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Nature’s Layers Unravelled – Encounters with birds, beasts, and relatives

Category: Insects

Urban Bestiary: Discover the Hidden Wildlife of Bengaluru

Urban Bestiary: Discover the Hidden Wildlife of Bengaluru

Raghuram AnnadanaMarch 20, 2025March 20, 2025

Discovering wildlife in Bengaluru doesn’t require venturing far. A walk in your garden or a peek under a leaf reveals a world of tiny architects, hunters, and builders. Meet the city’s most fascinating and rare fauna.

Cicada Apocalypse – A Survivor’s Account

Cicada Apocalypse – A Survivor’s Account

Sandeep SomasekharanJanuary 21, 2025January 21, 2025

For the first time since 1803, two broods of cicadas synchronised their emergence. The next time this takes place, who knows if the human race will be around?

Small World – A macro photographer zooms in on the big picture

Small World – A macro photographer zooms in on the big picture

Vedant SapraApril 18, 2020January 31, 2024

Most visitors to Bangalore’s Kaikondrahalli and Kasavanahalli lakes celebrate their avian life, but Vedant Sapra takes a closer peek at the biodiversity that often goes unnoticed

Bewitched by butterflies on a Sunday morning in Bangalore

Bewitched by butterflies on a Sunday morning in Bangalore

Bijoy VenugopalDecember 15, 2019April 24, 2022

Sunlight and butterflies are a potent combination to chase away the blues

Watching Butterflies – Field Lessons from Rishi Valley

Watching Butterflies – Field Lessons from Rishi Valley

Bijoy VenugopalJanuary 20, 2018January 24, 2018

In Rishi Valley, where trees and rocks are teachers, watching butterflies is a highly enjoyable part of the education. Here are field notes from wandering around the school grounds spotting butterflies on the last morning of 2017.

Onathumbi: Onam with the Picture Wing Dragonfly!

Onathumbi: Onam with the Picture Wing Dragonfly!

Sandeep SomasekharanAugust 29, 2012August 29, 2012

What is Onam without its leitmotif — the Onathumbi or Picture Wing Dragonfly?

Balcony Bugwatch – Love song of the Carpenter Bee

Bijoy VenugopalSeptember 22, 2011June 9, 2015

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov might have feted the Bumblebee in music but it is the domestic life of the Carpenter Bee that inspires a fitting paean. How about one by the Carpenters? My wife and I had seen the Carpenter Bee buzz past us as we stole a furtive smoke on the…

No teeth, no claws, but very much a Tiger!

No teeth, no claws, but very much a Tiger!

Sandeep SomasekharanAugust 17, 2011June 9, 2015

Not the cuddliest tiger around but certainly the safest to introduce your kids to, this one is best chased with a camera on a sunny spring morning. If your intentions are evil, back off or you’ll be left with a bad taste in the mouth! The Plain Tiger Butterfly (Danaus…

The Cicada’s Night Out

The Cicada’s Night Out

Bijoy VenugopalJune 28, 2011January 3, 2015

Cicadas are diurnal, so what was this one doing up late at night?

Encounter: Robber Fly, raptor of the insect world

Encounter: Robber Fly, raptor of the insect world

Arun MenonJune 9, 2011June 16, 2015

With the menacing looks and businesslike patience of an assassin, the Robber Fly captures its prey on the wing

Encounter: Stream Glory, a dazzling tropical damselfly

Encounter: Stream Glory, a dazzling tropical damselfly

Sandeep SomasekharanJune 6, 2011July 1, 2014

A day of tired wandering in a forest ends with an intimate rendezvous with a stunning damselfly – the Stream Glory. It’s often the little things in life that give you the biggest highs

Encounter – Antlions and the pit of death

Encounter – Antlions and the pit of death

Sahastra RashmiDecember 20, 2010June 16, 2015

Antlions are far more menacing as larvae: their pits are death traps for ants and small insects and can offer kids many hours of macabre entertainment

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