Appreciation of the MicroWorld, Talk

I was so glad that many had turned up despite the unceasing drizzle and intermittent heavy downpour. Edwin and gang had helped to organize the sound system, the projector, survey forms, and tea and snack. Thanks so much. David helped to shoot the photographs shown here; Wai Meng helped to remind those RSVP in the Facebook and Brimzone helped to manage my youngest son and the photo album; Shuh Fang helped to record my talk; Buwei introduced me; and FotoHub printed and sponsored the 2m tall poster. It was a great session with so many people attending. We hope to organize another talk with technical specific on shooting insects and spiders in existing light.

Poster for the talk

Here are the poster created for the Talk on "Appreciation of the MicroWorld"



 

Figthing Spider

These are the fighting spider, they belong to the jumping spider group, Salticidae, if I did not remembered wrongly.

Once my inquisitive elder son, caught 4 spiders and one ant, put them all together in a single container. The last survival was the fighting spider. Seems cruel, but this is reality, some animal are there for the survival of others. We human kill a lot of animals to keep alive. Not every son of ours would listen to us, they love to explore and experiment. Don’t we do that in the school and research laboratory? We, human, do that all the time in the laboratory and we call it science.

Ever heard of 'fucking spider'. Here was what I saw when I was young, children fight spider and fuck spider.

You must have a pair of spiders, one male and the other female. Now compare the 2 spiders, the one with a bigger abdomen and a non-swollen palp is the female. Now first let the female out of the box or cage, blow at her, she will draw all her legs in and stop moving, now put one of your thumb over her abdomen, she is now immobilized. Now you let out the male spider. This is when we become spectators, do nothing and watch. The male spider will do the pre-sex dance. Then slowly approach the female spider and gets electrified.

Why do people fuck spider. Good question.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B62TF2hXmzI

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