Tag Archive for 'Maternal instinct'

Wathondara kotejai from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, stacked image with a blue filter. Scale bar - 1 mm. Image credit: Bo Wang et al.

Paleontologists Find 100-Million-Year-Old Evidence of Insect Brood Care

Mar 31, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists from China, Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom, has described a new genus and species of an ensign scale insect from mid-Cretaceous...

Doryphora paykulli female with eggs and first instar larvae under a leaf of Prestonia seemanii. Image credit: Suzanne Lanckowsky.

Some Beetles Have Maternal Instincts, New Study Says

Sep 30, 2013 by News Staff

Entomologists from Panama, Europe, Canada and Brazil have teamed up to describe in detail the different degrees of maternal instincts present within eight...