tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29324598126813915622026-10-04T14:49:08.294-07:00DiversityIndia NewsVijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.comBlogger205125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-42295159558512322512021-08-19T09:55:00.003-07:002021-08-19T09:55:37.165-07:00Big Butterfly Month 2021: Photography ContestGet ready for a fun-filled month full of colour! We kickstart this month by inviting entries for the Butterfly Photography Contest to celebrate butterflies and their presence in our lives! (No age group restrictions, contest open for all!)Prizes to be won…𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀:1. Maximum Two entries per participant 2. Send your entries to bigbutterflymonth@gmail.com Vijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com1India20.593684 78.96288-7.7165498361788458 43.80663 48.903917836178849 114.11913tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-74334883626872073312019-06-26T08:35:00.000-07:002019-06-26T08:35:28.551-07:001st Pawalgarh Titli Utsav, 24th to 27th Oct 2019
Location:
Pawalgarh Conservation Reserve, Nainital District, Uttarakhand
Distances:
Pawalgarh is 20 km from Ramnagar, 45 km from Haldwani. Pawalgarh is 256 km
from Delhi and 258 km from Dehradun.
Dates:
24th Oct (Thursday) to 27th Oct 2019 (Sunday)
Timings:
Start: First trail will begin at 0800 hrs on 24th Oct 2019
End: Last trail will end at 530 pm on 27th Oct 2019
Background:
Uttarakhand Vijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-50497975376792868922018-07-25T17:28:00.000-07:002018-07-25T17:32:41.963-07:00National Moth Week record sharing challenge 2018
We are celebrating National Moth Week 2018 currently. We would like to start a challenge to share interesting Moth records on social media and challenge your fellow Moth-rs to do the same. There are no strict rules as such but here is how it will work.
Person starting the challenge would post 10 moth records on social medial like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram etc.
With any other Vijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-51206457140960950032018-03-04T18:01:00.000-08:002018-03-08T06:46:53.538-08:00Biodiversity Meet, Nagaland 2018
Butterflies & moths, birds, odonates, spiders, amphibians & reptiles, cicadas and more…
Sukhai, Ghukhuyi & Kivikhu, Zunheboto District, Nagaland
Dates: 9th May to 16th May 2018
Costs: Rs.16,500/- per person (for Indian citizens), ex Dimapur, including food, stay vehicle hire on all days on first come, first served basis by transferring 50% of the contributory amount to Vijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com127Nagaland, India26.1584354 94.5624425999999424.333721899999997 91.980655599999935 27.9831489 97.144229599999946tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-66610917286837628512017-11-01T12:52:00.000-07:002017-11-06T12:59:29.411-08:00Birds of India website launched
India has remarkable bird diversity, a long history of ornithology, and a strong community of birders. Thus, it is incredible that we do not have a dedicated, comprehensive and scholarly website on Indian birds. Birds of India website is an effort at developing such an online platform, providing a critical and freely available resource that has been sorely missing. It will draw upon the Vijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com1India20.593684 78.962880000000041-8.6044825 37.654286000000042 49.791850499999995 120.27147400000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-18908026482550691972017-10-30T13:02:00.000-07:002017-11-01T12:50:49.023-07:00SpiderIndia Meet 2017/2018
Update : 2017-10-31[Information on this page might change frequently over next few weeks]
We are in early stages of finalizing a SpiderIndia meet for this year end. Registration details would be available soon.
As per the voting, we have decided on Option A
Option A
Gibbon WLS
3 days 2 night (22,23,24 Dec.)
INR 5100.00
Covering all food stay and Travel (to and fro from GuwahatiVijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-87974843964443676572017-09-28T06:39:00.000-07:002017-09-28T06:42:21.058-07:00DragonflyIndia is 12 years
Dear Odonutters and Naturalists,
I am so happy to wish DragonflyIndia a very happy birthday. DragonflyIndia enters teens now.
