles (back and forth), the red circles below show a distance of 2.5 mile. They can even fly to Greenwich, Southwark, Deptford and Peckham Rye Park!