"Conceptual area";Description;"Relevant extant ontologies" "Observations and observing processes";"Observations of insect natural history and the processes that generate them, including information about the observers (whether human or machine) and where and when observations are made.";"Biological Collections Ontology [1,2]" "Relationships and interactions";"Behaviors that involve interactions among organisms. Includes pairwise interactions (e.g., mating or herbivory) and multi-way interactions (e.g., cooperative colony defense or ants defending aphids from a potential predator).";"Gene Ontology [3,4], Relations Ontology [5]" "Single-organism behaviors";"Behaviors that do not necessarily involve interactions with other organisms (e.g., perching or locomotion).";"Neurobehavior Ontology [6]" Ontogeny;"Developmental information (e.g., instar number or length of larval stage).";"Gene Ontology [3,4],Uberon [7]" "Organism products and traces";"Non-living objects or artifacts generated by insects (e.g., nests or leaf mines).";  "Habitat, locality, and substrates";"The physical context in which an organism is found, at all scales (e.g., a geopolitical boundary or a specific microhabitat).";"Environment Ontology [8,9], GAZ [10]" "Positional and spatial information";"Information about the location of an organism relative to some other object or reference point (e.g., underneath the bark of a log, the south side of a rock).";"Biological Spatial Ontology [11], Relations Ontology [5]" "Weather and climate";"Information about weather conditions or climate (e.g., momentary or long-term observations of temperature or precipitation) at any spatial scale.";  "Collecting methods";"The methods used to obtain specimens or individuals for observation (e.g., sweep netting or pitfall trapping) and information about how those methods are implemented.";"Biological Collections Ontology [1,2]" Curation;"Information about how specimens or other artifacts are managed (e.g., where they are housed and how they are preserved).";"Biological Collections Ontology [1,2]"