Figuring Things Out

 There is an insect called the False Codling Moth - true or false? True! An insect that goes by this name is now at the centre of an an inte...

A bee or not a bee? For the past two weeks I have been intrigued by this bright yellow coloured 'bee' seen here diving deep...

"What a lovely butterfly!" said our neighbour Goel-ji, pointing to this large moth sitting on the park wall. Set against re...

Nostalgia drove me to the erstwhile paddy fields of Thrikodithanam in Kerala. A few decades ago a river of fluroscent green rice saplings...

It has been an unusual combination of summer and monsoon this year. The dry heat lasted for a lot longer in May-June, and then, after a fe...

Immediately after the first monsoon rains a birdbath on the terrace was caked with flies. Which are these insects that dunk and drown them...

The missing ids are finally here! - many thanks to Shaku (Univ. of Georgia) The wasp is an ichneumonid, very common family that includes ...

Delhi has been swarming with this insect for the past week. At night, enormous clouds of them collect around mercury-vapor lamps (white ligh...