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Insect cognition, the Glossary

Insect cognition describes the mental capacities and study of those capacities in insects.^[1]

22 relations: Bee, Butterfly, Circadian clock, Cognition, Comparative psychology, Concept, Drosophila melanogaster, Ecology, Ethology, Eusociality, Fitness (biology), Fly, Group cognition, Hymenoptera, Innovation, Insect, Mushroom bodies, Pollinator, Sara Shettleworth, Tandem running, Trap-lining, Wasp.
Animal cognition
Insect behavior

Bee

Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey.

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Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran suborder Rhopalocera, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight.

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Circadian clock

A circadian clock, or circadian oscillator, also known as one’s internal alarm clock is a biochemical oscillator that cycles with a stable phase and is synchronized with solar time.

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Cognition

Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".

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Comparative psychology

Comparative psychology is the scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of non-human animals, especially as these relate to the phylogenetic history, adaptive significance, and development of behavior.

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Concept

A concept is defined as an abstract idea.

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Drosophila melanogaster

Drosophila melanogaster is a species of fly (an insect of the order Diptera) in the family Drosophilidae.

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Ecology

Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.

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Ethology

Ethology is a branch of zoology that studies the behaviour of non-human animals.

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Eusociality (Greek εὖ eu "good" and social) is the highest level of organization of sociality.

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Fitness (biology)

Fitness (often denoted w or ω in population genetics models) is a quantitative representation of individual reproductive success.

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Fly

Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- di- "two", and πτερόν pteron "wing".

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Group cognition

Group cognition is a social, largely linguistic phenomenon whereby a group of people produce a sequence of utterances that performs a cognitive act.

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Hymenoptera

Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants.

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Innovation

Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services.

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Insect

Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.

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Mushroom bodies

The mushroom bodies or corpora pedunculata are a pair of structures in the brain of arthropods, including insects and crustaceans, and some annelids (notably the ragworm Platynereis dumerilii).

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Pollinator

A pollinator is an animal that moves pollen from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma of a flower.

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Sara Shettleworth

Sara J. Shettleworth (born 1943) is an American-born, Canadian experimental psychologist and zoologist.

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Tandem running

Tandem running is a pair movement coordination observed in ants and termites. Insect cognition and Tandem running are insect behavior.

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Trap-lining

In ethology and behavioral ecology, trap-lining or traplining is a feeding strategy in which an individual visits food sources on a regular, repeatable sequence, much as trappers check their lines of traps.

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Wasp

A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect_cognition