Spotted this butterfly late afternoon, hanging upside down and flipping its beautiful wings.
I took a picture of him earlier hopping around my Lantana camara plant.I always see this butterfly on that plant, he loves it. Look how lovely his wings are on the video below.
Location: Toril/ Habitat: Garden/ Family: Nymphalidae/ Species: Hypolimnas bolina
Just happy with my Tillandsia giving off flowers. 🙂
These white flowers, I don’t know the name blooms in bunches once in a while and the flowers will last for just half a day.
Its sweet scent will cover the entire area and the buzzing bees of course.
The bee with blue and black bands below is a regular visitor of my Lantana camara plant .I noticed him flying around that plant  just last month. and it keeps on coming back.
These brightly colored yellow to orange fungi came out on the cracks and crevices of a dead wood.
The fruiting bodies  started out as a single rounded stalk then as it gets older, it flattens towards the upper part.
Forming a shape of a spatula and widens up more, making it look like a fan. It grows in clusters or  in rows. Some will branched out.
They are soft, bouncy and rubbery if touched. When expose to sun, they dried out and shrink
They became hardy and changed to reddish-orange in color, but after heavy rains, they turned back to their gelatinous appearance again.
Location: Toril/ Habitat: Dead woods/ Phylum: Basidiomycota/ Order: Dacrymycetales/ Family: Dacrymycetaceae/ Species: Dacryopinax sp. ~spathularia
Bitter melon or popularly known as ampalaya in the Philippines tasted bitter. Hehe 🙂 Seriously now…  I love it, it’s one of my favorite vegetable and it’s really good with omelette . Others, especially the kids don’t like the bitter taste of it, so after chopping, the mother  will squeezed it with salt to extract and remove the bitterness. I like it  bitter where nutrients are not drained out. I tried it eaten raw, chopped with a dash of salt. This would also make a perfect blend for sinuglaw, a recipe of mixed grilled meat and fresh raw fish cured in vinegar, lemon and spices. The young shoots were also good for cooking, even the leaves, I can add it with any dishes, but not too much because it will overpower the taste of your recipe.
Planting this tropical climbing vine them does not need any major preparations. I just used the seeds taken out from the bitter melon which I bought from the local supermarket. I sow the seeds on the spot where I wanted them to grow. The ones that grow at the back of our house turned yellowish in color and not looking healthy maybe because the area was too hot for them.Â
My bitter melon plant keep on producing  fruit and my neighbors were also enjoying it. In just one seed there’s a lot of fruit to harvest. It’s worth to be planted in the yard.
This furled frond of a young fern had a gelatinous substance covering the entire rachis  or the midrib of frond.
Some parts of it were insects trapped in the slime.  It made me think that the mucous covering  will served as its protection from the insects that feed on its sap.
And maybe, these ferns were sharing the same habitat together with insects that feed on young ferns. Well, just a thought.
Location: Buda/ Habitat: Forest/ Division: Pteridophyta
This polydesmid millipede was burrowing its way through the space between the ground and the log.
It has two pairs of legs per body segment. The legs are banded with color brown, white and orange with  a brightly colored rustic brown to yellow paranota. It can also crawl upside down.
Location: Buda/ Class: Diplopoda/ Order: Polydesmida/ Species: Orthomorpha sp.
The shell was empty when I found this in the forest and I don’t know the name of the snail. Its color was interesting and new to me so I snapped a picture of it before I went on.
Location: Buda/ Phylum: Mollusca/ Class: Gastropoda
A fungi with twisted branching fruiting bodies, color black at the base and powdered grayish-white color towards the middle going to the top. It looks like a burnt twig covered with ash powder on its body. If you look closely, you can see  powdered substance  spreading out at its base.
We found this fungus growing on a rotten wood covered with mosses and leaf litters.
Location: Buda/ Phylum: Ascomycota/ Species: Xylaria sp.
Found in a rotten wood growing through the mosses. These fungi were small and erect. Appeared in masses and noticeable because of their contrasting black and white color.
The color of the base is black, powdery gray towards the middle and color white at the tip.
The fruiting bodies of this batch were not branching out, Â with single spike only.
Location: Buda/ Division: Ascomycota/ Family: Xylariaceae/ Species: Xylaria sp.
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