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
Red imported fire ant the burning sensation caused by its sting. Alternative names include: the "fire ant", "red ant" or "tramp ant". In Brazil, locals call the ant "toicinhera", which derives from the Portuguese word "toicinho" (pork fat). The red imported fire ant was first described by Swiss entomologist Felix Santschi in a 1916 journal article published by "Physis". Originally named "Solenopsis saevissima wagneri" from a syntype worker collected from Santiago del Estero, Argentina, Santschi believed the ant was a variant of "S. saevissima"; the specific epithet, "wagneri", derives from the surname of E.R. Wagner, who collected the first specimens. The type material is