Southern Mexico's Chiapas state boasts of a bizarre export: radiated flesh-eating flies. Chiapas' capital, Tuxtla Gutierrez, is home to an unusual screwworm factory which breeds millions of insects

Bangladesh is planning to conduct an aerial raid on mosquitoes, which are attacking cities in droves. Larvicide will be sprayed from helicopters on an estimated 20 million insects. The country

Cobwebs can help gauge pollution levels

India s wealth of flora and fauna provide a rainbow of natural dyes

Research efforts on natural colours are not helping the traditional industry

Natural dye business survives on exporters and the local carpet industry

Many new pest varieties are sneaking into India. To prevent this, a quarantine bill draft is under consideration of the Union ministry for agriculture. Even though the quarantine stations have

There is a quiet revolution sweeping across the forests of Mexico. The movement seeks to save the endangered Monarch butterfly. Even as millions of these butterflies spend their winters in Mexico yet

Natural dyes, now popular in the West, are yet to make it big in the Indian market, reports R V Singh
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Officials dismiss green rain in Bengal village as bee droppings, but experts find flaws in the theory

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