The Flying Saucer At Sunset

Lenticular clouds (Altocumulus lenticularis) are stationary lens-shaped clouds with a smooth layered appearance that form in the troposphere, usually above mountain ranges. One was spotted in Singapore recently...

Eastern Twilight Surprises

Tampines East, Singapore February 2013 The visit at twilight was full of little surprises... A Tetragnathidae (Big-Jawed Spider) silhouetted against the rays of the setting sun... A blob of unknown origin... A bright-hued grasshopper... A freckled one... And a moulted one... A bright Ampittia Dioscorides Camertes (Bush Hopper)... Ant burrows in little hills that go deep underground... A plant that appeared...

The Dusk Web Builder

Tampines East, Singapore February 2013 When the sun descends below the horizon, the world slowly turns from twilight to dusk. At a park Tampines, a place with no electrical lighting, it is when the grass and marsh darkens. The world there then comes alive with lots of "Eastern Twilight Surprises"... Twilight is also the time when nocturnal spiders awake from their daytime positions inside leaves, inside burrows, on webs, and come alive to...