#InverteFest recap

[vrgssmncht]

It keep on raining today so... Here's my recap of INVERTEFEST✨🪲 day 3 at Bogor Botanical Gardens!!

Yesterday was raining so much too but hell the change of scenery made me more enthusiastic of what I could find!

First I met with my partner and admiring some bracket mushroom when we found the first bugs! Never saw these kinds before! They're Eumorphus marginatus

After that, unrelated to bugs, kinda, but my local botanical gardens apparently has opened a new shiny NEPENTHES garden and it's just- the best new thing they have omg

They have a good collection of nephentes from Sumatra, Java, and Kalimantan (Borneo) while ALSO have Dorsera, Venus flytrap, and those American pitcher plants which is so cool of them my serotonin level is so high and still is it's the first time I ever seen them directly omgomg

Not only that, they also have information boards regarding where they came from, their functions, and other cool stuff! Thought most of the time you need to swipe water droplets off it cuz every so often the cool af water mist machine™ here's a pic of one of the board and me being absolutely thrilled with the water that came sprinkling down

After all that we continue our journey to the lake so I can find some aquatic bugs. It was not so successful though for the rain made it harder for me to focus to find bugs, I found some of these guys tho..

A water strider that actually kinda staying still as I took some pictures, a hell lot of dragonfly, a bee, apple snails (probably), and that little plant hopper in hell of a large group which eaten the aquatic plants..

Right after we decided to walk through the densely forested area to find more bugs which we did! lotsa little fella and this very cool coin spider and a skink!

dude's having lunch

skink guy

we also went to see the aquatic plants section, not very cool actually..

found an orange cranefly, some butterflies, snails fonicating.. though I found this small wasp nest with little wasps snuggling in it. their nest really camouflaged well to the background I'm impressed

Fast forward, walked far to see the orchidarium, it opens on wednesday, wack, we found bugs along the way and this carpenter bee though which was not wack.

Alas, we decided to go to the herb garden instead, which was also closed, so we just stroll around looking for bugs.. and bugs we did found!

even this very cool cicada molt which is my goal going there at the first place! great day great bugs!

man this is such a long post thank you for reading this far! 10/10 would do this again!

[vrgssmncht]

🪲✨InverteFest✨🪲 Day 1 Recap:

I woke up at midnight to get pic of these guys

A moth and a wasp! I think! My house was filled with bugs but it decreases over the years (aside from millipede and ants) so I have to go outside for more, good exercise honestly.

first up we have this little skipper, so fast they are

I used to see many of them and yet i only found one today

A white little butterfly (i found two but i forgot to move the other pic rip) followed by this beautiful butterfly, cool as hell with the matte colour, they remind me of autumn leaf...

Two very cool damselflies... 

And a pooping ladybug, look at it, I'm sorry mr ladybug...

One very CUTE jumping spider that's also VERY BIG AUGAKHGSKH IT LOOKED LIKE CUTTLEFISH SIDEWAYS!!!

And two orbweavers! I think! arent they cute! I love spiders..

And this potter's wasp nest! very cool shape I thought it as poop! and probably other predator thought so too!

Honourable mentions to all these cool bugs bcs I'm sleepy already:

and that's all, honestly. quite a good day though I do hope the weather's will be a little better tomorrow and so on so I can go a little further, also so I can go to the botanical gardens and go RAMPANT on my bug hunting journey! >:-)))