Been waiting for the weekend to shoot the eggs of the Wide Jaw Viciria spotted recently, and the babies hatched just before the weekend!! Still an awesome sight, as I took a short trip down to visit the mother and her newborns.

#1 Trying to round up her kids under the leaf

#2 Flustered mum: ALL OF YOU COME BACK NOW!!!

#3 Oops, she spotted me!

#4 Couldn’t keep her eyes off me and my flash

#5 Think she might have forgotten about her kids?

#6 Suddenly remembered that her kids are around, and started counting them again. “one…. two… three… four… OEII stop running around! one… two…”

#7 Lets try to go closer to the little rascals, each barely 1mm long

#8 And closer

#9 Closest I could get! The eyes were not fully formed yet, and just looked like a blur of black. Made me think that the shots were all out of focus. lol

#14 Found a pair of cicadas beside each other on my way out. Wondered if they’d start to develop their relationship further and waited…….. nyah, no progress!

The complete album can be viewed here.

• singapore