No one’s found an example of art, music, or philosophy in social hymenopterans, but no one’s really gone looking for them, either—and would we know it when we saw, heard, or smelled it? You’d be laughed out of the room if you asked most scientists if insects have complex emotional lives or a sense of aesthetics, but you’d have received the same treatment if you’d said the same about crows and parrots only a few decades ago.