It was in 2005 during ButterflyIndia meet at Aralam, David Raju, Kiran C G, Subbu and me discussed the idea of bringing Odonata enthusiasts and researchers of Indian Subcontinent together on a virtual platform YahooGroups. It has been growing by leaps and bounds Vijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com0India20.593684 78.962880000000041-8.6044825 37.654286000000042 49.791850499999995 120.27147400000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-90673752815915294662017-09-11T08:54:00.000-07:002017-09-13T08:59:22.065-07:00Amphibians of India website launched
http://www.indianamphibians.org/
The ballooning male of the bush frog, Raorchestes jayarami, announced a very happy news today: there is now an Amphibians of India website that promises to be another resounding success in citizen science. Following the successful Facebook group, Reptiles and Amphibians of India, and inspired by the powerful online platform of the Butterflies of India Vijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com0India20.593684 78.962880000000041-8.6044825 37.654286000000042 49.791850499999995 120.27147400000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-64295550616975781442017-09-01T06:21:00.000-07:002017-09-01T06:21:24.439-07:00The Moths of India website has 700 species
Hello everybody,The Moths of India website has now reached 700 species, an incredible journey in less than two years. The website has also recorded more than 6,500 unique visitors, a number that is growing weekly, and bodes well for growing the “moth-ers” community in India and elsewhere. Even more encouraging is the number of contributors has increased, and many different people have started Vijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-69038578508226029882017-08-23T07:31:00.000-07:002017-08-24T07:40:40.784-07:00Reptiles of India website launched
http://www.indianreptiles.org/
Following the incredible success of the Facebook group, Reptiles and Amphibians of India, of which all of you are hopefully members, we have taken the next step in not only bringing together the Indian herpetology community, but also providing them a critical resource that has been sorely missing. With the Reptiles of India website, we aim to work towards Vijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com0India20.593684 78.962880000000041-8.6044825 37.654286000000042 49.791850499999995 120.27147400000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-57463190391654974582017-03-06T18:50:00.000-08:002017-03-06T19:04:39.935-08:00SpiderIndia Meet 2017 :: Kolkata, West Bengal
By Dr. Atul Vartak
The much awaited first SpiderIndia Meet was held in Kolkata, West Bengal from the 17th – 19th February 2017.
Stay was arranged in the Oasis Guest House in Jadavpur. Enthusiastic participants from different parts of the country started coming on from the 16th night and some arrived on 17th morning. About 20 enthusiasts from 6 States attended the meet.
On the first day 17th Vijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-82060396382758142722017-02-01T19:45:00.000-08:002017-04-05T16:32:11.878-07:00Rare spider spotted in a remote hospital in Assam through activities of a School Nature Club
An
article was published recently in the Biodiversity
Data Journal entitled, “Report of Platythomisus
octomaculatus (C. L. Koch, 1845) and Platythomisus
sudeepi Biswas, 1977 from India (Araneae, Thomisidae)”. The
first species, P. octomaculatus, is
being recorded after 120 years of its last report and its distribution has been
extended to Assam in India from its previously known distributions Vijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-77756634971051810462017-02-01T12:59:00.000-08:002017-02-05T13:07:33.110-08:00New butterfly, spotted three decades back
Roopak Goswami
Limenitis rileyi. Picture courtesy: British Natural History Museum, London
Guwahati, Jan. 31: A butterfly, spotted in Arunachal Pradesh nearly three decades back, has been finally described as a new species.
The Limenitis rileyi Tytler was sighted by London-based naturalist Purnendu Roy in Upper Dibang Valley district in 1987, and has now been reportedVijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-14731148592829213932017-01-27T06:36:00.001-08:002017-01-27T06:36:55.050-08:00Moths of India reaches 600 species
The Moths of India website has reached 600 species, an amazing achievement in just over 15 months since we went live. Some interesting moths posted in the last few months are...
The Zygaenid moth Psaphis euschemoides http://www.mothsofindia.org/sp/355920/Psaphis-euschemoides, which is an amazing mimic of another day flying Geometrid moth, the False Vijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-82669113084328577242017-01-27T06:11:00.000-08:002017-01-27T06:13:13.796-08:00It’s a bug’s life
Nita Sathyendran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM JANUARY 25
Author and science education consultant Geetha Iyer weaves tales of insects in her book The Weavers - The Curious World of Insects
When Geetha Iyer looks out into her expansive garden in her home in Suchindram, near Kanyakumari, or any garden or patch anywhere, for that matter, it’s not only the trees, flowers, birds, bees and butterflies that Vijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com0Suchindram, Tamil Nadu 629704, India8.1521865 77.4681196000000238.1364685 77.44794960000003 8.1679044999999988 77.488289600000016tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-327581902118086282017-01-04T07:10:00.000-08:002017-01-04T07:10:48.819-08:00Butterfly spotted after 58 years - Sighted in Arunachal Pradesh
Roopak Goswami
A Howarth's Hairstreak. Picture credit: Rachit Singh
Guwahati, Jan. 1: His love for the butterfly world helped young Rachit Singh to sight Howarth's Hairstreak, a butterfly species, after 58 years at Tenga valley in Arunachal Pradesh.
