the potter wasp
the potter wasp along a sublime background… The potter wasps get their name due to the pot-like nests they build using mud. Family: Vespidae, Subfamily: Eumeninae. Date: 20 Jul 2007 Location: @ home, Kottayam, Kerala,...
Category: prakriti
the tire track eel
Spiny eels are not eels, but elongated fresh water fishes with eel-like bodies and numerous spines preceding the dorsal fin. Very often they stay under the mud substratum, and are mostly nocturnal. These are images of a Tire track...
crab spiders and camouflage
A crab spider (Thomisus sp. Family: Thomisidae) and a flower beetle @ home, Kerala. The Thomisdae, or Crab spiders are the masters of ambush and disguise. Some of them change their colors in tune to the...
the blue mormon butterfly
The blue mormon butterfly, papilio polymnestor, on an ixora flower. This is the second largest butterfly in India, after the Southern Birdwing. In India, they are mostly endemic to south India. The blue mormons are frequenters to...
cherry picking at our backyard: the indian koel
Is somebody watching me? The female Indian Koel, eudynamys scolopacea, on our cherry tree. eh? Got it! These koels often raid our bulbul nests. The bulbuls often make their nests around our house, at...
