Living in the construct of time requires both weaving and disentangling what we see, what we remember, and what we imagine. We use symbolism and metaphor to help us proceed through life with some self-assuredness, and insects have been a tool used to recognize and teach beacons of virtue and morality. Some are good, like the hard-working honey bee, and some are bad, like the greedy and improvident grasshopper. It is popular now, in some media, for people to look directly to insect social behavior for an analog that supports political convictions; those hard-working honey bees organize, vote, and mobilize. Gaze through the two-way mirror as we project our intended traits onto them, while we overlook the reflection of their shared capacity for violence, exploitation, and asymmetrical power.