Howarth's Hairstreak ( Chrysozephyrus disparatus interpositus Howarth) was rediscovered 58 years after it was first spotted Vijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com1Tenga Valley 79011627.1953855 92.4623214000000641.6733510000000003 51.153727400000065 52.717420000000004 133.77091540000006tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-81259285013602362512016-09-15T08:28:00.000-07:002016-10-03T08:31:01.027-07:00Moth of India website :: Updates September 2016
by Sanjay Sondhi
The moth website keeps chugging along, and with 510 species, 17 life cycles, 1169 images viewed by 3,002 unique visitors, we are off to a great start, given that the website went live only a year ago in September 2015. What better way to celebrate this with an amazing moth, Dasysphecia bombyliformis which can be viewed through the link below.
http://Vijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-70858727262241683912015-07-06T08:53:00.000-07:002015-07-06T08:53:58.156-07:0010th IndianMoths Foundation day
I am happy to note that we have completed a decade of togetherness
in the Indian Moths community. Ten year back we started with a Yahoo
group. Thanks to Dr. Shubhalaxmi Vaylure for initiating the the
community and inviting me to be part of it.
[https://in.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/IndianMoths/info]
After that we have presence in Flickr https://www.flickr.com/groups/Vijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-5917077371809191012015-03-15T10:19:00.000-07:002015-03-15T10:39:28.835-07:00New butterfly species spotted in West Bengal
In a significant addition to the butterfly species in India, wildlife enthusiasts have found the Malayan Green Banded Peacock (Papilio palinurus), a beautiful specimen found in South East Asia, for the first time in India.
The butterfly with a dusty green base having a bluish green band spread over both wings in the shape of an arc is found in southern Myanmar and peninsular Thailand Vijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com0West Bengal, India22.9867569 87.85497550000002315.5980159 77.52782700000003 30.3754979 98.182124000000016tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-26885158783839345952014-12-24T01:08:00.000-08:002015-01-07T01:09:27.159-08:00Variety is the spice of humble moth’s sex life
Published Monday 22 December 2014
A small brown moth has one of the most complex sex lives in the insect world, new research has found.
The twilight courtship rituals of the gold swift moth (Phymatopus hecta) can be seen in June and July in forest glades and bracken patches all over Britain.
Despite the insect’s unassuming appearance, a new study published in the Biological Journal Vijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-8330278598921905652014-10-26T18:00:00.000-07:002014-11-04T06:36:51.128-08:00New milestones for the Butterflies of India website
By Krushnamegh Kunte
I write with very exciting news. It was exactly five years ago in October-November 2009 that I started discussing the Butterflies of India website with friends and colleagues in India (I was in Boston those days). A couple of months later we had the first draft of the website online and by January 2011 we were running full steam. For me and perhaps for many of you, theVijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-65671034522545910532014-09-09T10:20:00.000-07:002014-09-09T10:21:33.609-07:00Dr. Kamal Bawa Gets Midori 2014 Prize For Biodiversity
WASHINGTON: An evolutionary Indian ecologist, Kamal Bawa has won the prestigious USD 100,000 Midori Prize for biodiversity for his pioneering research, including in climate change in the Himalayas.
Photo: Wikipedia
The AEON Environmental Foundation, Japan, established the Midori Prize for Biodiversity in 2010, which is given to only three individuals, who have made outstanding Vijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-17570261437801140582014-09-07T07:28:00.000-07:002014-09-07T07:28:56.508-07:00Parthenos special issue on Odonates : Call for articles
As a part of DragonflyIndia's 10th anniversary, we will be publishing a special issue of Parthenos (Newsletter of DiversityIndia) on odonates. If you want to contribute, please send your article to Parthenos before 15 Septemeber 2014. It will be helpful to get title and abstract of your article in advance.
The article should be in Times New Roman, font size 12, normal margin, Vijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-78911146088690656862014-09-04T06:45:00.000-07:002014-09-04T06:45:19.617-07:00Systematic documentation of Odonates in India
Over years we have been sharing lot of information, resources and records of Odonates on out community forums be it Yahoo, FB or other. We also attempted collecting data about Pantala migration using a form [http://diversityindia.org/dragon/]. Now we need to step up our efforts.
Members are gearing up for more serious data collection now and this was also discussed at length during the Vijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932459812681391562.post-43005879782400245542014-08-28T12:01:00.000-07:002014-08-28T12:37:17.102-07:00Kaiser-i-Hind Teinopalpus imperialis imperialis from Arunachal Pradesh
By: Sanjay Sondhi
Here are photographic records of perhaps one of the rarest and most beautiful of Indian butterflies-the Kaiser-i-Hind Teinopalpus imperials imperialis on the IFB website.
http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp/2845/Teinopalpus-imperialis
The credit for this goes to Reddy Bei, Range Forest Officer, Pange, Talle Wildlife Sanctuary. For those of who don’t know Reddy Bei-heVijay Barvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06894926606238414466noreply@blogger.com1Arunachal Pradesh28.2179994 94.72775279999996224.6321484 89.564178799999965 31.8038504 99.891326799999959