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As a beekeeper this challenge was an easy one. My bees are always “gathering” for social/work reasons. An extreme gathering is called a “swarm”–that’s when there are two queens in the main hive and one of them leaves, taking with her thousands of other bees to another location, in this case, an oak tree about 30-feet from their former home. Several beekeeping friends estimated that this swarm involved about 15,000 bees.

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