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  2. List of legendary creatures in Hindu mythology - Wikipedia

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    Unknown (Indian) - Durga in Combat with the Bull, Mahishasuras. Mahishasura; According to Hindu beliefs, Mahishasura was a combination of both an Asura and a mahisha ("water buffalo"), with a trident. Mahishi - The sister of Mahishasura. After the death of Mahishasura, Mahishi continued the war against Devas.

  3. Insects in mythology - Wikipedia

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    Insects have appeared in mythology around the world from ancient times. Among the insect groups featuring in myths are the bee, fly, butterfly, cicada, dragonfly, praying mantis and scarab beetle . Insect myths may present the origins of a people, or of their skills such as finding honey. Other myths concern the nature of the gods or their ...

  4. Carausius morosus - Wikipedia

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    Carausius morosus [1] (the 'common', 'Indian' or 'laboratory' stick insect) is a species of Phasmatodea (phasmid) often kept as pets by schools and individuals. Culture stocks originate from a collection from Tamil Nadu, India. Like the majority of the Phasmatodea, C. morosus are nocturnal. Culture stocks are parthenogenetic females that can ...

  5. Myrmekes - Wikipedia

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    Greek sailors that arrived from India have told stories of their encounters with the Myrmekes. They are a race of ants that can range in size from small dogs to giant bears which guarded a hill that had rich deposits of gold. The local tribes had to use a rush and grab maneuver to obtain the gold without being killed by the Myrmekes.

  6. Mantis - Wikipedia

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    Mantearia. Mantoptera. Mantises are an order ( Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids"). Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. They have triangular heads with bulging eyes supported on flexible necks.

  7. T. V. Ramakrishna Ayyar - Wikipedia

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    T. V. Ramakrishna Ayyar. Tarakad Vaidyanatha Ramakrishna Ayyar (20 July 1880 – 13 February 1952) was a pioneer Indian entomologist who worked in the agricultural department in British India. He described numerous species of insect, especially the thrips, catalogued Indian insect pests, taught, and wrote a landmark textbook of entomology, the ...

  8. Folklore of India - Wikipedia

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    The folklore of India encompasses the folklore of the nation of India and the Indian subcontinent. India is an ethnically and religiously diverse country. Given this diversity, it is difficult to generalize the vast folklore of India as a unit. [citation needed] Although India is a Hindu-majority country, with more than three-fourths of the ...

  9. Coyote (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Coyote canoeing, in a traditional story. Coyote is a mythological character common to many cultures of the Indigenous peoples of North America, based on the coyote ( Canis latrans) animal. This character is usually male and is generally anthropomorphic, although he may have some coyote-like physical features such as fur, pointed ears, yellow ...

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