As insects teach, community life requires a higher intellectual capacity compared with the choice to lead a solitary life.

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"It seems that in the insect universe there is a correlation pretty evident among sociality and intelligence: ecological niches, architecture, sociality, speciation, and knowledge, interact with each other in a complex way, that has amplified the benefits, driven innovation, raised Intellectual capabilities and brought to huge diversity "(Gould, JL & Gould, CG 2008, p.95).