4021. Singapore wildlife: Kesser Dart - Forewings vertical and hindwings flat. Hubner's wasp moth.

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SINGAPORE WILDLLIFE CONSERVATION VIDEO
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Wildlife:  A Huber's wasp moth

Location: Yio Chu Kang Crescent forest, Singapore

Date: Sat 8 October 2022, 8 AM

This moth mimics a wasp so that it will not be attacked by predators like birds and others. 

 

 

 

 

However its numbers in the Yio Chu Kang Crescent secondary forest have decreased considerably due to:

1. Loss of habitat - Contractors regularly prune the trees and cut the plants and flowers. The wildflowers like the Bidens pilosa now number a handful as contrasted to abundance during the Covid-19 pandemic years in 2020 - 2021.

2. Degradation of habitat - Contractors does thermal fogging with insecticide to control Aedes mosquito breeding as dengue fever cases have risen in Singapore. The soil is poisoned regularly, hence the wildflowers are now stunted and fewer.

3. Climate change -.warmer weather may affect its habitat vegetation. 

 

 

 

 

This video shows the sole Huber's wasp moth sipping the nectar of one of the handful of small-sized poor quality Bidens pilosa wildflower for breakfast.

Yio Chu Kang Crescent is an L-shaped road. One part has the storm water canal (above picture). The other part of the "L" has the Seletar Simpang Kiri River.

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2019 report

A Lesser Dart (Potanthus omaha omaha) was resting on a leaf with its unique skipper pose -  forewings vertical and hindwings flat

A Hubner's Wasp Moth (Amata huebneri) seen during the walk.

 

 

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8 Oct 2022 PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS - Use tripod
Hubner’s wasp moth sips nectar

Yio Chu Kang Cres forest, 8 AM, 8 Oct 2022. Bright daylight.
Canon R5, Tripod is needed to give sharp image.
AV Mode, ISO 200. F/8-11. Lens at 105MM. Take over 10 images.
Too many mosquitoes bite the photographer.

This moth was absent for over a year as contractors cut and prune plants and trees and apply insecticide fogging degrading the habitat and depriving the moth of flowers. During the 2020 – 2022 period of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Bidens pilosa flowers were abundant, but now, there are a handful of stunted ones.

The weather got hotter. Yesterday, I saw this sole moth but did not get a sharp image.

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A Hubner’s wasp moth sips nectar from a Bidens pilosa flower in the Yio Chu Kang Cres forest, 8 AM, 8 Oct 2022. Only a handful of poor quality Bidens pilosa exist nowadays, hence this moth will be extinct in the near future.

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