Small Wonders

Egg laying in fast flowing water. Dragonflies and damselflies collectively called odonates, are one of the most common insects flying over f...

Edible nest Swiftlet. This is Indian Swiftlet, or Indian Edible-nest Swiftlet. It is a small swift with mainly dark black / brown above and ...

Mayfly - Shortest Life Span Mayflies can be easily recognised by the tails t heir rear. They spend their egg and nymph stages underwater, wh...

Baby Bugs : Just emerged from the eggs. Animals have two ways to make sure that they leave offspring in the world, so that their genes survi...

Centipede’s Baby care. Parental care is an essential part of human life, because we take an exceptionally long time to grow up. Other mammal...

Long Long Eyes : For vision and fighting. Just imagine our range of vision if we had our eyes at the end of long stalks like this stalk eye...

Flame of the Forest. This flower is of “Flame of the Forest” (Butea monosperma - frondosa) or “Palas” in Marathi. Normally this tree blooms ...

Chameleon : Unbelievable body parts Chameleons are reptiles and related to lizards. They live predominantly in trees and have several physic...

Butterfly Migration. Generally people are more familiar with the bird migration, but at the same time very few people know about the migrati...

Ladybird Beetle: Natural pest control for plant eaters. This is lady beetle or ladybird beetle. Most species of ladybird beetles are among ...

Ant and Blue Caterpillar. Ants are important, highly effective and even specialized predators of many other insect species. But at the same ...

Tawny Coster’s Emergernce A Tawny Coster butterfly is hanging on a twig, having just emerged from its pupa or chrysalis. It is very much dif...

A walking fish – Mud Skipper Mudskippers are the fish that have become adapted to an amphibious lifestyle. They are common on tidal mudflats...

Black Rajah at Mud puddle In Yeoor mud puddling season started already. We can see lots of butterflies attracting and congregating on small...

Grey Partridge with babies Grey Francolin, also called Gray Partridge or “teetar” in Marathi or Hindi, is a common breeding resident bird in...

Leaf Praying Mantis This is bizarre looking variety of Leaf praying mantis. As it was photographed on rock that’s why you can identify some ...

Wings Scales for safety and attraction. Lepidoptera is the order of insect, which includes butterflies and moths, which means "scale w...

Potter Wasp: Craftsmen in Clay It is interesting to find insects or other creatures building structures out of the same kind of materials th...

Tiny “Bat”man. Bats are among the most misunderstood of all animals because of the irrational fear among people and the ignorance of the vit...