colony
From ZooTerms (Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology)
colony (noun; Latin colonia, farm): 1. A group of individuals of the same species living in close association with each other.
2. (Bryozoa) A morphological and functional unit comprised of one or more kinds of physically connected zooids, multizooidal parts and in certain colonies extrazooidal parts.
3. (Arthropoda: Insecta) In social insects, those groups of individuals that construct nests or rear offspring in a cooperative manner
See also: aggregation.
