>Exactly. And why do we feel so much sympathy towards honey bees and not towards wasps, ants, and termites? 

>(Granted, some of us do appreciate the others, too)

Among the others is Darwin:

> “thus the wonder- fully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are generally known, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin’s head. Under this latter point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvellous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more marvelous than the brain of man” 

Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1981 [1871], p. 145. 

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