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...

Eyes Of 30,000 Honeycombs

With 30,000 individual facets, dragonflies have the most number of facets among insects. Each facet, or ommatidia, creates its own image, and the dragonfly brain has eight pairs of descending visual neurons to compile those thousands of images into one picture...

A Kaleidoscope Of Colours, Shapes And Patterns

Spectacular and innovative in design, the Flower Dome replicates the cool-dry climate of Mediterranean regions like South Africa, California and parts of Spain and Italy. Home to a collection of plants from deserts all over the world, it showcases the adaptations of plants to arid environments...

Lightning Strikes, Not Once, But Many Times

Unlike light, lightning does not travel in a straight line. Instead, it has many branches. These other branches flashed at the same time as the main strike. The branches are actually the step leaders that were connected to the leader that made it to its target...

Are You My Dinner Tonight?

A T-Rex has 24-26 teeth on its upper jaw and 24 more on its lower jaw. Juveniles have small, sharp blade-shaped teeth to cut flesh, whereas adults have huge, blunt, rounded teeth for crushing bones. Is the T-Rex a bone-crushing scavenger?

Prunus Trail - Stunning Coloured Water

3:07 AM  , , ,  

MacRitchie Reservoir
Central, Singapore
January 2015
 
Merlion Wayfarer went to MacRitchie Reservoir recently. And it felt like a step into the forest wonderland of Jiuzhaigou Fairyland.

From afar, you can see the copper of the water
gradually darkening into a Persian Green and the deep of Prussian Blue...

 
A close-up at the reservoir banks...

In some parts, it was a milky green...
 
During this same visit, it was also troubling to see teenagers fishing at the reservoir edge, and on the boardwalks.


The white threads of abandoned fishing lines can be seen entangled in the moss and hydrilla...

A single red-eared terrapin there, balancing on a pile of leaves, unmoving..

It's only when its head is tilted that you see a fishing line with the hook in its mouth...
 
Merlion Wayfarer hopes illegal and inconsiderate fishing acts like these can be stopped to prevent even more damage and hurt to the wildlife in our nature reserves.
 
A column of white moths on a leaf with a powdery surface. It looks like they were caught in a web. Until you see a few of them flying off, leaving a green patch where they previously were...
 
Apparently, a symbiotic relationship exists between the moths and the ants...
 
 
A bronze coloured ant wanders about, foraging for food...

 
A plethora of orb-weavers abound...
 
St Andrew's Cross...
 
A Tetragnathidae (Long-Jawed Orb Weaver)...
 
Some other discoveries including a caterpillar, an open termite tunnel,
a feeding grasshopper and a fly with inverted legs....
 

 
The rays of the setting sun on a cloudy sky...

 

Read More
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)