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New Butterfly Stamps
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The Common Birdwing stamp is part of an exquisite
set of four butterfly stamps featuring beautiful local
butterly species which will be issued in April 2010 by
SingPost.
This stamp
collection is the result of a collaboration between
BIG and SingPost. When launched, the stamps can be
purchased from Post Offices,
shops.vpost.com.sg and
at the NSS office.
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Butterfly Trail at Orchard
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Can butterflies thrive among the glitzy malls and
tall office buildings in Orchard Road?
Yes, says a group of nature lovers and butterfly
enthusiasts who are working to create an urban
butterfly trail.
Spearheaded by the Nature
Society of Singapore (NSS),
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the 4km-long trail starts at the gates of the
Botanic Gardens, continues down
Orchard Road and
ends in Fort Canning Park. It is envisioned as a self-guided
walking route that will lead you to 15
butterfly spots.
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Online Nature Watching at the NSS Nature Forum
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Need expert help to find out the name of a tree that
is flowering all over Singapore? Want to learn what are
the best books to help identify an insect you
photographed? Wonder which DSLR camera and accessories
are best for taking close-up nature photos? There is a
new website you can click, to connect with like-minded
folks to share and help each other with any nature |
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related topics –
The NSS Nature
Forum. What are you
waiting for ?
Register for an account now and experience nature right from your PC!
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BIG conducts butterfly walks at T3 Butterfly Garden |
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Saturday, 16th
May 2009 marked BIG’s inaugural butterfly walk
in the Butterfly Garden located inside the
Departure Transit area of Changi Airport‘s
Terminal 3. Since then BIG has conducted 2 walks
with another one scheduled on 7th Jun.
Read our reports at
BIG's Blog and find out what you can
expect at the T3 Butterfly Garden.
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BIG at the
Asian Lepidoptera Conservation Symposium
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A Butterfly Garden at Changi Airport |
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 Thursday Aug 28 saw the launch of the
World's First Butterfly Garden in an airport at
Changi Terminal 3. This
is the second large scale public butterfly garden which BIG has
worked on, the first one being the Alexandra Hospital
Butterfly Trail which was setup in 2002.
The T3 butterfly garden is located at the Transit
Mall of Changi Airport Terminal 3 and open 7x24 to
transit passengers. At any one time there are about 2000
butterflies in the enclosure. As the garden is
located in the Transit mall, it is only accessible to
transit passengers. However, BIG has been granted
special permission by CAAS to conduct butterfly walks
inside the garden. So watch out for announcements
on this site on upcoming walk at the T3 Butterfly
Garden. Note that this walk is exclusively for NSS members
only .
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Click here to
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Introducing the
new NSS Butterfly Field Guide |
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Ever since the Butterfly Interest Group (BIG), previously
known as the Butterfly Subgroup of the NSS, started
conducting butterfly walks in the early nineties, there
has been an overwhelming need for a comprehensive guide
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Locally Extinct
Butterfly Sighted at AH ! |
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20 Mar 2007
Yesterday, a pretty butterfly
known to be extinct from Singapore made brief
re-appearance in Singapore. This butterfly, known as
the the Yellow Glassy Tiger (Parantica aspasia
aspasia) was sighted by Laurence Leong at
Alexandra Hospital's Butterfly Trail. Read more
about this rare sighting at
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Butterfly Walk at the Singapore
Botanical Gardens |
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Butterfly Articles
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ODE TO FRASER’S HILL
New !
by Simon Chan May 2008
Gradually departing pink clouds blazed
the pre-dawn skies,
As we stirred from our slumber,
still weary from a lack of
sleep,
For our days were spend exploring
the birds and butterflies,
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Why is there Blue, Chocolate, Grey, Lemon and
Yellow but no Orange and Brown?
by Simon Chan Jan 2008
What do you make of the title? That is easy. They
are all different names of colours, right? Well,
that is very obvious, isn’t it? However, that is
only part of the picture..
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A most Uncommon Rose
by Steven Chong Jun 2007
More sightings of the totally black Common Rose
follow the report in the March–April 2007 issue
of Nature News, where Simon Chan mentioned spotting
two totally black Common Rose butterflies (Pachliopta
aristolochiae asteris).
more ...
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Clearwings and Dragontails
by Prestpn V Murphy
Butterfly from the Ithomiidae family,
sometimes called “true” clearwings, are endemic to
the
American tropics.
The photo on the left shows Greta gardneri
strikes an elegant pose while nectaring,
displaying crystal clear wings rimmed with golden
brown.
more
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Some common, colourful creatures of Johor’s
Panti Forest
By Laurence Leong Apr 2007
Much have been described of Panti’s numerous
feathered residents. And Laurence Leong in this
intimate article does justice to the abundance of
butterflies and other colourful insect life found in
this nature area.
more ...
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It All Started with an E-mail from UK…
Dear BIG,
I am coming to Singapore on business this week, and
wonder if any of your members would like to come on a
butterfly watching/photography trip with
me ........
With best wishes,
David Hudson
Read about David's butterfly trip in Singapore
here
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A Pretty
Visitor From Thailand
by Simon Chan
In this article, Simon Chan recounts how he
chanced upon a butterfly which he could not
identify while he was back in his home town , Petaing Jaya
during the 2002 Chinese New Year. The
butterfly turns out to be a migrant from
Thailand !
more ...
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Sighting - Invasion
of the Lyssa zampa moth ! |
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Jun 2005 - Over the past
few weeks, this large day
flying moth
belonging to the family of Uraniidae has been sighted
in many places all over around Singapore and Malaysia.
This moth, with a wing span of up to 20 cm, is the 2nd
largest moth in Singapore. (The largest |
being
the Altals Moth -
Attacus atlas , which has a wing span of about 26 cm).
This moth is usually seen in the forest and occasionally in urban
areas. It is believed that this sudden population explosion is
due to a combination of environmental factors such as weather and
decreased in predators of caterpillars such as birds, lizards,
parasitic flies and wasps. Read more about the sighting of this moth at
Habitatnews and the
TODAY
newspaper.
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Polyura schreiber tisamenus
The Blue Nawab
The Blue Nawab is the largest of the 3 Nawabs found in Singapore.
Its caterpillar has two
pairs of reddish brown spiny horns on its head and a broad
orange yellow band on the 3rd abdominal segment. Find out more about this butterfly from
this
article by BIG
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