Just after the rain. I was lucky to get so close on an iPhone.
Tagging critters while at HK Disneyland. Spotted this fellow on a Chinese Banyan tree in a shady grove. About five feet off the ground. It's a invasive species here.
With my son at HK Disneyland. Tagging butterflies between rides. Spotted three of these within twenty feet of each other.
Insecta: Lepidoptera
Erebidae, Erebinae, Poaphilini
Bastilla fulvotaenia
Wong Lung Hang Road, Lantau Island, Hong Kong
Insecta: Lepidoptera
Crambidae, Acentropinae
Paracymoriza sp nr aurantialis
Wong Lung Hang Road, Lantau Island, Hong Kong
Insecta: Lepidoptera
Cossidae
Xyleutes persona
Wong Lung Hang, Lantau Island, Hong Kong
Insecta: Lepidoptera
Erebidae, Hypeninae (Mecistoptera species group)
Acidon evae (a female)
Wong Lung Hang, Lantau Island, Hong Kong
Insecta: Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae, Dichomeridinae
Dichomeris zonata
Wong Lung Hang, Lantau Island, Hong Kong
Insecta: Lepidoptera
Lasiocampidae
Euthrix isocyma
Wong Lung Hang, Lantau Island, Hong Kong
Chinese bulbul at the HK Disneyland
Red-necked Keelback snake and its victim a rather large looking toad. Sorry about the bad picture. Only had an iphone.
~1.5 inch long. Near a large shrub at HK Disneyland. As seen on a vertical wall.
Insecta: Lepidoptera
Choreutidae
Brenthia sp. indet. A
species reared from a Ficus
Sai Shek Wan, Lantau Island, Hong Kong
these moths jump / skip around their little patch of habitat (usually a few leaves of a tall herb near the host tree), pretending to be a little jumping spider. Recent work has shown these moths are Batesian mimics of several species of Salticidae, many of which are black and white.
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