The amazing hornbill brings in food for the awaiting chick. They go foraging into the deep forest and gather all things edible that they can find, store them in their Gular pouch ( are in… Read More »Malabar grey hornbill feeding chick
Hooded grasshoppers ( Teratodes ) are a genus of grasshoppers that are native to India and Sri Lanka. The striking characteristic of this insect is its wonderful armour-like structure, that stretches over most part of… Read More »Hooded Grasshopper
The members of the ‘Tetragnathidae’ family of spiders are commonly known as the long jawed spiders. Called so because of their relatively longer mouth parts or more specifically called ‘chelicerae’, or the fangs. The other… Read More »Long jawed spiders – 16 legged love affair
Came across this big group of individuals swimming around in a small stream in Coorg. They could easily have been mistaken for a school of fish and I did too. However, they seemed to be… Read More »Whirligig Beetle