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Not sure but looks like millipedes about to mate. Male millipedes have modified legs (gonopods) usually on the 7th segment (probably hidden here, the 7th segment of the millipede to the right has no visible legs) which they use to transfer sperm to the female.


Changeable lizard eye. Seems to be a ring of pores around the eye.


Fungused thrip.



The live thrips seemed unconcerned and hung around the same spot as the fungused thrip, even mating there.


Young thrip.


Many of these butterflies sleeping in the long grass.


This ant carrying a grub seemed to be lost. Didn't see any other similar ants in its vicinity.



Interestingly folded wings on this wasp.


There were a few puddles just by the roadside which looked like temporary puddles that dry up during dry weather. However there were many snails in quite a few of them so I guess these puddles were around for quite some time. The puddles were also home to quite a selection of bugs.


Many frogs could also be heard croaking in the grass. Caught this frog on the road.


Tadpoles in some of the puddles.


First time seeing a water-measurer.


Dragonfly nymph. Looks like a libellulid.


This nymph looks like an aeshnid.


Lycosid spider with egg sac. Wonder what that slimy layer on the egg sac is.


Quite a few of these spiders built webs above the puddles.


Pond skater.


Diving beetle.


There were many species of grasshoppers that seem perfectly at home in the puddles, some were swimming on the surface, others walking on the bottom. None seemed to be struggling or concerned with getting out of the water.


The mosquitoes here are comparable to Semakau's.


Young male Agriocnemis femina.


Acisoma panorpoides.




Some of the flowering plants had many of these weevils.



Phaeacius jumping spider, I think.


This lycosid was very still, even when I was making such a disturbance in the plants. Turned out it was feeding.


Poltys tree stump spider.


No idea what spider this is.


Overgrown grasslands usually come with its complement of lynx spiders.


This tiny 3mm long crab spider was a master at paying out web into the breeze, snaring a branch over 2 feet away, saving it a tremendous amount of time and effort laying silk across such a distance. Using wind is a very probable method for spiders to build webs that span rivers although until one is actually documented doing so, it can only remain as a theory.


Mating katydids.


Monkey hopper.