tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669129150814293862024-03-06T13:32:35.468+08:00Beauty of Fauna and Flora in NatureThis blog records my sightings of some of the fascinating and beautiful creatures especially butterflies, dragonflies etc and plants in nature. I love Nature however I am not trained in anything related to Biology or nature, please feel free to correct me. ThanksFederick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.comBlogger452125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-10421458245356958592023-12-30T16:23:00.003+08:002023-12-30T16:23:54.836+08:00Lornie Nature Corridor Part 3I could not remember when I last encountered the Malay Lacewing (Cethosia hypsia) but on 12 Nov, we saw a couple of them at the Lornie Nature Corridor on a rather overcast morning. When the sunshine is slowly piercing through the clouds, we started to see more butterfly activities.This is a male Caltoris cormasa. It was quite restless and zipping around before it finally decided to feed on Federick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-253329336029290082023-11-18T20:53:00.000+08:002023-11-18T20:53:10.172+08:00Butterflies at Lata Kinjang and Gua TempurungContinue from hereLocated in the Chenderiang village, Perak, Lata Kinjang is one of the tallest and famous waterfalls in Malaysia. The car journey to this waterfall took more than an hour, navigating through some small and winding kampong roads for the last few kilometers. The view of the waterfall cascades is quite nice. Though the weather was good, butterfly Federick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-90947735304508502682023-10-22T16:20:00.004+08:002023-10-22T16:20:31.449+08:00Butterflies at Kuala Wok Forest ReserveContinue from last postAfter breakfast we headed out to Kuala Wok Forest Reserve on our third day (5 Sep) in Perak. About an hour of car journey from our hotel, we arrived at this popular camping site especially on weekends. This time, we had to pay an entrance fees (I think 20 Ringgit) to enter this Forest Reserve.As usual, a large group of male Rajah Brook's Birding (Trogonoptera brookiana) Federick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-39312263376422992202023-10-10T15:21:00.006+08:002023-10-15T09:09:59.523+08:00Butterflies at Gua Tempurung Thanks Mr Khew for inviting me to go on a 4-day shooting trip to Ipoh in the Perak state of Malaysia. We departed on a Scoot flight and arrived at the Ipoh International airport on a cloudy noon on 4 September. After checking and signing out of a rented car at the airport, Khew drove straight to downtown Ipoh for a quick lunch before heading straight to Gua Tempurung. However, the weather Federick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-55588531189894064982023-09-10T08:06:00.009+08:002023-09-10T22:08:03.743+08:00Lung Kwu Tan (龍鼓灘) & Luk Keng (鹿頸), Hong KongContinued from last post.Our HK friends were not free on 5 and 6 July, so we were on our own to explore two butterfly hunting sites.This small Tagiades species was my first shot on 5 July at Long Ku Tan. However, it always landed underneath a leaf, making it very difficult for me to snap a good shot. I was puzzled by the absence of the white outer margin of a normal T. menaka that I Federick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-32840246620400117452023-08-06T13:48:00.003+08:002023-08-07T06:48:50.564+08:00Lions Club Nature Education Centre & Tai Po Kao, Hong KongI had to be in HK to resolve a banking issue sooner or later. During a weekly shooting at Lornie PCN in May, I bumped into Ash and got to know that he would be in HK until 7 July. So I decided to join him for butterfly-shooting. To save time and cost, I booked a midnight CX flight, arriving on a Sunday dawn. Within 2 hours of touching down in HK, I arrived at our hotel along Nathen Federick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-2207733543600824172023-07-25T14:10:00.003+08:002023-11-19T08:49:02.752+08:00Lornie Nature Corridor Part 2 Continue from part 1 here. In this post, I would share pictures of smaller butterflies mainly from the Lycaenidae (Blues) and Hesperiidae (Skippers) family that I have taken over a period of a few months when I dropped by at this place This is one of the largest Oakblue butterflies that can be found here - The Centaur Oakblue (Arhopala centaurus nakula).This tailless Oakblue is Federick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-33022739682904381872023-07-09T20:44:00.006+08:002023-07-09T22:01:41.924+08:00Butterflies in Sabah The moment I knew that I didn't have to report for work on 25 and 26 May, I decided to book a flight to Kota Kinabaru (KK), Sabah to attend my wife's nephew wedding dinner on 27 May at Sabah Hilton Hotel. After my morning lessons and a quick lunch on 24 May, we headed to the airport for a late afternoon Scoot flight to KK. We spent one night at the Sabah Oriental Hotel. We Federick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-7300569780874717592023-06-24T21:23:00.001+08:002023-06-25T20:47:27.597+08:00Lornie