Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


May 10, 2008: Caterpillars, Butterflies and Spiders at Alexandra Hospital

Alexandra Hospital is close to where I live. Maybe 1/month, I walk over with my tripod and camera and my curious eyes and look. The AH folks have built a wonderful garden with apparently well selected plants and structures (platforms) designed to encourage butterfly / caterpillar production. This morning several of us from the Flickr group, Macro Maniacs of Singapore, met and shared ideas and what we located. My first find was a wet grasshopper

may 10 9534 wet ghopper

and a not so sharply focused flower

may 10 9536 flower bee

A colorful butterfly (I need to learn to properly identify them)

may 10 9538 bfly proboscis

The deep color with rain drops create an interesting effect.

may 10 9544 lavender flower

Another unidentified butterfly

may 10 9549 bfly leaf

Different presentation

may 10 9555 bfly harvesting

Harvesting nectar

may 10 9564 bfly harvesting

Moth or Butterfly?

may 10 9573 orange bfly

An almost caterpillar

may 10 9593 hanging caterpillar

What a lovely something

may 10 9598 wet flower

Here was a jumping spider hiding in a heliconia

may 10 9600 banded jumper

looking at me

may 10 9601 banded jumper

A green caterpillar carrying a small rain drop

may 10 9632 grn caterpillar mendis

Having a bit of lunch

may 10 9635 caterpillar lunch

Interesting orange spots

may 10 9655 black caterpillar eating

Another something hanging from a stem

may 10 9656 hanging coccoon

A spider carrying a green insect

may 10 9670 spider catch

Another view of the spider - on her way home with dinner

may 10 9673 hairy leg jumper

This interesting spider looks almost like the leaf. You can see the 1st and 2nd pair of legs hanging down

may 10 9680 fish net spider

A hairy caterpillar

may 10 9681 hairy caterpillar

I've not seen a spider like this before

may 10 9698 one or two spiders

Here is the lower one

may 10 9706 triangle spider

A very close look

may 10 9715 maybe post molt

Another look

may 10 9719 post molt maybe

A brown caterpillar

may 10 9720 caterpillar

looking at me

may 10 9721 caterpillar

Upside down

may 10 9727 prepare lunch

The hairy caterpillar

may 10 9736 hairy caterpillar

Slowly walking around

may 10 9742 hairy caterpillar

Its face

may 10 9743 hairy caterpillar face

Climbing over a leaf carrying a rain drop

may 10 9752 hairy rain magnifier

Curled

may 10 9756 u turn drops

Come back another time. The Alexandra Hospital Butterfly Trail is never the same.

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C. Frank Starmer

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