Morning Walk At Riffle Range Road (14 Mar 2020)

Feeling better after a few days of feeling under the weather, I decided to go to Riffle Range Road for my weekly macro photography session. It has been a long time I last went to Riffle Range Road, partially because of the closure of the Riffle Range Road portion of the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve for the development of the Riffle Range Nature Park.

Here's an interesting looking Leaf Hopper found at the start of the trip at the place.

Spiny Leaf Beetle (Dactylispa weyersi) ~ 4 mm [First-time-encountered]

Fungus Beetle (Eumorphus quadriguttatus quadriguttatus) ~ 10 mm

Chafer Beetle ~ 15 mm [First-time-encountered]

Soldier Beetle (Crudosilis ruficollis) ~ 10 mm

Leaf Beetle ~ 1 mm

Leaf Beetle ~ 5 mm [First-time-encountered]

Fungus Beetle ~ 3 mm

Leaf Beetle (Argopus brevis) ~ 5 mm

Silken Fungus Beetle (Triplax rufipes) ~ 3 mm

Leaf Beetle ~ 8 mm

Shiny Fungus Beetle ~ 3 mm [First-time-encountered]

Shiny Fungus Beetle ~ 3 mm

Fungus Beetle ~ 3 mm

Leaf Beetle ~ 10 mm

Night Walk At Island Club Road (15 Nov 2019)

For this week's night macro photography, HW and I decided to go to the Island Club Road for a walk. Although it rained in the day time, the place was still relatively dry. Here's a photograph of a Stick Insect encountered at the place.

The first beetle was a 10 mm  Fungus Beetle found a fallen tree.

It was after a while of walking that I came across another Fungus Beetle (Eumorphus tetraspilotus) resting on a leaf.

Some distance away was another fallen log where there were several large fungus mushrooms growing on it, and inside the mushrooms were several of this 3 mm Silken Fungus Beetle (Triplax rufipes).

The highlight for the trip was this first-time-encountered Ground Beetle (Chlaenius virgulifer). It was hyperactive and was crawling around the ground very quickly. Sadly I was not able to catch any good shot of the beetle.

On a small tree along the route was a 5 mm Darkling Beetle.

More walking without finding any critters and this interesting looking beetle larva found on a fallen log was a welcomed sight.

On the same log was this Rove Beetle which was a challenge to photograph with its non-stop movement across the log.

More walking before finding this 5 mm beetle (Martinezostes sp.) on a rotten standing tree.

Near to the Martinezostes sp. beetle was a 3 mm Darkling Beetle on a small tree.

The last beetle for the trip was a Long Horned Beetle (Epepeotes luscus) which happened to land on HW's flash diffuser.

Although the trip was not as fruitful as expected but finding the first-time-encountered Ground Beetle was worth the trip, albeit that I didn't manage to get a good shot of the beetle.