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social insect
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Noun1.social insect - an insect that lives in a colony with other insects of the same species
insect - small air-breathing arthropod
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4) There is no general eusociality between components on the level of the ecosystem, although there is differential fitness, and this can be important at different stages of succession and community assembly.
Ecosystems as superorganisms: the neglected evolutionary implications by Woodley, Michael A. / Frontier Perspectives
For mammals, you don't have to be super related for eusociality to evolve," Faulkes concludes.
Naked and not: two species of mole rats run complex societies ... by Milius, Susan / Science News
Many of the families within this order exhibit eusociality while others are strictly solitary.
A comparative study of Hymenopteran Diversity between Kiuic Research ... by McKeown, James P. / Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences
 
 
 
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