Monday, 16 July 2007

Day out at Upper Seletar~~

Believe it or not,Juan here was at Upper Seletar for some forest fieldwork ^^ Tagged along with SC to her little plot to so some seed collection. Actually a rather fern-y area. Had some random images of dinosaurs frolicking in the background....


Being a divejunkie (doing terrestrial fieldwork) didn't stop me from being trigger happy on land as well, and I managed to catch my very first butterfly shot!! OK, so the photos ain't that great but practise makes perfect!!! Being more of a marine person, I really dunno what kind of butterfly this is. Think it belongs to the Ethope genus of Asian brown butterflies, and the markings on the wings kinda look similar to the white diadem (Ethope diademoides) tho' the hind wings seem to differ a bit, Couldn't really find a similar looking butterfly on the Hexaglider website that korkor refers to, so would really appreciate any help in ID-ing....

EDIT Seems like I'm wrong. Ain't a white diadem after all. With some help from July and the folks on one of the butterfly forums, this appears to be a Malayan eggfly (Hypolimnas anomala anomala). Can generally pass off as as a mimic of the "crows" (which July thought it was at first). It is realatively common in SG and frequents the lowland forests. They are also territorial.


And since we were basically in a "fern garden", there were tonnes of new fern fronds waiting to unfurl!!

And when they do, the naturally occurring fractal pattern of the leaves is shown to all!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/Hexacoral/Anemone2/