Eusociality

Eusociality is the most advanced level of social organization found among animals, defined by three core traits: cooperative care of offspring including young that are not one's own, overlapping generations of adults within a single colony, and a division of labor into reproductive and non-reproductive castes. It is most common among insects such as ants, bees, wasps, and termites, but has also evolved in a few other lineages, including naked mole-rats and Damaraland mole-rats among mammals and certain eusocial shrimp. A eusocial colony functions much like a single superorganism, with queens and reproductive males devoted to reproduction while sterile or largely non-reproductive workers and soldiers handle foraging, defense, and care of the young. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/