I do apologize if this is the wrong tag.
I read somewhere that bees are fairly good at counting for an insect and can count up to 4 and knows the concept of 0, but I can’t find anywhere if this is the limit of how high they can count or if there’s any insects who can count any higher than 4 so the question would be, What’s the highest we know an insect can count?
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I don’t know about counting objects or abstract concepts, but I remember a study that showed ants count their steps and, when put on stilts that made their legs longer and, therefore, their steps larger, they got lost.
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This study is mostly about bees. I skimmed it and saw references to ants (9 and 10) and mealworms (33). I didn’t read those references, but it’s a start. There may be references to other insect studies further down, but like I said, I only skimmed it.
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A little while ago it was reported that a type of ant measures distance by counting their steps, and this was discovered by putting them on stilts and finding they ended up lost because they went farther than they anticipated. Presumably, they would be able to count to quite a high number given how many steps an ant would have to take to go anywhere.