A few tentative clicks quickly broke into a continuous high pitched whirring sound. Before I could realise, the entire forest was abuzz with this sound. It was so loud that it almost drowned the voice of my friend who was…
An assassin’s camouflage
As it happens so very often, I thought I saw something move on the trunk of the tree that I had just walked past. I stopped. I walked back a few paces to the tree to check if I did…
Waterscorpion
A creature that breathes with its ‘tail’?! Yes, there is one such – the Waterscorpion. The name is misleading. As it suggests, it is not a scorpion that lives in water; but, an insect, a bug that lives in water!…
The Birthwort and the butterfly
Aristolochias are also popularly known as Birthworts besides many other names given to them. The family is represented by about 500 species world over. Most birthworts are creepers and several species with very showy flowers are grown in gardens as…