social insect

1. 1.

   an insect that lives in a colony with other insects of the same species

   Broaderinsect

Questions about social insect

What does social insect mean?

social insect means "an insect that lives in a colony with other insects of the same species".

Is social insect a common word?

social insect is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.