Note 5 — Chapter II · THE PINE PROCESSIONARY: THE NEST; THE COMMUNITY
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Even so with the Wasps, the Ants, the Termites5 and the various social insects. Life in common costs them dear. Thousands and thousands remain incomplete and become the humble auxiliaries of a few who are sexually endowed. But, whenever maternity is the general portion, individualism reappears, as among the Mason-bees, notwithstanding their show of communism.