Finally back to night shooting! Just a few subjects, but interestingly, we found quite a number of tiger beetles sleeping on leaves. As fast as they were in the day, these fierce little dudes were incredibly docile at night. But a more interesting discovery was a glowing mushroom. Yes just one, a bio-luminiscent mushroom that emits a soft green light when in total darkness!

#1 UFO??

#2 Nope! It is a bio-luminiscent mushroom! Glows in the dark, cool eh? This was just a tiny mushroom, about 1cm in height. Can’t wait to find a mass of them to give the feel of being in Pandora. lol

#3 First pair of mating subjects found before I even reached Wallace Trail! These Stick Insects (Phasmatodea) were pretty large, so I had to shoot from about 1 metre away!

#4 Shooting from the other side, where you can see the connection between the male and the female

#5 A Katydid squeezing out from it’s moult. Often see the bugs moulting at night, but this is the first time I’m shooting this.

#6 Longhorn Beetle (Cerambycidae) which flew deep into the bushes, I had to trudge deep to get this one

#7 Since I was already there, had to get a head shot!! Dimply faced, the amazing thing about insects is… every member of the same species looks almost identical. Even the position of the dimples could be exactly the same.

#8 This was the Tiger Beetle that was found resting on many leaves. All of us had a Tiger Beetle to shoot at the same time!

#9 Let’s look at it’s face!

#10 Previous shot wasn’t close enough, adding more magnification for this one!

#11 RAWR!!! It decided to bare it’s mandibles at me. Quite a sight!

#12 A stubborn weevil closes it’s legs and plays dead

#13 Opened it’s legs for a while, realized we’re still around and went back to it’s guarded mode

#14 Side view of the weevil

#15 Final shot of a turquoise coloured Tiger Beetle! Was hanging upside down, so I rotated it slightly

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