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Life History of the Felder's Royal v2.0
Life History of the Felder's Royal (Tajuria mantra mantra)Butterfly Biodata:Genus: Tajuria Moore, 1881Species: mantra C. & R. Felder, 1860 Subspecies:mantra C. & R. Felder, 1860 Wingspan of...
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Eye In the Sky
Eye In the SkyButterfly Gardens : A View from the TopAn aerial view of the Butterfly Garden at Fusionopolis NorthSingapore's urban butterfly gardens have been featured on this blog regularly. Our...
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Butterfly of the Month - October 2016
Butterfly of the Month - October 2016The Plain Tiger (Danaus chrysippus chrysippus)It's the eighth month of 2016 already! Celebrated across the world wherever there are Chinese communities, the...
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Life History of Green Baron v2.0
Life History of the Green Baron (Euthalia adonia pinwilli)Butterfly Biodata:Genus: Euthalia Hübner, 1819 Species: adonia Cramer, 1779 Subspecies: pinwilli Pendlebury & Corbet, 1938 Wingspan of...
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Chiang Dao Reloaded 2016
Chiang Dao Reloaded 2016Butterflies of North ThailandI looked forward with uncontained excitement when I arrived for the first time in 2014 at the now famous "car park" at Chiang Dao. Our resident...
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Revision to the Common Names of Butterflies 5
A Revision to the Common Names of ButterfliesPart 5 : An Analysis of Name ChangesIn this fifth part of the series where we discuss the Common Names of Butterflies in the region, we continue our...
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Grass Blues of Singapore
The Grass Blues of SingaporePale Grass Blue (Zizeeria maha serica)This article features three small butterflies from the subfamily Polyommatinae. Collectively called "Grass Blues", these species are...
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Larval Host Plant for Butterflies: Common Chinese Mistletoe
Butterflies' Larval Host Plants #12The Common Chinese Mistletoe (Macrosolen cochinchinensis )This 12th instalment of our Butterflies' Larval Host Plants series features Macrosolen cochinchinensis...
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Butterfly of the Month - November 2016
Butterfly of the Month - November 2016The Striped Black Crow (Euploea eyndhovii gardineri)A Striped Black Crow feeding on the flower of the String BushAll too soon, we are now in the 2nd last month of...
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Favourite Nectaring Plants #8
Butterflies' Favourite Nectaring Plants #8The Singapore Daisy (Sphagneticola trilobata)A Rustic (Cupha erymanthis lotis) rests amongst the leaves of the Singapore DaisyOur 8th instalment of...
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Planting For Butterflies
NParks' Parks FestivalPublic Talk : Planting for ButterfliesLast weekend, the National Parks Board, Singapore held its Parks Festival : Parks for Everyone at the Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park. Featuring a...
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Butterfly of the Month - December 2016
Butterfly of the Month - December 2016The Common Grass Yellow (Eurema hecabe contubernalis)It is the final month of 2016 already! The year has sped past and it has been an interesting year of...
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Ubin Bioblitz 2016
Ubin BioBlitz 2016Pulau Ubin Butterfly SurveyLast weekend, ButterflyCircle and Nature @ Seletar Country Club members participated in the 24-hour biodiversity survey on Pulau Ubin. The survey coincided...
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Revision to the Common Names of Butterflies 6
A Revision to the Common Names of ButterfliesPart 6 : An Analysis of Name ChangesA mating pair of Dark Caeruleans (or is it Dark Ceruleans?)In Part 6 of our discussion on Common Names of Butterflies in...
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Revision to the Common Names of Butterflies 7
A Revision to the Common Names ofButterfliesPart 7 : An Analysis and Discussion of Name ChangesWhat am I?  Silver Spotted Lancer or Chequered Lancer? This is the final part of this series, where we...
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2016 - Looking Back...
ButterflyCircle 2016 - Looking Back...The Year in Review2016 will probably be remembered as a year of surprising disruptions around the globe. It was also a year in which many talented musicians and...
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Butterfly of the Month - January 2017
Butterfly of the Month - January 2017The Common Yeoman (Cirrochroa tyche rotundata)A male Common Yeoman basking in the sun with its wings opened flatAs the last strains of Auld Lang Syne fade away, and...
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Book Review : Butterflies of India
Book Review - BNHS Field GuidesButterflies of India by Isaac KehimkarDescription : In his third book on Indian butterflies, Bombay Natural History Society Deputy Director Isaac Kehimkar describes 1,025...
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Butterfly Photography 101 - Part 3
Butterfly Photography 101Part 3 - Digital SLRs and Camera settings for Butterfly PhotographyOur earlier two articles Part 1 and Part 2 of this series on Butterfly Photography outlines the spectrum of...
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Butterfly Photography 101 - Part 4
Butterfly Photography 101Â Part 4 - Lighting and Using Flash in Butterfly PhotographyThe earlier articles in this series in Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 dealt with the variety of photographic equipment...
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