curious creatures

Various creatures

2016.12.17

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

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

Sporangia of a kind of moss, Venturiella sinensis ("hina-no-hai-goke") on the trunk of a tree (about 1mm in sporangium diameter). 2016.12.17 [2016.11.25]

Top of the sporangium is orange. It's so charming :-).

A pair of otolith of crimson sea bream, Evynnis tumifrons ("chi-dai") (about 11mm in length). 2016.11.10 [2016.11.08]
Body length of the fish is about 16cm.

A owdered oakblue, Narathura bazalus ("murasaki-tsubame", about 3.5mm in wing width), on the leaf. 2016.10.06 [2016.09.30]
They have very beautiful blue wings.

Eggs of the owdered oakblue, Narathura bazalus ("murasaki-tsubame", about 0.5mm in diameter), on the leaf and the stem. 2016.09.28 [2016.09.21,28]

A pair of otolith of red barracuda, Sphyraena pinguis ("aka-kamasu") (about 10mm in length). 2016.08.24 [2016.08.22]
Body length of the fish is about 20cm.

A black and yellow mud dauber, Sceliphron caementarium ("america-jiga-bachi", about 2cm in body length), making her hive with mud (about 3-4cm in each hive length). 2016.07.28 [2016.07.20]
Mud daubers hunt spiders for their children.

A flower of myoga (spicy vegetable), Zingiber mioga ("myou-ga") (about 2cm in flower diameter). 2016.07.28 [2016.07.19]

A flower of birthwort, Aristolochia debilis ("uma-no-suzu-kusa") (about 2cm in flower length). 2016.07.28 [2016.07.08]
What a curious shape like curved trumpet !

A blue beautiful dragonfly, Rhyothemis fuliginosa ("chou-tombo") (about 3-4cm in wing width). 2016.07.28 [2016.07.07]

A flying fish, flathead grey mullet, Mugil cephalus ("bora") (about 20-40cm in body length), jumping from water surface to escape from a beach seine. 2016.06.16 [2016.05.28]
At sand beach in Kansai-district.

A starry flounder, Platichthys stellatus ("numa-garei") (about 30cm in body length), is looking me patiently, isn't he/she? 2016.06.03 [2016.05.28]
At an aquarium in Kansai-district.

A black- banded Hairstreak, Antigius attilia ("mizuiro-o-naga-shijimi") (about 2cm in length), in an edge of the urban woods. 2016.06.01 [2016.05.23]

Fruits of rough hedge parsley, Torilis scabra ("o-yabu-jirami") (about 6mm in fruit length). 2016.05.30 [2016.05.16]
In one side of the fruit are purple-like color and the other side are green. This color pattern seems to depend on the sun-light.

Riverstream orchid, Cymbidium goeringii ("syun-ran"), in the flowerpot put in the garden (about 35mm in flower diameter). 2016.04.29 [2016.04.09]

Flower buds of flowering dogwood, Cornus florida ("hana-mizuki"), in early spring (about 6-7mm in bud diameter). 2016.03.29 [2016.03.17, 18]

Frost formed on the ground and the leaves in a cold morning. 2016.02.16 [2016.01.13]

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