Discussion of Bee Biology,[log in to unmask],Internet writes:
>selecting a home-site
 
      When a swarm decides to move from its cluster location to a new home,
the bees are doing something ( making a group decision  ) that none of them
have ever done before.  I watch this process with fascination.
      On two occasions last spring, I was able to station myself right in
front of the empty hive body that a swarm from my own colonies chose to move
into.  My head was only two feet from the entrance when the swarm arrived to
land on me and on the hive body.  Once, I saw the queen enter the hive body
although I did not see her land on it (and I was looking for her arrival!)
The bees took no interest in me.
Tim
Tim Sterrett
Westtown, (Southeastern) Pennsylvania, USA
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