Suzanne Wellington Tubby Batra (born December 15, 1937) is an American entomologist best known for her work on the classification of insect societies and for coining the term eusociality.

Batra graduated from Saranac Lake (New York) High School in 1956 and received a Bachelor of Arts in zoology from Swarthmore College in 1960.

She studied solitary bees[2] in the family Colletidae, including on the chemistry of their waterproof nest-cell linings made of polyesters.

[5] 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.