Question

What is swarming in honey bees?

Answer 1

1. When a hive gets over-crowed, the old queen leaves the hive with some drones and workers and establishes a new hive at some other place.
2. A worker of old hive now gets a royal jelly to become a fertile queen.
3. After 7 days, the new queen also leads a swarm.
4. It is followed by drones.
5. One of them copulates with her in air and dies. The queen returns to hive.