ooks are deceptive. This age-old adage comes true in some butterfly colonies where the winged insects have acquired bright colours and attractive wing patterns over millions of years to fool their predators.

Shannon Olsson examines the behaviour of insect pollinators to understand their reaction to a changing climate.

ver millennia, farming has transformed landscapes and ecosystems. As we transported plants across the oceans, we also unwittingly enabled the flourishing and evolution of other species.

The investigated the butterfly mimetic communities of the Western Ghats over five years

HOW BUTTERFLY COMMUNITIES EVOLVE INTO A GAME OF WARNING AND DECEIPT!

Students from Dr. Krushnamegh Kunte's Biodiversity Lab have discovered some secrets of a long evolutionary game through which butterflies come to warn, fool and escape their predators using traits such as wing colour patterns and flight

National Centre for Biological Sciences congratulates Vinothkumar Kutti Ragunath for being selected as a member to join the EMBO Global Investigator Network ! 

Congratulations!

Shivaprasad is a plant biologist and faculty at TIFR-NCBS. He is interested in understanding epigenetic modifications that result in gene silencing involving small RNAs in plants. His lab is involved in generating newer tools for crop improvement via a multi-disciplinary approach.

We congratulate Prof. P V Shivaprasad for getting elected to the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI)!

I switched off the ceiling fan, in case the Nawab decided to fly high in a fit of pique. But the Nawab remained glued to his blue throne.

Indigenous tech to be available to farmers at a fraction of import costs