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Birds of a feather

A boat foregrounds the huge gathering of seagulls at Gorai Creek in Borivli West Read More

It’s a bug’s life in our backyard

Finding an insect fossil from millions of years ago is not an everyday experience. “But it only illustrates how much longer insects have been around in Earth’s habitats compared to humans,” Shardul Bajikar, naturalist at the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), pointed out to this diarist. The fossil was one among a multitude of observations made by 16 participants during an overnight insect camp at the BNHS Nature Reserve, Goregaon, conducted by the BNHS on September 20 and 21. “This season is the time when insect diversity is at its peak; hence, we organised this camp, during both

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