Coccinellidae Checklist: Ladybird Beetles

Ladybirds from the family Coccinellidae Latreille, 1807 are also commonly known as Ladybugs in North America, but are actually not true bugs but beetles….

BugShot Ecuador 2022 Highlights

BugShot Ecuador 2022 was held from 4 to 13 June 2022, brimming with a troupe of naturalists hungry for some macro action after a…

Fake News Explained: Cork-Lid Trapdoor Spiders

My photos of the Cork-Lid Trapdoor Spider have been making their rounds on the internet again this month with yet another entirely untrue caption…

Bioluminescence: Glowing Mushrooms of Singapore

Singapore is home to a number of bioluminescent fungi. Out of over 148000 known species of fungi across the world, over 70 of them…

Pelican Spiders: The Spider Assassin Specialist

Spiders of the family Archaeidae are also known as pelican spiders or assassin spiders. They really don’t look like any typical spider, and should…

Sulawesi Shrimps from Lake Poso and the Malili Lake System

Sulawesi shrimps are small, tropical shrimps endemic to the ancient lake systems in Sulawesi, one of the 4 Greater Sunda Islands, also the 11th…

Shit Gets Real – 9 Dung Spiders and their Remarkable Mimicry

From years of trudging through forests, I have learnt not to casually dismiss any pile of poop in the foliage. With experience and a…

How Birds are Fooled by Ladybird Mimicry and Why Spiders are Amazing

Ladybird beetles are frequently portrayed in childrens’ books and nursery rhymes, but few know that they possess noxious chemicals which wreck havoc on taste…

Mystery of the Pulsating Spider

During my years in the field, I had recorded numerous instances of micro-movements in spider abdomens. Most are just really tiny unnoticeable movements around…

Trilobite Beetles: “Prehistoric” Creatures of our Forests

Trilobite beetles are not prehistoric. They merely resemble the extinct trilobite and adopted the name due to the visual similarity. However, that didn’t stop…

51 Huntsman Spider Portraits from Singapore – Happy 51st Birthday!

Singapore celebrates her 51st birthday today, so here’s a tiny collection of close-ups of one of the most majestic spider families in Singapore -…

Spider Photo Exhibition at Senckenberg Natural History Museum

From 15th July 2016 to 8th January 2017, I will have a gallery of spider photos exhibited at the Senckenberg Natural History Museum in…

Alien Transformations Under Ultraviolet

Ultraviolet (UV) macro photography is a highly niche and challenging photography genre, largely because of the difficulty in finding a suitable subject, in getting…

5 Mysterious Structures from the World’s Smallest Architects

The rainforest is a giant trove of mysteries. When zooming into the micro world, I saw natural creations which appear so man-made, that they…

50 Tiny Creatures You Never Looked Up Close In the Amazon

More from the Peruvian Amazon Tortoise Orb Weavers Thorn Orb Weavers Roly Poly Orb Weavers Jewel Caterpillar Spider Faces 50 Tiny Creatures Many tourists, explorers and researchers visit the Amazon’s unspoilt…

Faces of 20 Spider Families from the Peruvian Amazon

More from the Peruvian Amazon Tortoise Orb Weavers Thorn Orb Weavers Roly Poly Orb Weavers Jewel Caterpillar Spider Faces 50 Tiny Creatures From my recent week-long stay in the Peruvian Amazon,…