Embioptera
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The order Embioptera, commonly known as webspinners or footspinners, are a small group of mostly tropical and subtropical insects, classified under the subclass Pterygota. The order has also been call
Notoligotoma nitens
Drawings of Embia major winged male, male nymph and adult female "from the Himalayas" by Augustus Daniel Imms, 1913
Web on a stone wall
Sociality
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Sociality is the degree to which individuals in an animal population tend to associate in social groups and form cooperative societies.
Embioptera
…Species are very similar in appearance, having long, flexible bodies, short legs, and only males having wings. Webspinners are gregarious, living subsocially in galleries of fine silk which they spin from glands on their forelegs. Members of these colonies are often related females and their offspring; adult…
Herd of American bison at Genesee Park
The mouse lemur is a nocturnal, solitary-but-social lemur native to Madagascar.
Giant honey bees cover the honeycomb of their nest.