Jon Molesa wrote (quot):
<<<<> Does the queen belong to the hive or does the hives belong to the 
queen?  <<<<


Jon, I think nothing of two.
By the way, in some languages "queen" is not queen but "mother".
Just a short quotation that I've found in an review of the book by Tautz, 
The Buzz about Bees:

>>>By superorganism, the scientist means the bee colony itself, in which 
>>>tens of thousands of insects function collectively as "an integrated and 
>>>independent being . . . with its own, almost eerie, emergent group 
>>>intelligence.">>>

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