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Swarming is gathering of the bees from one colony in search of the new home.  It is usually half of the bees leaving with the old queen and the other half stays with the new one.  Beekeepers usually try to prevent swarming with removing queen cells.  Swarming happens mostly during spring and summer, and it is thought to happen because of overcrowding in the hive, meaning if there are too many bees.  It will happen if there is no space for the bees to store any more honey or there is no more space for the queen to lay eggs.  There may be another thing here beside overcrowding and that's frame placement.  There must be certain order of how frames are placed, otherwise it would be like if there is no place for brood rearing even if that is not true.  Just before swarming workers start building a lot of queen cells.  Then, when the time comes for new queen to take over, foraging is stopped and the bees wait for old queen to take them away.  Then, bees find suitable tree just a few yards away and gather in cluster.  Few scout bees start looking for a suitable place to build new home. When appropriate place is found, all of them move to it.  So swarming also represents a natural way for the bees to develop and multiply. 

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