Ripan Biswas / Portrait of an ant-mimicking crab spider. (Amyciaea sp) raising its legs to warn the photographer. Buxa tiger reserve, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Ant-mimicking crab spider (Amyciaea lineatipes) predating a weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) . Ant-mimicking crab spiders live around ant colonies. Buxa tiger reserve, India. Winning Portfolio of th...
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Ripan Biswas / Two Asian weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina), queens, founding a new nest, tending to eggs, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Two Asian weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina), queens founding a new nest, tending to eggs, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Two Asian weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina), queens founding a new nest, tending to eggs, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Two Asian weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina), queens founding a new nest, tending to eggs, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Two Asian weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina), queens founding a new nest, tending to eggs, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Asian weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) worker, carrying larva between its mandibles, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Asian weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina), queen, nest building, using silk produced by larvae to sew leaves together, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Pair of ants (Formicidae) mating, species unknown, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Asian weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina), worker ants in small, temporary nest chamber with eggs, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Two Asian weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) sucking sap from a flower bud, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Two Asian weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) sucking sap from a flower bud, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Two India queenless ants (Diacamma indicum) fighting, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Two India queenless ants (Diacamma indicum) communicating using their antennae, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Three India queenless ants (Diacamma indicum) communicating using their antennae, West Bengal, India
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Ripan Biswas / Asian weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina), worker ants carrying the queen, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Two Asian weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) engaged in trophallaxis, social feeding, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Two male Darjeeling bush frogs (Raorchestes annandalii) fighting over territory, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Darjeeling bush frog (Raorchestes annandalii) croaking, sitting on a leaf, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Two male Darjeeling bush frogs (Raorchestes annandalii) fighting over territory, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Two male Darjeeling bush frog (Raorchestes annandalii) croaking at night to warn off intruders to their territory, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Pair of Darjeeling bush frogs (Raorchestes annandalii) in amplexus, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Two male Darjeeling bush frogs (Raorchestes annandalii) fighting over territory, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Darjeeling bush frog (Raorchestes annandalii) croaking, showing inflated vocal sac, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Darjeeling bush frog (Raorchestes annandalii) croaking, sitting on rose bud, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Darjeeling bush frog (Raorchestes annandalii) croaking, showing inflated vocal sac, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Darjeeling bush frog (Raorchestes annandalii) croaking, sitting on a petal, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Light trails from Common eastern firefly (Photinus pyralis) in flight at night, Coochbehar, West Bengal, India. Close Up Photographer of the Year competition 2021, Finalist Insect category.
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Ripan Biswas / Female Blue riverdamsel (Pseudagrion microcephalum) laying eggs on vegetation under the water with male wings visible above water . Water strider (Gerridae sp.) approaches in search of food, Coochbeha...
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Ripan Biswas / Emerald cockroach wasp (Ampulex compressa) injecting venom into cockroach, before it drags it down to its den. Buxa tiger reserve, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Caterpillar with parasitic wasp (Braconidae) eggs, Buxa tiger reserve, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Eucharited Wasp (Eucharitedae) parasitic wasp, which attacks ants, Coochbehar, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Parasitic wasp (Xanthocryptus novozealandicus) Buxa Tiger Teserve, India.
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Ripan Biswas / Cordyceps fungus sporing bodies emerging from daddy long legs, Coochbehar, India. Nature Photographer of the Year Competition 2021 - Highly Commended Plants and Fungi Category.
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Ripan Biswas / Spider wasp (Pompilidae) with spider prey, Buxa Tiger Reserve, India.
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Ripan Biswas / A weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) in attacking mode when the photographer approached close to it. Buxa tiger reserve, India. Winning Portfolio of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards (WPOY)...
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Ripan Biswas / A weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) carrying a small stone to their nest. Scientists are not sure why they do this. Buxa tiger reserve, India. Winning Portfolio of the Wildlife Photographer of the Ye...
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Ripan Biswas / A group of weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) attacking a solitary Indian queenless ant (Diacamma sp) Buxa tiger reserve, India. Winning Portfolio of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards (WPO...
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Ripan Biswas / A group of weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) taking a feather to their nest in the tree canopy.
Buxa tiger reserve,India. Winning Portfolio of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards (WPOY) 20...
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Ripan Biswas / A shoot fly (Atherigona sp) feeding on inside of a broken snail shell, Buxa tiger reserve, India.
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Ripan Biswas / A giant riverine tiger beetle (Cicindela octonotata) attacked by a weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) when the beetle was raiding the ant colony. The beetle had bitten the ant in half but did not get...