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Agents need resources and protection from hostile influences, in both natural and artificial environments. This paper specifically considers social insects and software mobile agent systems, in order to understand how the need for mobility, resource acquisition and security can influence the design and operation of agent systems. Evolution has honed the movement, resource-gathering and defensive skills of the social insects in a multitude of ways. The paper reviews some of these strategies and assesses whether they may provide useful insights into the design and implementation of mobile software agents. This process is necessary as current mobile agent systems have been handicapped by a lack of convincing security measures which has prevented their adoption in mainstream computing services.This paper therefore examines the strategies for movement, resource acquisition and defence adopted by the social insects and considers how they may be applied to enhance the design of mobile agents.