Two butts from BTNR

[horace2264]

Thanks, Khew, Ben Jin, Chee Ming and Federick.

I was actually planning to go Ubin for adding Common Duffer (CD) to my collection, but today's record shot of this species at BTNR makes this unnecessary.

Khew, Yes, there was a large bamboo clump nearby, and the leaves were quite large (about 3-4cm in width). There were about three large butts sighted at this site just after the first steep down-and-up slope.

Chee Ming, I did quite a bit of denoising and sharpening of the CD shot in CS2, and might have overdone the USM part. The shot was taken under canopy, and under rain-cloud covered sky, and the settings used were ISO400, 1/20 and f4.5. Luckily the butt allowed me to fire about ten-odd shots at these settings, and all but one CMI.

Horace

[Commander]

Khew, Yes, there was a large bamboo clump nearby, and the leaves were quite large (about 3-4cm in width). There were about three large butts sighted at this site just after the first steep down-and-up slope.

Oh... that place. My favourite place for nailing the Banded Demon.

Check out the leaves there. Hopefully can still catch one or two cats or the next generation.

[horace2264]

Check out the leaves there. Hopefully can still catch one or two cats or the next generation.

I did check out the leaves near the trail. There were some used leaf shelters, but no cats nor eggs yet. Need to again next time.

BTW I find Banded Demon much more common at the stretch of trail nearest to the Rail Mall.

Horace

[Commander]

The cats of the Common Duffer are big, hairy and do not build leaf shelters like the Hesperiidae do. I believe Soon Chye had some shots of the cat taken at Endau Rompin some time ago.

[horace2264]

Thanks, Khew for the info on cats of Common Duffer. I looked up SC's shot of the cat in his earlier posting, and also found that C&P4 has a picture of the last instar in plate 63 fig. 21. Now if I see the cat in the field, I will not mistake it for a moth cat.

Horace