Nature Corridor Part 1 A stretch of wasteland near MacRitchi reservoir carpark, sandwiched between the forest fringe and the Lornie Park Corridor is teeming with wild vegetations and flowers such as the Mile-a-minute, the Bidens flowers and the Snakeweeds and these wild plants and flowers attracted different butterflies from time to time.I visited the park corridor many times over a period of few months. I must say I Federick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com020 Sime Rd, PCN - Lornie Nature Corridor, Singapore 2883051.335892 103.8184582-26.974341836178844 68.6622082 29.646125836178847 138.9747082tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-57774488255340209932022-10-15T14:32:00.003+08:002022-10-15T14:32:50.525+08:00Butterflies and Other Critters Along Ulu Sembawang Park Connector I have not been shooting for more than 2 months due to personal commitments and a medical problem (no major concern after a series of tests). This 1.3 km-long park connector links the Seletar Expressway to Mandai Road. A large plot of wasteland is situated along the park connector and it was formally the site of a ornamental plants nursery. This vacant site now is covered with Federick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-3803010802544052442021-09-03T15:27:00.007+08:002021-09-03T15:30:58.175+08:00Common Butterflies Along Lornie Trail and Lornie Nature CorridorWe lost some greenery and cemetery ground at Bukit Brown due to the construction of the Lornie Highway but we gained a very serene and beautiful Lornie Nature Corridor. Since its official opening in Nov 2020, this 1.7 km nature corridor has become one of my favourite hiking cum butterfly-photography trails.The nature corridor runs parallelly to the old Lornie Road. Flowering shrubs Federick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-14754720914796246972021-06-18T17:36:00.002+08:002021-06-18T21:38:50.342+08:00Butterflies in Coney IslandSince its official opening to public in October 2015, Coney Island Park has become a popular and relatively untamed wilderness for hiking and cycling in north-eastern Singapore. Also known as Pulau Serangoon, the Island has been enlarged significantly, doubling its original size to about 100 hectare through a series of land reclamations . Apart from its interesting history Federick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-44872643138465403342020-12-31T22:12:00.004+08:002021-06-06T15:04:14.136+08:00Revisiting the Bukit Brown Cemetery - In Search of the Banded Line BlueJan 2013 was my last outing to Bukit Brown Cemetery before this large municipal Chinese cemetery ground was cordoned off for the construction of the Lornie Highway. Since the full completion of the highway in Apr 2019, I have not visited the place until early this month. The roads around the area have been changed or diverted quite a bit so it took me awhile to find the old main Federick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-17859846964788377272020-09-27T11:00:00.006+08:002020-09-27T12:02:21.006+08:00A New Addition to Singapore Butterfly Species @ Pulau UbinWith the Covid-19 pandemic sweeping across the globe resulting in closure of country borders and restrictions of big group gatherings and so on it is no surprise that local nature parks and offshore islands such as Bukit Timah Hill and Pulau Ubin have been crowded with hikers and nature photographers - because leisure travel out of the country is not possible for now!Pulau Ubin's is Federick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-44558325034766630382020-09-20T15:20:00.002+08:002020-09-20T22:14:12.638+08:00Butterflies @ Springleaf Nature ParkThe Springleaf Nature Park is situated at the T-junction of Mandai Road and Upper Thompson Road. The cannel joining the Upper Seletar Reservoir and the Lower Seletar Reservoir serves as a boundary of the nature park.Since its official opening in late 2014, I have visited this nature park a few times. During my most recent visit there on a cloudy Saturday afternoon in July, I managed to Federick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-83845644752373440772020-05-24T18:20:00.003+08:002020-09-27T09:32:32.584+08:00My First Post of The Year! (Outing to Pulau Ubin) Yes, quite embarrassing, almost 5 months have passed but this is my first post in the blog this year.
Just like any other photographers, I have not been shooting since the Circuit Breaker (CB) period started almost two months ago. So naturally, I have got nothing to showcase here. Five months have passed this unforgettable 2020, I think I should fill the void of this blog with an outing Federick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-77987792224214560372019-10-28T20:15:00.003+08:002021-06-06T14:55:05.888+08:00The Endagered Raffles' Banded Langur @ Thomson Nature Park This newest 50-hectare nature park is located in the eastern side of the central catchment nature reserve, bounded between a stretch of Old Upper Thomson and Upper Thomson road.
