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June 05, 2021 13:49 IST
India’s field researchers have kept the insect world buzzing with new additions. We speak to some of them about the species they found
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India’s field researchers have kept the insect world buzzing with new additions. We speak to some of them about the species they found
Species name:
Nacaduba Sinhala ramaswamii, a line blue butterfly
Named after: Ramamsamy SRK a farmer based out of Saptur village, located at 45 kilometres from Madurai
“I have completed recording as many as 300 butterfly species in the Western Ghats, only a few are left,” declares Ramamsamy SRK over phone from his farm at Saptur in Madurai. Recently, one of his discoveries, a new sub-species of a six line blue butterfly, earned him a rare honour. Named
As the Bohag Bihu Bird Count 2021 begins on April 14 in Assam, birders across the country talk about the significance of this month in bird watching
It’s that time of the year in Assam when the Indian cuckoo
(keteki) and
Asian koel
(kuli) call out across the Brahmaputra plains. And, graceful bursts of pink-spotted white flowers of an exotic orchid streak the skyline. “The blooming of the foxtail orchid, the State flower of Assam, signifies the start of a new Assamese year when we celebrate Rongali or Bohag Bihu,” says Jaydev Mandal, a birder based in Assam, over the phone.
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Rare dragonfly ‘rediscovered’ after 87 years
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Amateur enthusiasts shared pictures of the insects they had been documenting in the Western Ghats.
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Amateur enthusiasts shared pictures of the insects they had been documenting in the Western Ghats.
A dragonfly,
Anaciaeschna martini, commonly known as Martin’s Duskhawker, has been ‘rediscovered’ in the Nilgiris after 87 years.
The rediscovery of the species was published recently in the
Journal of Threatened Taxa, titled ‘Rediscovery of Martin’s Duskhawker from Western Ghats, Peninsular India, with notes on its current distribution and oviposition behaviour.’
Interestingly, the record of this dragonfly in the Nilgiris could have gone completely unnoticed, if not for amateur enthusiasts sharing pictures of the insects they had been documenting in the Western Ghats. Manoj Sethumadhavan, a trustee from the Wynter-Blyth Association, a group of enthusiasts documenting the different s