My goal is to bring an understanding of biology to a wider audience. He imparts insights through a wealth of examples on the benefits of group living for insects populations in more or less unorganized groups and simple societies. Many scientists have studied and written about the complex societies of ants, bees, and wasps. In essence, these societies are large families. For example, all honey bee workers in a hive, are daughters of the queen.
Every insect has to accomplish three things to survive.
For many insects, there is truly strength in numbers and therefore survival. These small beetles spend most of their lives under the bark of trees. Adults bore through the bark to the interface between the bark and wood. They feed as they burrow along this interface, forming a tunnel where they lay their eggs. Each newly hatched larva begins its own tunnel at the bark-wood interface.