Interesting Facts of Insects: ANTS.. Male? Female?

As a Conservation Biology student, I often encountered interesting facts bout animal , insects and plant in my course that really amazed me~

Things that you will never thought of it although they are always been there around you~

So, I decided to share my knowledge to you all~

Today I will talk about ANTS~

"Ants? What so special bout it?" you may ask this question..

But I can tell you that there are much that you actually do not know..

The question is:

Do you know that those worker ants ( those that go out searching for food) are male or female?

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The answer is female ants!!!!

Then you wonder where does all the male ants go?

Actually male ants will just stay in the nest and wait for the right time to mate.

The female ants will provide food for them...

Weird right? 

In Chinese, they are said to be "eat soft rice" (吃软饭)

which means guys that rely on girls for living..

Xp

Then sometimes you see ants that have wings flying around the light after rain right?

And they will die on the floor within a week..

That's actually the male ants..

Only the male ants and Queen ants will poses wings to fly..

The male ants with wings

When it is the time, those workers ants will open a passage for the male ants to fly out from the nest and mate with the queens from different colonies.

After mated, the male ants will die as their duty have completed
while the queens will search for some where strategic to build their nest.
P/s: In one nest may have only one queen or few queens.

The Queen

Only queens are fertile to reproduce, other female ants/worker ants do not reproduce.

Queens only work as " reproduce machine" while
Worker ants search for food, look after for young and defend their nest.
P/s: There are actually more than 20,000 or more species of ants!!!

Interesting right?
Stay tune for more Interesting facts bout animals, insects and plants in my blog~

The rises of The Maize

Well...

Once again a boring sunday...

Try to repair printers left over by seniors at home..

All my fingers are stained with INK...

Colourful hand...

Conclusion:

There are no Free lunch in Life..

They are all spoiled printers...

=.=

Do reports and watched Rango then..

Feel unlively on Sunday...

Then I have a peek on the Maize of the Physiology Lab that being brought home for result recording.

Opps~~

They have grown~ <3

The shoot even push against the petri dish cover~

Wao~

Life Just Beautiful~

Feel lively again~ <3
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Picture Of The Day: 24.3.12

A beautiful morning with great sunlight shining on the trees.

I just can't resist and stop by just to admire the beauty of it.

Taking picture of my surrounding is one of my favourite things to do.

I just wish to take down every beautiful moment of my life.

Flower at the road side reminds me of my childhood where I used to plant this at my house.

Although it is just some "normal" small things around us that always being ignored 

but I just love to snap them down. 

May be that is just the way I look at things~

Admiring the beauty surrounding us~

Insect Phobialogy: The dissecting of grasshopper!

This semester I'm taking Entomology as one of my main course.

It's a NIGHTMARE...

I'm seriously phobia with insects...

Especially big and flying insects...

So, for the first lab of Entomology,

we are required to observed and drew the specimens.

Seriously, this was my first time to look at an insects that "close".

I'm super scare of Bee...

Luckily, they are dead specimens..

If  suddenly they become like " The Night In The Museum",

I sure scare DIE DIE lo...

But the hardest part is drawing...

We need to draw the insects...

Scientific drawing with scale...

Damn.. I hate DRAWING..

Make me STRESS!!!

The second lab was a disaster too.

We are required to catch 5 life insects each person for dissecting....

Catch INSECTS!!!! OH NO!!!!

This is my course mate's Giant Stick Insects.

Luckily with the help of my course mates,

I have my specimens at last.. 

First, we need to make it DEAD.

We place the specimen into a jar covered with tissue dropped with few drops of etylacetate. 

P/s: It's quite hard to place them into the jar actually.

They keep tried to escape.

Then, we wait till it dead.

P/s: So cruel watching them slowing weaken and dead..

Then, we placed the specimens on the dissecting board and pinned it to fix its position.

And, We start dissecting it.. 

However, my specimen was too small so we take quite some time to dissect it.

P/s: Poor Grasshopper as it didn't die completely when we dissected it..

It's antennae is still moving!!!!

Amitofo...

Stereoscope is needed to observed our specimen.

P/s: Really Too small!!!

