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LW Teo
on 3rd May 2022

A Striped Nomia (Nomia strigata) was spotted at Coney Island on 10 April 2022 by Soh Kam Yung. It is a soil nesting bee that visits the flowers of cultivated […]

LW Teo
on 2nd May 2022

Soh Kam Yung spotted a group of Mangrove Jewel Bugs (Calliphara nobilis) spotted at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve on 17 April 2022. He usually sees individuals, so it was a […]

LW Teo
on 2nd May 2022

Centipedes are present in home gardens, and also in Oil Palm estate, Selangor state of Malaysia.   Encik Mohamed Shah shared a photograph of a Black-capped kingfisher (Halcyon pileata) with a […]

LW Teo
on 13th April 2022

The specimen in this photograph is tentatively identified as the larva of a black-spotted Lady beetle. It looks like a miniature alligator (~ 6mm long) with 3 pairs of legs.  […]

LW Teo
on 6th April 2022

Kau Poh Moi observed some Plain Tiger Butterfly (Danaus chrysippus) caterpillars on a Stapelia plant.  The caterpillars were already at late instar stages when photographed.  They fed on the flower […]

LW Teo
on 21st March 2022

The Harlequin Red Bug Dindymus versicolor is a Hemipteran (true bug) in the Pyrrhocoridae family. It is also known as the cotton stainer bug and native to Tasmania and South-East Australia: […]

LW Teo
on 20th March 2022

The sweet potato bug, Physomerus grossipes, is a Hemipteran.  It is a true bug in the Coreidae family: the leaf-footed bug. It is native to South-East Asia and often sucks sap […]

LW Teo
on 19th March 2022

Orthetrum glaucum, the Common Blue Skimmer or Blue Marsh Hawk, are dragonflies in the Libellulidae family.  The family include skimmers, darters and perchers. The compound eyes are large and meet in […]

LW Teo
on 1st February 2022

Janice Ang photographed a variegated green skimmer (Orthetrum sabina) emerging from its final moult.  Dragonfly larvae moult a number of times while living as an aquatic predators. The larvae climb […]

LW Teo
on 24th January 2022

Assassin bugs are true bugs which specialise in ambushing their prey.  They use a specialised mouth part, called the rostrum, to pierce their prey, inject a mixture of saliva and […]

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