Walk at Admiraty Park

This trip nearly got aborted yesterday afternoon as the sky was rather cloudy. It did shower a bit mid way through the walk but fortunately, the shower was light and stopped in a few minutes.

The sighting of the massive caterpillars of the Malayan Eggfly was posted yesterday. Let me start with another rather common butterfly, Nigger (Orsotriaena medus cinerea).

This brown skipper kept rather still while I get closed to snap a few photos. It might be a Forest Hopper (Astictopterus jama jama).

Blooming flowers of passion fruit are always a beautiful sight. A number of these fallen flowers were found on the forest ground under the tall-tree canopy. These are from the species called Yellow Water Lemon (Passiflora laurifolia). The climber was probably high up on the trees as I did not see any of the plant at eye level.

The female Golden Orb Web Spider (Nephila maculata) can be considered one of the largest spider in the wild here. It also goes by the name Giant Wood Spider.

I only managed to get one shot of this shield bug before it flew off. Obviously, it was not too please with the exposure.

This is an unusual flower head (spadix) of Arrowhead Vine (Syngonium podophyllum). It was a jointed-twin spadix. A scientific write up of this plant in Singapore can be found in this link.

A grasshopper with a hind leg missing was seen on the leaf stalk of Bandicoot Berry (Leea indica). It may be a Traulia azureipennis.

The next grasshopper was more commonly seen than the one above. It is also larger in size. This may be a Xenocatantops brachycerus.

The first dragonfly picture taken with my new digital camera. I had give up taking picture of dragonfly for a while because the focus of the camera was an headache. Recently, I had found a way (though not perfect) to overcome this shortcoming.

Here was the side view of the dragonfly.

This butterfly flew across my path and settled on a leaf of a mid-size tree. As it landed rather high on the tree, I had to stretch my arm with the camera on the hand in order to have the pictures taken. Luckily, it stayed rather still. It should be a Blue Nawab (Polyura schreiber tisamenus).

These cup-like structure that contained bead-like particles were actually fungi (mushrooms). They are called bird's nest fungi (family: Nidulariaceae) with obvious reason.

Plenty of the such were found growing on the compost used to fertilize the plants. They were very tiny and hence, not easy to be spotted. The immature form of the fungi.

Overall, it was a cool afternoon due to the cloudy weather and the light shower.