Catching Flies

T his might be a rare divergence in genre from my regular posts in being about travel. Travel of this kind is a rather rare event for me and...

A few weeks back, many of us read the rather stunning case of an ant in the genus Messor from Sicily that produced two kinds of male offspr...

  Podurid(?) springtail swarms on the forest floor S now fleas is a name used for collembola in the temperate zone for their swarming behavi...

I posted this a long time back on Facebook with no response. The author "D.R." wrote a column on birds in the The Bombay Chronicle...

A few weeks ago I was invited to join a survey for birds in the Maley Madeshwara betta region, a vast savannah and forest region around the...