article_snippet: The fossil shows a female sap-sucking scale insect, preserved in amber, carrying her freshly hatched nymphs and unhatched eggs on her abdomen.
article_snippet: Around The insect Wathondra kotejai abdomin are around 60 eggs and freshly hatched nymphs, encased within a wax-coated egg sack, according to the research, which is published in the journal eLife.
article_snippet: A cockroach from a similar period was reported carrying a mass of eggs, but cockroaches often deposit their eggs rather than brooding their eggs.
article_snippet: This drawing of a brooding female Wathondara kotejai shows the ovisac containing the brood and eggs coated in a wax covering as a lumpy mass on the main part of the insects body.
article_snippet: Amber makes Amber almost transparent .
article_snippet: Tiny hatched nymphs can be seen scattered aaround the mother insect's body in Amber in the image above .