Shrimp are one thing, but this one starts bumping up into the actual qualitative differences between species. In what sense are (the sterile female clones) worker bees “individuals”? The species does not behave as if they had any individual value, nor does it behave as if their suffering were of (negative) value. The species behaves as if they are fingernails or toes or lungs (not a meaningless analogy, either) of the actual unit that the species-continuation motivations, behaviors and instincts prioritize: the hive (genes) as a whole.

I like bees as collectives. I will go out of my way to help them, if one of their collective appendages is hurt or stuck in some way that I can assist them - because of my own value of their (collective) existence. But if I crush one by accident, or eat lots of honey that results in bad conditions for the worker bees that the species itself does not care one iota for - then I will feel about as bad as I do when trim my fingernails.

“You wouldn’t hurt this little guy, would you?”

First, it’s not a guy, and second it’s not an individual - just because there is a small measure of air or honeycomb between this digit and another does not make them individuals. Show me an entire hive and yes, I would not. But stealing their honey, in that it incentivizes the creation of more hives, is in alignment with the desires/biological imperatives/instincts of the species. Individual worker bees are not relevant units to the species, and so not to me either.