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    A quarry site

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    Limestone is a well known building material, hence Humans come to destroy the beautiful limestone hills and kill all the flora & fauna living there.

    In this trip, I went to visit a quarry site. Half of the hill is gone, so I only can explore another half & photograph it before everything is gone.


    Half of the hill is destroyed:




    The other half is still covered by limestone hill forest:





    The limestone wall:





    Caterpillar:

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    A spider is staying close on a dead snail, Rhinocochlis nasuta while a maggot is eating the meat of the snail.




    Close-up:




    The maggot (inside the shell):





    And the spider:




    Single-leaf plant, Monophyllaea sp.

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    Big leaf of single-leaf plant, Monophyllaea sp.





    The flower of Monophyllaea sp.




    First time found this species of Begonia in this area:





    The habitat of Begonia :





    The population of jewel orchid (Dossinia marmorata) is very small here....I suspected is over collected by collectors.

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