Red Pierrot, Kabini We’ve all grown up on stories of the Mafia and how most businessmen need to shell out ‘Protection Money’ to carry on...

Stick Insect, Coorg When you think of flying sticks and tricks, you tend to think of Bruce Lee and his famous split-stick, the Nunchaku,...

Plain Tiger Butterfly, Kabini While visitors to the forests of Kabini are always advised to keep an eye out for a tiger lurking in the...

Rhinoceros Beetle, Kabini For those of us brought up on a literary repast of captions adorning signboards and those quirky lines on the...

Crimson Rose, Kabini For centuries, a rose has not just been a flower, but also a gallant substitute for words: the term sub-rosa...

Common Jezebel, Kabini - If you’ve ever stopped to smell the flowers in Kabini, chances are that you’d have made the acquaintance of a...

Potter Wasp, Kabini - The cult of the Freemasons and the rituals of the Masonic lodges may remain an eternal mystery to those of us...

Robber Fly, Coorg - Being mugged is every traveller’s nightmare. Being mugged and then consumed as the main course in a mugger’s banquet,...

Cicada, Kabini - History is replete with tales of legendary heroes going into exile, and returning after conquering the odds, to reclaim...

Common Mormon Caterpillar, Coorg It’s said that if you wish to attain any degree of proficiency in a field, you should begin early....

Antlion, Coorg - Did this miniature model of entomological royalty get its name because it’s the king of animals in its weight group? Or...

Jumping Ants, Coorg - The Queen is dead; long live the Queen! This could well be the leitmotif of a parallel universe that exists in the...

Honey ant and aphids, Kabini - The pastoral society of Kabini is the stage where an intrepid breed of farmers herds their cattle right...

Baronet Butterfly, Coorg - Forget Cannes, Ibiza, Jamaica, Rio and other playgrounds of the sun worshipping jet set. Some of the world’s...

Jewel Bug, Coorg - Long, long ago, in the days before PCs and video games, when TVs were tourist attractions at the homes of the...

Damselfly, Coorg - A Damsel is not always a lady. For, even the males of this species are called Damselflies, though they don’t seem to...

Worker Bee, Coorg All work and no play makes Jill a good bee. And a ‘live’ bee. For it’s not unknown for the hive bosses, to knock off...