Shield bugs are so-called as their bodies resemble the shape of a shield. As they will secrete defensive chemicals when provoked, they are also known as stink bugs (Gillott, 2005). Members of the family Tessaratomidae tend to exhibit vivid or vibrant colours as a warning to potential predators that they are distasteful (Endler & Mappes, 2004). It appears that very little is known of the life history of Enada rosea (Schwertner & Grazia, 2015). The colour change on the featured bug may have been because it was freshly moulted when it was found. It turned red probably with the hardening of its exoskeleton.

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The Raffles’ pitcher plant (Nepenthes rafflesiana Jack, Nepenthaceae) is a carnivorous plant found naturally across multiple habitat types both within and outside of the Central Catchment Nature Reserve (CCNR)—the largest contiguous forested habitat in Singapore. Nepenthes rafflesiana produces lower and upper pitchers during distinct ontogenetic stages, and both of these pitcher types trap highly diverse but compositionally differentiated spectra of invertebrate prey. The fluid-filled pitchers of N. rafflesiana are also habitats for many specialised aquatic invertebrate species, known as inquilines. However, neither the prey spectra nor inquiline communities of N. rafflesiana pitchers are well characterised to a high taxonomic resolution.