Place : Kallang Riverside Park
Date : 12-01-2002 9:30am - 11:30pm
Type : Public walk
Participants : Simon Chan, Gan Cheong Weei, Jing Ling, Raj (NUS), Ben Jin. ~ 55 people !
Total Counts : 17
Highlights : Many Blue Pansies and Cabbage Whites
Submitted By : Simon Chan
 
Hi All

Yesterday was the first BIG official walk of year 2002 at the above place. The list of butterflies seen at the above site include:

1. Delias hyparete metarete (Painted Jezebel)
2. Pieris canidia malayana (Cabbage White)
3. Appias libythea olferna (Striped Albatross) 

4. Catopsilia pomona pomona (Lemon Emigrant) 
5. Catopsilia scylla cornelia (Orange Emigrant)
6. Eurema hecabe contubernalis (Common Grass Yellow)

7. Elymnias hypermnestra agina (Common Palmfly) 
8. Mycalesis perseus cepheus

9. Junonia almana javana (Peacock Pansy)
10. Junonia orithya wallacei (Blue Pansy) 
      male & female (both the overall brown and blue forms)
11. Phaedyma columella singa (Short Banded Sailor) 
12. Euthalia aconthea gurda (Baron)

13. Zizina otis lampa (Lesser Grass Blue) 
14. Zizeeria maha

15. Iambrix salsala salsala (Chestnut Bob)
16. Ampittia dioscorides camertes (Bush Hopper) 
17. Light brown skipper (mating pair)

More photos from the walk can be found at the
Butterfly Walk Gallery

Photos by Gan CW


Cabbage White


Mating pair of
brown skipper

A dead puffer fish on Kallang beach

Bush Hopper


Mating pair of
Mycalesis perseus

Nature photographer
at work


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