@foone @NanoRaptor Makes me think of a character from Adrian Tchaikovsky's Dogs of War series which involves genetically engineered, cyborg creatures created for military service. The main characters are Rex, a humanoid dog, Honey, a bear, Dragon, a lizard, and Bees, a bunch of bees. Rex notes on a number of occasion that "Bees is bees." Which I think means that Bees often acts like bees but also that Bees is its own type of entity, distinct even from the other Bioforms.

https://adriantchaikovsky.com/dogs-of-war-series.html