Hi, I'm Ed. I hope we can all appreciate the plants, animals and fungi on University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC). Contact me to help
21/06/2022
The pygmy grass blue, Zizula hylax pygmaea, the smallest butterfly in Malaysia. Photo taken at the flowers at the front of Trent building where many a graduate was taking their graduation photos.
May all the graduates of 2020 and 2021 take off and fly towards a brighter future. Small as you may think you are, you are equally capable of flight, capable of greatness.
30/05/2019
A Chocolate Albatross (Appias lyncida) resting at F1 Building. Photo taken by Namita Suberi
27/05/2019
Hmm this ant looks a bit off... It's a spider that mimics the appearance of weaver ants (Oecophylla). It looks like a species of jumping spider called ant-like jumper (Myrmaplata plateleoides). Males and females of these spiders have distinctive looks. This is a male one which looks like a weaver ant carrying another weaver ant. The fake second ant is actually their elongated fangs. Females not shown here look closer to weaver ants with reddish orange abdomen rather than black ones like this male. Photos taken by Azamuddeen Nasir
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15/04/2019
Mushroom Monday is back! There has been quite some rain on campus lately enabling a few big mushrooms to sprout.
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10/04/2019
Do you know what season it is? You can hear their loud chirping if you go to certain places on campus. It's cicada emergence! They have spent a year underground, it's now time to mate.
I present to you...a cute Jade Green Cicada (Dundubia Vaginata) , the most common species in peninsular Malaysia. It's found dead at the common area of Tioman Hall. Either it has died naturally (they don't live long as adults) or it went kamikaze into artificial lights.
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02/04/2019
A butterfly that seems to resemble The Ciliate Blue (Anthene emolus goberus) the most. It was busy drinking uhh... "human perspiration" (as my guidebook put it) on the stair railings near Dapur Mas.
06/03/2019
I found a blue-banded bee (Amegilla zonata) at the cluster blue-pea flowers in our community garden. It's a species of solitary bee.
I only saw one and I think it lives there. It flies so fast that it is difficult to follow with our eyes. Thank God it has to take a short rest on the vine from time to time. That's how I took this picture. It was rubbing it's butt with its hindlegs, possibly to rub the pollen onto it's furry body. Super cute.
28/02/2019
The campus has been showered in beautiful pink and white blossoms especially among the trees near the fountain. They are Tabebuia pentaphylla (old name: Tabebuia rosea), native to tropical America, famous for their mass flowering.
Dry spells trigger their flowering so it's no surprise so many of them are blossoming. April is the most common month of their flowering.
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25/02/2019
A the long-brand bushbrown (Mycalesis visala) resting on a dusty cupboard in Tioman hall in the evening, likely looking for a resting place to spend the night.
11/02/2019
Tinyflowers 9:
An abundance of Pueraria phaseoloide (tropical kudzu native to South East Asia) at the back of the football field.
28/01/2019
There is quite a variety of these tiny moths in the lawn. These white ones found near the Tioman Hall parking like to hide under glass blades in the day.
This buddy was more daring and less hidden. Managed to take a clear picture of him