Late morning walk at the park

In contrast to the late afternoon walks previously, I started my round at the park today in the late morning. I would have started earlier if not due to the drizzle in the early morning.

The first creature that caught my attention was this tiny yellow spider on the leaf of the Giant Sword fern. It may be a crab spider.

As usual, a lot of the giant shield bugs (Pycanum rubens) were seen among the leaves of the Simpoh Air plant. This is one of its colourful nymph.

Bushes of Blue Snakeweed were blooming profusely with purplish flowers which attracted a lot of flower lovers. This orange skipper was one of them.

Oriental Whip Snake (Ahaetulla prasina) was seen in several occasions at the tiny forested part of the park. I had always suspected that more than one of them should be available here although I had seen one all the while. The one seen today should be a young snake in view of its size when compared to the ones seen previously.

I saw these beautiful caterpillars on the Giant milkweed about 2 weeks ago. This time round, they were found on a different plant, the Balloon Cotton Bush (Gomphocarpus physocarpus). One of them was munching on the flower instead of the leaf.

Here is the parent of the caterpillars, Plain Tiger (Danaus chrysippus chrysippus). One was seen circulating the plant and stopping at occasions to lay eggs. I did see two isolated eggs but my camera was not suited to take picture of such tiny object.

An empty chrysalis was seen hanging beneath a leaf of the host plant.

Another butterfly seen was a common forest inhabitant, Branded Imperial (Eooxylides tharis distanti), found resting on the leaf of the Fishtail Palm. Its host plant, Smilax setosa, was abundant here.

This picture was taken from a distance as the butterfly did not allowed me to get near. No clue on the identity of this one though. [Update: Autumn Leaf (Doleschallia bisaltide)]

This one was high up on the leaf of the Fishtail Palm --- another long distance shot. It should be the Great Eggfly (Hypolimnas bolina bolina).

I ended my round slightly after noon. This park is indeed full of wonders.