The Flying Saucer At Sunset

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Eyes Of 30,000 Honeycombs

With 30,000 individual facets, dragonflies have the most number of facets among insects. Each facet, or ommatidia, creates its own image, and the dragonfly brain has eight pairs of descending visual neurons to compile those thousands of images into one picture...

A Kaleidoscope Of Colours, Shapes And Patterns

Spectacular and innovative in design, the Flower Dome replicates the cool-dry climate of Mediterranean regions like South Africa, California and parts of Spain and Italy. Home to a collection of plants from deserts all over the world, it showcases the adaptations of plants to arid environments...

Lightning Strikes, Not Once, But Many Times

Unlike light, lightning does not travel in a straight line. Instead, it has many branches. These other branches flashed at the same time as the main strike. The branches are actually the step leaders that were connected to the leader that made it to its target...

Are You My Dinner Tonight?

A T-Rex has 24-26 teeth on its upper jaw and 24 more on its lower jaw. Juveniles have small, sharp blade-shaped teeth to cut flesh, whereas adults have huge, blunt, rounded teeth for crushing bones. Is the T-Rex a bone-crushing scavenger?

Those Captivating Round Eyes

4:46 PM  , , , , ,  

Lower Peirce Reservoir
North, Singapore
September 2012
Cloudy

Merlion Wayfarer always loved shooting Jumpers - Because they make photogenic subjects with their reflective round eyes. With the Raynox recommended by a fellow nature shooter, those captivating eyes are made even more enticing.
Here are the ones spotted at Lower Peirce last Sunday:
  • Telamonia Dimidiata (Two-Striped Telamonia) Male
  
This was a shy male. It kept hiding on the side of the boardwalk away from the traffic. After some time, it jumped onto a nearby plant and hid under a leaf for some time. Quite a bit of patience required for it to turn into a nice photo subject...
Look how beautifully it arches its legs as if walking on tiptoe...
A curious look into the lens...

Finally relaxing a bit...
  • Epeus Flavobilineatus (Yellow-Lined Epeus) Male

 This curious little one played kept looking at the lens...

It got a bit distracted here with its eyes looking in different directions...

This was the last shot before it got too curious and jumped towards Merlion Wayfarer! Fast move siah....

Merlion Wayfarer also spotted an orb-weaver with a cotton wool nest. The brown parts appear to be its eggs...

And then there was the Nephilengys Malabarensis (Malabar Spider) well-hidden in the shadows savouring a traped Katydid...

See how it is munching at its breakfast!

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