what examples are there in literature & philosophy as to the wisdom associated

[catweazle]

with bees&hive social structure maybe this would also come under folk widom or utopian ideas

[Yaoi Shonen-ai]

Those examples might be fun to read, especially if they actually attribute "wisdom" to the bees. Wisdom is the substance of "wise" thinking. Bees, ants, etc, only follow the hard wiring nature gave them.
However, can we learn something from the way bees act? I would not say no, but humans could not be found anywhere who would live--voluntarily--in such a static society.

[goosebumpsandgiggles]

they got really into it in late 18th early 19th century
analyzing animal and insect colonies
you imagine all those men running round in pantaloons with butterfly nets... How we've moved on.

T.H. Huxley Evolution and Ethics.Prolegomena, 1994

The society formed by the hive Bea fulfills the ideal of the communistic aphorism 'to each according to his needs, from each according to his capacity' Within it, the struggle for existence is limited. Queen, drones and workers have each their allotted sufficiency of food... A thoughtful drone (workers and queens would have no leisure for speculation) with a turn for ethical philosophy, must needs profess himself an intuitive moralist of the purest water. He would point out with perfect justice, that the devotion of the workers to a life of ceaseless toil for a mere subsistence wage, cannot be accounted for either by enlightened selfishness, or by any other sort of utilitarian motives...

personally i prefer coral reefs!

[los]

"The Soul of the White Ant" by Marais.