The social insects serve as exemplars for social biomimicry, the search
for social design inspiration from the natural world. Although their group members
are individually much simpler than humans, social insect colonies provide elegant
tutorials on the large-scale outcomes that can be achieved by social interactions and
self-organizational processes. These range from complex physical structures built by
collective effort; to exemplars of flexible work organization; to effective consensus
building in group decisions. This special issue highlights examples of the lessons to
be learned from the bees and ants, providing ways to think about how humans can
(and in some cases should not) borrow from social insect rules of organization and
their collective outcomes.

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• Social Biomimicry: what do ants and bees tell us about organization in the natural world?