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
Insect term also form the usual word for "insect" in Welsh (, from ' "to cut" and " mil", "animal"), Serbo-Croatian ("zareznik", from "rezati", "to cut"), Russian ( "nasekomoje", from "seč'/-sekat"', "to cut"), etc. The precise definition of the taxon Insecta and the equivalent English name "insect" varies; three alternative definitions are shown in the table. In the broadest circumscription, Insecta "sensu lato" consists of all hexapods. Traditionally, insects defined in this way were divided into "Apterygota" (the first five groups in the table) – the wingless insects – and Pterygota – the winged insects. However, modern phylogenetic studies have shown