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Monday, 27 June 2022

Afternoon Walk At Windsor Nature Park (25 Jun 2022)

 It has been almost 6 months since I last did any macro-photography session. Guessed that I got lazy with Working-From-Home. 😊

The weather has been wet over the past few weeks, so the place with the best chance of finding beetles in the afternoon in such wet weather would be the Windsor Nature Park. Because of the wet weather, there were a number of interesting fungus mushrooms popping up in many places. Here's a brightly colored fungus that I found on a fallen log.




The first beetle of the trip was a special Leaf Beetle with two different colored elytra.
Leaf Beetle (Lema rufotestacea) ~ 8 mm


Dung Beetle (Onthophagus phanaeides) ~ 5 mm


Darkling Beetle ~ 2 mm


False Click Beetle ~ 8 mm


Fungus Beetle (Triplatoma gestroi) ~ 15 mm


Tumbling Flower Beetle (Glipa malaccana) ~ 8 mm


Net Winged Beetle  ~ 10 mm


Fungus Beetle (Episcapha quadrimacula) ~ 20 mm

The number of beetles encountered was expectably low due to the time of the day and also the wet weather for the past few days. Nevertheless, it was wonderful to be able to find some interesting beetles on this trip.

4 comments:

  1. Interesting pictures! I didn’t know there are dung beetles in Singapore. From the documentaries, i thought they lived in the deserts or plains in Africa.

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    1. Yes, there are many Dung Beetles in Singapore. I managed to photograph some of them. Check out my identification website to see them... https://davidmoh1313.wixsite.com/beetlesg/m-dung-beetle

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  2. In the first pic, is that beetle poop on the leaf?

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  3. Yes, it looks like beetle poop indeed.

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