Here  this is the larger version of the dissected specimens.

We can see the heart and its muscle clearly.

The black colour thing in the middle is the heart.

Above it is the lung and orange colour thing beside it is the wing muscle.

P/s: Before this I never thought of what's inside an Insect!!!

And.. we need to draw it... ==

Haiz... It's isn't over yet...

I just know that we have to collect 25 insect specimen for collection 

and we still have another Fisiology lab that we need to learn how to preserved insects..

Oh GOD....

I just hate Bugs...

The Ended of Pesta Tiong Hwa 2012

For quite a time I didn't really on facebook and update my blog.

This is due to for that period of time, 

I was super Duper busy with Pesta Tiong Hwa.

Busy selling tickets at town, in library, 

room to room selling in Kampung, 

having road show,

having carnival day,

and at last 

Malam Kemuncak Pesta Tiong Hwa.

Off course, lots of "unpleasant" thing sure will occur among members of this big event.

But despite that, I have earned many friendship and experience in the process too.

I meet a group of "Crazy" publicity unit members.

Introducing Pesta Tiong Hwa Craziest Unit:

PUBLICITY!!!

Guess where did we take this photo?

The answer is:

INSIDE LIBRARY!!!!

Again crazy idea~ 

Others keep looking at us while we taking these photo~

I remember from the silence during the first meeting to the craziness that we had together. 

Well, we are happy big family~

We back up each other when something happens.

Publicity Rocks!!

We have many works to do before the Pesta Tiong Hwa.

It's tiring but we mange to fun some fun in it~

Poor Sue Ann~~

Bullied by us~

Through this event, I also have the chance to be a emcee~~

So, I became the emcee for Launching day, Road show and Carnival day for Pesta Tiong Hwa.

If you never try, you will never know the possibilities that you can make~

Never thought that I can be a emcee too~

But it is really fun and I LOVE it now!

Hope that next time I can be emcee again for other event~ 

~Road show in Kampung E cafe~

Being a emcee, the first criteria is :

You must talk craps even when there aren't any one bother to listen to you.

You must learn to "Siok Sendiri". xp

P/s: As people just eat their own dinner and don't even bother what we are doing.

But luckily still have my members that supported me and Siok with me~

Then, I became the Emcee for Carnival day too~

A much bigger event than launching day and road show.

But I enjoyed it too~

P/s: Actually feel quite happy when people give me some compliment that I'm actually quite good in emceeing~ xp

The boss of Lo Han Ko stall even give me free drinks for that.

Hehehe~

This time I became the Mandarin Emcee as my partner doesn't speak Chinese well.

P/s: I'm the English Emcee for Launching day and Road Show.

But I also speak in Malay as well~

P/s: learn from Tv when there was Sure Heboh carnival~ xp

Not bad at All!!

Our Publicity Ticket Booth decorated by my team "randomly".

Not bad right?

Thank god that it's a sunny day during Carnival day.

It's only rain during late noon.

Taking photo with Cos play Urus Setia girls~

Still we are having fun even we are super tired when the night falls.

Have a really great time with them during the Carnival day.

Especially when we dance together during the rain along Big Bang song.

Although others are looking at us as though we are crazy,

but we just don't care cause we are having fun with that!!

That's Publicity Spirit!!

The day of Malam Kemucak have reached.

The day started badly when I met a pervert at bus stop while I waiting for bus.

He actually showed and played with his "THING" in front of me which make me super angry and tried to hit him with my bottle.

At last I took out my pepper spray then  only he left quickly..

P/s: So regret that I didn't manage to spray it on him!

It's a long day for us.

I'm on duty to sell tickets at the entrance.

A Crazy and Busy day!!!

But we still having fun as to release our stress~

YUP!! Crazy Photo again~

Sue Ann is kicking Ivy into The wishing WELL!!!

Crime scene!!

Taking photo with the Dragon decoration~

We are mimicking a performer that sang Theresa Teng's song during the performance~

We are the witches of Dragon~~~

 At last, group photo of Publicity after Pesta Tiong Hwa ended.

Others have blame us for not working as they do not see what we have done.

But from the crowd, we know that we actually works very hard!!!

