What I did besides bug hunting

[yen_saw]

Thanks Revmdn and Beck!

More on Penang Butterfly Farm

The seldom seen D. truncata

There are many type of cannivorous plants too, some are pretty cool

This one can swallow the largest mantis, it was longer than a foot!

More CP

Strange to see horseshoe crab in butterfly farm....

 

[Katnapper]

The seldom seen D. truncata

Hmmm... Did you ask them if they had extra for sale? :lol:

Strange to see horseshoe crab in butterfly farm....

That is strange. I guess they wanted to include some interesting things in the water feature too. I had a funny thought.... what would really be strange is if they suddenly flapped their shells and flew around like butterflies in there! :huh: I can't help these silly thoughts sometimes.

 

[yen_saw]

Hmmm... Did you ask them if they had extra for sale? :lol: That is strange. I guess they wanted to include some interesting things in the water feature too. I had a funny thought.... what would really be strange is if they suddenly flapped their shells and flew around like butterflies in there! :huh: I can't help these silly thoughts sometimes.

I didn't ask. Believed the insects for exhibit are not for sale

haha! I would love to see a flying horsecrab, should be quite a sight

More pics on the butterfly farm

Ntce orchid

A family pic with a giant beetle sculture

Life cycle of some butterfly species

and live catepillar on food plant

Cannivorous plants everywhere

A mating pair

This is one fat centipede, about 10 inches long too

 

[OGIGA]

Wow, I didn't know that scorpions glow like that in UV light.

 

[Christian]

D. truncata is in culture right now, let's see how long... At least my fifth female gets paired right now. :lol:

There are also some horseshoe crab species in Asia, I can't tell which one was exhibited, though.

 

[Gurd]

Some great pics there mate, thanks for sharing. Look forward to more lol

 

[Ian]

As always Yen, an absolute pleasure looking through your photos.

 

[yen_saw]

Thanks all.

More butterfly farm pics from Penang

A huge monitor

One of the butterfly trail

A huge fresh water fish.. alligator gar?

Pair of lizard

This one chilling next the a mini waterfall

Let me out!!

Camouflage

 

[revmdn]

Stunning.

 

[ABbuggin]

I'm surprised at how much writing is in English.

 

[pohchunyee]

I'm surprised at how much writing is in English.

Erm...... Our country was colonized by the British for a long long long time. English is part of our life! Also, Malay, Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka etc) and Tamil are very well spoken in Malaysia. If you go to Melacca, you can still find some Portuguese speaking family as well.

 

[gadunka888]

Thanks Revmdn and Beck!More on Penang Butterfly Farm

The seldom seen D. truncata

There are many type of cannivorous plants too, some are pretty cool

This one can swallow the largest mantis, it was longer than a foot!

More CP

Strange to see horseshoe crab in butterfly farm....

wow that pitcher plant is huge! i think i can stick my hand in it ( and watch my hand get digested :lol: )

That is strange. I guess they wanted to include some interesting things in the water feature too. I had a funny thought.... what would really be strange is if they suddenly flapped their shells and flew around like butterflies in there! I can't help these silly thoughts sometimes.

lol! :lol: :lol: :lol: maybe the turtles will flap their flippers and fly out of the water!

 

[yen_saw]

Erm...... Our country was colonized by the British for a long long long time. English is part of our life! Also, Malay, Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka etc) and Tamil are very well spoken in Malaysia. If you go to Melacca, you can still find some Portuguese speaking family as well.

Right on Chun. Which is why if you go to the cinema in Malaysia, you can see caption on three different languages at the bottom of the screen More beetles

Exhibition hall with all the specimen on butterfly (Note: i have no idea who that person is <_< )

Gecko....

Another juvenile alligator snappy

Odd looking plant

Pit viper

So there goes the first of the four butterfly farms (there are many more butterfly farms in Malaysia) around the country I will be visiting during this trip. It was a fun trip. i had a chance to tour their breeding center but wasn't allow to take any photo, wished i could share them here too the breeding center is one of its kind and in massive scale!!!

 

[yen_saw]

After the butterfly farm, we went to the Siamese temple where my grandpa ashes is. inside the main temple there lied a huge reclining buddha. The weather was blistering hot so we didn't stay too long.

Entrance

Inside the main temple

Other temples surrounding it

This little pond has lot of exotic fresh water fish....

 

[revmdn]

I love the Temple photos.

 

[yen_saw]

The popular "four-face god" from Thailand

Quite a few golden monks

There is also this Burmese temple opposite of the Siamese temple

As the majority of the population in Penang state is of Chinese ethnic, there are many buddhist temples and some has turn into tourist area. One of it is the Kek Lok Si temple. By then the temperature reached 40C and i've lost the "mood" on taking more pics although they are lot of nice stature around. Anyway, the following are the surviving fews besides some that were lost

The temple is way up, we were all tired and since i have been there before we decided to cut the trip short

 

[revmdn]

They're great (in my best Tony the Tiger voice.)

 

[Katnapper]

That is nice you got to visit the temple where your Grandpa is. :wub:

Why does the reclining Buddha not look like the big fat guy I usually think of or see?

 

[pohchunyee]

Why does the reclining Buddha not look like the big fat guy I usually think of or see?

The "Big Fat Buddha" You usually see is call the Laughing Buddha. In the history of Buddhism, there are tons of different Buddha from different time and place; achieved enlightenment and turn into Buddha.

(P/S: The Buddha that was laying down is call "Sleeping Buddha!")

 

[gadunka888]

the temple pics are so vivid and colorful that i feel like im looking at the temple in real life!