- This article is about swarms in biology. For other uses of the term, see Swarm (disambiguation).
The term swarm (schooling or swarming) is applied to fish, birds and insects and describes a behavior of an aggregation (school) of animals of similar size and body orientation,
generally cruising in the same direction.
Swarming of honeybees is a more specific term, referring
to the reproductive action of an entire colony of bees (as opposed to the
reproduction of single bees); see Queen bee and Honeybee life cycle.
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