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About uncle.D avatar, the Weaver Ant

Weaver ants are social insects known for their communication and nest building behavior that have complex bio-chemical communication and make elaborate nests out of living tree-leaves. Weaver ants are found in the tropical forests. They are colored a shade of red and are known for their painful, irritating sting.



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Cicada
A cicada can chirp so loud you can hear it from up to 1km away.

Some cicadas live underground for seventeen years and grows up to 75mm. Cicadas suck juice from tree roots when they are larvae. Once the female cicada comes above ground, she mates. Then she lays her eggs and dies. The cicada can lay four hundred to six hundred eggs. Adult cicadas live for thirty to forty days.

This picture was shot at 2000+ meters above sea level on the second highest summit in Peninsular Malaysia. Similar picture can also be found at PHOTOmalaysia


BUTThead...

In contrary to a popular belief, butterflies in their adult stage can live from a week to nearly a year depending on the species.
More butt closeup pictures can also be found HERE












More uncle.D's pictures of this category can also be found at PHOTOmalaysia


The moon at dawn

f16 1/200sec ISO200

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AHWadventure

Le Tour de Langkawi Special Edition

Slow? Click HERE for lite edition

Sunday, February 15th was the day for the 7th and final stage of Le Tour de Langkawi 2009. There would be 12-lap criterium racing covering approximately 80+ km [3:30pm to 5:15pm] around the city center of Kuala Lumpur. Start and Finish lines were at Merdeka Square [in front of the famous Sultan Abdul Samad Building]. AHW was one of the freelance photographers at LTdL 2009.

1:03pm - the sky was clear with little clouds. It was hot and humid. Preparation for the race was going on just after the roads had been temporarily closed to traffic. Everything needed to be done as quickly as possible. About two and a half hours to go.

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1:20pm - On Dataran Merdeka Padang some kind of carnival was going on and people started to form a flock.


mari! mari!! free roti...


While others waited patiently under the shade


2:00pm - teams arrived






and more people...




2:45pm - Traffic Policemen marched forwards to their designated road junctions to control/stop traffic flows along the racing route.


3:25pm - Cyclists took position at the START grid line.


3:30pm - the 7th and Last stage of Le Tour de Langkawi 2009 pushed off.




racing in motions, actions, e-motions, tensions... and lots of manipulations and calculations too.




muscles of cavlar or somethin'?






Laps after laps... kept on charging!








...and finally the expected winner, Gianni Savio's Diquigiovanni-Androni Gioccatoli team completed what was effectively the most dominant team performance ever in Le Tour de Langkawi (LTdL) with multiple titles in their bag after the final stage of the race, the Kuala Lumpur Criterium today.


also, Asia's Best Team




The Individual Winners - the yellow, green, red and blue jerseys
Gavazzi who won four of seven stages in LTdL 2009 sealed the green jersey (sprint) with 97 points, Nolan Hoffman settled in second place with 82 points


Jose Serpa Perez, who sealed the King of the Mountain (red polka dot jersey) on previous day stage 6 with 25 points, claimed the yellow jersey today.






The only other jersey, the VW blue jersey for the Asian riders' classification winner, was taken by Le Tua Cycling Team's veteran Indonesian rider Tonton Susanto, who bagged his third ever win in that classification after doing the same in 1999 and 2002.


Last, but not least Ahmad Haidar Anuar from the national team became the best local riders after finishing in seventh place, ahead of teammate Anuar Manan.

Click HERE for Earlier Stages

[All pictures by AHW - Wide angle shots were taken with Lumix LX-3 compact digicam while tele-shots were taken with Zuiko Digital Lenses on Olympus E-500 dSLR]