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swarming

process by which a new honey bee colony is formed
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Summary

swarming ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (397 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • swarming is a type of animal behavior[2].
  • swarming is a type of swarm behaviour[3].
  • swarming's Commons category is recorded as Swarms of insects[4].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include animal behavior[2] and swarm behaviour[3].

Why It Matters

swarming ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (397 views/month).[1] swarming has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[5] swarming is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[6]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 11d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ba', 'bg', 'ckb', 'commons', 'cs', 'cv', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', '
    Harper's tag → swarming
    Subclass of → animal behavior, swarm behaviour
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: swarming, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289961005|swarming (#289961005)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
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