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The transition from human hunter-gathering to agriculture occurred approximately 10,000 years ago and is often heralded as a major transition in human evolution. However, millions of years earlier, several other unsuspecting species had already taken the step towards intensive agriculture and were busy cultivating their own crop varieties. Termites, ants, bees and wasps comprise a large group of insects called the Hymenoptera, many of which form vast societies, each made up o