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> Generally 'wild' colonies tend to spread themselves about half a mile apart. 

This may be true for Apis mellifera (maybe) but it isn't true of Apis dorsata. 

> The giant honeybees Apis dorsata are habituated to construct combs in trees, houses, caves as well as in overhead water reservoir occurring in their nesting localities. As the bees constructed more than 100–200 nests at the same nesting site e.g., a tree or/and an overhead water reservoir, depending upon the availability of space for construction of nest it is concluded that these insects prefer colonial nesting.

Misra, T. K., Pahari, S., Murmu, S., & Raut, S. K. (2017, December). Nesting Behaviour of the Giant Honeybees Apis dorsata Occurring in Jhargram, West Bengal, India. In Proceedings of the Zoological Society (Vol. 70, No. 2, pp. 194-200). 

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