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democracy without a leader, intelligence without a brain, terror with a thousand tiny faces.
means A large, dense, moving mass of insects or other creatures (or, by extension, people or drones) that travels and acts together as one teeming group.
from From Old English 'swearm,' a word shared across the Germanic family — German 'Schwarm,' Old Norse 'svarmr.' Its deeper root may be tied to a sense of 'humming' or 'buzzing,' which would make the word itself a small echo of the sound a thousand wings make — the noise naming the thing that makes it.
- no boss
- No bee gives orders; the hive decides collectively
- locust math
- Single swarms can cover hundreds of square miles
- voting bees
- Scout bees headbutt rivals to pick new homes
- robotics
- Engineers copy ants to coordinate drone fleets
- daily appetite
- A swarm eats its own weight in food daily
desert locust plague 2020 — billions of locusts covered 23 million square kilometers across east africa and middle east
killer bee invasion usa — africanized honeybees spread from brazil northward, reached texas by 1990, killed dozens