“…In contrast, the fecundity of most eusocial insect species is extremely high as a single queen can lay hundreds of millions of eggs in a lifetime. For example, the honeybee queen, with a lifespan of about 5 years, can lay up to 200,000 eggs per year (Bodenheimer & Nerya, 1937); the queen of the army ant Eciton burchelli , with a lifespan of up to 30 years, can lay 100,000 eggs in 3 weeks (Boswell et al, 1998; Gotwald, 1995); or the queen of the termite Macrotermes subhyalinus can produce 3600 eggs in 24 h over her 20‐year lifespan (Keller, 1998; Khan et al, 2022). As a result, it appears that the reproductive individuals in eusocial insect colonies contradict the reversed reproduction–longevity trade‐off because they are both highly fecund and live longer than nonreproductives within their own colonies or solitary insect individuals.…”