Mossy Monarch
Camouflaged flawlessly in the moss in Agumbe’s rainforests is a praying mantis, whose antennae, dead giveaways, are often missed by both predators and prey. The Read More
A Mightless Mite
The wing of a peppered moth has been magnified to focus on the microscopic mite invisible to the naked eye. In the late 1800s, the first white peppered moth was Read More
Life On The Line
Dangling precariously on a finer-than-hair line of webbing in Karkala’s forests are crane flies, which look, for all practical purposes, like large mosquitoes w Read More
Calm After The Storm
The dripping wet corpse of a damselfly makes for a stunning pattern, its paper-thin wings dotted with water droplets during a monsoon shower in Badlapur, 52 km. Read More
Floating Grave
The photographer was studying a dry stream bed in summer in Maharashtra’s Matheran forests. He found a swarm of insects hovering inches over a shallow puddle in Read More
A Mutual Exchange
An ant laps up honeydew, a sweet fluid secreted by a treehopper nymph, at the Bolpur Deer Park, West Bengal. Some treehoppers are solitary, while others form fa Read More
Marathe Compound Glare
The clouded wings of this normally immobile Tephritidae fruit fly opened for a mere fraction of a second, time enough for the photographer to capture this image Read More
Birth On A Bouquet
With each measuring about a millimetre in size, these pin-sized eggs placed gracefully on the ends of thin stalks are those of a green lacewing. These stalks ar Read More
Cannibalising The Queen
Red worker ants dispose off their colony’s large dead queen, which caught an Ophiocordyceps fungus infection. Contagions could potentially wipe out entire colon Read More
Brutal Kill
The photographer was out looking for dragonfly larvae in the Eastern Himalayan foothills in Cooch Behar, West Bengal when he happened across this fish-eating sp Read More
