Kamat's Insects

• Kamat's fascination with insects -- Foreword by Vikas Kamat

Introduction

Other than a handful of insects, most of us are ignorant about the large number of insects around us. We do not even identify them and instead refer to them as just bugs or flies. The primary reason for this attitude is the our ignorance, fear, and disgust of the hexapods (six feted - hence spiders are not insects). We try to live far way from them and use the first available weapon to kill them. Have you ever pondered that the insects, just like us humans, are heirs to the resources of planet earth and deserve a fundamental opportunity to live?

-K. L. Kamat

Table of Contents

• The Angel Butterfly
• Delicious Husband!
• Egg Capsule of Praying Mantis
• Fighting Ants
• How do the ants cross water?
• Insect Goes to School !
• Insect or Bird?
• Kamat's Fascination with Insects
• Love Stuck - Painted Grass Hoppers
• Members of Insect Society
• Mud Wasp in Nest
• Portrait of a Cockroach
• Praying "Praying Mantis"
• Queen Bee Kicks Out the Lazy Husband
• The unequal match of the termite couple

• Ants and Tribals -- Essay on human nature, the life of insects, and their co-existence based on a real life experience in Bengal.

• "Keeta-Jagattu" -- The Insect Kingdom

Kamat's Potpourri Timeless Theater Animals Insects