As readers of this blog will know, when you can't get away from Kuching for a trip to the surrounding national parks, a stroll around the urban Sama Jaya Park in the Stutong area is always good for a few things of interest. You might turn up a handsome Green Crested Lizard (Bronchocela cristatella), for example, as it poses on the leaf litter.
Bright yellow-and-black assassin bugs (Reduviidae) are a common sight, usually at about eye level on trailside shrubbery (trails in the park are popular with morning joggers).
Along the trails, or in the wet grasses surrounding a small central pond, you can find dragonflies of a number of common species, including the abundant Neurothemis terminata...
...or one of the common species of Orthetrum, including Orthetrum chrysis...
...Orthetrum testaceum...
...or the particularly ubiquitous Orthetrum sabina (here, a mating pair "in wheel").
Te rather plain Grey Sailor (Neptis leucoporos cresina) is a common butterfly at Sama Jaya.
Does anyone know what these extremely colourful caterpillars are?
The resident troop of Long-tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis) usually turns up somewhere along the trail. The younger animals seem never quite sure whether to regard you as a curiosity or a threat.
Their elders either ignore you...
...or make it (seemingly) clear that you are not welcome in their midst.
To finish our stroll as it began, here is another lizard: the attractive Striped Tree Skink (Apterygodon vittatus), a Bornean endemic.
Very impressive dragonflies and great colours.
ReplyDeleteYour blue caterpillars are in fact sawfly larvae ...
ReplyDeleteReally! I never would have guessed - many thanks!
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