Why do insects foolishly continue to touch sticky traps when there are loads of others stuck on it already?

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A few examples of this would be sticky traps for flies/wasps or ones for rats even.

Why would a wasp, for example, fly onto a sticky pad trap that has 30+ other (mostly dead) wasps on it already? Surely at some point the incoming wasps would see it’s buddies either dead or helplessly trying to get unstuck, and think: “maybe something is wrong here”. But they don’t… Are they really that dumb?

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They are automatons with tiny brains. Evolution taught them to go eat stuff at any cost. A billion individuals will die, but another billion will survive.

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