When a honeybee colony outgrows its hive it makes a genuinely democratic decision: scout bees fly out, inspect possible new homes, and ‘campaign’ for their favourite with waggle dances, lobbying harder for better sites — and only once enough scouts have converged on the same spot does the whole swarm lift off together, almost always choosing well

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It might sound strange but a swarm of bees deciding where to live is perhaps one of the cleanest examples of a crowd making a good choice without anyone in charge. There is no leader, no vote-counter, no bee that surveys the options and issues a verdict. The queen, despite the title, has no say [...] The post When a honeybee colony outgrows its hive it makes a genuinely democratic decision: scout bees fly out, inspect possible new homes, and ‘campaign’ for their favourite with waggle dances, lobbying harder for better sites — and only once enough scouts have converged on the same spot does the whole swarm lift off together, almost always choosing well appeared first on Space Daily .