New Found – Insect ….

October 3, 2012October 3, 2012

… hairy Huntsman Spider …

found this at Borneo Tropical Rainforest Resort (while we have our night walk), a place worth to visit for macro outing, found tarantulas, caterpillar mimic snake .. fresh air …

update 2012 Oct 3

... Hairy Huntsman Spider ... — … Hairy Huntsman Spider …

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October 2, 2012October 2, 2012

… the bird dropping spider …

The bird dropping spider (Celaenia excavata) derives its name from mimicking bird droppings to avoid predators, mainly birds. …

a spider that easy to capture as it seldom move .. as it pertain as a bird drop …

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Kubah National Park 2012 Sep

Spider Collection | liewwk

Bako National Park 2012 Sept

February 16, 2012

Rove Beetle … dangerous ! ? …

a beetle that I meet few years back and found it again last year … but last year I saw it kill a wasp (too fast but saw a dead wasp after this beelte land on the same leaf )

make me check more on this beetle

Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Staphyliniformia
Superfamily: Staphylinoidea
Family: Staphylinidae

from the government link … it stated

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The haemolymph in the beetle’s entire body (except the wings) contains the most poisonous animal contact toxin in the world called ‘pederin’ (C₂₄ H₄₃ O₉N) named in 1953. It is 12 times more poisonous than cobra venom ! Dried and stored rove beetle for 8 years still retained it’s toxicity !

from http://www.mpsp.gov.my/english/bulletin/RoveBeetle.htm

additional info

http://orcaquest-diary.blogspot.com/2009/04/beware-of-rove-beetle-poisonous-insect.html

http://www.alloexpat.com/malaysia_expat_forum/rove-beetle-invasion-warning-t22963.html

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January 30, 2012January 30, 2012

The “Glue” Assassin

went a reserve jungle with my friends and family … and have a quick macro hunting … found a weird assassin bug where it stay close to tress with sticky (white, brown) liquid … and it’s “hand” change from tiny to bigger claw (just look like crab claw) .. not sure what they want to do that .. and if possible I will re-visit and see whether it use for food hunting ? (other insect stuck on the sticky liquid just can go away easily)

have a close view on it’s “claw”

first time I meet this …. and more Assassin bug click

September 7, 2011September 7, 2011

a Gold bar – Wasp

while my trip to Bake’lalan , I did spent ~2 hours in a lovely jungle purely for MACRO.. a beautiful jungle with so much thing found …

One of them is a GOLD bar … I thought why a gold flying around while I saw this … and when I approach .. just notice this is a WASP …

April 27, 2011April 27, 2011

an interesting firefly ….

a bug that really make my day, we had a short night outing in a reserve jungle within KL …. within 2 hours .. we found few interesting model e.g. Spotted Litter Frog… , juvenile Spiny Turtle, Lovi’s Reed Snake & Marbled Forest Gecko

a nothing special while you see it at picture …..

have a look how interesting is this firefly

I didn;t able to capture it’s head due to the environment … and would love to see it again

thanks Andy Paul for the ID
adult larviform female of a firefly from the lamprigera spp.

March 8, 2011

New Collection – the Ant-mimic Jumping spider

I was there (drive ~20km) for a robberfly which I met one day before (and I don;t have my macro gears with me)…

but accidentally found this Ant-mimic for me .. never see this type … and not only new found but I witness an amazing moment … the both male fight for something !!!!!… (will share the other picture to show what it fight for later … need to little stack work on that)

and the moment they fight …

... fight for ? | Ant-mimic jumping spider ...

not a most beautiful ant-mimic that I saw before but this is a beautiful one too …

few types of Ant-mimic collection

1. An ant mimic spider of the genus myrmarachne that mimic Tetraponera rufonigra ant

2. … Ant-mimic crab | Amyciaea lineatipes having prey …

... Ant-mimic crab having prey ... — Amyciaea lineatipes

3. Ant-mimic jumping spider | 蟻蛛 (male)

4. very common black myrmarachne

Spider collection by liewwk

March 4, 2011

The Blue Bee – Cukcoo Bee (Thyreus sp)

while I first see this bee .. I was amaze how fast it flying around, it is like impossible see what’s the fly or bee flying so fast with blue “thing” so I use few hours sit there and wait .. and trying to observe what’s the “object” flying around

Finally, I managed to “pause” and capture my very 1st “blue bee”

and few weeks later while I do my usual night MACRO, I found the Blue bee sleeping !!!!!!

since then, I love to see this bee sleep … and start love to find it as … it never move after sleep … it use it tooth clamp on the any stick, no matter how u shake, move it around. It will never woke us easily

This Bee , it is almost impossible to shoot day time where it fly real fast … you need a lot of patient to shoot it …. and it is good to capture while it sleep , it never move even we move it around, flash it …

and I even able to shoot 10x

since then I never stop shooting it … even I have >100 pictures how this bee sleeping … even I brought some of my close friend to this spots to find it and shoot it for many times …

I have some video show how this bee woke up and flew off just within seconds ….

March 2, 2011

New Collection – … Mayfly 蜉蝣 | Order Ephemeroptera 蜉蝣目

a surprise found while my last year trip to Terenggnu for Monsoon season shooting (a beautiful place for landscape)

Terengganu series

In the hotel room, we found some interesting Mayflies (very tiny ~2-4mm), beetle and soldierflies …but I was too tired to capture all but can’t stop to try my best to capture these Mayflies ….