bee swarm
Buzzing insect cluster
A bee swarm is a large cluster of honeybees that has left a hive with a queen to establish a new colony.
The bees gather in a dense, hanging mass—often on a tree branch—while scouts search for a permanent home.
Swarms look alarming but are typically docile since the bees have no hive to defend: A bee swarm settled in our backyard oak.
- hiveBee dwelling structure
- buzzingLow vibrating hum
- colonyDependent territorial settlement
- honeyBees' viscous nectar product
- queenMost powerful chess piece
buzzing sound · drones · workers · cluster · migration · sting · hive mind · nectar · apiary · flight · humming · pollen · flower garden · beekeeper · cloud · branch · exodus · tree branch
- Swarms
- bug encountersmosquito bite, ant bite, wasp sting, bug bite, tick bite
- animal coloniesrookery, nesting colony, breeding colony, seabird colony, penguin colony
- group behaviorflocking, herding, schooling, murmuration, shoaling
- insect behaviormating, nesting, pollination, metamorphosis, molting
- animal behaviorsswimming, running, walking, jumping, flying