Noon Walk at Windsor Nature Park (27 Dec 2022)

 It has been a long while I last did any macro photography of beetles, partly because I got lazy 😆 and my camera problem still persisting (Night Walk At Mount Faber Park (23 Apr 2021)), and also partly because my usual macro photography buddy HW was out of action for a while. 

Nevertheless, taking advantage of my leave and good weather today, I decided to go to the Windsor Nature Park to do some macro photography actions. In order to avoid the morning crowd, I took the risk of going there around noon, knowing that the chance of finding beetles at this time is significantly lower as we get later into the day. Do pardon the poor quality of the photographs for this trip due to my camera problem which affected the focusing of the subjects.

It is probably due to the weather, I was pleasantly surprised to come across two snakes on this trip. HW, here are the photos specially taken for you (pardon the quality of the photo due to taking it using the macros camera). 

 Painted Bronzeback (Dendrelaphis pictus)

Mangrove Cat Snake (Boiga dendrophila)

Tumbling Flower Beetle (Glipa malaccana) ~ 8 mm

Tiger Beetle (Therates dunudiatus) ~ 8 mm

Ladybird Beetle ~ 4 mm

Leaf Beetle (Hoptosarnidea singaporensis) ~ 6 mm

Net-winged Beetle (Taphes brevicollis) ~ 15 mm

I am not sure of the identity of this beetle which seemed to be a Firefly (Lucidina clavareaui) according to an internet search (iNaturalist NZ), but I was not able to find it on the The Biodiversity of Singapore website. If you have a definitive ID of this beetle, appreciate that you can let me know in the comments section. Thanx.

This was an interesting trip after a long break. Although the number of beetles encountered was small, they are still interesting to me because it has been a while I last encountered them. Once again, my apologies for the poor photograph quality, guessed that I need to do something about the problem.😬