In silent slumber sleep…

Author Koh Lin ◦

I have often found some of our smaller denizen in silent slumber, to all appearance no longer living… yet… on retrieving them from their watery grave, whilst some were deceased, many revived… and I have those captured moments, as they shake off their slumber, stare at me, then leave…

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• Xanthesma vittata

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• Meadow Argus Butterfly

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• Agriomyia maculata

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• Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens)

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• Onitis alexis

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• Golden Native Drone Fly (Eristalinus punctulatus)

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• Velvet Ant (family Mutillidae)

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• Bisallardiana (family Scarabaeodae) Beetle

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• Mydas Fly (genus Miltinus)

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• Agrius convolvuli (Convolvulus Hawk Moth)

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• Tachytes sp

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• Hemicordulia tau

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• Thynnid Wasp – Female

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• Microtropesa sp (Tachinid Fly)

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• Melanacanthus margineguttatus (Bean Bug)

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• Leioproctus sp

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• Ophiusa parcemacula

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• Robber Fly (genus Bathypogon, family Asilidae)

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• Common Bandwing Grasshopper (Pycnostictus seriatus)

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• Yellow-shouldered Hover Fly (Ischiodon scutellaris)

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• Blue Skimmer (Orthetrum caledonicum)

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• Red-headed Mouse Spider (Missulena occatoria)

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Sadly… this is the bleached remains of a butterfly…

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