Fighting Spider Hunting Adventure at Mandai

It was a sunny Saturday afternoon and I asked an old friend of mine, Ah Soon together with Urahinuk to go Mandai to hunt for fighting spiders. We took bus 138 from Yio Chu Kang road bus stop and alighted somewhere near to OrchidVille.

There were some CB trees around the vicinity. The first stop consisted of yam leaves vegetation. I spotted one soft leaf on top of a big yam leaf and when I carefully flipped open the leaves, saw a male fighting spider. Just as I was about to cut the leaves, another male fighting spider appeared on the same nest. Both met and engaged into a fight. While they were fighting, I cut the leaves and there goes two male fighting spiders into the plastic bag. 一石二鸟 (one stone kills two birds ) ?

Later on , we ventured to the spot where there were CB leaves and caught quite a numbers of spiders. Sizes from medium-small to medium. We then turned into OrchidVille and there was a quiet road (lor lada hitam) leading to nowhere. The vegetation along the road isn't that good. Mostly soft leaves !! There was a long stretch of drain near to OrchidVille and we decided to explore it. Along the drain there were some soft bushes and trees. No sights of male fighting spiders except one or two females. We gave up after 20 mins of hunting and decided to proceed to another part of CB leaves spot (near upper seletar reservoir). Afew male fighting spiders were caught but the size was kind of miserable. We hunted till around 6pm and ended somewhere near Mandai Crematorium.



*** Contributed by Trevally ***