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Which came first, the chicken or the egg? :scratch: :lookout:
One way to look at your situation is that a colony of bees is a superorganism. That is, forget that there are individual bees and think of the colony as a living animal. Once an animal has adequate food, what is the next thing it wants to do?
The answer would be ... uhhh
... reproduce. :thumbsup::thumbsup:
Swarming is the way a colony reproduces itself. That is always the goal of the colony.
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Which came first, the chicken or the egg? :scratch: :lookout:
One way to look at your situation is that a colony of bees is a superorganism. That is, forget that there are individual bees and think of the colony as a living animal. Once an animal has adequate food, what is the next thing it wants to do?
The answer would be ... uhhh
Swarming is the way a colony reproduces itself. That is always the goal of the colony.