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Updated on Jul 9th 2002

  

News

    Discovered another new Singapore species - Pelopidas assamensis at Mandai area.
     We will be moving our website over to the NSS server in August 2002.
Walks & Events

 
Sightings

06/07/02 - Sighted Badamia exclamationis (Brown Awl) and Hasora vitta (>10) on  flowering tree at West Coast Park.
30/06/02 - Sighted Pandita sinope (more than 5) and many Surendra vivarna (Acacia Blue) on sugar cane at Kranji Marshes
22/06/02 - Discovered another new Singapore species - Pelopidas assamensis at Mandai area.
26/05/02 - Sighted a Short Banded Sailor (Phaedyma columella singa) caterpillar feeding on Sea Derris at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve.
29/03/02 - Sighted Leptosia nina malayana (Psyche) ovipositing on Purple Cleome (Cleome rutidosperma) at Upper Pierce (Gan,Simon & Khew)
17/03/02 - Found Iraota rochana boswelliana caterpillars on Ficus plant at Telok Blangah Hill Park (Simon and Jing Ling).
16/03/02 - Sighted Chocolate albatross and Pseudocoladenia dan dhyana (new) at BTNR (Steven, Simon) and Bindahara phocides phocides at Upper Pierce (Khew, Gan).
23/02/02 - Discovered a new species, Charaxes solon echo and sighted a female Polyura schreiber tisamenus at Upper Pierce. (Khew, Steven, Simon & Gan).

Articles

 

From the Diary of a Heartbroken Surrogate Father
 by Simon Chan
   
It was a sunny day in September that I first laid eyes on "my baby". From the looks of it, she had been abandoned by her mother. You could tell because she was all alone. All around her was filth and grime, made even more nauseous by the close proximity to a sewerage drain..

 

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Photo Highlight ..

The Common Redeye - Matapa aria.
 
The Common Redeye is a jungle butterfly usually found around bamboo bushes 

Expert Insight ..

The Common Palmfly - Elymnias hypermnestra agina
is one of the most common urban butterflies in Singapore.  

Find out more about this butterfly from this article by the  BIG  ..

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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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