Bob's Butterfly Collection 13.05.04

[BobCheong]

These are my collection from Dec '03 when I first started photography. The 2nd set of numbers represent their position as in Papilio's checklist.


1 1 Common Birdwing
2 3 Common Mime
3 4 Lime Butterfly
4 7 Common Mormon
5 8 Great Mormon
6 19 Striped Albatross
7 20 Mottled Emigrant
8 22 Orange Emigrant
9 23 Common Grass Yellow
10 24 Eurema simulatrix tecmessa
11 26 Eurema andersonii andersonii
12 27 Chocolate Grass Yellow
13 28 Tree Yellow
14 29 Plain Tiger
15 32 Dark Glassy Tiger
16 34 Tree Nymph
17 33 Blue Glassy Tiger
18 36 Spotted Black Crow
19 37 Malayan Crow
20 39 Striped Blue Crow
21 40 King Crow
22 46 Common Palmfly
23 52 Dark Brand Bush Brown
24 56 Common Four Ring
25 60 Common Three Ring
26 61 Common Faun
27 68 Leopard
28 69 Banded Yeoman
29 70 Cruiser
30 71 Royal Assyrian
31 72 Malay Lacewing
32 75 Grey Pansy
33 77 BLue Pansy
34 78 Malayan Eggfly
35 80 Great Eggfly
36 81 Autumn Leaf
37 86 Short Banded Sailor
38 88 Burmese Lascar
39 97 Commander
40 99 Malay Viscount
41 100 Horsfield's Baron
42 105 Archduke
43 107 Purple Duke
44 110 Plain Nawab
45 113 Abisara savitri savitri
46 132 Common Hedge Blue
47 133 Lesser Grass Blue
48 134 Pygmy Grass Blue
49 136 Cycad Blue
50 142 Common Caerulean
51 149 Ciliate Blue
52 153 Centaur Oakblue
53 157 Common Disc Oakblue
54 172 Acacia Blue
55 175 Yamfly
56 176 Branded Imperial
57 178 Common Posy
58 189 Common Tit
59 190 Fluffy Tit
60 222 Bush Hopper
61 224 Chestnt Bob
62 245 Coconut Skipper
63 249 Lesser Dart

 

[FujiS2]

wow! 63!! Well done man! u got the highest count so far .... = yr flu r the most serious one :bsmilie:

u better don't shoot so fast, or else u will complete the whole list by end of the yr & got nothing to shoot anymore ;p

 

[BobCheong]

wow! 63!! Well done man! u got the highest count so far .... = yr flu r the most serious one :bsmilie:

u better don't shoot so fast, or else u will complete the whole list by end of the yr & got nothing to shoot anymore ;p

I got the flu earlier LOL

 

[macross]

63!! That's 25%! :thumbsup: You are the champion at this moment. :cheers:
My avatar, Common Rose, is not on the list.

 

[Green Baron]

Well done !! :thumbsup:
It gets tougher after the first 60 All the common butts are already in your list so you have to venture out of AH Butterfly Trail and into parks and nature reserve/areas to catch the more uncommon species.

 

[Papilio]

Not bad for a "bag of bones". Go for the century-mark! :sweat:

 

[Papilio]

u better don't shoot so fast, or else u will complete the whole list by end of the yr & got nothing to shoot anymore ;p

Actually, that doesn't really happen. Even if you've got that species before, as a photographer, you'll always want to strive for the "best shot ever" and keep trying to improve - better background, smoother bokeh, better angle, sharper eyes, different activity, nicer specimen, male/female, etc., etc. ;p

If you're well-infected by the flu, you'll find that you won't get bored chasing after butts. Someone here has been doing that for the past 35 years... :embrass:

 

[BobCheong]

Actually, that doesn't really happen. Even if you've got that species before, as a photographer, you'll always want to strive for the "best shot ever" and keep trying to improve - better background, smoother bokeh, better angle, sharper eyes, different activity, nicer specimen, male/female, etc., etc. ;p

If you're well-infected by the flu, you'll find that you won't get bored chasing after butts. Someone here has been doing that for the past 35 years... :embrass:

LMAO you just dated yourself

 

[Falcon]

:bigeyes: :bigeyes: Wow... I am impressed. Bob, try to hunt for those not found in Papilio's list(if that is possible. )

 

[Papilio]

LMAO you just dated yourself

Intentional... but this bag of bones is not quite as ancient as yours yet :bsmilie:

 

[Papilio]

:bigeyes: :bigeyes: Wow... I am impressed. Bob, try to hunt for those not found in Papilio's list(if that is possible. )

Definitely possible. Many of you have got photographically-perfect shots which are much nicer than what I have. A lot of my earlier ones were just record shots. And quite a number of common butts which I was too lazy to go out and shoot. ;p

 

[Falcon]

Definitely possible. Many of you have got photographically-perfect shots which are much nicer than what I have. A lot of my earlier ones were just record shots. And quite a number of common butts which I was too lazy to go out and shoot. ;p

There are some without photos. How do you know they exist in Singapore?