Source of image from : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So8174tEar8
This nature park is rather unique as it was conceptualized and developed on the site of an old Hainan Village. Here is a short introduction video ofFederick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-70502447426096086232019-07-21T22:02:00.003+08:002019-07-21T22:21:17.111+08:00Butterflies at Dairy Farm Park (May - June) 2019
In the past two months (May and June 2019), I visited Dairy Farm Park on a few Sunday mornings either hiking up to the peak of our highest mountain or just for butterfly-hunting.
Good to see a lot more people came to the park these days - in fact, many bird watchers and photographers always gathered at the furthest entrance point of the Wallace Trail. I was told that that area Federick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-121216195140997322019-04-28T21:15:00.003+08:002019-05-01T16:21:23.462+08:00Butterflies of Langkawi (Dec 2018)
Last December from 8 to 12 Dec, I joined CH and TP in their annual butterfly outing to Langkawi. This time, we focused on two locations, Kisap and Lubuk Semilang.
Let me start sharing a few new additions to my collection from this trip. At the entrance to a forest trail at Lubuk Semilang, I saw a whitish slow-flying lycaenid. It was an ordinary Grass Blue was what I thought initially. Federick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-74492557546421680432019-02-24T17:59:00.003+08:002019-02-24T20:45:05.660+08:00Flora and Fauna of Tampines Eco Green Park
It has been more than 3 years since my last visit to this nice and wild place in the northern part of Tampines town. Yes, I am referring to the Tampines Eco Green. After coming back to home for good last July, I had visited the park twice.
I noticed that the shrubs at the south entrance have grown a lot taller and the number of butterflies have dwindled quite a bit - perhaps due to the Federick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-49581318614119726572019-02-05T21:22:00.003+08:002019-02-05T21:22:31.880+08:00A Rarity @ Dairy Farm Park Wising all Chinese readers of the blog a happy and healthy lunar new year.
Some FB posts of the Malayan Jester (Symbrenthia hippoclus selangorana) caught my attention some weeks ago. It was spotted at the Dairy Farm Park so I decided to find out on a fine Sunday morning (27 Jan). Indeed, the moment I arrived at Car Park B, I did see a solitary Jester flitting around and Federick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-74957006454226537322019-01-27T17:47:00.002+08:002019-01-27T17:50:19.873+08:00Butterflies of Northern Thailand Part 7 (Papilionidae and Pieridae)Continue from previous post
Butterflies in the Papilionidae family are usually showy, large and strong flyers. There are more than five hundred species worldwide. Let me begin with this Common Windmill (Byasa polyeuctes) which appeared on two consecutive days when we were at Chiangdao.
It was nice to have two in one picture.
An upperside shot of a Common Windmil at the puddling groundFederick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-58668968802970712932019-01-05T22:22:00.000+08:002019-01-05T22:22:11.034+08:00Butterflies of Northern Thainland Part 6 (Satyrinae Subfamily)Continue from previous post
Satyrinae is one of the largest subfamilies of the family Nymphalidae.
The genus Elymnias species are commonly called Palmfly. The Spotted Palmfly (Elymnias malelas malelas) has very nice shimmering iridescent blue on the upper side of the forewings.
The Tiger Palmfly (Elymnias nesaea) appeared at Chiangdao puddling ground - this was a new addition to my Federick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-86233530141205957892018-12-25T09:50:00.000+08:002018-12-25T11:10:10.729+08:00Butterflies of Northern Thailand Part 5 (Nymphalids)Continue from previous post
The Leaf Butterfly (Kallima inachus) is shaped like a dry leaf and its underside wings blend very well with the ground and its preferred habitat.
Occasionally, it flapped its wings rather erratically, giving us an opportunity to shoot its attractive iridescence on the uppersides.
Another specimen - the markings, the size and the position of black Federick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-766912915081429386.post-59081337859815231412018-12-18T22:58:00.003+08:002018-12-25T11:23:44.570+08:00Butterflies of Northern Thailand Part 4 (Nymphalids)Continues from previous post
Butterflies in the Nymphalidae family have four functional legs only as the first pair of forelegs is reduced, usually covered with dense hairs and useless for walking or perching. There are many subfamilies in this largest and very diverse family of butterflies.
A male Courtesan (Euripus nyctelius nyctelius) was seen puddling on a rocky surface at Federick Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17508729789160815412noreply@blogger.com0