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
Myrmecia (ant) which was to determine what native Australian ants were associated with ant sting anaphylaxis, 265 of the 376 participants in the study reacted to the sting of several "Myrmecia" species. Of these, the majority of patients (176) reacted to "M. pilosula" venom and to those of several other species. In Perth, "M. gratiosa" was responsible for most cases of anaphylaxis due to ant stings, while "M nigriscapa" and "M. ludlowi" were responsible for two cases. The green-head ant ("Rhytidoponera metallica") was the only ant other than "Myrmecia" species to cause anaphylaxis in patients. Dogs are also at risk of death