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monsoon

As the monsoon rains beat down on north India, the flying termites emerge from their underground lairs, and promptly get snapped up by waiting and hungry House Geckos in and around houses.

Uttarakhand·flowers · monsoon

Pink Rain Lilies bloom beautifully in monsoon Zephyranthus profusion at Jabbarkhet botanical arboretum, blossoming as soon as the first summer rains come in, against a brown backdrop of drying grasses.

monsoon · highway

Flooded forest stream inside Rajaji where the new Dehradun expressway is being constructed within a national park, disturbing the flow of a forest stream.

monsoon · highway

Safdarjung Hospital - All India Institute flyover area gets submerged in heavy monsoon downpour

Madhya Pradesh·monsoon · river

A monsoon central dam in Panna area of Madhya Pradesh called the Ranguwan Dam. Calm blue water surrounding the damn reflects off the dam as well the sun which is hiding behind dark clouds manages to peep out and shimmer off on the river.

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Staff of the Public Works Department try to unclog overflowing gutters after they fail to drain off the excess water from the roads during monsoon showers.

hills · monsoon

This termite hill grows taller by the minute as you watch this time lapse of a termite hill in the Indian monsoon season, with grey clouds billowing past. Assiduously working away on their mud fortresses, numbers do the job for termites.

highway · monsoon

The underpass painted in the tricolour of the Indian flag with a clock in the centre after the Republic Day celebrations in 2020. Behold the 'Legendary' Delhi traffic back to its old ways post the Corona Lockdown.

Uttarakhand·monsoon · hills

Help us identify this species of jungli pahari ginger. A wild Himalayan Ginger plant flowers in the prolific monsoon months at the wildfilmsindia Pari Tibba Estate in Motidhar, Mussoorie. Frogs call from our trout ponds!

monsoon · river

A Bay-backed Shrike sits on a branch and looks out for insect prey in the profusion of the monsoons, while a Langur (or that an allied southern sub-species, folks?) brushes off the rain from its fur by shaking it off.

coastline · monsoon

Stunning visuals of Korlai Beach in Murud, Maharashtra. The monsoon gray skies and rains have brought lush vegetation in the small hillocks near the coast. View of the inland road among palm trees leading to the beach.

flowers · monsoon

Delicate floral infloresence of Teak blossoms: tiny white stare-shaped flowers in giant clusters! Teak tree flowers are delicate white stars that float around during monsoon season, collecting in water puddles on the ground.

Kerala·boats · aerial

Alappuzha greens: beautiful aerials view of Kerala rice fields, waterways and blue skies with monsoon clouds. What verdant countryside from India's south.

Karnataka·forest · monsoon

Agricultural fields and forest at the edge of Bandipur National Park. Aerial view of farming and farmlands in south India. Bandipur National Park in flaming monsoon sunset evening colours - wetland and forest interface

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Somewhat mis-matched in size! Toads get it on, in a rather static fashion. How is it that the one on top is half the size of the one below? Toads doing it but mis-matched in size, all bumpy and covered in warts, in dead of a monsoon night

monsoon · fort

The Blue city just got green with the coming of the monsoon, so Jodhpur ia really a blue-green city in the rainy season! Take a flight of fancy over this brilliant city at the edge of the Rajasthan Thar desert, with its magnificent Mehranga…

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A viewer tells us this could be a Cephonodes hylas (Sphingidae) or something very similar. We found this Hawk moth out one night after a heavy shower of monsoon rain, in New Delhi.

wildlife · monsoon

As a bevy of peafowl curiously peek in, a leopard sits near its kill, panting in the monsoon heat in a Rajasthan grassland. The peafowl know they are safe, as the leopard has food at hand, but their curiosity gets the better of them...

monsoon · river

Raneh Falls in muddy monsoon fury looks a beautiful yet frightening spectacle being enjoyed by many tourists visiting Panna National Park region in Madhya Pradesh.

monsoon · village

This archival footage presents a powerful and sobering view of severe monsoon flooding in the rural districts of Katihar, Bihar.

monsoon

Hardworking Indian farmers sowing rice crops ahead of monsoon in Uttar Pradesh, India. Uttar Pradesh is the fourth largest state in country.

farmland · hills

Rice paddies are cultivated in step cultivation form in the Himalaya. The rice fields are stepped down the hillside, with each field a foot or so lower so that the steepness of the hill is tamed and water can flow evenly from one field to t…

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With the arrival of the monsoon rains, the spore of Fungi embedded on the moist barks of huge trees start germinating and produces fungal growth commonly known as mushrooms.

Madhya Pradesh·monsoon · forest

A huge collaboration of Common grass-yellow butterflies turns this forest path into a mud-puddling frat party. Join in to this monsoon season frenzy as these butterflies celebrate India's season of bountiful rainfall.