I don’t consider insects as life per se, so much as bio-machines. I find them a better argument for Intelligent Design than the human being. You don’t find the former lighting one of their own species on fire on a subway just for the fun of it.
One collective machine with chemical and body movement communications. Genetic modification performed as needed based on hive government directives.
They do banish all the males about a week before the first frost, leaving them to die elsewhere. All the workers are sexually undeveloped females. Only the queen lays fertilized eggs from male sperm she stores inside her body from a one time mating. Only the queens are allowed to come to sexual maturity. Here’s the crazy thing.....males come from unfertilized eggs! In early spring, the workers force the queen to lay unfertilized eggs, which produce male bees. Those males are given hive privileges until the fall frost, then death. It’s a cold winter and they need to manage food reserves. Males are not welcome at that point.