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Aug 2010 sightings

Dragonfly at Chestnut Trail

27, 29 Aug 2010
Eddy Lee

My first encounter with a male Spear-tail Duskhawker (Gynacantha dohrni) on 27 Aug; listed as an uncommon forest dragonfly. Common Faun (Faunis canens) on 29 Aug.


Leafhopper at Dairy Farm

24 Aug 2010
Eddy Lee

These leafhoppers are the most commonly encountered insect in the forest, but my first time seeing a mating pair. Crab Spider.


Macro at Mattar Road

22 Aug 2010
Lau SY

A bug and a fly.

A moth and a snail.

Two spiders.


Damselfly at Chestnut Trail

22 Aug 2010
Eddy Lee

A top down view of a female Yellow Featherlegs (Copera marginipes).


Nature at Sungei Buloh

21 Aug 2010
Danny Lau

A friendly Estuarine Crocodile and a brave Common Sandpiper. The sandpiper did jump over the croc when it first flew in and probably was thinking whether to wag over the open jaws??

Tan KH

Fish for comparison. Spotted (bottom) and Banded (top) Archerfish. Spot-tail Needlefish (top) and Striped-nose Halfbeak (bottom).

Common Greenback chilling out. Polistes tenebricosus wasp at its nest.


Damselfly at Chestnut Area

15 Aug 2010
Eddy Lee

A certain death for this tiny fly caught between the powerful jaws of the male Yellow Featherlegs (Copera marginipes) ...ouch!


Nature at Mandai Orchid Garden

15 Aug 2010
Lau SY

Short-horned Grasshopper and Long-horned Grasshopper.

A caterpillar attacked by ants. A caterpillar that escaped from the ants.

Atlas Moth caterpillar.

A dragonfly and a damselfly (Agriocnemis femina).


Insects at Chestnut Area

8-9 Aug 2010
Eddy Lee

Male Yellow Featherlegs and Blue-spotted Flatwing.

Robberfly and Fly.

An Owlet Moth - Erebus ephesperis.


Insects at Mandai Orchid Garden

4 Aug 2010
Lau SY

A Mantis caught in a spider web. A Short-horned Grasshopper feeding.

Spine-tufted Skimmer (Orthetrum chrysis).


Slender Squirrel at Lower Peirce

1 Aug 2010
Lau SY