Mated moth and more from Cameron Highlands

This large and furry moth fluttered by the apartment in Cameron Highlands on the morning we left. The prominent antennae suggests it's a male and the fellow doesn't even seem to have feeding mouthparts (i.e. the proboscis), so upon its emergence from the chrysalis, it probably lived solely for sex. It clearly had a hard night out, as by dawn it could do no more than flap weakly in circles or wiggle its little legs to shed scales of fluff onto my palm. 

Common highland spiders. The species with green legs and a striped abdomen (probably Leucauge decorata) is extremely widespread and lives in high densities by the wayside. The brownish wolf spider (with egg sac) is a species I haven't seen locally. On the way back to the flat, I passed the tented web of a Cyrtophora moluccensis, strung across slender reeds close to an outhouse of haunting. 

A juvenile assassin bug prowls a dew-laden leaf on the forested fringe across our apartment. I lacked the drive to explore this edge at night and so grabbed a hasty half-hour on the morning before a breakfast of tea, scones and organic fertiliser. A tree had fallen onto the cleared plot. On its moss-cloaked branches, bent in twisted breaks, minute insects crept on moist highways of broken bark and delicate sympodes of orchids clung to their late abode. A midge takes shelter under a veined roof. Would it find more respite from the ravages of life that bug minds too mired in loss and torn by tenuous longings?

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[evie]

that last pic look like one of the many landscape pics i've taken of Mt Fuji. Feel cheated :O