Stalk-Eyed Flies… It Gets Longer!

Stalk-Eyed Flies (Diopsidae) have eyes on long stalks. Self-explanatory name isn’t it? But how long do they actually get? The length of the eye…

Bioluminescence in Mushrooms.. Walking Through Pandora

I’m on a quest. A quest to find a large cluster of glow-in-the-dark mushrooms, also known as bioluminescent mushrooms/fungi. These fascinating little smurfy sprouts…

The Busy, Busy Dragonflies

It has been an incredibly long time since we did our last day shoot, and decided on doing one this weekend to practise for…

The Singapore Trilobite Larva

Decomposing logs are home to many little critters and fungi. Of which, one of the most fascinating ones… are trilobite larvae. The females of…

The Threat of a Singapore Tarantula

Many spiders would raise their legs in a threatening pose when they sense an incoming danger. One of the more distinct ones were from…

Firefly Larva – The Night Flashers

The rainy season is here again, and I couldn’t get the thought of glow-in-the-dark mushrooms out of my head. When trudging through the nature…

UV Fluorescence in Millipedes and Scorpions

Up til this shoot, I had always assumed that scorpions were the only creatures that fluoresced under Ultra Violet (UV) light. While testing my…

Beautiful Lacewings

Green Lacewings (Chrysopidae) fly in a slow, somewhat hovering manner. At flight, most would dismiss them as any other random fly. Looking up close…

The Tiny, Tiny Water Boatmen

The Water Boatman (Notonectidae) is also known as a backswimmer, precisely because they swim upside down on their backs. These tiny swimmers are not…

Marvelling at the Eyes of a Jumping Spider

The Jumping Spider’s (Salticidae) anterior median eyes are one of the largest amongst all other spiders, possibly with the exception of the Ogre-Faced Spider….

Khao Yai National Park – Day 5

Finally time to go home! But before we left…

Khao Yai National Park – Day 4

Our final day shoot and we told ourselves not…

Khao Yai National Park – Day 3

A day spent almost entirely at the cabin and…

Khao Yai National Park – Day 2

Woke up early, all ready to explore the jungle…

Khao Yai National Park – Day 1

We were considering many places for our next macro…

The Flower Mantis of Singapore

The flower mantis is rarely seen in Singapore. Many have even questioned whether they existed in this little island. There had been scattered findings…