social insects
Hive-minded creatures
Social insects are species that live in organized colonies with division of labor—typically including a reproductive queen, sterile workers, and sometimes soldiers or drones.
Ants, honeybees, termites, and some wasps are the classic examples.
The term distinguishes these highly cooperative species from solitary insects that live and reproduce independently.
- colonyDependent territorial settlement
- antsSocial colony insects
- army antsNomadic predatory insect colony
- fire antsAggressive stinging insects
- leafcutter antsAnts farming fungus gardens
bee colony · division of labor · worker · worker bee · foraging · cooperation · nest building · pheromone · termites · queen · queen bee · wasps · swarm intelligence · bees · hive · hive mind · caste system · anthill
- entomologyentomology, butterfly net, insect net, insect behavior, insect identification
- insectsant, ants, bee, bees, butterfly
- arthropodsarthropod, arthropods, Arthropoda, insect, spiders
- antsfire ant, ant colony, carpenter ant, ant colonies, harvester ant
- hive mindsBorg, collective consciousness, Flood, Unity
- Hymenopterabees, wasps, ants, hornets, sawflies
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