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A personal rediscovery · Singapore & beyond

Notes from a
Recovering Entomologist

I never actually stopped being fascinated by insects, I just got busy for long enough that years passed without me really looking at anything closely, and this is what happens when you start paying attention again. Every walk becomes a field trip, every railing a microhabitat, and Singapore turns out to have been full of extraordinary creatures the entire time, quietly going about things while I was elsewhere.

Rediscovering since 2024 · Singapore · @fsyrosa39

"The entomology was always there. It was just waiting for me to slow down enough to come back to it."

I grew up fascinated by insects, studied molecular biotechnology, and then got busy in the way that life tends to arrange for you without you quite noticing it happening. One day I stopped on a trail and realised I had been walking past creatures I actually know, species I could half-name from memory, without properly looking at any of them for years. So I started looking again, writing things down, photographing what I found, and building this as a way of keeping track of the rediscovery as it unfolds.

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Locations are kept general throughout, and exact coordinates for sensitive species are never shared here or on Instagram. If you visit any of these places and find something worth noting, please be quiet about precisely where.

Bukit Timah Nature Reserve

Primary Forest · Singapore

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Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve

Mangrove · Singapore

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MacRitchie Reservoir

Freshwater Forest · Singapore

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Pulau Ubin

Offshore Island · Singapore

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Southern Ridges

Urban Forest Corridor · Singapore

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Rifle Range Nature Park

Secondary Forest · Singapore

16 sightings recorded

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Pasir Ris Park

Coastal Park · Singapore

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On Instagram

I post on Instagram when something stops me in my tracks on a walk, and the website is where everything gets properly archived with full notes and context. Instagram is the real-time feed of what I just found and why it made me stop, while this is the record that outlasts the algorithm.

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