Termite Mimic Rove Beetle

Word of the day, especially while you're reading this comic: Pupaphobia. No, not a fear of pupae, but the fear of puppets! Meet the termite-mimic rove beetle recently discovered from Australia that grows an entire termite puppet from its abdomen to fool termites!

Green Humour for DW Environment. 

Bee Orchid

Meet the Bee Orchid (no offense meant to any Rita I know!). Comic from my column with Roundglass Sustain. 

Mimic Octopus April Fools'

The Mimic Octopus takes mimicry to a whole new level, mimicking other marine organisms in colour, appearance and even texture, using its pigment sacs called chromatophores. Here's a mimic octopus wishing you a happy April Fools'! The comic appears in my column with Sunday Mid-day.

Batesian Mimicry

On Batesian mimicry from my column with BL-ink last weekend. There's an interesting rhyme to distinguish between the Coral and the Milk Snakes, which I came to know of watching The Jeff Corwin Show, and it goes like this- "Red and black, you're okay, Jack; Red and yellow, you're a dead fellow"! (This pertains only to a few species of North American coral snakes).

The Lyrebird

Lyrebirds are ground-dwelling birds found in Australia, renowned for their exceptional mimicry! Immortalized by Sir David Attenborough in the documentary 'Life of Birds', the Superb Lyrebird in particular can mimic anything from a bird to a gunshot to a camera shutter!

The comic appears in my column with The Hindu BL-ink this weekend.