Group Decision Making in Honey Bee Swarms When 10,000 bees go house hunting, how do they cooperatively choose their new nesting site?

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Collective cognition in animal groups. (2009, background): “Recruitment does not involve individuals directly leading others, like the ants do. Instead, scouts use the famous waggle dance to inform others of the direction of their find [ 61 ].”
Emergence of group rationality from irrational individuals (2011, background): “A colony’s choice arises in a highly decentralized way without the need for direct comparisons between options by individual ants (Couzin et al. 2005; Pratt and Sumpter 2006; Seeley et al. 2006; Hölldobler and Wilson 2008; Gordon 2010).”
Swarm cognition in honey bees (2007, background): “The swarm's distributed group memory is distinct from the internal neural-based memory of each individual bee.”