Blue Snow Garden

This looks likely to be a moth… can someone help me to identify this?

Actual story: Last year, a few boys found some pupae of the Oleander Hawk Moths and passed them to me. I didn’t know where to keep them, so I placed them in my usual container. I didn’t monitor them for a few days, and the next thing I knew the moths were out. Unfortunately, their wings were brittle and deformed when they emerged. Although handicapped for life, they were big and really beautiful…

Advice to Cyren and his caterpillar: Always keep them in the soil, where its cool and damp!

Thanks to Dr Leong for his nice greeting with a picture of a green caterpillar with white stripes.

Working hard to pull the leaves together…

Nice male cicada found on the night of the post-conference at ICBES 2009, Cameron Highlands, Malaysia. It has a hollow abdomen that acts as a so called resonating chamber.

Also met a fantastic nature blogger; Dr Doug Taron who blogs on Gossamer Tapestry. More info on this person can be found here and here.

Doug and I at the Matang Mangrove Forest Reserve, Perak.

“When we were very young, my brother and I could not yet divorce our ardor for butterflies from our desire to flatten them in Riker mounts and hang them on the wall.  We threw away our killling jar not because we wished to stop causing pain–crushing an ant or a cockroach, which presumably had a nervous system similar to a tiger swallowtail, stirred few qualms–but because, unlike Alfred Russel Wallace, we grew uneasy with the pleasure it gave us.”

Inspired by Bug Girl’s Blog.

Reminds me that I have recently emptied and threw away my mole-cricket see-through container which gives them no freedom and little food.

Black & White Moth

Found this guy in the house yesterday.. This moth has nice black and white patterns… and a bushy tail too.

Munch! Munch!

This hairy caterpillar seem to have taken quite a big bite off the leaf…