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When it's time to move a colony, scout bees or ants seek new homes and then report back to the group about multiple possible locations.
When the bees become tired, they stop and send out scout bees to find a suitable new nesting site.
When the time comes to find a new home, scout bees go out to look for one, then the whole cluster reaches a consensus about where to go,' he said.
 
 
 
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