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....
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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...
the great papaya fight
“This is my papaya!” “No, this is mine!” Reminiscing the great papaya fight of 2005 through an old photograph. Rufous Treepie and Small Green Barbet competing for the papaya. Birds of Kerala
kozhikode and kuttichira mishkal mosque
A few days at kozhikode opened up a myriad of reasons in our heart to say that it is one of the best places we have been, so far. The varied cultural/historical/architectural diversities which...
