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A new species of blind, underground ant from Goa

Arti Das 7 Sep 2020

How butterflies strike a relationship with ants using specialised organs

Aathira Perinchery 2 Sep 2020

[Explainer] Locust swarms in India: millimeters in size but millions in numbers

Nobin Raja M., Priya Ranganathan 2 Jun 2020

Fireflies appear to be vanishing in this Andhra Pradesh village

Neha Jain 27 Apr 2020

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

Mongabay.com 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