[GCUMstlyHarmls]

I think this is a particularly human-centric perspective on the idea. Do you think ants have the same issue now?

[oneseven]

Or, concretely, migrating hoverflies. Interestingly they don't appear to be colonial.

[quietbritishjim]

Not really human-centric, but intelligent life-centric. Given that the discussion (by this point) was about intelligent life communicating across the universe, ants aren't very relevant, unless you think they're about to start building spaceships.