According to Wikipedia, Suzanne Wellington Tubby Batra is an American entomologist best known for her work on the classification of insect societies and for coining the term eusociality. Batra was born in New York City where her father Roger W. Tubby was a journalist and secretary to President Truman, later serving in the United Nations as US Ambassador during the Kennedy period. At a young age, she was exposed to outdoor life, natural history, fishing and hunting especially after the family moved to the Adirondacks. She graduated from Saranac Lake High School in 1956 and received a Bachelor of Arts in zoology from Swarthmore College in 1960. She married her botany professor Lekh R. Batra and continued her studies in the University of Kansas under Charles D. Michener. She received a PhD in 1964 for studies on sociobiology of sweat bees. She studied solitary bees in the family Colletidae, including on the chemistry of their waterproof nest-cell linings made of polyesters.
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Organisms associated with Lasioglossum zephyrum (Hymenop-tera: Halictidae). (1965) (33)
Insects associated with purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria L.) in Europe (1986) (33)
Insects and fungi associated with Carduus thistles (Compositae). (1981) (29)
Anthophora pilipes villosula Sm. (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae), a manageable Japanese bee that visits blueberries and apples during cool, rainy, spring weather (1994) (27)
Biology of Apis laboriosa Smith, a Pollinator of Apples at High Altitude in the Great Himalaya Range of Garhwal, India, (Hymenoptera: Apidae) (1996) (23)
Reproductive Behavior of Euaresta bella and E. festiva (Diptera: Tephritidae), Potential Agents for the Biological Control of Adventive North American Ragweeds (Ambrosia spp.) in Eurasia (1979) (9)
Bionomics of Lasioglossum (Evylaeus) matianense (Blüthgen) (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), the predominant pollinating bee in orchards at high altitude in the great Himalaya of Garhwal, U.P., India (1997) (6)
Bionomics of Evylaeus comagenensis (Knerer and Atwood) (Halictidae), a facultatively polygynous, univoltine, boreal halictine bee. (1990) (6)
Insects associated with weeds in the northeastern United States. II. Cinquefoils, Potentilla norvegica and P. recta (Rosaceae). (1979) (6)
Insects Associated with Weeds in the Northeastern United States. III. Chickweed, Stellaria media, and Stitchwort, S. graminea (Caryophyllaceae) (1979) (5)
India's buzzy biodiversity of bees (1993) (4)
NATIVE BEES (HYMENOPTERA : APOIDEA) IN NATIVE TREES : NYSSA SYLVATICA MARSH. (CORNACEAE) (1999) (4)
Nests of the Solitary Bee, Anthophora antiope, in Punjab, India (1980) (4)
