We encounter ants so often in our daily life that we tend to ignore them. However, when they become bothersome, we try to eliminate them. We do very little to learn something about these social and industrious creatures. Most ants…
Insect Architects
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…
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…