Morning Walk At Windsor Nature Park (24 Dec 2021)

 It is Christmas Eve and I am on leave, so I decided to go to Windsor Nature Park for a morning macro photography session. The weather has been wet for the past few days and I am not hopeful that I will find many beetles.

Because of the wet weather, there were a number of interesting fungus mushrooms popping up in many places. Here's an interesting color fungus that I found on a fallen log.

Fungus Beetle (Episcapha quadrimacula) ~ 10 mm

Fungus Beetle (Eumorphus quadriguttatus quadriguttatus) ~ 10 mm

Weevil Beetle (Demimaea bakeri) ~ 3 mm

Leaf Beetle (Chabria angulicollis) ~ 4 mm

Leaf Beetle ~ 3 mm

Darkling Beetle ~ 2 mm

Darkling Beetle (Phymatosoma rufonotatum) ~ 10 mm

The number of beetles encountered was expectably low due to the high foot traffic and also the wet weather for the past few days. I am not too happy with this trip as my camera once again work up on me, thus explained the less than sharp photographs from this trip. Nevertheless, it was still a good break for the holiday seasons.

Night Walk At Mount Faber Park (23 Apr 2021)

It has been a while that I did any macro photography session, this is mainly due to some problems with my camera recently. Taking advantage of the fine weather, I decided to recce a part of Mount Faber Park that I saw on Google Map. 

Sadly, my camera was still not working properly in that the camera was not able to detect my macro lens. Nevertheless, I decided to continue with the "default" setting of 1/200 and F-- (yes, the aperture was not set according to my selection, probably due to the problem of not able to detect the macro lens). Hopefully, I can do something to resolve the problem.

Enough of my "sorrows", but before I continue I would like to apologize for the quality of the photographs as I was not able to gauge too well the focus due to the mentioned problem.  Here's an ant-mimic spider that I came across during the trip. It looked so much like the commonly encountered Golden Ant (Polyrhachis illaudata).

Darkling Beetle ~ 4 mm

Fungus Beetle (Amblyopus vittatus) ~ 10 mm

Chafer Beetle (Matadera castanea) ~ 8 mm

Long Horned Beetle (Aeolesthes holosericeus) ~ 15 mm

Darkling Beetle ~ 10 mm

Fungus Beetle (Eumorphus quadriguttatus quadriguttatus) ~ 10 mm

Darkling Beetle ~ 10 mm

Chafer Beetle (Apogonia expeditionis) ~ 8 mm

Tortoiseshell Beetle (Aspidimorpha miliaris) ~ 12 mm

Darkling Beetle ~ 2 mm

Tiger Beetle (Cicindela aurulenta) ~ 15 mm

Although during this trip not many beetles were encountered, I am glad that the location seemed promising and I will surely go back there in the near future.

Night Walk At Windsor Nature Park (09 Oct 2020)

 After getting over the inertia of going out of the house, HW and I decided to go to Windsor Nature Park for our regular macro photography session. It could possibly be too long that I didn't use my camera, my camera was working up and I was having problems with taking proper shots through out the trip. The camera kept refusing to focus properly and the aperture also kept freezing up in between shots.  Nevertheless, here are some of the more presentable photographs for the night. Please pardon some of the slightly out of focus shots.

A relatively big Tree Hopper (~ 25mm) was the first critter encountered at the place.

Beetle larva ~ 2 mm

Ground Beetle (Onyptergia longispinis) ~ 25 mm

Rove Beetle ~ 3 mm

Fungus Weevil (Eucorynus crassicornis) ~ 8 mm

Daarkling Beetle ~ 3 mm

Darkling Beetle (Ceropria superba) ~ 10 mm

Chafer Beetle (Apogonia expeditionis) ~ 8 mm

Darkling Beetle ~ 10 mm

Darkling Beetle (Gonocephalum depressum) ~ 15 mm

Darkling Beetle ~ 5 mm

Ground Beetle ~ 25 mm

Chafer Beetle ~ 10 mm

Fungus Beetle (Eumorphus tetraspilotus) ~ 10 mm

This trip was not particularly fruitful, partially because of the weather and partially due to the malfunctioning of my camera. Nevertheless, this is still a good trip especially it is after a while of non-action.

Morning Walk At Chestnut Nature Park - Southern Trail (21 Mar 2020)

I just received my new flash diffuser and am itching to give it a try. As such I decided to go to the Chestnut Nature Park for a walk and test out the new flash diffuser. The weather was dry and so the probability of finding beetle decreases with the increase of the mercury. Fortunately, the number of beetles encountered on this trip was considerably good.

An interesting terrestrial flat worm encountered at the beginning of the trip. Thankfully the flash diffuser worked well and I am pleased with the results.

Darkling Beetle ~ 1 mm

Darkling Beetle ~ 2 mm

Leaf Beetle (Graphops curtipennis) ~ 4 mm

Fungus Beetle (Episcapha xanthopustulata) ~ 15 mm

Leaf Beetle ~ 1 mm [First-time-encountered]

Fungus Weevil ~ 15 mm

Fungus Beetle (Episca[ja quadrimacula) ~ 20 mm

Leaf Beetle ~ 8 mm

Fungus Weevil ~ 1 mm

Leaf Beetle (Argopus brevis) ~ 5 mm

Long Horned Beetle ~ 5 mm [First-time-encountered]

Fungus Beetle (Eumorphus quadriguttatus) ~ 15 mm

Fungus Beetle (Eumorphus westwoodi) ~ 15 mm

Fungus Weevil (Habrissus omadiaoides) ~ 5 mm

Leaf Beetle (Hoplosaenidea singaporensis) ~ 8 mm

Leaf Beetle ~ 3 mm [First-time-encountered]

Unidentified beetle, likely Leaf Beetle ~ 1 mm

Leaf Beetle (Lema rufotestacea) ~ 8 mm

Weevil ~ 5 mm