"Visual signals of individual identity in the wasp Polistes fuscatus" (Tibbetts, 2002) establishes recognition of individual nestmates by facial markings.

Now it's your turn. You've made a lot of assertions here, and substantiated none of them. Would you like to do so, or are you instead comfortable being regarded as no more closely abreast of the current state of the field than Fabre was when he published on spider wasps, a century and a half ago?

I find conversations like this difficult. I don’t think anyone here will change your mind. If your position is that intelligence must rival a humans to be worthy of “being intelligent”, you are free to do so.

I think the bar is much lower, and intelligence is simply a measure of ability to learn. And from that perspective, a simple automaton does not learn. But insects DO learn.

http://www.womanaroundtown.com/contributed/the-worlds-smarte...

I’m not an expert, but my guess at an example would be bees.

Complex communication via dances about food sources. Learned attacks against murder hornets to defend the hive.

Probably what I would look at first.

Bees and jumping spiders are both acknowledged to be relatively intelligent.