After the launch, at least a thousand residents led by Minister of Manpower Mr Gan Kim Yong took part in a 1.8 km brisk walking along a scenic stretch of Pang Sau Park connector (See here). Somewhere in the middle of the Pang Sau park connector, Mr Gan revealed a large display board containing information on some warm-up exercises before brisk-walking.
One unique attraction of this park connector is the butterfly garden which is about 50 metres away from this signboard. Here is a shot on some plants there to attract butterflies.
We arrived at the butterfly garden around 8 am. With the involvement of NParks' staff, background work of some members of the ButerflyCircle and Butterfly Lodge, this butterfly garden was successfully completed . This photo shows Josephine explaining to Mr Gan and other MPs.
Plain Tiger (Danaus chrysippus chrysippus) is a beautiful slow-flying butterfly belonging to the Danainae family. Quite a number of its larval host plants , Blood Flower (Asclepias curassavica) and Crown Flower (Calotropis gigantea) were specially planted there, so we were not surprised to see many Plain Tigers feeding and fluttering around, welcoming the guest-of-honour and the participants. This female was feeding on the purple Duranta flowers. 
I spotted quite a number of Plain Tiger's larvae feeding voraciously on the stems and leaves of the Crown Flower as shown above.
The smooth and greenish Plain Tiger 's pupa was found hanging on another plant. In about a week's time, if the pupa is not parasited, an adult should eclose. Hope you are lucky enough to wittiness the eclosion process which usually takes place in the morning.
Here is a shot on the uppersides of a Plain Tiger.
Common Grass Yellow (Eurema hecabe contubernalis) is a very common butterfly in our town parks. This female was so shy to let me take a shot while she was ovipositing an egg on a young leaf of Peacock Flower. 
The larva of Common Grass Yellow was so well camouflaged with the host plant that if you were not observant enough you would not notice it munching the leaves.
Skippers belong to a very diverse family of butterfly called Hesperiidae which consists of many look-alike species. Many of them are inconspicuous and generally not very attractive. I managed to spot and shoot 3 species. This is an upperside shot of a Chestnut Bob (Iambrix salsala salsala), a small but very common species usually found in grasslands or forest fringes.
This brown and fast-flying skipper looks like a Small Branded Swift (Pelopidas mathias mathias ) 
This is another common skipper Palm Bob (Suastus gremius gremius ) which appeared for a short while only. Indeed, some skippers just came and went off quickly without our notice if we did not pay attention to them.
Just like the Common Grass Yellow, Striped Albetross (Appias libythea olferna) belongs to the family Pieridae. This is another common species as its larval host plant is a common roadside weed, Purple Cleome (Clome rutidosperma). 
Though I didn't see the adult of Autumn Leaf (Doleschallia bisaltide), but there were a few young caterpillars feeding on its host plant Yellow-veined Erathemum (Pseuderanthemum reticulatum). 
Of course, there were other butterfly species visiting the garden but I didn't have a chance to shoot them. Do spend a few minutes at the garden watching how these flying jewels in action when you are there next time.The first park connector was completed in 2007 in the eastern part of Singapore (see here) and there will be five more park connectors to be built in the near future. We are indeed fortunate that Nparks embarked on this ambitious project, providing nature-lovers and cyclists a safe and scenic green corridors to exercise and appreciate the beauty of nature.
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Tawny Coster tends to open the wings fully like this when feeding. This pristine male specimen was intoxicated by the rich nectar in the many small flowers of Bidens . It stayed at this position for a while even though it was swaying in the wind left and right. However, with patience I was still able to get a decent shot like this. 
You will definitely love the colours of this male Blue Pansy (Junonia orithya wallacei). Though a bit tattered the brilliantly-coloured wings still enticed me to take a few shots of it whenever it settled or perched on a leaf. 
Striped Albatross (Appias libythea olferna, 利比尖粉蝶) is a rather common butterfly which is fast on the wings. Striped Albatross is sexually dimorphic (male and female look different). So in the following two shots, can you tell which is male and female ? When they were feeding on flowers, photographers would always love to capture their beauty. 
A tiny and inconspicuous butterfly not bigger than a 10-cent coin, Lesser Grass Blue (Zizina otis lampa, 毛眼灰蝶) was abundant on a few occasions when I was there. I hope to spot another similar species next time.
Apart from butterfly species (there were a lot more species that I was not able to shoot), other small little beauties also visited the college. Here is a small and cute phytophagous Ladybug beetle (Epilachna indica) foraging on a leaf. 
Of course, the plants and insects here already formed an ecosystem and the food web is one of the characteristics in any ecosystem. Here is a shot when a honey bee became the meal of a Crab Spider and some small flies might have gained some advantage as well. 
With its rich diversity of fauna and flora species, TJC has the potential to develop itself into a Garden Junior College. As Singapore is launching 
Looking this shot on the computer screen, I realised that this fly actually stretched out its right front leg across its head while I was taking the shot. 
Malay Baron ( Euthalia monina monina) is a relatively common forest denizen. It was rather unusual to see a female puddling on the ground. I kept chasing and stalking this female up and down along the main trail because she always landed on the ground again after a short flight. At last she found a sweet spot and luckily, there were not many people using the trail on a Saturday afternoon otherwise I would not have a chance to snap a few shots. 
I have seen quite a few different species of robber flies (Family : 
This is a St Andrew's Cross spider (Argiope species) which is quite common in our nature reserves. I usually found it resting on its orb-web and the white opaque zig zag webs at the corners made it quite distinctive and different from the rest of the spider species. 
I hope I didn't bore you with all the same old species that I have posted before in this blog. Yes, I have not been able to spot and shoot something new for a long time. Let's hope that I have good luck in my future outings.
The dark brown chick was about the size of an adult, wandering and foraging with its parents. I saw them probing with their bill in the shallow water and on the aquatic plants belonging to the genus 
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My first sighting of a lonely 
Though it was getting cooler in the evening, this guy was still quite active, gliding from perch to perch. Here is a side view when it landed above my head.
This looks like a male 
I was trying to look for butterflies also, checking out the 
Using a macro lens to shoot bird is always doing 
Does anyone know what this small but beautiful critter is ? The long segmented 
Lastly, I observed this paper wasp kept flying back to this nest and there was not any other wasp around. Was it building or guarding the nest 
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This particular species of Tiger Beetle has six distinctive yellow spots on the body, a large pair of compound eyes, long legs and have metallic or iridescent blue and green coloration. I wonder if there is other species of Tiger Beetle in Singapore.
A plant-feeding insect, this solitary and very tiny 
From this shot of its side view, I can see the wings and its eyes. Perhaps due to its inconspicuous size, I seldom paid attention to 
There wasn't any convincing sign that the rain would stop soon so I packed up and headed to a bus stop nearby. I hope the weather will be kind to me next Saturday.