Leopard Lacewing Butterfly (Cethosia Cyane)

It has been quite a while to see many butterflies flying around my farm. Suddenly, these butterflies start to appear despite the haze. Towards the end of the year, they must have migrated from somewhere.
Wait a minute, there are some differences of this butterfly. Lacewing butterfly is very outstanding due to its bright deep yellow patch at its back, narrow white patches towards the edge of the wings and the multi-colour pattern beneath the wings. But, this butterfly seems to have smaller yellow patch and thicker white patch, black seems to dominate. It is no more as attractive.

What has caused these variations, environment, haze?

Orange Marigold Flowers

There are plenty of these beautiful flowers at Malacca and Penang but it is not often encountered in Kuching. I used to plant a lot, but they just died off after a while. These flowers were seen near the Kuching River Front.

White Moth

Now and then, I met this beautiful creature hanging around the grass on the ground. It refused to move away even I disturbed its body. Perhaps it knew that its life was coming to end. Fear and escape are no more its choices.
When we know we are going to die tomorrow, everything in this world today is no more matter.

Liana Plants

These criss-cross plants still dominate some part of my farm. They grew up from the ground and climbed up along the trees, anchored into the trees and grew above the top of the trees to compete for sunlight. It is not easy to cut and clear them completely in short time. It may take a few months for them to rot and crumble down to the forest floor automatically.

Multi-Colour Balsam Flowers

When different coloured balsam plants are planted together, they can provide a very attractive view.
How many colours are there in the bush?

Fruit Season Is Coming

Soon, the year 2015 will end, but the fruit season has begun. Despite unfavourable hazy and dry weather, small jack fruits appeared on the trees since last week. The new branches with few leaves and one fruit just popped out from tree trunk all the way from bottom to top! 
In two month time, I will have plenty of jack fruits to eat!

Haze and Tourism

Tourism business is badly hit in Sarawak. Hardly any tourist wants to take a ride in the haze. Cruises and boats all lay there wasting.

Kuching

Unlike at Venice, more than 50,000 tourists visit the island daily, despite a bit cloudy and cold.

Venice