social insect: Quick Facts

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Honeybee queen in the center foreground surrounded by worker bees on a honeycomb frame inside a hive.

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Hymenoptera termite hornet social bee Caste queen soldier worker insect glowworm fly heteropteran Coleoptera ant grasshopper wasp bee butterfly moth

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E.O. Wilson

E.O. Wilson

American biologist

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William Morton Wheeler

American entomologist

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