Hypolimnas bolina jacintha (Jacintha Eggfly), the dancing queen!
Hypolimnas bolina jacintha (Jacintha Eggfly)
Daphnis nerii, a strikingly beautiful hawk-moth
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 Frog [...]
Graphium agamemnon, a green-spotted swallowtail butterfly
Graphium agamemnon (Tailed Jay, Green Spotted Triangle) -
Whoa! I’m enraptured! Found this magnificent beauty in our garden a few days ago!
A large tropical butterfly with a wingspan of 7-8 cm. What a spectacular looking butterfly!
Apple green spots and bands of variable sizes beautifully contrast against its predominantly black upperside and fashioned in fabulous symmetry! Typical [...]
Eurema andersonii, a restless yellow butterfly
Eurema andersonii andersonii (One-spot Grass Yellow) -
Humph…such a restless flier! This lovely yellow butterfly rarely stops to enable me to capture its image. Very often, the moment I glimpsed it flying around the Pithecellobium dulce ‘Variegated’ (Variegated Madras Thorn) in our garden, I’ll zoom in with camera but end up disappointed many a time.
Nevertheless, I [...]
Beautiful damselfly: the Red-tipped Shadefly (Agriocnemis rubescens)
Agriocnemis rubescens rubeola (Red-tipped Shadefly) –
“Come quickly, darling…there’s a damselfly on the orchid stalk”, beckoned John, my dearest hubby on a gloomy afternoon recently. Heart beating with excitement, I ran out with my camera! But the tiny insect was perched too high to capture an image. Without hesitation, John gently brought down the [...]
Fascinating Dark Blue Tiger (Tirumala septentrionis)
Tirumala septentrionis septentrionis -
Commonly known as Dark Blue Tiger that aptly describes its blue tigerish stripes! What a fascinating butterfly it is! Even if I had wanted to, I could not forget this beauty that captured my attention almost a year ago. It provided me my first ever butterfly adventure in our garden and [...]
Ingenious mimicry by the Common Mormon (Papilio polytes)
Papilio polytes (Common Mormon) –
Looking out into our backyard from the kitchen around 1pm last July, I spotted this gorgeous beauty flying restlessly, moving from the Curry Leaf Plant (Murraya koenigii) to the Annona squamosa (Custard Apple) tree, then back again to the Curry Leaf briefly and settled on the Pigeon Berry (Duranta [...]
Beautiful chequered Lime Butterfly (Papilio demoleus)
Papilio demoleus malayanus (Lime Butterfly) -
A relatively large butterfly with wingspan about 8-9cm that is quite a frequent visitor to our front yard garden. It is to be found hovering around foliage and flowering bushes, quite happy to remain still for sometime but take a quick flight whenever I approach too close for a [...]
Flesh Fly (Sarcophaga spp.) is quite a beauty!
Sarcophaga spp. (Flesh Fly) -
What a gorgeous insect this fly can appear to be!
It flew right into our courtyard and landed with ease on the leaf of Dieffenbachia Amoena ‘Tropic Snow’ as I was checking for mealy bugs that are rampant on some of our foliage plants. How wonderful to be able to capture some [...]
Tropical Wildlife Photo Gallery
Showcasing pictures of all the wildlife and living organisms of the animal kingdom, especially insects, that abounds in our tropical garden in Malaysia, one time or another, that we have the pleasure of capturing. Absolutely fascinating!
These nature images are compiled in this photo gallery to give you an overview of what’s available in our website, [...]
