John&Jacq~s Garden

Articles on wildlife in tropical Malaysia, arranged by posting dates.

Posted by Jacqueline on November 1st, 2009

Hmm…just day-dreaming and imagining how marvelous if we do really have a butterfly garden! It’ll be paradise with all these wondrous insects, flying in droves to our tiny garden plot! Anyway, we are contented and happy that some butterfly species do visit us regularly to keep us enchanted with nature.

Posted by Jacqueline on October 8th, 2009

Chilades pandava pandava (Cycad Blue Butterfly, Plains Cupid) This species of blue butterflies are really very tiny and diminutive. You have to get real close and have good eyesight to enjoy its beauty. Thank God that we live in the digital age, where a simple point and shoot digital camera can work wonders to bring [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on May 26th, 2009

Continuing from our previous article Rats storming our garden, February 2009. O, what bliss! Joy and peace at last in our little garden paradise! No sign of the abominable vermin for almost two months! No more stinking stench! No more cleaning their mess! And, no more setting useless traps and the like!

Posted by Jacqueline on February 28th, 2009

Very stressful month in our tropical garden, this February! Not that our plants aren’t doing fine. It is just that we are fighting a losing battle with the disgusting rats that visit our garden. Previous years, their unwelcome entries were infrequent but got worser since the last year and is becoming even more rampant of [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on December 18th, 2008

Daphnis nerii (Oleander Hawk-moth) Simply spectacular! To be able to see such a captivating hawk-moth in person is just too marvelous for words. And, to see its transformation from a shriveled leaf into such a strikingly beautiful moth within less than a minute is another wonderful experience altogether. Like magic actually! Reminds me of The [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on August 16th, 2008

Elymnias hypermnestra agina (Common Palmfly) The Common Palmfly is a nymphalid butterfly that often visits our tropical garden, especially attracted by our potted palm trees, located at the frontyard as well as the backyard. We grow three palm species, namely Manila Palm, Lady Palm and Macarthuri Palm and all have been ‘invaded’ by caterpillars of [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on August 14th, 2008

Lerema accius (Clouded Skipper) This attractive dark-brown skipper butterfly seems to love visiting our urban home-garden. It is seen so frequently flitting from bloom to bloom that I was never in a haste to capture its image knowing that I will never run out of photo opportunity. However, one morning early last month, it decided [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on July 10th, 2008

Cephrenes trichopepla (Yellow Palm-dart)