A Mother’s Day lesson from a digger wasp

Mongabay
May 10, 2026, 1:02 pm77 ptsTrending
Motherhood in nature is often imagined through mammals: nursing, guarding, carrying, and staying close. A 2025 study of digger wasps offers a less familiar version. Female Ammophila pubescens wasps do not raise their young in a nest full of siblings. Each offspring gets its own hidden burrow in the sand. The…

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