Remembrance of tussles past: paper wasps show surprisingly strong memory for previous encounters

Monday, September 22, 2008 - 13:07 in Psychology & Sociology

With brains less than a millionth the size of humans', paper wasps hardly seem like mental giants. But new research at the University of Michigan shows that these insects can remember individuals for at least a week, even after meeting and interacting with many other wasps in the meantime.

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