Spiderman comes to town

Georges Brossard came to town to inform us that tiny creatures can solve most of our problems

Head-banging

Product with a bite

House and home

South Asia

Surviving in a battlefield

‘Insect farming can be done efficiently in urban areas’

Down To Earth speaks to Dave Gracer, president of Small Stock Food Strategies, about why insects can be introduced in the diets of non-vegetarians

'Cockroach milk is rich in proteins, fat and sugar'

Down To Earth speaks to Sanchari Banerjee, an author of a study on a unique species of cockroach's milk, which is the new superfood

Excrement is not a dirty word

In his much acclaimed book Call of Nature, Richard Jones reveals the secret world of dung—of humans, animals and birds

Why some bumble bees spend the night out

Bumble-bees infected with the larvae of parasitic flies stay the night out in the cold to hinder the development of the eggs

"Nature is not loved in India"

HARISH GAONKAR took his childhood passion for butterflies seriously enough to carve out an illustrious career in lepidopterology for himself. A …

Killer genes, green beards. . .

..and other dynamic stories on the politics of genetic behaviour. The evidence, of course, is scientific

The beetle and the bureaucrat

Eleven lakh sal trees face the axe in order to exterminate a beetle that is boring a hole into the image of the forest bureaucracy

Beetles for breakfast !

George Brossard is a man on a crusad. To inform the world that the insects hold the key to a global food security

Autumn for neem

Insects that cause defoliation put neem trees at risk

Of maggots and murder mysteries

The biochemistry of growing old

Research looks into the DNA factor acting as a stimulant for aging

BACTERIA CURBS MOSQUITO BREEDING

Preferential assault

A new research proves a common observation, that mosquitoes are selective in biting

Across gender lines

Mutation in a gene can cause a change in sexual behaviour of fruitflies

All for a fly

Lord of the fIies

Thefruitflies seem to live longer on a poor diet. Why?

For their eyes only

In fly-world, a good pair of eyes can mean a lot. Like finding a girlfriend

Dead ants ressurected

The changelings

A recent experiment explains how insects might have evolved