Red Ants Making Their Nest
Working hard to pull the leaves together…
Archive for November 2009
Cicada
Nice male cicada found on the night of the post-conference at ICBES 2009, Cameron Highlands, Malaysia. It has a hollow abdomen that acts as a so called resonating chamber.
Also met a fantastic nature blogger; Dr Doug Taron who blogs on Gossamer Tapestry. More info on this person can be found here and here.
Doug and I at the Matang Mangrove Forest Reserve, Perak.
No more pain to Insects
“When we were very young, my brother and I could not yet divorce our ardor for butterflies from our desire to flatten them in Riker mounts and hang them on the wall. We threw away our killling jar not because we wished to stop causing pain–crushing an ant or a cockroach, which presumably had a nervous system similar to a tiger swallowtail, stirred few qualms–but because, unlike Alfred Russel Wallace, we grew uneasy with the pleasure it gave us.”
Inspired by Bug Girl’s Blog.
Reminds me that I have recently emptied and threw away my mole-cricket see-through container which gives them no freedom and little food.