Some of the macro images from a recent 2D/1N road trip to a location in Perak. The total cost was RM150 per head including a nice dinner with steamed fish :).
A male Rhino beetle, Chalcosoma atlas
Siamese rhinoceros beetle, Xylotrupes gideonA male Rhino beetle, Chalcosoma atlas

A mating pair of Siamese rhinoceros beetle (Xylotrupes gideon?).

Tenodera sp. mantis

Beautiful moon moth, Actias maenas

Another mantis, Statilia maculata

Female stag beetle, probably Odontolabis damanni

Female fishfly, Neochauliodes dispar


Lantern bug, Pyrops pyrorhyncha

More gorgeous lantern bugs of Malaysia here.
A really cute Lappet moth, Gastropacha sp.

Female stag beetle, Prosopocoilus biplagiatus

Moth portrait, Xyleutes strix

A male click beetle, Oxynopterus audouini

Longhorn beetle, Aerogrammus procerus

Longhorn beetle, Pharsalia ochreomaculata

The same longhorn beetle climbed onto a Rhino beetle :D


Longhorn beetle, Aeolesthes induta

Giraffe mantis/Malaysian Long Necked Mantis, Euchomenella sp.

More mantids here.
A male stag beetle, Prosopocoilus buddha

Stag beetle, Prosopocoilus occipitalis

Scarab beetle, Heliocopris sp.

Asian Grass Frog (Fejevarya limnocharis)

More amphibians and other herps here.
All images (except the moth portrait) were taken with Sigma 150mm, 1.4x teleconverter/extender, natural light, mostly on tripod.