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New honeybee colonies are formed when queen bees leave the colony with a large group of worker bees, a process called "swarming." The first or prime swarm generally goes with the old queen. As soon as the swarm is established as a new colony, the bees raise a new queen, or sometimes a replacement virgin queen is already present in the swarm. Afterswarms are usually smaller and are accompanied by one or more virgin queens. ...
Ãâó: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarming_(honeybee)
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Movement from one area to another by large numbers of one species of animal, especially grasshoppers.
Ãâó: www.sdvc.uwyo.edu/grasshopper/ghnmglos.htm
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Mating behaviour in honey bees and some kinds of ants. Winged males and queens mate outside the colony and then the queens found a new colony.
Ãâó: wlapwww.gov.bc.ca/epd/ipm/docs/glos.html
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group of a large number of individals from the same species flying together. Swarming is very often a prelude to mating.
Ãâó: www.impact-malaria.com/FR/EPS/Formations_et_cours_...
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The natural process of a colony to multiply through the departure of a part of the bee population with a queen and some drones, who in turn will establish a new nest.
Ãâó: www.agf.gov.bc.ca/apiculture/factsheets/102_terms....
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