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All gain, no pain with stingless bees in greenhouse farming

Arathi Menon 6 Jun 2025

Citizen science reveals lesser known invasive pest

Arathi Menon 16 May 2025
This crane fly Hexatoma (Eriocera) sp., photographed in Wayanad, Kerala, is a wasp mimic. Image by L. Shyamal via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

The commonly seen but rarely understood crane fly [Commentary]

Geetha Iyer 8 May 2025
A river heliodor damselfly. Image by Ameya Deshpande.

Damselflies in climate distress

Arathi Menon 4 Apr 2025
Researchers collect samples of moths and other insects in Siang, Arunachal Pradesh. Image by Sandesh Kadur/Felis Images (CC BY-ND 4.0).

Retracing the route of a century-old biodiversity expedition

Simrin Sirur 3 Apr 2025
Various specimens of insects on display at the Insect Biosystematics and Conservation Lab. Image by Abhishek N. Chinnappa.

A study centre for little things that run the world

Arathi Menon 18 Mar 2025

Your Environment This Week: Social sciences for conservation, Nuanced human-elephant interactions and Tarantulas

Team Mongabay India 10 Jan 2025

Your Environment This Week: Dung beetles, City dwelling urban jackals and Frogs in fields

Team Mongabay India 20 Dec 2024

Why do dung beetles matter to climate change?

Angana Chakrabarti 19 Dec 2024

Unsustainable tourism, habitat changes eclipse the dazzling world of fireflies

Rushikesh More, Sanjana Khandare 29 Oct 2024
Insect fumigation. Image courtesy of Nathania Ria Prince.

What’s killing the buzz? A look into urban fumigation

Nathania Ria Prince 25 Jul 2024

From fear to fascination: More research and awareness to protect India’s misunderstood spiders

Laasya Shekhar 5 Jul 2024

Beekeeping thrives in Kashmir amid bi-annual migration to warmer places

Mudassir Kuloo 2 Jul 2024

Rising temperatures alter insect-crop interactions and impact agricultural productivity

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 7 May 2024

Meet the beetles, the tiny titans of pollination

Arathi Menon 25 Mar 2024

Presenting the click beetles: A sound, light and dance show

Geetha Iyer 15 Jan 2024

Malaria-carrying mosquitoes shift homes from forests to rice fields

Vandana K. 3 Jan 2024

Lab-grown special mosquitoes can be the secret weapon to fight dengue

Mahima Jain 20 Jul 2023
A female katydid fitted with a radio tag to study her movements.

Flying is riskier for female katydids, finds India’s first insect radio telemetry study

Vinaya Kurtkoti 26 Apr 2023
A hummingbird moth.

Decline in pollinators linked to half a million premature human deaths every year, shows study

Jeremy Hance 4 Apr 2023