Most bees and wasps are social insects.

大多数蜜蜂和黄蜂都是群居昆虫。

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Most bees and wasps are social insects .

大多数蜜蜂和黄蜂都是群居昆虫。

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In most species of social insects, such as wasps, bees, and ants, the females rule.

群居昆虫中大多奉行母系制度，比如黄蜂、蜜蜂、蚂蚁。

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The heroic act by the terminally ill ants is the latest in a line of extraordinary behaviours discovered among social insects.

BBC: Earth News - Heroic altruistic ants face death alone to save colony

In the late 1970s, I sat down with the mathematical theorist George Oster to work out the principles of caste and the division of labor in the social insects.

WSJ: Great Scientists Don't Need Math

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