After leaving the ginger enclave, I came across a young plant a few metre down the track and decided to have a closer look to determine what it was. It ended up in an interesting find, my first sighting of a stick insect in the wild. I had seen these insects in captivity but not the free-roaming ones. It did not occur to me that it was an insect when I first flip over the leaves to have a peek underneath. It remained motionless all the time while I turned the leaves around, probably thinking that I had not detected it.

Ten minutes later, I had my next new discovery, a mid-size tree bearing light pink flowers with long and slender petals. There were at least 4 such flowers on separate braches on the tree. This tree was already on my radar screen previously when I first saw a tiny flower bud back in February this year. Back then, I had no idea what it was. Though I passed by the tree in my last 2 trips, no flowers were seen. This time round, the flower had led me to the identity of this plant, Polyalthia angustissima.

A lot of these oval shaped fruits were found littering the ground at two locations. They were likely from some tall trees but I had no idea which ones they were. A Malay Viscount butterfly (Tanaecia pelea pelea) was attracted to one of the flatten fruits.

While walking along the main road toward the exit of the Reserve, two shrubs with similar green fruits caught my attention. At first, I thought they were from the same type of plant. Upon close examination, one of the fruit was round while that on another plant was more pointed at its tip. Of the two new plants, I had managed to identify one --- Dibridsonia conferta. [Update: The other plant was Garcinia gaudichaudii.]

Besides the stick insect, here are the rest of the little creatures seen (from left to right): Stalk-eyed fly, Jumping spider (Bathippus species), Cricket nymph (Tremellia timah), St. Andrew's Cross Spider (Argiope versicolor) and White-barred Duskhawk dragonfly (Tholymis tillarga).

In all, this was one of those fruitful trips.