I believe ants and honey bees have genetically-coded and baked-in specializations like worker and queen bees

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    11 days ago

    I got distracted and forgot to look it up…thanks ADHD…

    In 2000, an enormous supercolony of Argentine ants was found in Southern Europe (report published in 2002).[15] Of 33 ant populations tested along the 6,004-kilometre (3,731 mi) stretch along the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts in Southern Europe, 30 belonged to one supercolony with estimated millions of nests and billions of workers, interspersed with three populations of another supercolony.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony

    Blurb is under the “super colony” subsection.