Nature: Wasps watch over neighbouring nests in ‘surprising act of selflessness’

In what experts have called a ‘surprising act of selflessness’, some wasp colonies lend their spare workers to babysit in neighbouring nests, a study has found. Researchers from the UK studied some 20,000 baby Neotropical paper wasps and their carers from 91 different colonies in Panama, including near the canal. Paper wasps are so-named for … Read more