Importance Of Insect Intelligence

‘Insect intelligence’ may seem a contradiction of terms to the vertebrate with the highest level of intelligence, but although hesitantly the attitude that they are mere pests should be erased from the mind and the fact that they possess a certain level of intelligence should be accepted. The fact that they have small heads does not exclude them from the list of organisms which are intelligent, adaptive and conscious of collectiveness. It cannot be said that brain size predicts their capacity for intelligent behavior. Not just predictions or guessing it is scientifically proved through research that insects do posses brains. A number of well-studied insects are capable of performing amazing intellectual feats, from recognizing individuals

This research further add the fact that insects are able to count,categorize,and even memorize human faces,which makes people who hinder their peace,hard to escape.It is just a few hundred neurons that made them capable of counting.it is confirmed by the bees counting the land marks on their way to flowers and back.they can stop flying after a prescribed number of landmarks rather than after a certain distance. Recent years have proven that insects(bees)are capable of a wide variety of intelligent behaviors. They can identify between ‘same’ and ‘different’-such as two symbols, say as AandB-learning in experience either to persue ‘the same’(A following A)or even ‘the different’(B following A) depending on which one provides the reward. With expert skills-used to find their way from hive to flowers and back.They can also classify objects as symmetrical and asymmetrical. The collective instinct of insect is yet another scenario which provides material to prove the insect intelligence. For example ants and bees have notoriously complex social systems.along with other insects they can move in a surprising number of ways to communicate or get around. They have complex social navigation and communication

For example they have a knowledgeon; above, below, difference…etc. Insects have different memory centers and their kaleidoscopic visual-olfactory memory is far greater than humans. Recently a new form of communication with flowers was found using electric signals- bees are positively charged flying in the air and plants have negative charge with weak electric fields.when bees land on a flower it changes potential. Bees can detect and distinguish different flowers by their electric signals. Flowers combine the electric information with bright colours to attract insects. Remarkably bees and wasps are able to self medicate their hives.they understand where medicine are, how to mix them and specifically where to apply them at times of fungal infections. Bees show emotions;-when stressed they become pessimistic with increased expectatons of bad outcomes.they have altered neuro chemicals such as dopamine,serotonin and octopamine associated with depression in vertebrates and humans. If we consider the structure of the bee’s brain,it has one million neurons with forty different types of neurons.the mushroom body (20% of their brain) integrates multiple senses and sends value-based information to other parts of the