I think there is not much known, at least in comparison to honeybees and
some other bee species, about the foraging ranges of Bombus colonies.  If I
were trying to measure foraging range I'd tag or somehow mark all the
workers in a colony, and then spend many hours looking at bees on flowers in
the vicinity of the hive.
David Inouye
Rocky Mtn. Biological Laboratory
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