20 Apr 2021
Lower Peirce

From far, it look like there are two flies stacked up. All yellow looking like a plastic toy.

Thanks David Ball
Chloropidae

The Chloropidae are a family of flies commonly known as frit flies or grass flies.
These are usually very small flies, yellow or black and appearing shiny due to the virtual absence of any hairs.

Pareuthymia sp?
But it lack the pink line on the wings

Catantopinae (Spur-throated Grasshoppers)
Pareuthymia

12 July 2021

Video:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6ToC_vxTb3/?igsh=MTJqcm0wa3lldGc3cA==

A Coccinellidae, maybe Rodolia sp. was found munching on a male Giant Scale insect that is bigger than its size.

The male Giant Scale insect was still moving it's remaining one wing and antenna from time to time.

Terentang trail
16 June 2021, 1620 hrs

Initial position of the Coccinellidae and the giant scale insect. It look like a moth with a big round orange abdomen from far.

There was also a Leafhopper moving up n down the same branch.

Video:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6K2zuexJ2D/?igsh=MTRna2Y2MHBlZGZyag==

Male, Monophlebidae (Giant scale insect) eaten by a ladybird On a long plant stem.

Terentang trail
16 June 2021, 1620 hrs

A Coccinellidae, maybe Rodolia sp. was found munching on a male Giant Scale insect that is bigger than its size.

The male Giant Scale insect was still moving it's remaining one wing and antenna from time to time.

The initial position of the Coccinellidae and the giant scale insect, look like a moth with a big round orange abdomen from far.

There was also a Leafhopper moving up n down the same branch.

Video show the close up view of the Coccinellidae munching away at it's large meal:

Coccinellidae, maybe Rodolia Inaturalist:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/83482902

Video:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6K2zuexJ2D/?igsh=MTRna2Y2MHBlZGZyag==

Family: Cerambycidae (Longhorn beetle)
Subfamily: Lamiinae (Flat-faced Longhorn Beetles)
Tribe: Desmiphorini
Genus: Nedine
Nedine adversa

Seem to have yellow vein like stripes patterns with many brown spots

Nedine adversa
Similar to these:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/77671049@N04/51051326248/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nickadel/19917211578/

Video:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6GWL3TxjTT/?igsh=aDk4MTNraDdnZXd1

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6GcnosxEn4/?igsh=ZTZpejg2eGNqMWMw

Thanks Martin Hauser
Aulana

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/95621221

https://m.singapore.biodiversity.online/species/A-Arth-Hexa-Diptera-000970
(Wow Martin Hauser ID for SG biodiversity too)

Spotted by Doreen

Asilidae (Robber Flies)
Leptogastrinae
Leptogastrini
Mesoleptogaster?

Small size than the usual Leptogastrinae seen. Like a mosquito size.

It has white and black band body, red and black bands hind legs

Planarians
Dugesiidae

Text from Family level:
According to molecular analyses, Dugesiidae is the sister group of land planarians.

It seems like younger "instars" are lighter in colour, some almost white with patterns. The later "instars" or bigger ones are darker in colour.

Many are found on this shallow water area or puddle or tiny stream area, along with pond skaters and Hydrometra (water measurer)

Thought it was a mini sized leech in the waters at first ...
But it's not. The two eyes look cute and at some point, a little cock-eyed 🤭

This beetle "poo or lay eggs" inside this tree trunk hole. After which it used it hind legs to pat on the area. And then "poo or lay eggs" outside the hole area, and used it legs to pat on them too.

Family: Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetle)
Subfamily:
Eumolpinae
Tribe: Eumolpini
Genus: Platycorynus
Platycorynus robustus (purple form).

https://m.singapore.biodiversity.online/species/A-Arth-Hexa-Coleoptera-000210

Thanks Dr Loongfah for ID

All Eumolpine larvae develop entirely in soil, and are root feeders. Eggs are supposed to be inserted in soil.

Looks like egg laying to me. Do you remember if the bark crevices are facing downward or not? (for the hatched larva to drop onto the soil).
This way of egg laying may be unrecorded because it seems the literature about eumolpine oviposition never mentions this.

Platycorynus tuberculatus (which is a Bornean sp). Actually all these species look quite alike, so it is not easy to tell properly from your picture (especially with distortion and color change thrown in!). But to me, it is more a robustus, rather than tuberculatus (I never find this in Singapore).

Platycorynus tuberculatus (female with tubercle) the pronotum is much more broader.

BTW, the green "Singapore" specimen of tuberculatus on this page (https://m.singapore.biodiversity.online/species/A-Arth-Hexa-Coleoptera-000211) is a wrong ID. It is an Platycorynus aureipennis (who also has tubercles but with different ridge structure on the lateral margin of elytra). When I visited NHM last year, I have corrected the ID, so Singapore don't have tuberculatus. So you see how difficult the identification is, even with specimens at hand.

Video Part 1/2:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5mmdcwR2EG/?igsh=MTJiZXMzeTRnM3V5ZQ==

Video Part 2/2:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5mnEqpRiP5/?igsh=MWs4dDF0ZDA5bjlrYw==

Video 3:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5mpcQARXEm/?igsh=MW5zdjlzNjc3eHZ2aA==

Could it be Acrolepiidae, Acrolepiopsis (leef moth)? Leaf miner pupa? Praydidae is another possibility for Singapore

Insects cocoon on a tree trunk.
Could it be a moth cocoon? Or some other type of Insects cocoon? Flies Cocoon cover?

Tiny size, slightly bigger than a dusty-winged lacewing. Initially thought it was dusty-winged lacewing till a close up pic show it's crochet like cocoon.

It looks like a mesh cocoon, Crochet cocoon... Top part is not closed up, bottom seems like overlapping flap.

It looks similar to Urodidae moth cocoon, but the shape and patterns look different. It's not dangling (found on tree trunk) and it's much smaller size.

Video:
1) https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5iQQAFx45R/?igsh=MXd2Mm04MWRiMjlwcw==

2) https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5lBQ3pR3y_/?igsh=MTA1NjZ6a3M0NGV3eg==

Insects

Moth

Cocoon

Crochet

Mesh

S23ultra

S23ultraphotography

Singaporebiodiversity

It seem to have "flaps" at the side of the pronotum. Orangish red. Legs are fat. Found on a type of ginger plant along with other types of Cassidinae

Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Cassidinae (Tortoise and Hispine Beetles)
Tribe: Gonophorini
Genus: Micrispa
Micrispa exigua

Thanks Dr Loongfah for ID

https://m.singapore.biodiversity.online/species/A-Arth-Hexa-Coleoptera-000298

Video:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5lQhlxRdFQ/?igsh=MWp5Ym5jc2JucXpzNw==

Cerambycidae (long horn beetle) found on palm leaves.
Tribe: Desmiphorini?

Likely a new record for Singapore

Same tribe as the one spotted at Lornie PCN on 15 Sept 2022
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/135100111

However, size of this is smaller. Different colour (previous sighted has different colour at the tip)

Cerambycidae that looks like Anthicidae, ant mimicking beetle from far. Size was about the same as an Anthicidae. Pretty glossy for a Cerambycidae. Could it be mimicking ant or others?

Seem to have two spikes at the sides of pronotum, and two ridges or humps on the elytra.

21 March 2024

Video:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C43DT22RyKa/?igsh=eWlkMWZzMm91cXQ1

Comparison pic:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C41-5h8RxO3/?igsh=eWhuNnZ1M3Fmdm03