curious creatures

Various creatures

2022.12.31

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

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

Leives of Japanese maple, Acer palmatum (takao-kaede) (about 4-5cm in lief width) on the ground. 2022.12.31 [2022.12.18]

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Fruits of scarlet kadzura, Kadsura japonica (sane-kazura) (about 3-5mm in each fruit diameter). 2022.11.27 [2022.11.16]
This plant have planted as a school fence near my house.

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Flowers of Japanese hop, Humulus japonicus (kana-mugura) (about 3mm in flower diameter). 2022.11.16 [2022.10.31]
Male flowers and female flowers (on Mouse over) and lieves.

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A kind of tortoise beetles, Laccoptera nepalensis (Laccoptera quadrimaculata) (yotsu-mon-kame-no-ko-ha-mushi) (about 8mm in body length) on the leaf. 2022.10.14 [2022.10.02]
This insect is expanding its distribution from Ryukyu to the north.

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A cherry treeborer, Synanthedon hector (ko-sukashi-ba) (about 1.5cm in body length) on the leaf. 2022.10.07 [2022.09.27]
The tail part of this moths opens and closes like folding fan.

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Cluster of Japanese jacinths, Barnardia japonica (tsurubo) (about 15-20cm in plant height) on the ground. 2022.09.24 [2022.09.14]

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Four robust cicadas, Hyalessa maculaticollis (min-min-zemi) (about 3.5cm in body length) on the trunk of this tree. 2022.08.24 [2022.08.16]
They like this tree (?)

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A masked crab spider (female), Thomisus labefactus (azuchi-gumo) (about 5-6mm in body length) on the leaf. 2022.08.24 [2022.08.14]

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A nest of yellow-vented hornet, Vespa analis insularis (kogata-suzume-bachi) (about 6-7cm in nest diameter) on the ground in the park. 2022.07.25 [2022.07.06]
This nest seems to have fallen from a tree.

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Eggs of Japanese gecko, Gekko japonicus (nihon-yamori) (about 1cm in egg length) in the nallow tree cave. 2022.07.10 [2022.06.28]
The parent(?) is close to the eggs.

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A kind of snail, Euhadra quaesita (hidari-maki-maimai) (about 4cm in shell diameter) on the rainy road. 2022.06.29 [2022.05.21]
The shell of this species is counterclockwize (left-handed).

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A kind of stink bug, Aelia fieberi (uzura-kame-mushi) (about 1cm in body length) on the grass. 2022.05.23 [2022.04.25]
The shape of this insect is hard to recognize as stink bugs.

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A kind of cobra lily, Arisaema ringens (musashi-abumi) (about 20cm in flower height) on the grassland in the park. 2022.04.26 [2022.04.13(flower), 2021.04.30(leaf)]
The length of one leaf is more than 30cm !

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A kind of jewel beetle, Chalcophora japonica japonica (uba-tama-mushi) (about 3cm in body length) on the road. 2022.03.23 [2022.03.03]
In some cases, this species passes winter by imago.

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A winter rosette of White Snakeroot, Coronopus didymus ("kara-kusa-nazuna"). 2022.02.26 [2022.02.24]
About 15cm in diameter of rosette. This species came from Europe or South America to Japanese flora.

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A black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax (goi-sagi) (about 60cm in body length) sleeping at a pond edge. 2022.01.26 [2022.01.02]

But actually, he/she was not sleeping !

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