Welcome to Agumbe

The land of King Cobra and ‘Malgudi Days’!

Agumbe Rainforest Research Station

Basecamp surrounded by betel-nut plantation

Draco Cottage

Tiny Beetle on Indian Heliotrope flowers

Indian Heliotrope (Heliotropium indicum)

Wildflowers of Sahyadri!

Wonderful violet flowers in the vicinity of ARRS.

Forest canopy

The canopy is so thick that the Sun rays could barely reach the ground

Still-life

A pond surrounded by dense forest.

A locust

The grassland is a home to so many beautiful creatures

Common Vine Snake

A gentle non-venomous creature.

Common Vine Snake

Striped fella!

Signature spider (Argiope Anasuja)

Wildflowers of Sahyadri

The Hill Glory Bower (Clerodendrum infortunatum).

Good Morning

Early morning sunshine

Stream

A gentle stream of water in the lights and shadows of rainforest.

Draco - The flying lizard

Draco (Draco dussumieri) is a master of gliding as well as camouflage!

Malabar Giant Squirrel

Happens to be the state mammal of Maharashtra.

Bronzed frog (Hylarana Temporalis)

Bicolored Frog

Frog in a hole

As the darkness fell a few creatures were still up!

Common Bluebottle

Graphium sarpedon

Rustic

Cupha erymanthis or Rustic.

Red Pierrot

Talicada nyseus are beautiful tiny butterflies that frequent the backyard

Common Fivering

Ypthima baldus

Common Pierrot

Castalius rosimon

Common Silverline

Spindasis vulcanus

Glassy Tiger

Parantica Aglea

Indian Cabbage White

Pieris canidia

Grey Pansy

Junonia atlites

Rustic

Cupha erymanthis

Glassy Tiger

Parantica Aglea

Short Horned Grasshopper

Common Housefly

Mudpuddling Red Pierrot butterflies

Mudpuddling is an exercise in which the butterflies gather necessary salts from mud, dung etc.

Funnel web spider

Begonia flowers

Pied Paddy Skimmer (Male)

Little Spiderhunter

(Arachnothera longirostra) Although their name is Spider-hunter they also enjoy nectar of this flower of Powder-Puff (Calliandra).

Crimson Backed Sunbird

Crimson Backed Sunbird

Orange Minivet

Velvet Fronted Nuthatch

Chestnut Headed Bee-eater

Heart Spotted Woodpecker

Brahminy Skink

A pleasant stream

Tiny eggs under the leaf

Funnel Web Spider

Dewdrops

Grassland near ARRS

Damselfly

Giant Wood Spider

Females of these spiders are really huge compared to their male counterparts

The ‘flying’ fly

.. that’s not the scientific name!

Pupa hanging on a silk thread