curious creatures

Various creatures

2012.12.05

Curious or interesting creatures found in a ground, or somewhere...

* [yyyy.mm.dd] : a recorded date.

Male catkins of Himalayan cedar, Cedrus deodara (about 4cm in length) on the ground. 2012.12.05 [2012.12.04]
They look like many worms...

A kind of spider, Nephila clavata ("jorou-gumo"), on the nest. 2012.10.20 [2012.10.16]
Big spider (female : about 30mm in body length) is positioning the center of her nest, small spider (male : about 15mm in body length) is positioning the side of the nest.

A proboscis of the Japanese circe, Hestina persimilis japonica ("gomadara-chou"). 2012.09.23 [2012.08.24]
The Japanese circe has a yellow-orange colored proboscis. The color is very conspicuous.

A kind of snail, Turbo (Lunella) coreensis ("su-gai"). (about 2-2.5cm in shell diameter). 2012.08.26 [2012.08.21]
The surface of shell is covered from the green algae, Cladophora conchopheria.

A kind of jellyfish, Turritopsis sp. ("beni-kurage"). (about 5mm in head diameter). 2012.08.12 [2012.08.05]

A saw tooth stag beetle (male), Prosopocoilus inclinatus ("nokogiri-kuwagata"), on the tree trunk (about 6cm in body length). 2012.07.28 [2012.07.26]
It looks red fairly.

A kind of assassin-bug (Japanese assassin-bug), Agriosphodrus dohrni ("yokoduna-sashi-game"), on the tree trunk. (about 2cm in body length). 2012.06.23 [2012.06.13]
A miserable pill bug are inhaled.

Periwinkles (young), Littorina brevicula ("tama-kibi"), on the rock of the seashore (about 2mm in shell diameter). 2012.06.16 [2012.06.03]
It seems they are going to hide into the empty shell of barnacles.

A Blister beetle, Meloe corvinus ("marukubi-tsuchi-hanmyou"), on mountain hill road (about 2.5cm in body length). 2012.05.18 [2012.05.01]

A butterfly, Sugitani's Hedge Blue, Celastrina sugitanii ("Sugitani-ruri-shijimi"), on a stone of the riverbank. 2012.05.04 [2012.04.29]

A pen shell, Atrina pectinata , (taira-gai) (about 20cm in shell length). 2012.04.30 [2012.04.26]
Pen shells have long byssus, silky filaments (second photo).

A Japanese oakblue, Narathura japonica , (murasaki-shijimi) (about 2cm in length). 2012.04.02 [2012.03.30]
My first photograph of the beautiful blue wings.

Noctiluca scintillans , (yakou-cyu) . 2012.03.10 [2012.03.03]
Photographed with stereo microscope.

A giant pummelo, Citrus grandis (ban-pei-yu) (about over 20cm in diameter). 2012.01.23 [2012.01.23]

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