Photo Feature
Paper Wasp and her Brood
<p><em>On a ‘not so hot’ summer afternoon in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, a mother paper wasp Polistes sp. guards her nest, skillfully constructed using a mix of saliva and wood fibres. Each brood cell hosts a single egg. The mother fans her wings to moderate the temperature of her eggs while also warding off parasitoids and other predators</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Photo: Karthikeyan Shanmugasundaram</strong></p>