curious creatures

Various creatures

2019.12.30

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

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

A Great Egret, Ardea alba ("dai-sagi") (about 90cm in body length) in the pond. 2019.12.30 [2019.12.16]

Moss (species unknown) on the road like green thin carpet. 2019.11.17 [2019.11.14]

Flowers of Chinese chives, Allium tuberosum ("nira") (about 4mm in single flower diameter). 2019.10.04 [2019.09.20]
They are resemble for flowers of wild garlic (cf. 2019.06.01).

A kind of stick insect, Micadina phluctaenoides / Neohirasea japonica ("nihon-tobi-nanafushi") (about 5cm in body length) on the lieves. 2019.09.28 [2019.09.15]

A kind of damselfly, Copera annulata ("monosashi-tonbo") (about 4cm in body length). 2019.08.25 [2019.08.04]
At west-Japan district.

A kind of slimemold, Ceratiomyxa sp. ("tsuno-hokori") (about 5mm in colony diameter). 2019.07.21 [2019.06.24]
Grew in a wooden stump.

Edible Barnnacles, Balanus rostratus ("mine-fujitsubo") (about 35-40mm in shell diameter). 2019.07.05 [2019.06.21]
Got at the food floor in a department store.

Flowers of wild garlic, Allium macrostemon ("no-biru") (about 3mm in each flower diameter). 2019.06.01 [2019.05.29]

A butterfly, the Great Mormon, Papilio memnon ("nagasaki-ageha") on the tree leaves (about 12cm in wing width). 2019.05.10 [2019.05.03]

A flower of Japanese violet, Viola verecunda ("tsubo-sumire") on the ground (about 1cm in flower diameter). 2019.04.24 [2019.04.17]
This flower blooms to look down.

A ragged shell of Thomas' Rapa Whelk, Rapana venosa ("aka-nishi") on the sandy beach (about 6-7cm in shell height). 2019.03.27 [2019.03.02]

A curious dried creature with the tusks, Green eel goby, Odontamblyopus rubicundus ("warasubo") (about 30mm in head length). 2019.02.11 [2019.01.27]

A lot of seeds of Norway spruce, Picea abies ("doitsu-touhi") (about 10-15mm in seed length), dropping from the cone. 2019.01.03 [2018.12.18]

<<- Return. <- Previous year Next year ->