Hypolimnas bolina jacintha (Jacintha Eggfly), the dancing queen!
Hypolimnas bolina jacintha (Jacintha Eggfly)
Our butterfly garden in October 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.
Rats storming our garden, February 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 late, [...]
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 [...]
Memorable June 2008 event in our garden
Everything seem so marvelously perfect in our tropical garden setting in June. Foliage plants were at their luxuriant best, flowering plants/shrubs were happily blooming non-stop, mealy bugs/white flies were least seen, and even the weather was extra kind, neither too hot nor too wet.
White-browed Bulbuls nesting on our Lady Palm Tree!
The month of May 2008 was very significant for us! We have VIP visiting our home garden since the third week of May. A pair of White-browed Bulbul (Pycnonotus luteolus) had finally succeeded in building their nest outside, on our potted Rhapis excelsa (Lady Palm), at our front yard! Yippee, the breeding season/cycle has begun! [...]
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 [...]
Zebra Dove (Geopelia striata) with attractive zebra-like bands
Geopelia striata (Zebra Dove) -
Locally known in Malaysia as ‘Burung Merbok’, these Zebra Doves are marvelous to look at as they go about pecking at the edge of the tarred road outside our front yard. Visiting daily and sort of routine-like, they seem oblivious of the surroundings and vehicles plying the route. Sometimes, the Zebra [...]
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 [...]
