Wiktionary
super organism
n. A group of distinct organisms working as a single entity; each individual member is incapable of rearing successful offspring without the collective work of the whole. Examples, beehives, termite colonies, and ant colonies.
Usage examples of "super organism".
Some have indeed argued that such a community can be regarded as a sort of super organism, which adapts to the environment, regulates its numbers, stores information and behaves in a strongly cognitive manner.