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Could tribal honey hunters help save the bees and improve our food security?

Catherine Gilon 23 Mar 2020

Shrouded in secrecy, a new bill for pesticide management coming to parliament soon

Hridayesh Joshi 9 Mar 2020

Urbanisation and climate change sting bees. What can cities do for them?

Kartik Chandramouli 26 Feb 2020

British lawyer comes to India chasing moths

Sahana Ghosh 4 Oct 2019

The Tamilian Warrior becomes a state symbol

Vasudevan Sridharan 8 Aug 2019

What is preventing the widespread adoption of biopesticides in India?

T. V. Padma 9 Jul 2019

A floral calendar for bee conservation

Sahana Ghosh 25 Jun 2019

Your environment this week: India’s disappearing insects, tiger den in Veerappan’s lair, sand mining crisis

Team Mongabay 14 Jun 2019
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Where did insects come from?

Geetha Iyer 11 Jun 2019
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Insects are disappearing in India, and we don’t even have data

Geetha Iyer 11 Jun 2019
A two-tailed spider perfectly blending with the bark of a tree. Photo by Jency Samuel.

[Photos] City dwellers…now you see me?

Jency Samuel 28 May 2019

As fall armyworm invades northeast India, scientists scratch the surface of a tree-killing beetle

Sahana Ghosh 27 May 2019

The unexpected little underdogs of the big bad desert

Geetha Iyer 18 Feb 2019
White grub beetle majuli

Cooking beetles: An island in Assam is eating its farm pest

Sahana Ghosh 25 Jan 2019

All creatures great and small: Best of Almost Famous species 2018

Sandhya Sekar 2 Jan 2019

Birds suffer ‘collateral damage’ as horticulture booms in Kutch

Azera Parveen Rahman 31 Oct 2018

Following the sound trail: pulling India’s cicadas out of oblivion

Manupriya 10 Oct 2018
Fall Army Worm Karnataka

Pest responsible for food crisis in Africa reaches Karnataka

Karthikeyan Hemalatha 28 Aug 2018

Netwinged insects: The invisible caretakers of forests

Geetha Iyer 19 Jul 2018

Geographic isolation nurtures 1032 endemic species in Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Sahana Ghosh 7 Mar 2018