BUTTERFLIES OF SINGAPORE
Welcome! What you are about to view are butterflies
found on the island of Singapore. But first, a little bit about Singapore.
Singapore is a small island of 699.1 square kilometres
of land located at the tip of the peninsula of West Malaysia. The climate
of Singapore is equatorial, with monsoon rains during the months of June-July
and November-December. The average daily temperature is between 28oC
to 33oC.
The island is densely built up with only just under
5% of the total land area (or about 2,840 Hectares) designated as nature
reserves and managed by the National Parks Board. Such little pockets of
forest reserves also serve as water catchment areas. The forestry is mostly
secondary jungle.
Indigenous flora and fauna are rare and butterflies
are counted amongst them. Take time to admire these slides of Singapore's
beautiful butterflies, taken in the wild.
The majority of the photographs on this website were
taken using a Nikon F-70D, using a SIgma 105mm EX Macro Lens. The slide
films used were mainly Fuji Velvia ASA50 and Fuji Sensia ASA100 and scanned
using a HP PhotoSmart S20 Slide Scanner.
Listing
of Butterflies featured on this Website.