On the beach we found scattered around are  countless big ants with no abdomen.

These are big ants with wings. How they lost their abdomens?  We guess these ant have wings that can fly, and when they fly into the open air, they immediately fall pray to the flying birds in the sky.

Their juice big bully are favorite of the birds. What bird? We are not sure. But must be highly skilled bird of they air. For these bird while flying in the air can catch up with a flying ant and with surgical precision using their bit to plug off only the juice abdomen dropping the head and thorax to the ground.

On the ground the ants with only head and thorax but without an abdomen still alive to struggle around. But without an abdomen they do not live for too long.

These ants granted a pair of wing to fly but lost their abdomen in return.

This lone crab live in the flat world of sand flats and are active during low tide. Body is flattened, square or somewhat rectangular. The eye stalks are long and  extend high above the body.

These marine crab can see 360 degrees at the same time, it can see predators coming from any direction. This crab carry its eyes on stalks and resolution varies across the visual field. Like a pair of periscopes this pair of magnificent eyes kept high above the sand by the long eye stalks

Crab eyes, like those of insects, are compound eyes. Compound eyes are made up of large numbers of ommatidia.


What species is this crab ? I do not know. It probably a members of the family Ocypodidae. This family are distinguished by eyes on stalks set close together and have very long stalks relative to their body size.

These eye-stalks fold away into grooves on the body, so the crab can scramble into hiding places without breaking the stalks.

Drift Wood Aarts

Driftwood is wood that has been washed onto a shore or beach of a sea or river by tides. It is a form of marine debris. Most driftwood is the remains of trees that have been washed into the ocean, due to flooding, high winds, or other natural occurrences, or the result of logging.

Other sources include the remains of man-made wooden objects washed into the sea during storms and the remains of shipwrecked wooden ships and boats.

Driftwood can be used as art forms such as this largest driftwood art in Sabah displayed in Mimpian Jadi Resort.