Emerald green waterfall near Kuching

Exploration in mid of rainning season ~ part 6

 

Cute bats sleeping together on the cliff next to a waterfall.....

Begonia sp.

Nepenthes ampullaria

Diplazium cordifolium (fern). The foliage is blue-greenish colour!

 Coelogyne pandurata

First time found such a beautiful foliage of wild ginger near my home. Probably a variety of Scaphochlamys petiolata??? (no flower to identify)

Schismatoglottis multiflora

Nepenthes ampullaria

New Homalomena from Belitung got new name!

New species of Homalomena that we found at Belitung island, now got a new name: Homalomena limnogena. For more info., please check this link below: 

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00837792.2013.832961?journalCode=tweb20#.Ut5DGhAZ6Uk

More photos here:

http://junglemikey.blogspot.com/2012/02/3-species-of-homalomena-from-belitung.html

Expedition to Bangka & Belitung islands (2012)

An article about about our 2012 expedition to Bangka & Belitung islands are already written by our team member, Zhou Hang in this insect forum (in Chinese):

http://www.insect-fans.com/bbs/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=59900&extra&page=1

Spotted Dove from my garden

Today, 19th January 2014 is a wet Sunday in southern Sarawak. A Spotted Dove (Streptopelia chinensis) is trying hard to dry up it's wings in my garden.