Semut Selangor

Article dari The Star pagi ni. Tak pernah pulak aku tahu ada spesis macam gini. Apapun hati-hatilah, jangan ambil mudah semua perkara .. kalau ajal dah sampai gigit semut macam ni pun boleh membawa maut.

Boy bitten by ants lands in ICU

BUTTERWORTH: A Remove Class student was admitted to the Seberang Jaya Hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) after being bitten by poisonous ants at his school compound in Jalan Raja Uda here.

Loh Kean Beng, 13, from SMK Bagan Jaya, was rushed to the hospital after he started vomitting and his limbs began to swell.

Painful encounter: Kean Beng showing where the ants bit him to (from left) school PTA chairman Ang Joo Hong, Soon and Seberang Prai municipal councillor Ngu Lek Wah.

He was discharged after about three hours when his condition stabilised upon being given three injections.

“I was taking shelter from the sweltering heat under two shady trees at about 5.30pm on Monday when I suddenly felt sharp stings on my hand and leg,” Kean Beng said when met at his house yesterday.

“The stung areas felt itchy and after about 30 minutes, I began to feel dizzy and feverish. One of the school staff members then called my father who immediately rushed me to the hospital,” he said.

“My father was then asked to bring specimens of the ant so that the proper antidote could be administered.”

Seberang Prai municipal councillor Soon Lip Chee said the ants, known locally as semut selangor (tetraponera rufonigra), could be found on dry tree trunks and branches in tropical countries, especially South-East Asia.

He said a few ant species were capable of painful stings but not all were known to pose a serious danger to human health.

What the ‘semut selangor’ looks like.

Yesterday, he said, a special squad from the council used pesticides to destroy the ants on the trees in the school.

He added that he would write to the state Town and Country Planning Department to take precautionary measures by chopping down dry tree trunks and branches to prevent them from becoming breeding areas for the ants.

Soon said the public was advised to contact the squad (tel: 04-540-2550/51) if they had any problems with such ants.

Lompat sikatak lompat

Aku di besarkan dikampung .. rata-rata penduduknya bersawah padi. Jadi setakat lintah dan katak tak menjadi hal pada aku. Aku tak lari kalau terserempak dengan dua spesis ni disawah atau ditepi sungai. Setakat kena gigit lintah ni biasa saja. Lintah kalau gigit kaki aku, aku bolih saja tanggalkan dan gentel-gentel jadi guli dan balingkan jauh-jauh. Macam tu juga lah katak .. senang saja aku kurung bawah tempurung, then aku ketuk-ketuk tempurung tu nak bagi katak tu pening. Aku seronok tengok bila dilepaskan katak tu mamai!!


Tapi baru ni aku pergi Pasar Tani dengan Hero Besar. Aku terkejut bila ternampak lintah darat ni .. punyalah gemuk dan besar. Diternak untuk tujuan perubatan.. khasnya untuk kaum lelaki. Geli geleman aku ..

Kalau lah lintah sebegini yang ada disawah, memang aku tak akan jejak kakilah jawabnya kesawah.


Katak ni pulak aku jumpa diKL Tower dua hari dulu. Terkurung dalam cermin dibuat pameran. Mula-mula aku ingat replika saja .. tapi bila direnung nampaklah memang bernyawa .. mata terkebil-kebil dan kembang kempis saja dibawah dagunya tu. Buatlah apa saja, sikitpun dia tak bergerak!! Aku tak pernah nengok spesis katak macam ni .. warna keemasan, gemuk lebar besar pinggan makan. Aku rasa katak spesis ni tak boleh nak melompat sebab gemuk sangat .. ni jenis yang tunggu rezeki datang depan mulut. Menakutkan juga bila ditenung lama-lama ...