| Dates |
25/06/15–06/07/15 |
11/07/15–16/07/15 |
23/07/15–06/08/15 |
21/08/15–03/09/15 |
| Total days |
12 |
6 |
15 |
14 |
| Track days |
10 |
6 |
8 |
7 |
| Total flights |
156 |
31 |
26 |
31 |
| Explorations preceding 1st exploitation flight |
3 |
5 |
6 |
8 |
| Total number of exploitation flights |
142 |
7 |
17 |
16 |
| Proportion of flights that were exploitation |
0.91 |
0.23 |
0.65 |
0.52 |
| Flights/day (Mean ± sd) |
15.6 ± 8.8 |
5.2 ± 1.9 |
3.3 ± 0.9 |
4.4 ± 3.2 |
| Flight duration (min:sec, Mean ± sd) |
35:56 ± 119:41 |
133:10 ± 255:26 |
169:53 ± 205:33 |
31:59 ± 20:42 |
| Time in flight (min:sec, Mean ± sd) |
1:27 ± 2:15 |
3:43 ± 3:35 |
7:09 ± 10:52 |
2:32 ± 1:35 |
| Time between flights (min:sec, Mean ± sd) |
1:01 ± 1:14 |
25:44 ± 59:41 |
5:35 ± 14:46 |
26:14 ± 40:15 |
| Flight distance (m, Mean ± sd) |
442 ± 493 |
1362 ± 1366 |
1661 ± 2478 |
825 ± 485 |
| Max distance from nest (m, Mean ± sd) |
179 ± 71 |
217 ± 120 |
168 ± 72 |
257 ± 125 |
| Number of nights bee did not return to nest |
2 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
| Number of flights during which we made observations |
0 |
7 |
4 |
2 |
| Number of thistle patches bee observed in |
0 |
15 |
12 |
2 |
| Number of marked thistles |
0 |
50 |
34 |
4 |
