curious creatures

Various creatures

2013.11.18

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

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

Many oyster mushrooms, Pleurotus ostreatus ("hira-take"), grown in the stump (about 1-2cm in cap (pileus) diameter (left photo)). 2013.11.18 [2013.11.06 (left photo), 2013.11.08 (right photo)]

A kind of isopod, Excirolana chiltoni ("hime-suna-hori-mushi"), living in the sandy beach (about 5-6mm in body length). 2013.10.12 [2013.10.06]

Fruits of Japanese dogwood, Cornus kousa ("yama-boushi") (about 2cm in diameter). 2013.09.17 [2013.09.13]

Cophinopoda chinensis ("ao-me-abu")
Body length : 2cm [2013.08.16]

Promachus yesonicus ("shioya-abu")
Body length : 2.5cm [2013.07.27]

Tabanus trigonus ("ushi-abu")
Body length : 3cm [2013.08.14]

Three magnified faces of robber fly and horse fly. 2013.08.20

A kind of yellow slimemold, Fuligo septica var. flava ("ki-fushi-susu-hokori"). 2013.07.28 [2013.06.26, 07.01]
Left: Plasmodium, Right: Fruiting body

The Potter wasp, Eumenes decorata ("suzu-bachi"). 2013.07.21 [2013.07.12, 16]
She was making a mud nest.

The abnormal leaves of Japanese mulberry, Morus australis / Morus bombycis ("yama-guwa"). 2013.06.29 [2013.06.17]
These leaves look only leaf vein.

A pair of otolith of red tilefish, Branchiostegus japonicus ("aka-ama-dai") (about 9mm in length). 2013.06.01 [2013.05.27]
Body length of the fish is about 30cm.

A kind of small abalone, Haliotis diversicolor ("fuku-tokobushi") (about 6-7cm in shell length). 2013.05.26 [2013.05.21]
Got at the food floor in a department store.

A kind of orchid, Cephalanthera falcata ("kin-ran" ; yellow flowers) and Cephalanthera erecta ("gin-ran" ; white flowers) on the ground. 2013.05.12 [2013.05.01-10]
About 1cm (C. falcata ) and 6mm (C. erecta) in flower diameter.

The deep red-purple flowers of Chinese redbud, Cercis chinensis ("hana-zu-ou"), planted by the road side. 2013.04.14 [2013.04.08]
About 1.5m in tree height.

A kind of cowry, Erosaria miliaris ("hatsuyuki-dakara"), washed up on a sandy beach. 2013.03.09 [2013.03.02]
About 40mm in shell length.

"Mummies" of aphids ("ari-maki"), parasited by parasitic wasp ("abura-bachi"), on the camellia bud (about 1mm in body length). 2013.02.23 [2013.02.18]

Japanese white-eye, Zosterops japonicus ("mejiro"), stopped at the Kaki persimmon branch (about 12cm in body length). 2013.01.03 [2012.12.31]
Second photo: eating a Sharon fruit

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