So, when you’re out there looking for dragonflies to photograph, pay close attention to your background. Ideally, you want it to contrast with the colors of the dragonfly.
Features
Occurs in roadsides, forest edges and disturbed areas
A perennial herb that grows up to 50 cm tall with
horizontal stems that form mats
Leaves are egg-shaped, paired, 2.5–8 cm long and
1.5–4 cm wide
Flowers are small, white and tubular, and consist of
two lips; the upper lip has two lobes while the lower
lip has three lobes and dark purple markings
This species is a host plant for the following
butterflies: Jacintha Eggfly (Hypolimnas bolina
jacintha), Autumn Leaf (Doleschallia bisaltide) and
Blue Pansy (Hypolimnas orithya wallacei).
Management
Seeds are contained
inside capsule-like
fruits that, after
reaching maturity,
eject the seeds when
lightly touched. For
best management,
entire plants should be
removed before the
flowers set seeds.
31 Aug 2022.
PHOTOGRAPHY TIP Tripod is needed to get sharp image. Canon R5,
Tripod as low as possible,
P Mode, single focus. No
direct sunlight. No breeze.
Near river bank.
Chinese Violets in Yio Chu
Kang Crescent forest wish you GOOD MORNING
Use tripod, tv mode to get sharp images of the Chinese Violet. Yio Chu Kang Cres forest. No more mosquitoes nowadays due to regular thermal fogging and cutting of vegetation for the past months. No more butterflies and dragonflies nowadays. The commonly seen yellow butterfly during Covid-19 pandemic and two years after that, has disappeared for some months.
A. gangetica micranthais native to sub-Saharan Africa. It has spread to and become naturalized in other tropical regions including Singapore where its occurrence is widespread as a weed in multiple habitats including wastelands, roadside, forest fringes, coastal areas and other neglected land parcels.
Flowers of the Chinese Violet are small and tubular, each up to 3.5cm long. There are usually 6 to 10 flowers borne on one side of a spike-like inflorescence. The calyx (sepals) is deeply 5-lobed, and the five spreading petals are mostly white with the bottom petal bearing purple blotches. These bisexual flowers attract insects including various species of butterflies to act as pollinators in the reproduction process.
Bidens pilosa - few seen in Yio Chu Kang Crescent forest fringe 22 Jun 2021
Bidens pilosa photoshopped
Video of Bidens Pilosa
A rose in Georgia
Flowers in Armenia
The Purple Cleome (Cleome rutidosperma) Host plant for Striped Albatross (Appia libythea olferna), the Pysche (Leptosia nina malayana) and Cabbage White (Pieris canidia canidia)
The flower are composed of 4 reddish petals that gradually fade to pink or light purple. The petals point upwards and are arranged side-by-side in a fan-like pattern.
Herbaceous plants that form dense mats or grow as an epiphyte.
Compound, trifoliate leaves are composed of elliptic to narrowly ovate leaflets. The leaflets are tightly packed together and united at the base without any intervening stalk. The sunken, pinnate venation creates a quilted leaf surface.
15 Oct 2022. Katydid and her nymph clinging to her tail end in Yio Chu Kang forest. Canon R5 24-105 mm lens. Tripod used. Much sharper images with Canon R5.
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Nov 2020. I saw a few insects in the Yio Chu Kang Crescent secondary forest.
Wasp
Marmalade hoverfly on a sneaker
Moth
katydid
katydid
Bee seen on Bidens pilosa flower in YCK Crescent forest on Sun 20 Jun 2021
Straits Times Oct 10, 2020 Butterfly specimens from Singapore, Malaysia find new life on Web
More than 12,700 butterfly specimens from over 970 species native to Singapore and Peninsula Malaysia
were put online in the GBIF, a free international biodiversity database. They are preserved at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, collected between 1936 and 1998. Some species are extinct. It has 12,000 butterfly species to take online. It has plans to digitalise stick insect specimens. LKCNHM has the good representation of stick insect diversity within South-east Asia. This region has the highest diversity of stick insects in the world.
Butterfly species in this region are under-represented in global databses. It has 1,200 species compared with 496 in Europe.
Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia sit on the Sundaland biodiversity hotspot, one of the biologically richest places on earth.
With historical records online, scientist can do comparative studies on distribution of species, decline of species now extinct, re-introduction of these species.
by 1990, 114 butterfly species were extinct in Singapore.
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