| TERMITARY | A colony of white ants |
| ROOKERY | A group of the corvids known collectively as a storytelling, nesting high in a clump of trees; or, a colony of seabirds or marine mammals such as penguins, seals or turtles (7) |
| HIVE | Skep or box forming an apiary for a colony of honeybees of the same name; thus, a place of great industry or busyness; or, a teeming crowd (4) |
| TERMITES | Period of time spent on wrong site looking for white ants (8) |
| TERMINATES | Stops white ants covering new area (10) |
| ANTHILL | A problem besetting one of many a colony of insects (3-4) |
| WARREN | A burrow system of a colony of rabbits, often taken over by nesting puffins or shearwaters (6) |
| CRECHE | Meaning "manger", a day nursery for the young children of working parents; or, by extension, a colony of chicks while adult birds hunt (6) |
| APIARIST | From Latin for "bee", a term for a bee-master/mistress who keeps a colony of said eusocial insects for their beeswax, honey and royal jelly (8) |
| QUEENBEE | The female reproductive leader of a colony of honey-producing apians, essential to the life of the hive (5,3) |
| CANDIA | What was the realm, kingdom or duchy of Crete when it was a colony of the Republic of Venice? (6) |
| ANT | Member of a colony of insects |
| WORKER | Sterile female member of a colony of bees (6) |
| TERMITE | White ant? Call it white, ultimately |
| TERMINATE | White ant eats middle of banana to finish (9) |
| MACAU | Resort city (once a colony of Portugal) dubbed the'Las Vegas of Asia' |
| DRONE | A male bee in a colony of social bees, whose function is to mate with the queen (5) |
| APERY | A colony of bonobos, chimpanzees, gibbons, gorillas or orang-utans; or, mimicry and other behaviour characteristic of said primates (5) |
| TUNISIA | Northernmost country of Africa, a colony of France from 1881 until 1956 (7) |
| UNKINDNESS | A colony of ravens (10) |
