Many insects are capable of architecture much beyond our imagination. One such is depicted in the picture below. The adult wasps use the same raw material that we use to make paper – wood. They use their strong mandibles to…
A Wild Orchestra
It was dark and I was guided by a series of hurricane lanterns hung at regular intervals on wooden stakes driven into the ground. I found my way to the tent, that I had checked into earlier in the day.…
Social Spiders
It was a few days ago that I noticed a pale grey mass of silken threads on one of the several palm plants in my garden. This was attached to the tip of a palm frond. It looked like some…
Stinkhorn Mushroom (Dictyophora)
I was walking a trail in the midst of a beautiful moist deciduous forest in the Western Ghats during the monsoon when I caught sight of something that completely mesmerized me. My eyes and mouth were wide open. My feet…