What Is Insect Behavior?

A flashing firefly flits through the evening shadows. In a tree, a caterpillar pauses in its feeding, stiffens, and sways back and forth. Behind a stone, a cricket chirps,while nearby ants scurry along in precise single file.Behavior can be simply defined as what animals do. More precisely, it is theways in which an organism adjusts to and interacts with its total environment. Assuch, insect behavior encompasses the relationships an insect has with members of its own species, with members of other species, and with the physical environment.

A species must behave in the ‘right’ ways in order to survive, and its members mustsurvive (at least long enough to successfully reproduce) if it to be evolutionarilysuccessful