wildlife

Hong Kong swallowtail butterflies, including a Chinese Peacock, and a Large Woodland Spider (relatively small femaie at start of summer).

Giant centipedes (Scolopendra multidens / S. dehanni) are surely Hong Kong's ultimate creepy-crawlies: not only do they look spooky, and grow to 13cm long, they run fast and pack venom they inject through fangs. Though I've heard that one can kill a baby, I haven't heard such a horrible tale; instead, seems they hunt small creatures like cockroaches (maybe lizards etc), and bite people only in self defence or when happen to run across them.

A brown fish owl on Cheung Chau, Hong Kong

Two male changeable lizards, on Lantau Island, Hong Kong. Red colouration is a spring colour; here for displaying at rival - the colour faded pretty quickly on one of them.