Catching Flies

Occasional rambles from everyday exploration

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

A focus on the process rather than product

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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...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Swarming springtails

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  Podurid(?) springtail swarms on the forest floor S now fleas is a name used for collembola in the temperate zone for their swarming behavi...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

An authorship puzzle

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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...
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Saturday, February 22, 2025

Reflections on gadget-birding

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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...
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Saturday, August 3, 2024

Wikipedia, social insects and super-organisms

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I routinely point out in my outdoor naturalist explorations that one of the great innovations in evolutionary history is indirect communica...
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