| Place |
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SIME forest, Singapore Island Country Club |
| Date |
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19-08-2001 |
| Type |
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Public walk |
| Participants |
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Gan CW and Simon Chan plus
#12 participants |
| Total Counts |
: |
38 |
| Highlights |
: |
Elbowed Pierrot, Malayan Sunbeam, Neptis harita, Hypolycaena
thecloides and a bat-like pupa |
| Submitted By |
: |
Gan, Simon Chan |
It was a clear and sunny Sunday morning. 14 of us gathered at the hut at the junction
of Island Club Road and
Venus Drive before heading off to the SIME forest trail just outside the PUB
substation.
As we got out of our cars, we spotted a Peacock Pansy sunning
itself on the grass patch. Farther down the path, a Common 4 Rings and a Lesser Dart
were getting ready for their
maiden flight of the day.
As we walked along the SIME forest path, we came across more butterflies :
Common Grass Yellows and Chocolate Grass Yellows were fluttering around
Snake Weed bushes, Chestnut Bob skipper darting between flowers, Common Tree
Nymph gliding gracefully over the canopy, Elbowed Pierrots darting along the
trail and Great Helen zig-zagging thru the trees.
Along the way we also saw a Green Crested Lizard resting on the leaf of Simpoh Air
tree, forest cockroach feeding on Melastoma nectar and a Cicada taking
a rest on a participants shirt !The highlight of the trip must be the
discovery of a bat-like butterfly pupa (see picture
below) hanging from a Hairy Clidemia branch. Initially, we thought it was
an empty pupa but on closer examination, it was determined to be the pupa
of the Cruiser butterfly !
All in all, we counted 38 species of butterflies.
The list of butterflies seen at that walk :
1. Common Grass Yellow
2. Peacock Pansy
3. Lascar spp.
4. Chestnut Bob (skipper)
5. Colour Sergeant (female brown form)
6. Neptis harita harita
7. Malay Lacewing
8. Great Helen
9. Papilio prexaspes prexaspes
10. Hypolycaena thecloides thecloides
11. Striped Blue Crow (one male)
12. Blue Glassy Tiger
13. Common Tree Nymph
14. Malayan Bush Brown
15. Common Faun
16. Archduke
17. Malay Baron
18. Rustic
19. Malayan Sunbeam
20. Elbowed Pierrot
21. Common Caerulean
22. Chocolate Grass Yellow
23. Arhopala spp.
24. Common Palmfly
25. Chocolate Pansy
26. Graphium evemon eventus
27. Lesser Dart (skipper)
28. Taractrocera ardonia lamia (skipper)
29. Knight
30. Nigger
31. Tailed Green Jay
32. Tree Yellow
33. Common Four Ring
34. Autumn Leaf
35. Neptis leucoporos cresina
36. Eulaceura osteria kumana
37. Abisara geza niya
38. Mycalesis spp. |
Common 4 Ring
(Ypthima ceylonica)
Chocolate Grass Yellow
(Eurema Sari)
Cruiser pupa
(Vindula dejone erotella)
Hypolycaena thecloides
Malay Baron (f)
(Euthalia monina) |
Simon pointing out
the skipper
Gan showing
congregation of
Common Grass Yellows
a 'fly' on
someone's shirt
Green Crested Lizard
(Calotes cristatellus)
Forest cockroach
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