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New study highlights emerging disease risk from mosquitoes

Bharti Dharapuram 2 Dec 2025
Edible insects being caught for consumption in Arunachal Pradesh. Image by Divya Kilikar/Mongabay.

Insect decline signals a deep ecological imbalance [Commentary]

Irina Das Sarkar, Madhu Verma 10 Nov 2025
Cicadas begin calling when triggered by the first sunlight just before dawn. They even coordinate with each other just like particles in a magnet. Image by Rakesh Khanna.

Cicadas sing in sync as the sun rises

Debdutta Paul 27 Oct 2025
The brown forest bob (Scobura woolletti) was known in parts of Southeast Asia, and thought to be a rare sight in the Northeast. A 2010 study however revealed that the butterflies recorded in the Northeast was a different species, now named Scobura parawoolletti or Assam forest bob (seen in the photo). Image by Sarangapani Neog.

Sarangapani Neog on documenting butterflies in a sanctuary [Interview]

Barasha Das 12 Sep 2025

On the trail of a lost relic [Commentary]

Sahanashree Ramakrishnaiah 4 Sep 2025

Rohini Balakrishnan on why (and how) we must listen to insects [Interview]

Kartik Chandramouli 15 Aug 2025
Striped tigers congregate in Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Maharashtra. Image by Dr. Raju Kasambe via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why are butterflies migrating across the Indian peninsula? [Explainer]

Sandhya Sekar 12 Aug 2025
A Trypanophora sp. moth seen near Kolkata. Representative image by Santosh Roy.

When a campus turns beacon for moths [Commentary]

Santosh Roy 24 Jul 2025

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

Mongabay India 10 Jan 2025

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

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