Was supposed to go to Dairy Farm but made a mistake with the dates and ended up at Chestnut Avenue instead. A number of interesting finds left us with more weird names for the little critters!

#1 A really tiny bug that David found. Interestingly, the eyes stood up like that of a crab, and the antennae was thick and leaf-like. We called it the muscle bug. lol

#2 Top view. This bug was barely 2mm long!

#3 Head shot focusing on the eyes and “muscles”

#4 Slightly angled view

#5 Lots of Praying Mantises along the trail, spotting one in every few meters.

#6 Found a beautiful one and took some handheld shots with the Raynox attached.

#7 My favorite angle. Love the colours! The 3 little jewels between the antennae are the Ocelli, which function as eyes as well.

#8 Found lots of mozzies flying around me too

#9 Unfortunately, this one seemed to have gotten to me and is sluggish enough to let me shoot.

#10 Took another shot for insurance.

#11 Top view. Maybe useful to ID if I get some weird disease from the bite!

#12 A Common Mormon sleeping under a leaf

#13 Tried to go a bit closer

#14 This was the closest I could get

#15 Bored due to lack of subjects, and took shots of this ant

#16 James found this little velvety mite

#17 Relatively large Salticidae.

#18 Large eyes!

#19 A female with large abdomen. Pregnant?

#20 Harvestman from the leaf litter

#21 It took a break, while I continued to shoot

#22 Portrait of a very large weevil, almost an inch long. Didn’t take much pics while Ben was going at it.

#23 Pretty little Crab Spider, a female Boliscus tuberculatus

#24 Top view.

#25 Taking a poop. The white substance could be guanin, a nitrogen-rich excretory product.

#26 Look at the abdomen. See any face with thick eyebrows?

#27 Back view, as it moved non-stop

#28 Last shot but out of focus.

#29 Masked Hunter, an assassin bug nymph. See the eyes?

#30 Here’s how it’d look normally

James blogged about this trip here.

The complete album can be viewed here.

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