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.

Morning Walk At Windsor Nature Park (15 Feb 2020)

I woke up early today and so decided to go to the Windsor Nature Park for my weekly macro photography session. Here's a photograph of an interesting looking fungus mushroom which looked very much like sea anemones.

Fungus Beetle (Episcapha quadrimacula) ~ 15 mm

Fungus Beetle (Eumorphus quadriguttatus quadriguttatus) ~ 10 mm

Fungus Beetle ~ 8 mm

Long Horned Beetle (Thranius bimaculatus) ~ 18 mm

Fungus Beetle (Eumophus westiwoodi) ~ 10 mm

Fungus Beetle (Eumorphus mirus) ~ 10 mm

Long-toed Water Beetle ~ 3 mm

Jewel Beetle (Habroloma lepidopterum) ~ 2 mm

Fungus Beetle ~ 4 mm

Shiny Fungus Beetle ~ 3 mm

Shiny Fungus Beetle ~ 3 mm

Shiny Fungus Beetle ~ 3 mm

Darkling Beetle ~ 2 mm

Beetle larva ~ 8 mm

Fungus Beetle ~ 10 mm

Leaf Beetle (Arcastes biplagiata) ~ 8 mm

Leaf Beetle ~ 4 mm

Straight Snout Weevil ~ 3 mm

Pintail Beetle (Glipa malaccana) ~ 10 mm

Leaf Beetle (Galerosastra sumatrana) ~ 8 mm

Fungus Beetle (Stenotarsus pardalis) ~ 8 mm

Ant-like Flower Beetle (Anthelephila cyanea) ~ 3 mm

Yellow Orchid Beetle larvae ~ 10 mm

Morning Walk At Windsor Nature Park (24 Jan 2020)

It has been a while I have the opportunity to do macro photography in the morning. Seizing the opportunity of the Chinese New Year holiday season, I decided to go to the Windsor Nature Park for a walk. At the same time, I am also testing out a DIY "light-weight" flash diffuser. Sadly the new setup is not as good as I expected.

Here's a photograph of an alien looking insect found at the place, likely to be a nymph of an Assassin Bug.

 Orchid Leaf Beetle (Lema pectoralis) ~ 10 mm

Ladybird Beetle (Scymnus rubromaculatus) ~ 2 mm

Fungus Beetle (Episcapha quadrimacula) ~ 15 mm

Fungus Weevil (Habriaaua omadioides) ~ 3 mm

Darkling Beetle ~ 1 mm

Weevil Beetle (Demimaea bakeri) ~ 3 mm

Fungus Beetle ~ 10 mm

Beetle larva ~ 8 mm

Darkling Beetle ~ 2 mm [First-time-encountered]

Sap Beetle ~ 1 mm

Fungus Beetle (Eumorphus quadriguttatus quadriguttatus) ~ 10 mm

Ladybird Beetle ~ 4 mm

Fungus Beetle (Eumorphus mirus) ~ 10 mm

Long Horned Beetle ~ 10 mm

Jewel Beetle (Endelus bakerianus) ~ 2 mm

Leaf Beetle (Graphops curtipennis) ~ 4 mm

Jewel Beetle (Habroloma lepidopterum) ~ 2 mm