Instead, I will share the sighting on last Sunday (13 February) where I roamed around the park for 2 hours.
Let's start with the spiders. There were at least 7 types seen but I had only managed to get hold of 4 of them in term of reasonably clear pictures.
(1) Mangrove St. Andrews' Cross Spider (Argiope mangal).
(2) Orange-brown spider that looked like the nymph of the Golden Web Spider (Nephila pilipes).
(3)Long-leg with white-stripe spider found on a climbing fern (Lygodium microphyllum).
(4)Tiny metallic-coloured spider on the underside of a Simpoh Air (Dillenia suffruticosa) shrub.
For butterflies and moths, I had obtained 4 pictures. Obviously, there were more of them moving around.
(1) A Dingy Bush Brown (Mycalesis perseus cepheus) butterfly.
(2) A rather long and slender caterpillar that stretched itself along the stem of the same climbing fern where I spotted a spider.
(3) A Hawk Moth caterpillar (Enpinanga Borneensis) chewing away the leaf of a Simpoh Air (Dillenia suffruticosa) shrub.
(4) A tiny caterpillar at the background. There were many of them around on the young leaves of a Syzygium plant. With the wind blowing and the threatening weaver ants guarding the caterpillars, this was the best picture I could get. This should be the caterpillar of the Common Tit (Hypolycaena Erylus Teatus).
As for other minibeasts sighted, they include the commonly seen shield bug (Pycanum rubens) and its colourful nymph, stink bug, hover fly, praying mantis, leaf beetle, tree hopper, grasshopper and cricket. I had shown just a few of them here.
(1) Three treehoppers aggregating on a stalk of the leaves. They were fiercely guarded by the weaver ants, which seemed to be everywhere.
(2) A metallic red leaf beetle standing at the edge of a leaf.
(3) The nymph of a praying mantis.
The final picture will be this fruiting wild berries (Rubus moluccanus).
I am always amazed that a small park can have that many creatures and plant species around.
