Because of this high degree of sociality and permanence, honey bee colonies can be considered superorganisms, meaning that reproduction of the colony, rather than individual bees, is the biologically significant unit.
Debido a este alto grao de socialidade e permanencia, as colonias de abellas do mel poden considerarse superorganismos, o que significa que a unidade biolóxica significativa para a reprodución é a colonia, máis que as abellas individuais.