Browsing Ripan Biswas

Ripan Biswas / Portrait of an ant-mimicking crab spider. (Amyciaea sp) raising its legs to warn the photographer. Buxa tiger reserve, India.

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...

Ripan Biswas / Two Asian weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina), queens, founding a new nest, tending to eggs, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Two Asian weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina), queens founding a new nest, tending to eggs, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Two Asian weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina), queens founding a new nest, tending to eggs, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Two Asian weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina), queens founding a new nest, tending to eggs, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Two Asian weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina), queens founding a new nest, tending to eggs, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Asian weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) worker, carrying larva between its mandibles, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Asian weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina), queen, nest building, using silk produced by larvae to sew leaves together, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Pair of ants (Formicidae) mating, species unknown, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Asian weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina), worker ants in small, temporary nest chamber with eggs, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Two Asian weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) sucking sap from a flower bud, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Two Asian weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) sucking sap from a flower bud, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Two India queenless ants (Diacamma indicum) fighting, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Two India queenless ants (Diacamma indicum) communicating using their antennae, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Three India queenless ants (Diacamma indicum) communicating using their antennae, West Bengal, India

Ripan Biswas / Asian weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina), worker ants carrying the queen, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Two Asian weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) engaged in trophallaxis, social feeding, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Two male Darjeeling bush frogs (Raorchestes annandalii) fighting over territory, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Darjeeling bush frog (Raorchestes annandalii) croaking, sitting on a leaf, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Two male Darjeeling bush frogs (Raorchestes annandalii) fighting over territory, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Two male Darjeeling bush frog (Raorchestes annandalii) croaking at night to warn off intruders to their territory, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Pair of Darjeeling bush frogs (Raorchestes annandalii) in amplexus, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Two male Darjeeling bush frogs (Raorchestes annandalii) fighting over territory, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Darjeeling bush frog (Raorchestes annandalii) croaking, showing inflated vocal sac, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Darjeeling bush frog (Raorchestes annandalii) croaking, sitting on rose bud, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Darjeeling bush frog (Raorchestes annandalii) croaking, showing inflated vocal sac, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India.

Ripan Biswas / Darjeeling bush frog (Raorchestes annandalii) croaking, sitting on a petal, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India.

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.

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...

Ripan Biswas / Emerald cockroach wasp (Ampulex compressa) injecting venom into cockroach, before it drags it down to its den. Buxa tiger reserve, India.

Ripan Biswas / Caterpillar with parasitic wasp (Braconidae) eggs, Buxa tiger reserve, India.

Ripan Biswas / Eucharited Wasp (Eucharitedae) parasitic wasp, which attacks ants, Coochbehar, India.

Ripan Biswas / Parasitic wasp (Xanthocryptus novozealandicus) Buxa Tiger Teserve, India.

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.

Ripan Biswas / Spider wasp (Pompilidae) with spider prey, Buxa Tiger Reserve, India.

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)...

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...

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...

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...

Ripan Biswas / A shoot fly (Atherigona sp) feeding on inside of a broken snail shell, Buxa tiger reserve, India.

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...