Spotted at Dover Forest

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The western half of the study area resides on Dover Forest, a secondary regrowth forest on abandoned
plantation land. From the 1920s to the 1940s, Dover Forest was part of a rubber plantation. It is estimated
that the rubber plantation was abandoned during World War II and was not re-established thereafter. In
the 1950s, low-density settlements were established within the forest, with sundry tree cultivation
developing in place of the rubber plantations. In the 1960s and 1970s… Study report here

One of the icons for this Dover forest is the Ficus virens tree, this tree is a nationally critically endangered species in Singapore.
Photos by Brice Li and Chua Chin Tat

The below photo is Ficus benjamina tree.

A total of 158 species has been recorded within the area covered by this survey. This included 82 birds, 8
mammals, 11 reptiles, 8 amphibians, 4 fish, 23 butterflies and 17 odonates (damselflies/dragonflies), as
well as 5 snail species. The diversity of all these groups is by no means exhaustive
and more species should occur with a longer period of the survey. Study report here

During my visits, I spotted some tiny species.

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Spotted at Dover – March 2021

More than 300 species of spiders are known to mimic the outward appearance of ants, a phenomenon called myrmecomorphy.
The spiders also behave like ants by waving their front pair of legs near their heads like antennae, and adopting an erratic zig-zag pattern of movement that is more like ants than spiders.

Aggressive crab spiders typically jump on a lone unsuspecting ant and bite it. Then, in order to avoid encounters with other ants, the spider and its victim fall away on a safety line made of the spider’s silk while the venom takes effect. Others, like the ant-mimicking ground spider, use the body of their dead prey as a shield, holding it up between themselves and any other challenging ants. This tricks attacking ants into believing that the spider is just another ant, carrying a dead nest-mate away from their nest. Spiders disguise themselves as ants to hide and hunt their prey

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