Chief Pollinating Officer
While we were admiring this wild lily, a beautiful busy bee came buzzing out of the blue…
A star fruit tree at a friend’s house was in full blossom… it has this phase for just a week’s time or so. It had rained heavily and though it had stopped, it was fun to feel it raining again from the tree while picking the fruits, for sharing with friends. There were tiny pink…
The distinction between a turtle, tortoise or terrapin comes from what habitat they are adapted to live in. Marine-based turtles spend most of their lives at sea, only returning to land to lay eggs. Their shells are flat and streamlined to help reduce drag while swimming. Unlike land-based tortoises who have short, sturdy legs, turtles…
This evening for a few minutes there was this bright sunshine 🌞 + heavy rain 🌧 … illuminating every raindrop as it tumbled down from the clouds, on to the shimmering trees. But as we witness this (hyperlapse) video of the orchestration in the sky… we can see different layers of clouds, not all moving…
We may have noticed these common holes in soft sandy patches and walked on. Few might imagine that these tiny holes are actually the engineering effort of some young insects (antlion larvae), at work catching a little hard working engineer – an ant! As ambush predators, catching prey is risky because food arrives unpredictably and,…
On Kanakapura road, off Vajarahalli Road before the NICE road flyover, created by the efforts of the KFD and various supporters, there’s a mini jungle one can walk around. The Turahalli Tree Park is a lovely green space with a variety of trees to to walk around and explore.
This was an amazing sight… it looked like a snake at first sight, but then it was pretty strange… After a quick search based on a wild guess, it turned out to be larvae migrating, possibly some kind of a gnat larvae. But why are these larvae moving like this? You might guess that it…