More bug-words since the first one was apparently useful to many people, note I'm not an entomologist though.
Parthenogenesis - unfertilised reproduction many female insects can do, notably ant, bee and wasp workers can do this despite the queen normally laying the eggs, but worker-eggs are often destroyed by other workers (worker policing).
Neotenic - though it has several meanings, one of its most relevant ones are female termite workers that after the death of the queen took up her role and began laying eggs, in fact in some species of termite a collective of workers can form a new colony without a royal caste through neotenics.
Termital - a synonym of termitic, just another adjective for termite-related things.
Termitid - Technically, it means a member of the Termitidae, the largest family of termites, but their range is so vast it can almost be used as a formal synonym for termite similarly to mantid for mantises, though that is not exactly its proper scientific use.
Glowworm - Sometimes used to refer to female fireflies due to their lack of wings in some species, I don't know how they would feel about such a term in the context of them being sapient though.
Woodworm - It's used for wood-eating larvae of beetles, but in slang it can be used for termites.
Termitarium/Termitary - formal name for a termite colony.
Formicary - Formal name for an ant colony, not to confuse with "formicarium" that is the name of an artificial ant colony to be kept for study or as pets.
Vespiary - formal name for a wasp colony.
Apiary - Formal name for a bee colony, though most often a place where bees are artificially kept by beekeepers.
Nymph - Immature insect which instead of going through a larval phase with metamorphosis, is simply an undeveloped iteration of the adult form of the species. Roaches, mantises and termites go through this, and termites cannot be distinguished by caste until the nymph stage is over generally.
I just realised this ended up being quite termite-themed.
