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Indian Science Journalists' Collective Edition: July 2025

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A new born Southern Birdwing and its chrysalis

A Sahayadri birdwing that's about to take its first flight✨
Second largest butterfly in India 🦋

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Witnessed a reader laugh...! I'm so happy 🙂✨

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Lewis Capaldi is back! ❤️
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RoboBee Lands Softly with New Legs Science Connected Magazine is an editorially independent, non-profit newsroom producing open-access science journalism and scientific fact-checking for the global public.

The full article explains the buzz 🐝

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A black-and-white comic shows three RoboBees, small flying robots with wings and antennas. One RoboBee is perched on a plant, quoting Shakespeare: "To be or not to be, that is the question." Another RoboBee flies tilted, asking, "What's up with her?" A third RoboBee wobbles mid-air, whispers "existential crisis." The caption at the bottom reads: "FACT: RoboBees have a light-sensitive sensor to keep them upright."

🌟Published an article on Harvard's rObObee, complete with a drawing by me. Bee-cause, why not?

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Might have gone a bit overboard with the bee puns 🐝

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I'm on a 15 day learning streak! on Duolingo. With a fire emoji on the right

Played "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and got a perfect score. I feel like a virtuoso now😎

Back on Duolingo after a gap of two years👻

Sloth

Relatable

A new born Common rose butterfly and the chrysalis it emerged from

Ready to take flight✨

Common rose Chrysalisx2, eggx2 on the leaves of Thottea siliquosa

Hulloo..future common rose (Pachliopta aristolochiae) butterflies!👻✨
Caterpillars in a transformational slumber🐛🦋

Cute!

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The Dangerous Life Of A Common Baron Caterpillar | Nature inFocus A macro photographer documents the perilous journey of a Common Baron Butterfly (Euthalia aconthea) from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis and ultimately taking flight

Now that I know of the perilous journey they have ahead of them, I wish I would get to see a full-grown butterfly emerge from a pupa someday—that way, I could know for sure that at least one of them made it through.

*an interesting read:
www.natureinfocus.in/animals/the-... (TY Ashok Kallagunta)

Later, I saw some larvae on the same branch and realized I might be allowing a whole horde of caterpillars to grow. Anyway, the deed was done.
At night, I decided to read more about the Common Baron, and I'm convinced that I had unjustly accused him. It was the wasps who would attack the mangoes!

I later got to know that it was the larva of a Common Baron.
I took the tree branch with His Lordship to the terrace and tied it to the branches of the tree, much to the ire of my parents.
// If we could chop down so many branches of the tree, surely the little guy could have some leaves.

A Common Baron larva on a mango tree branch. Surrounded by other leaves. All looking shiny and wet

Our mango tree got a trim recently, and on a morning walk, I came across this little guy nestled among the still-green branches—sparkling after a morning shower. My first thought was that it was a snowflake. Though, a snowflake at my place would mean something had gone very wrong.

A thread to save!

Green treetops, cloudy skies, and birds announcing a break from the rain. One particular herald is the mimicking expert: Greater Racket-tailed Drongo.

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