Night Walk At Lower Peirce Reservoir (16 Aug 2019)

The weather for the past week has been hot with little or no rain in Singapore. For this week's night macro session, HW and I decided to go to Lower Peirce Reservoir for a look. Given the weather condition, we were not too hopeful that we will find any beetles, nevertheless we proceeded as planned.

The place was bone dry with most of the grass turned brown and many plants were withered. Here's a photograph of a moth resting on a leaf. Sadly, the number of insects encountered during this trip can easily be counted with both hands.

The first beetle for the trip was a 10 mm Chafer Beetle, encountered only after a while of walking.

A lot more walking before this commonly encountered Chafer Beetle (Adoretus compressus) was found munching on a fern leaf.

More walking before finding this Chafer Beetle (Apogonia expeditionis).

The last beetle for the trip was another commonly encountered Chafer Beetle.

As expected, the trip was not fruitful and the number of beetles encountered was pathetic. If the weather continue to be hot and dry, we would need to take a break from our macro sessions.

Night Walk Along Island Country Club Road (02 Aug 2019)

The weather this week was hot and dry with totally no rain at all. As such, I decided to take a walk along the Island Country Club Road for my night macro photography session.

Here's a photograph of hundreds of spiderlings encountered during the trip.

The first beetle for the trip was a 2 mm Ladybird Beetle, found under a leaf of an Elephant Ear Plant.

Moving further down, I was thrilled to find a first-time-encountered 2 mm Ground Beetle. Upon closer examination, you can see that the Ground Beetle was covered with fine hairs all over.

On a rotten tree nearby was a 4 mm Fungus Weevil resting on a small tree.

Near to the Fungus Weevil was a smaller 2 mm Fungus Weevil.

On a small tree near to the Fungus Weevils was this commonly encountered 2 mm Darkling Beetle.

At the base of a large tree was a commonly encountered Chafer Beetle (Adoretus compressus) munching on a leaf.

On another tree was this 4 mm Darling Beetle.

Moving deeper, I was glad to be able to find this lovely Ground Beetle (Catascopus dalbertisi) resting on a fallen log.

On a large tree nearby was this interesting 10 mm Chafer Beetle with many dots or dimples on it.

The last beetle of the trip was a commonly encountered Chafer Beetle (Apogonia expeditionis).

The number of beetles encountered during the trip was very low by Windsor Nature Park's standard, but nevertheless, it is still a good trip given that I managed to find one first-time-encounter beetle.