Sunday, October 25, 2009

A Whole Bunch of Six-Legged Mini-Monsters

This is gonna be a very, very long post. I somehow have to post all the rest of my photos that I took in Bukit Timah. Here are all the other insects and other invertebrates. Firstly, a species of forest cockroach. Very small and agile.
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A small wasp with its prey.
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A large ant carrying plant material either for shelter or for food.
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A common species of dragonfly in forested areas, the Shaded Basker. This one's a female. The males were not to be seen and I believe they should look much better.
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A Micropezid Fly.
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Agriocnemis femina, a common species of damselfly found anywhere with water bodies.
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A Robberfly with its prey.
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A Yellow Assassin Bug.
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This is an insect that I am not able to identify. Its red colour made it look really attractive though.
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I came across a bunch of hoppers in these few trips. Firstly, Grasshoppers and Locusts.
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This green one seems to be a nymph. No wings, and extremely small.
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And of course, the common forest crickets.
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Lastly, a nymph of a katydid. When I first saw it, it looked exactly like a new leaf to me. Then I noticed it's legs and figured out what it was.
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So that's it for Bukit Timah Nature Reserve!

4 comments:

AK said...

Hi Shawn,
Its me again.The red beetle is probably a Trilobite beetle from the Lycidae family.The beetle form is a male,as the female remain in larval form,resembling the ancient Trilobite,hence its namesake.Keep a lookout for the female form.Sorry biology is not my discipline,can't tell you much.

Shawn said...

Hi AK, thanks for the wonderful information. I never knew that it could have been a male trilobite beetle. See my most recent post about a creature that looks just like a trilobite beetle female, though it could also be a firefly larva.

Wong Chun Xing said...

In the second photo, that isn't a wasp, it is a robber fly.

Shawn said...

Thanks for the ID! :D

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