Cameron Highlands - Butterfly Farm
Butterflies (Parthenos sylvia lilacinus and Neptis magadha charon) on banana and the giant Malaysian scorpion (Heterometrus spinifer)
Cameron Highlands- in my opinion, most probably shared by many insect lovers, one of the most interesting places on the Peninsular of Malaysia. This year I had the chance to stay in Tanah Rata for a week. I visited among other places the butterfly farm, which is quite close to the Hotel Ecuatorial, which is a good place for night collection. The Butterfly Farm itself is not really that big, it does not have a huge collection of living butterflies, mainly I observed the Rajah Brookes (Trogonoptera brookiana albescens), the Malaysian National "Bird" and some smaller species. The interesting things of the farm are a quite good collection of beetles that are on display; when I visited the farm, they had on display, Cheirotonus arnaudi, Odontolabis femoralis femoralis, and some other interesting species. It is an interesting trip to visit the butterfly farm and the butterfly garden, both are on the same road. It is not too far away from Tanah Rata, about 20 km, and easy accessible via bus or taxi. Entrance fee is very cheap, about one Euro. If you come to the Camerons, check the farm out, it is easier to see Trogonoptera there than anywhere else in the wild. I would also like to thank Simon Chan for the correction of some of my misidentifications of Lepidoptera.
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Many scorpions (Heterometrus spinifer ?)
Trogonoptera brookiana albescens, comparison for size
Trogonoptera brookiana albescens on hand
Troides helena cerberus on hand
Parthenos sylvia lilacinus and Neptis magadha charon
Doleschallia bisaltide pratipa
Hypolymnas bolina Catterpillar
Doleschallia bisaltide pratipa 1
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