The First Confession - St. Mark's Church, Batu Kawa

Ulat or Kulat @ Ulat Sagu

A friend of mine tells me how this ulat came from and how to get it. He says, this ulat is called ulat sagu and the name is taken from the tree call "Sagu". Here is how we get the ulat :

1. Chop a pokok sagu – choose suitable one (old enough one)
2. Cut “pokok sagu” leaf(shape like coconut tree leaf) and cover the pokok sagu trunk and let it rotten for about 44 days for ulat sagu to grow.
3. How to know batang sagu already got “ulat” ? – people will put their ears on the tree trunk. They do like this because they can hear the ulat biting, moving and eating the tree trunk. If there is so noisy so it mean there already many ulat inside there.
4. They will slowly open and chop the tree trunk to search for the ulat inside the tree trunk. One good tree trunk can produce about one “baldi” of ulat…fuh…..
5. If they make a calculation mistake and didn’t go to take the ulat on time (about 44 days) then the ulat will say goodbye to the tree trunk.they will fly away. Ulat sagu also turn to an insect when they grow old.
6. So people will go and check after 40 days until 44 days.