BIG start page - 2002 January

last updated on Jan 2002

Walks & Events

2002 Walks
	13/01	Kallang Riverside Park with Simon Chan
	Feb	Chinese New Year - no butterfly walk
	16/03	Bukit Timah Nature Reserve with Steven Neo
	13/04	Bukit Timah Nature Reserve with Gan Cheong Weei
2001 Walks
	19/8	Singapore Island Country Club with Gan Cheong Weei
	16/9	Fort Canning Park with Simon Chan
	23/9	Singapore Botanical Garden with Gan Cheong Weei
	20/10	Bukit Timah Nature Reserve with Gan Cheong Weei
	11/11	Pasir Ris Park with Simon Chan


Sightings

	01/01/02 - Found Blue Nawab (Polyura schreiber tisamenus) caterpillars feeding on Saga (Adenanthera pavonina) leaves along Old Upper Thomson Road. (Simon & Khew)
	23/12/01 - Sighted the very rare Discophora sondaica despoliata and Iraota rochana boswelliana at Chestnut Drive (Khew and Gan)
	20/12/01 - Photographed the Idea lueconoe chersonesia at Pulau Tekong. (Khew)
	20/11/01 - Sighted Cabbage White (Pieris canidia) ovipositing on Purple Cleome (Cleome rutidosperma) at Kallang Riverside Park. (Simon)

Articles

	"Ghost of the Malayan Forests" by Simon Chan Kee Mun Have you ever seen a ghostly apparition under the forest canopy? Some recall seeing faraway objects akin to pieces of paper floating about at the fringe of the forest. Yet others think that the objects are just seeds of some primeval forest trees with enormous wings so that they could be carried by the wind to some distant land.
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Photo Highlight ..

The Malay Lacewing (Cethosia hypsea hypsina) .
A male Malay Lacewing butterfly feeding on the flower of the Common Snakeweed (Stachytarpheta indica).

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Delias hyparete metarete (Painted Jezebel)

The Painted Jezebel (Delias hyparete metarete), can be commonly seen in parks and urban area.
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Top of the chart

Common Urban butterflies :
1. Lime Butterfly (Papilio demoleus)
2. Common Grass Yellow (Eurema hecabe)
3. Lemon Emigrant (Catopsilia pomona)
4. Orange Emigrant (Catopsilia scylla)
5. Painted Jezebel (Delias hyparete)
6. Chocolate Pansy (Junonia hedonia)
7. Common Palmfly (Elymnias hypermnestra)
8. Lesser Grass Blue (Zizina otis)

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