The swarm that has no boss
When a honeybee colony outgrows its hive, roughly half the bees leave with the old queen in a swarm. They land in a cluster, on a tree branch, a wall, a fence post, and wait. The queen does nothing. She does not scout. She does not choose. The decision about where the colony will live next falls entirely to a few hundred scout bees, and they must reach a conclusion within hours or days before the cluster starves or gets picked off by a predator.
