Experiments indicate that bees have surprisingly rich inner worlds

Telling the bees is a tradition in many European countries in which bees would be told of important events in their keeper's lives such as births, marriages and departures and returns in the household. If the custom was omitted or forgotten and the bees were not "put into mourning" then it was believed a penalty would be paid, such as the bees leaving their hive, stopping the production of honey or dying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling_the_bees

How long until these kind of "[some creature] is smarter than you think" articles give way to "life at all scales has similar inner worlds and problem solving capabilities as our own?"

The species specific scope of the article echos the racism of natural sciences from a hundred years ago when skin color was thought to indicate intelligence.

It seems mostly a problem of communication. The Journey to the Microcosmos YouTube channel made it clear to me that scale does not seem to change consciousness.

Wow that was a mind blowing read. Thank you OP.