P/s: My friends even said that we very "BOK" as we visited each room in Kampung for at least twice to sell tickets.

I'm proud of Publicity!!!

Love You Guys!!!

Adventure To Bella Italia KK

Pizza~ pizza~ Pizza~

I just Love Pizza~

Any place that have great pizza,

Then I just can't miss it!!!

So...

The story begin with I having a whole bunch of Bella Italia Pizza Coupon for lunch ,

P/s: "Left over from Pesta Tiong Hwa"

So,

My course mates planned to pay this fancy looking Bella Italia a look,

to have our lunch there while having a break in between our classes.

And Guess how do we go to KK town from my University?

 We go by MOTORCYCLE!!!!

4 GIRLS riding on motorcycle and travel quite far to the town just for PIZZA!!!

Sounds crazy right?

That's why I'm in!! xp

So, we travel under the super hot sun and reach our destination,

BELLA ITALIA!

Let's have the look of the Menu First~

There are different promotion set for different day or period of time.

This is Wednesday promotion~

Sunday Brunch~ All You can EAT!!!

And this is the lunch promotion set only from 15 march to 15 April!!!

So, we have a try of this lunch set for 2~

P/s: Actually we have 4 person here, but we wanna try other food as well.

It's the first day of promotion~

We are so Lucky~

So, this is the HUNGRY CHICKEN Carribean  style~

This chicken is just AWESOME!!!

It is so tender and  the marinated herbs smell and taste so GOOD!!!

We just LOVE it so much!!

This is 1 of the 3 side dishes that we can choose from the set.

Home Made Chorizo & Roasted Potato

If you like cheese, then You will definietly like this cuisine.

P/s: but it seems like the food in Bella is less salty.

So, if you like less salty food, Bella Italia is just the right choice for you!

I wonder this is Calypso Rice or Red Bean With Rice.

Cause I ordered the Calypso rice but this rice came with red beans.

However,this tasted very well too!!

It's kind of mixation of Asian and Western food.

The Western herbs mix well with the rice and red beans~

Yummy~~~

Jerk Spiced Potato Wedges

Actually I love wedges..

But, wedges here taste less salty...

May be it is served to like that, so that we can taste the original taste of potato..

May be....

Prawn Brisque Soup

Erm... I dislike this soup...

For me, it taste quite weird..

May be I don't really "into" western style of prawn soup..

But you can always choose the Carribean Salad as another choice. :)

And this is the HAWAIIAN PIZZA!!!

This is the main reason why we come to Bella~

I like the crust~ so crispy~

I love the cheese too~~

Just that the pine apple may be a little too sour..

But...

i will definantly come back for the Pizza!

As for the drinks, I highly recommended the Fresh Mint Lemonade!!

Feel weird right when you heard the combination of mint and lemonade?

Me too at first..

But after the first sip...

WAO!!

It taste so NICE!!!

Before this I was kinda worried of the mint smell,

but actually the mint does't taste very strong but mixed well with lemonade!

Highly recommended this drink~

Besides that, the pure Lemonade also taste nice too~

There are glasses prepared on the table so that you can share the drinks~

Now let's have a look of the interior of this restaurant~

They are serving Wines too~ 

There are a bar inside here.

Many foreigners here too~

Woo~~ fancy decorations~

May be it is for dinner~

I think so...

It is actually located inside the Jesselton Hotel.

It's kinda hard to find the entrance..

but actually you have the entrance just beside the entrance of Jesselton Hotel.

P/s: you have to go through the entrance of Jesselton Hotel.

And, there's a funny thing happened in Bella when we dined in.

There was a Datuk who thought that we are from China and ask the waiter for it.

Off course, we are not!!! 

We told him that we are UMS students.

Then before he left, he came to our table and have a small chat with us.

When we ready to pay the bills, we are told that the Datuk already paid for us!!! 

so , each of us just need to pay RM3.10 for the Superb Lunch!! 

Such a LUCKY and Exciting Day!

Address of Bella Italia:

Jesselton Hotel

No.69, Jalan Gaya,

Kota Kinabalu,

Sabah.

P/s: It is just opposite of FU YUEN in Gaya Street.