No honey, no hives, but solitary bees have important lives
                            2021-03-08 08:29
                        
                    
                            One morning in April 2020, early in the lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, I leaned over the terrace parapet of my home in Bengaluru, scanning the spreading branches of a Yekke (aak; aakdo; Calotropis gigantea) plant to spot a pale-billed flowerpecker whose trills I could distinctly hear. Eye to the viewfinder, I looked for the […]
                        
                         
                                                         
                                                        