> Everyone in the colony takes care of the children of one queen. Depending on how you look at it, she is their prisoner and the only way they get to pass on a

> Everyone in the colony takes care of the children of one queen. Depending on how you look at it, she is their prisoner and the only way they get to pass on a proportion of their genetic material is by looking after her kids that share some of it. Alternatively you can look at them as little automata largely driven by pheromones. Or you could see them as part of a larger pseudo-organism that doesn't really have individual wants and drives in the way we understand them. Fascinating either way though.