Insect cognition Insect cognition Insect cognition describes the mental capacities and study of those capacities in insects. The field developed from comparative psychology where early studies focused more on animal behavior. Researchers have examined insect cognition in bees, fruit flies, and wasps. Research questions consist of experiments aimed to evaluate insects abilities with perception, attention, memory (wasp multiple nest), spatial cognition, tools use, problem solving, and concepts. Unlike in animal behavior the concept of group cognition plays a big part in insect studies. It is hypothesized some insect classes like ant and bees think with a group cognitive to function within their
Cricket (insect) as calcium, to provide a balanced diet for predators such as tree frogs (Hylidae). Cricket characters feature in the Walt Disney animated movies "Pinocchio" (1940), where Jiminy Cricket becomes the title character's conscience, and in "Mulan" (1998), where Cri-kee is carried in a cage as a symbol of luck, in the Asian manner. The Crickets was the name of Buddy Holly's rock and roll band; Holly's home town baseball team in the 1990s was called the Lubbock Crickets. "Cricket" is the name of a US children's literary magazine founded in 1973; it uses a cast of insect characters. The sound