 

[Papilio]

There are some without photos. How do you know they exist in Singapore?

I am a volunteer researcher with a permit to collect and hold voucher specimens, i.e. a type of entomologist. Every species that is confirmed in the checklist has a scientifically verifiable specimen.

Not all species can be ID'ed by photos alone. Even with a dead specimen, some of them need to be dissected and/or subject to DNA analysis for a 100% sure confirmation of the ID. That's something that's way beyond all of us here, who are hobbyists more than scientists.

If we get a good butt book like "Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula" by Corbet & Pendlebury 4th Edition, like FujiS2 and Lion King have, it will help a lot in the ID'ing of the pictures that we have.

So let's just go and enjoy shooting butts first.

 

[BobCheong]

If we get a good butt book like "Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula" by Corbet & Pendlebury 4th Edition, like FujiS2 and Lion King have, it will help a lot in the ID'ing of the pictures that we have.

So let's just go and enjoy shooting butts first.

LOL those 2 are gonna be 'super carrier soon' ;p

 

[macross]

So let's just go and enjoy shooting butts first.

Sure, we will enjoy shooting first and wait very patiently for the new butts bible.

 

[Papilio]

Sure, we will enjoy shooting first and wait very patiently for the new butts bible.

Alamak! Kena pressurised liow.... :embrass:

 

[BobCheong]

Just found this in a folder:

49 Malayan Bush Brown


1 1 Common Birdwing
2 3 Common Mime
3 4 Lime Butterfly
4 7 Common Mormon
5 8 Great Mormon
6 19 Striped Albatross
7 20 Mottled Emigrant
8 22 Orange Emigrant
9 23 Common Grass Yellow
10 24 Eurema simulatrix tecmessa
11 26 Eurema andersonii andersonii
12 27 Chocolate Grass Yellow
13 28 Tree Yellow
14 29 Plain Tiger
15 32 Dark Glassy Tiger
16 34 Tree Nymph
17 33 Blue Glassy Tiger
18 36 Spotted Black Crow
19 37 Malayan Crow
20 39 Striped Blue Crow
21 40 King Crow
22 46 Common Palmfly
23 49 Malayan Bush Brown
24 52 Dark Brand Bush Brown
25 56 Common Four Ring
26 60 Common Three Ring
27 61 Common Faun
28 68 Leopard
29 69 Banded Yeoman
30 70 Cruiser
31 71 Royal Assyrian
32 72 Malay Lacewing
33 75 Grey Pansy
34 77 BLue Pansy
35 78 Malayan Eggfly
36 80 Great Eggfly
37 81 Autumn Leaf
38 86 Short Banded Sailor
39 88 Burmese Lascar
40 97 Commander
41 99 Malay Viscount
42 100 Horsfield's Baron
43 105 Archduke
44 107 Purple Duke
45 110 Plain Nawab
46 113 Abisara savitri savitri
47 132 Common Hedge Blue
48 133 Lesser Grass Blue
49 134 Pygmy Grass Blue
50 136 Cycad Blue
51 142 Common Caerulean
52 149 Ciliate Blue
53 153 Centaur Oakblue
54 157 Common Disc Oakblue
55 172 Acacia Blue
56 175 Yamfly
57 176 Branded Imperial
58 178 Common Posy
59 189 Common Tit
60 190 Fluffy Tit
61 222 Bush Hopper
62 224 Chestnt Bob
63 245 Coconut Skipper
64 249 Lesser Dart

 

[BobCheong]

Some additions to my collection and 2 more waiting for ID


Peacock Pansy

Malay Baron

Chocolate Albatross

The Nigger

Common Sailor
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/bobcheong/2d08d97a.jpg

 

[Falcon]

Hi Bob,

Do you have a website for all the photos of the butterflies mentioned in your list? Can serve as an alternative reference for IDing other than the one Papilio has.

 

[BobCheong]

Hi Bob,

Do you have a website for all the photos of the butterflies mentioned in your list? Can serve as an alternative reference for IDing other than the one Papilio has.

Dunno whether its a good idea since Papilio's site is so comprehensive. Also I've never done a website and dunno how to go about it LOL.

But if we were to do it, it wont be just my images in it. We should pool all the species we had shot so that it become like a repository for species that all the butt flu bitten victims had come across.

We can have everyone submit their pics and a panel pick the best ones to go into the repository. We should include all the deviations of both sex of any species to make it easier to ID the butts and have shots both with wings spread out as well as folded.

What do the butt flu bitten crazies think about this? Especially the Super Carrier Papilio