India, Oct. 16 -- The upcoming Sunday- October 19th- marks the 33rd Foundation Day of one of Bengaluru's pre-eminent, yet little-known, scientific institutions, the ICAR National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources (NBAIR). Speaking at an event to commemorate the occasion last week, Dr Chandish R Ballal, NBAIR's former director, and its only woman director to date, stressed the need for India to urgently develop its own Red List for native insect species facing extinction risk, so that efforts towards conserving them may be initiated. "The tragedy," she said, "is that we have so many insects that haven't even been identified yet, let alone classified. We are losing entire species before we are even aware of them, or their potential to...