Discussion
Which of the following is a social insect?
Answer: D
The social insect is the termite.
Termites live in large colonies with division of labour among castes: a king and queen that reproduce, workers that build and forage, and soldiers that defend the mound. Such cooperative colony life with overlapping generations is what makes an insect 'social' (eusocial), like ants and honeybees.
Mosquitoes and bedbugs live and feed as individuals. Locusts gather into huge swarms, but a swarm has no castes or cooperative brood care, so locusts are gregarious rather than social.
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