Black Paradise Flycatcher

Finlayson’s Squirrel

Blue-eared Kingfisher

Yellow-vented Bulbul

Butterfly

Common Awl

Hasora badra, the common awl, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae, which...

Yellow Vein Lancer

Scientific name: Pyroneura latoia latoia Pyroneura is an Indomalayan genus of grass skipper butterflies in...

Large Snow Flat

Tagiades gana gana is one of the commonest representatives of this genus in Singapore. The...

Bamboo Paintbrush Swift

Baoris farri, commonly known as the paintbrush swift, is a butterfly belonging to the...

Common Mormon

Papilio polytes, the common Mormon, is a common species of swallowtail butterfly widely distributed...

Common Dartlet

Oriens gola, the common dartlet, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is...

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Our Park

Clementi Forest

Clementi Forest lies directly between Clementi Road and the former Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) railway line onSingapore Island NUS Department of Biological Sciences.It is...

Green Corridor

Hiking Journey started from King Albert Park MRT Station and ended at Ghim Moh Road.Easy walking throughout the journey, can bring young kid to...

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Photographing spiders with Nicky Bay

Passiena bayi, the spider that was named after his name 'Nicky Bay' It was actually named without his knowledge. The species was described by Mikhail Omelko, a Russian entomologist who is also an excellent macro photographer. The spider was found in the Bolaven plateau of Laos. When I was looking...

Are there any Wildcats in Singapore?

Do you know Singapore has a native Wildcat? Scientifically known as Prionailurus bengalensis, the leopard cat is Singapore’s last native wildcat  The wild leopard cat is similar to the size of a domestic cat, but it is more slender and has a tail that is half as long as its body. It is...

Weaver Ant Nest

Have you seen this kind of Nest? some nest sizes are quite big and actually quite neat, as they make it by connecting ( weave ) the leaves. When I first time saw it, I thought is a bird's nest, as I saw it quite high on the tree....

Molting or Ecdysis

When I was searching for caterpillars and other insects, I found a cicada’s shell. Few days later, I found a grasshopper's shell. It made me curious and wanted to find out about this shell / transparent skin and the process of it. It’s called Molting. In arthropods, such as insects, arachnids...

Spiders

Telamonia Spider

Telamonia is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell...

Pear-Shaped Spider – Opadometa fastigata

Scientific Name: Opadometa fastigata Opadometa fastigata, the pear-shaped Opadometa, is a species of spiders in...

Pancorius sp

Pancorius is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène...

Wild Animals

Monitor Lizard

Monitor lizards are large lizards in the genus Varanus. They are native to Africa,...

Softshell Turtle

The Trionychidae are a taxonomic family of a number of turtle genera, commonly known as softshell turtles. The family was erected by Leopold...

Lesser mouse-deer

The lesser mouse-deer, lesser Malay chevrotain, or kanchil is a species of even-toed ungulate...

Ladder Gudgeon bitten by a Dog-faced water snake

Fish: Ladder gudgeon, Bostrychus scalarisSnake: Dog-faced water snake, Cerberus schneiderii What was supposed to just be an...

Raffles’ Banded Langurs

The Raffles' banded langur (Presbytis femoralis), also known as the banded leaf monkey or...

Asian Millipede – Trigoniulus corallinus

Trigoniulus corallinus, sometimes called the rusty millipede or common Asian millipede, is a species...

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Flying with our Bird

Oriental Pied Hornbill Juvenile

The Moment when the Juvenile came out from the Nest and tried to flyCommonwealth - March 2025

Black Paradise Flycatcher

The black paradise flycatcher, also known as the Japanese paradise flycatcher, is a medium-sized passerine bird native to southeastern Asia. It is a glossy...

Blue-eared Kingfisher

The blue-eared kingfisher is found in Asia, ranging across the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It is found mainly in dense shaded forests where...

Caterpillar

Bagworm Moth Larva – Psychidae

bagworm moth, (family Psychidae), any of a family of insects (order Lepidoptera) that are found worldwide and named for the baglike cases the larvae construct around...

Oleander Hawk-Moth

Daphnis nerii, the oleander hawk-moth or army green moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in...

Common Mime Caterpillar

Papilio clytia, the common mime, is a swallowtail butterfly found in south and southeast Asia. The butterfly belongs to the subgenus Chilasa, the black-bodied...

Dragonfly

Handsome Grenadier

Agrionoptera sexlineata (Handsome Grenadier) is a species of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae with the hindwing measuring up to 36 mm for male and 38...

Common blue skimmer

Orthetrum glaucum is an Asian dragonfly species, common across much of tropical and subtropical Asia. The common name for this species is blue marsh...

Ornate coraltail

Ceriagrion cerinorubellum(Brauer, 1865) The Ornate Coraltail is a common damselfly that is easily identified by its bluish green thorax and dark abdomen with an orange...