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A natural farming practitioner works at her farm in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. The National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture frames soil health, water-use efficiency, and biodiversity conservation as agricultural priorities. Representative image. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

India’s farms do ecological work that no policy has accounted [Commentary]

Deepanjana Saha, Prasanna N.S., G. Ravikanth 29 Apr 2026
Amegilla zonata. Representative image by Tisha Mukherjee via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Roadsides, farms may shelter native bees in the northwestern Himalayas

Hirra Azmat 11 Mar 2026
A western marsh harrier near Nal Sarovar Lake in Gujarat. Image by Hari K Patibanda via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Migrant harriers emerge as unlikely gardeners of grasslands

Nikhil Sreekandan 13 Feb 2026
A paper wasp. Nomadic tribes once used its toxins for poisoning arrows to hunt animals. Image by Satish Nikam via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

The insect muses that have shaped our world [Book Review]

Usha Rai 12 Feb 2026
A marmalade hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus). Image by Thejavikho Gwizantsu Chase.

How hoverflies quietly sustain ecosystems [Commentary]

Amritha Jaiprekash Kurup 21 Jan 2026
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

Saving South Asia’s butterflies from the threat of extinction

Hailey Smalley 4 Nov 2024
sunnyjosef, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

New study puts spotlight on neglected mammal, bird pollinators 

T. V. Padma 8 Jul 2024

Meet the beetles, the tiny titans of pollination

Arathi Menon 25 Mar 2024
Apis dorsata. Photo by Rison Thumboor/Wikimedia Commons.

Bees that see at night

Arathi Menon 7 Sep 2023

Adivasi honey harvesters demand forest control and criticise ‘unfriendly’ conservation measures

Max Martin 29 Nov 2022

Crimson rose butterflies migrate across the sea, leaving a trail of questions

Malaka Rodrigo 14 Mar 2022

Moth biodiversity assessment finds nearly 500 moth species in Tale Wildlife Sanctuary

Roopak Goswami 1 Sep 2021