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Answer for the clue "Gathering, as bees ", 6 letters:
hiving

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of hive English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hive \Hive\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hived ; p. pr. & vb. n. Hiving .] To collect into a hive; to place in, or cause to enter, a hive; as, to hive a swarm of bees. To store up in a hive, as honey; hence, to gather and accumulate for future need; to lay up in ...

Usage examples of hiving.

There were flies everywhere, big green metallic flies that buzzed like hiving bees and came to settle on my lips and eyes.

Below this diadem hung, pendent, clusters of other disks, swarmed like the globular hiving of the constellation Hercules' captured stars.