💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐝🔍 The process of naming and organizing specimens helps scientists study the natural world.

To celebrate 100 years of Sir #DavidAttenborough on the planet, the Natural #History #Museum in #London looks at a #prehistoric fossil plesiosaur and a new genus of parasitic #wasp.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/sylvicanthon-attenboroughi-attenborosaurus-conybeari-and-attenboroughnculus-tau

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Sicilianews24.it: Lezioni di maternità da un’ape scavatore: l’amore materno nei regni della natura.

La Maternità nelle Vespe: Un Comportamento Sorprendente
Immaginare la maternità in natura evoca spesso immagini di mammiferi: allattamento, protezione, trasporto e vicinanza ai propri piccoli. Tuttavia, uno studio del 2025 sulle vespe scavatrice offre una visione meno familiare del tema. Le vespe Ammophila pubescens, in particolare, presentano un approccio unico nella cura dei propri giovani.
Le femmine di queste vespe non allevano i loro piccoli in un nido affollato di fratelli e sorelle. Ogni larva ha il proprio rifugio nascosto nella sabbia. La madre scava il nido, lo sigilla e lo riempie con una brutta catepillar paralizzata, depone un solo uovo e poi torna periodicamente per aggiungere cibo man mano che la larva cresce. Durante questo processo, può prendersi cura di più piccoli contemporaneamente, ognuno sepolto in un luogo diverso e in una fase di crescita distinta.

L'articolo Lezioni di maternità da un’ape scavatore: l’amore materno nei regni della natura. sembra essere il primo su Sicilianews24.it.

Motherhood lessons from a digging bee: maternal love in the kingdoms of nature.

Maternity in Wasps: A Surprising Behavior

Imagining motherhood in nature often evokes images of mammals: nursing, protection, carrying, and closeness to their young. However, a 2025 study on digging wasps offers a less familiar perspective on the topic. Specifically, *Ammophila pubescens* wasps exhibit a unique approach to caring for their young.

The females of these wasps do not raise their young in a crowded nest of siblings. Each larva has its own hidden refuge in the sand. The mother digs the nest, seals it, and fills it with a foul-looking paralyzed caterpillar, lays a single egg, and then periodically returns to add food as the larva grows. During this process, it can care for multiple larvae simultaneously, each buried in a different location and at a distinct stage of growth.

The article “Lessons in Motherhood from a Bee-like Wasp: Maternal Love in the Kingdoms of Nature” appears to be the first on Sicilianews24.it.

#Wasps #Ammophila #LessonsinMotherhood #first

https://www.sicilianews24.it/lezioni-di-maternita-da-unape-scavatore-lamore-materno-nei-regni-della-natura-828287.html

Having problems with #wasps around your house?
Instead of killing them (and our environment) use this preventive method to keep them away. This is the season to put them up before they decide your patio is a great place to build a hive.

Take anything grey in colour (plastic bags, grey material) and form it into a a hive shape, hanging them near where you will be. Wasps are territorial and will not go near other nests, leaving you alone.

Note: I'm fatally allergic to wasps / hornets and this is my preferred method of deal with little things that can kill me. (Yes, I carry an epipen with with me everywhere I go.) I DO NOT condone killing either hornets or wasps even though they could kill me.

🐝🔍 The process of naming and organizing specimens helps scientists study the natural world.

To celebrate 100 years of Sir #DavidAttenborough on the planet, the Natural #History #Museum in #London looks at a #prehistoric fossil plesiosaur and a new genus of parasitic #wasp.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/sylvicanthon-attenboroughi-attenborosaurus-conybeari-and-attenboroughnculus-tau

#animals #beetles #biology #england #uk #fossils #insects #nature #reptiles #science #dinosaurs #wasps #womeninstem #tksst #video

Kind of chilly this morning and I found a wasp clinging to my watering can, so I transferred her to a flower in the sun so she could have a snack while she warmed up.

#wasp #wasps #insects

#Mutualism in disguise: #CarnivorousPlants and wasps blur the line between friend and food https://phys.org/news/2026-05-carnivorous-wasps-blur-line-friend.html paper: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.70395

"the #PitcherPlants get a boost in nitrogen by consuming a wasp every now and again, and the #wasps get a stable food source in the form of nutrient-rich nectar. By forgoing the immediate reward of capturing many #insects, these #plants may be ensuring a stable population of prey for the future."