Klendathi
The Klendathi are a species of aggressive, giant, sentient, vespine creatures capable of completely controlling all other insects and insectoids in their zone of influence.
The Klendathi live in a hive like society where a species of androgynous drones (Known as Dominators) are led by a queen, and served by subjugated insects of varying sizes and types. Klendathi Queens posses the ability to completely control any insect in their environment and Dominators possess the same ability to a limited extent. Typically, the queen produces Dominators a-sexually, so long as a colony can support them and in turn, the Dominators will mature and expand the Queen's zone of influence. When there are no habitable planets close enough, a queen may feed a Dominator royal jelly, turning them into a young queen and sending them to establish a new colony elsewhere.
Klendathi Queens often engage in natural genetic engineering of insect subjects through meticulous and rapid breeding, allowing them to develop desirable traits that can aid the hive, going so far as to create massive space-faring insects capable of warp travel. Other hybrids include beetles that can launch plasma to orbit to defend the hive, or project continuous concentrated plasma streams or spitting thermite-napalm like compounds.
The lifespan of a queen and her Dominators is not currently known, the largest known Klendathi Hive is unapproachable.