pollen dreams, bees and beetles
Longhorn Beetle on a purple flower. The pollen on the beetle accentuates its color đ Bumble bee on a dandelion. Aosta Valley at the Alps, Italy. Jun 2009.
Category: prakriti
the indian flying fox
Quite often we have special visitors to our backyard. Just that we need to keep our eyes and ears open đŻ This is a fruit bat, the indian flying fox, pteropus giganteus, which must have strayed off...
Intimacy with Insects: common mormon butterfly
Common mormon female, papilio polytes form stichius, just out of its pupa. You can see the pupa just below the butterfly, on the curry leaf plant murraya koenigii, which served as its host plant....
nest raiders at our backyard
One day we heard a lot of commotion just outside of our house. We saw 3 or 4 purple sunbirds, red whiskered bulbuls and yellow browed bulbuls at the same location, hovering and squeaking...
butterfly mating and marmots at the alps
The male orange tip butterfly, striking a majestic pose, with its legs firmly placed on the plant and err.. the female orange tip below… Orange tips (anthocharis cardamines) are common across Europe and found in...
