A large wall jumping spider feeding on a moth as large as it.
Menemerus bivittatus is the only Menemerus species recorded in Borneo but this could be a sub-species or different species because her legs looks different from other Menemerus bivittatus.
They are the most common jumping spider on building walls because their grey color camouflages against white walls, especially dirty white walls.
Name: Araneae > Salticidae > Menemerus bivittatus
Gender / Sex: Female
Size: about 9mm (length)
Location: Panataran Kinabalu Restaurant, opposite Kinabalu National Park, Kundasang, Sabah.
Date: 13 Dec 2009
Time: 4pm
A medium-sized jumping spider.
Quite plump. Grayish brown in color, 4 light spots on it's abdomen.
I have seen similar species in Tawau, maybe those are the adults.
Name: Araneae > Salticidae > Burmattus sp. ?
Gender / Sex: Female
Size: Less than 1cm (length)
Location: Wall of Panataran Kinabalu Restaurant, Kundasang, Sabah.
Date: 12 December 2009
Time: 11 am
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/12990393
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wong_chun_xing_arthropods/6129208583/in/photostream/
A shiny long Soldier beetle. Possibly a Themus kinabaluensis, T. durantoni and T. gracilipes as suggested by phumaengmai.
Also looks similar to the Indian T. lineatofemoralis.
Alive but inactive.
Shiny green forewings, orange abdomen and thorax.
Name: Coleoptera > Cantharidae > Themus sp.
Size: about 5cm (length)
Location: Somewhere in Kundasang, Sabah.
Date: 12 December 2009
Time: 10:30 am
www.projectnoah.org/spottings/13019474
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wong_chun_xing_arthropods/6129756612/
A conifer cone of the common pine trees of Kundasang.
Strange structure fused onto a railing in this UNESCO site.
Seems like a row of 23 eggs.
Most of the cells have holes, maybe the insect has hatched.
One cell is still closed, the hole is still sealed shut.
Size: 2.1 mm (per cell) 5cm (total length)
Location: Kinabalu Park headquarters area, Kundasang, Sabah, Malaysia.
Date: 1 September 2011
Time: 10:30 am
This is a Nephilid Orb Weaver species, closely related to the famous Nephila spiders.
I am not sure about the rest of the spiders of the same species, but this individual is nocturnal.
Black body with cream-brown stripes at legs and lined patterns on abdomens.
Bright orange patterns under it's abdomen.
This one lives behind a wall mirror and comes out only at night, that is when I caught it and keep it until the next morning to take this photograph.
This species is quite common around Rose Cabin. Species distributed from India to Southeast Asia.
A stick bug, stick insect to be exact. Thin and small.
Mostly green, red joints (knees) and tail tip, orange head.
It has a pair of long and thin antennas.
Name: Phasmida > Carausius sanguineoligatus
Size: about 7cm.
Time: 7 am
I heard these calling a lot from low vegetation as we climbed up through the cloud forest zone towards Mt. Kinabalu basecamp.
This was taken at about 2500m.
Unfortunately I only got one shot, so it may not be possible to get a definite identification from this, I thought it was a juvenile?
It was found near a forest stream within Kinabalu National Park, at approximately 1585m above sea level.
There were a lot of these calling from the forest floor near a forest stream within Kinabalu National Park, at approximately 1585m above sea level.
These were quite common and calling noisily from vegetation next to, or overhanging, a forest stream within Kinabalu National Park, at approximately 1585m above sea level.
Found next to a forest stream in Kinabalu National Park, at approximately 1585m above sea level.
I found quite a lot of these in small flows of water running into a forest stream within Kinabalu National Park, at approximately 1585m above sea level.
Found within a rotting log, next to a forest stream, in Kinabalu National Park, at approximately 1585m above sea level.
Hiding within a rotting log on the forest floor, next to a forest stream, in Kinabalu National Park. I found it because its call was quite different from any of the other frogs I'd heard in the area, which made me more detirmined to locate its hiding spot.
At approximately 1500m above sea level.
Found next to a forest stream on very low vegetation in Kinabalu National Park, at approximately 1585m above sea level.
Found next to a forest stream in Kinabalu National Park, at approximately 1585m above sea level.
Found on a large leaf overhanging a forest stream, in Kinabalu National Park, at approximately 1585m above sea level.
I found this toad at high elevation (~3000m above sea level) on Mount Kinabalu. It is a moderate sized toad (between 30 and 40mm) that was walking across the trail. Going through my field guides, it appears to be Pelophryne misera (at least visually), but it does not fit as it is far larger than P. misera and it does not have webbing on its hands which is a characteristic of Pelophryne. I've gone through the Frogsofborneo.org options, and have not had success there either. Consequently, I have no idea what the species is.
One male and one female found perched in branches overhanging a fast flowing stream.
Two individuals found perched on ferns above a fast flowing river.
Several individuals seen alongside a fast flowing stream.
One individual found vocalising on a boulder in a fast flowing stream.
Kinabalu Pitviper
Photographed at Kinabalu Park, Sabah, Malaysia
Several individuals observed on vegetation overhanging a fast flowing stream
