Taman Rimba Kiara is a little green gem located in a corner of the TTDI residential area. The above flowering tree, the firmiana malayana or mata lembu, flashes in testimony to man's care-less-ness - it's one of only two trees in the park that had flowered, since then the tree had been chopped down.

Wednesday, 17 January 2024

The other beauties

The smaller beings that contribute to the food chain, that are part of the cycle of life, so easily missed, under-appreciated till pointed out - grasshoppers, planthoppers, bugs, moths, butterflies, etc of dazzling combinations of hues and colours, yet the very perfect camouflage of the plants they visit and feed on.


Black-kneed meadow katydid


Rice grasshopper (Oxya japonica)





Green leek grasshopper (Mecostethus parapleurus)


Monkey Hopper (Erucius sp)






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