Another tiring day today. I spent most of the day in the botanical garden observing barbets and trying to catch them. Fortunately, at the end of the day, our modified (several times) mist net trap finally worked and caught an adult!
Other than watching barbets, I still found time to find and photograph these cool creatures!
Dorcus titanus sika is a beetle of the family Lucanidae. This is one of the most common stag beetles in Taiwan, and the males are about 24 to 72-mm in length, while the females are 24 to 42-mm in length. This individual is quite small and is about 25-mm long only.
The observation station today was the same as yesterday. So I checked to see if the mushroom is still there or not. Surprisingly, it had changed! [I am still working on identifying it.]Near where we were trying to catch the parent barbets, a Little Egret was trying to catch fishes.
Walking along the wooden columns and catching fish
Quite an elegant and graceful looking bird, no?
This is today's status on the caterpillar and the parasites..
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