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
National Insect Week entries from large numbers of amateur photographers. As well as promoting the importance of insect science to the wider public, National Insect Week particularly aims to encourage young people into entomology. Past National Insect Week campaigns have been endorsed by HRH The Prince of Wales, Prof David Bellamy OBE, Chris Packham, Kate Humble and Mike Dilger. The next National Insect Week will be 18-24 June, 2018. National Insect Week National Insect Week is a biennial initiative in the UK. Usually held during the last week of June, the aim is to engage the general public with the importance of insects