This year, the seasons are a bit of a haywire - by March onwards the weather would have usually cleared up if we did have a wet Chinese New Year (which we did have indeed) but we are still looking at evening thunderstorms here in Raub, as well as cloudy days. As I drove up the slopes of Bukit Telaga, signs of heavy downpour were everywhere - the runoff drainage along the road was awashed with leaves from trees and signs of heavy erosions were present everywhere too - not helping is the fact that agricultural activities are creeping steadily up the slopes of the hills...
A larvae of a beetle on a granite boulder.
Delicate ferns...
a tiny Skipper butterfly on the stem of a Keladi...
thunderous waters...
Beautiful surprises - a satyrid butterfly [Coelitis epiminthia epiminthia] flapped its wings in the deep shades and a beautiful deep mettalic sheen shows under the flash - our very own Morpho...
the same butterfly resting on a leaf...
A wild Rambai-like tree bearing beautiful bunches of fruits by the stream. An Orang Asli man told me that the fruits are edible but too sour that even monkeys avoid them...
A Common Mormon (male) on the sand bank...
A tiny butterfly, the Pierrot, Caleta elna elvira by the sand banks
The same Rambai-like tree
close-up
A colourful insect...
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