Robert Cruikshank's 1818 etching "A Dandy Fainting" caricatures a roomful of corseted young gents, presenting them as boneless alien forms akin to Aesop's grasshoppers, playing all day while the ants work.

WSJ: Beau Brummell and His Heirs | Men of Fashion | RISD Museum | By Laura Jacobs

He had no argument with its work on bees, wasps, and ants, he said.

NEWYORKER: It Ain��t Necessarily So

The most conspicuously selfless are the social insects, the ants, bees and wasps in which most individuals work tirelessly for the good of the colony and never reproduce themselves.

ECONOMIST: Bill Hamilton