Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive.
Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.
To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.
To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.
To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.
a group of bees with a queen that has split away from a colony to fly off and establish itself in a new home; a natural method of propagation of the honeybee colony
The natural division of a bee colony.
colony of bees found outside the hive, may be absconding or in colony division.
be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries"
a big mass of bees the size of a basketball
a colony of bees clustered in the opening, not inside a hive box
a dispersal flight of winged termites to mate and begin new termite colonies
a dispersal flight of winged termites to start new colonies
a group of adults that leave their nest to establish a new colony
a group of bees that leave an existing hive when it becomes too crowded to set up home in a new location
a very large number of bees that leave a hive with the queen, usually due to overcrowding
A group of bees surrounding a queen bee in migration to establish a new colony.
A collection of bees, containing at least one queen that split apart from the mother colony to establish a new one; a natural method of propagation of honey bees.
the aggregate of worker bees, drones, and usually the old queen that leaves the parent colony to establish a new colony.
Swarm (Fritz von Meyer) is a fictional character, a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. His most notable feature is that his entire body is composed of bees.