110916 Bukit Brown Cemetery

Home to some of Singapore's wildlife, this beautiful and peaceful patch of nature is slated to be trashed, so decided to look over the place before it's gone.


The place is home to countless nightjars. They were everywhere, in the bush, on the road, even on grave fixtures. Wonder where they'll go when they lose their home.



The trees were also home to many green pigeons, including that lovey couple sleeping together.



There were also many bats.



Ron made a surprising find of this colugo.




Banded bullfrogs, field frogs, four-lined tree frogs and toads were quite common here.


Nymph of an assassin bug. Often referred to as masked hunters, nymphs of quite a few different assassin bug species employ this form of camouflage by sticking debris and even prey carcasses to themselves.



Adult Acanthaspis (flavovaria?) asssassin bugs.





Plenty of Sparassids, probably lichen huntsmen (Pandercetes) up in the trees.


Male Ctenid, in ambush position?



Quite a few tarantulas. These two seem different in terms of color and color pattern, bottom one is purplish with one leg segment darker than the other segments.


Lychas scutilus scorpion spotted by Marcus.


The most exciting find of the night, an amblypygid spotted by Ron. This arachnid is apparently not very well studied here in Singapore.