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Seven-spotted Ladybug: Preying on fat green aphids, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Black Carpenter Ant, Coccinella septempunctata, Aphid, Aphididae
Seven-spotted
Ladybug 1
Seven-spotted Ladybug: Driven off by a Black Carpenter Ant, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata, Camponotus japonicus, Aphid, Aphididae
Seven-spotted
Ladybug 2
Seven-spotted Ladybug: Playing dead and coming alive, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata
Seven-spotted
Ladybug 3
Seven-spotted Ladybug: Approaching a prey, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata
Seven-spotted
Ladybug 4
Seven-spotted Ladybug: With another species on a Common Vetch, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata, Vicia angustifolia
Seven-spotted
Ladybug 5
Seven-spotted Ladybug: Mating and laying eggs, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata, Black Carpenter Ant, Camponotus japonicus, Aphid, Aphididae
Seven-spotted
Ladybug 6
Seven-spotted Ladybug: A bright yellow adult just popped out of a pupa, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Eclosion, Coccinella septempunctata
Seven-spotted
Ladybug 7
Seven-spotted Ladybug: A spotless young adult trying hard to stretch wings, Eclosion, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata
Seven-spotted
Ladybug 8
Seven-spotted Ladybug: A young imago with full wings growing red and spotty, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata
Seven-spotted
Ladybug 9
Seven-spotted Ladybug: Let me show you my pretty yellow belly, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata
Seven-spotted
Ladybug 10
Seven-spotted Ladybug: Climbing an Annual Fleabane to fly away, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata, Erigeron annuus
Seven-spotted
Ladybug 11
Seven-spotted Ladybug: Taking off from Annual Fleabanes, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata, Annual fleabane, Erigeron annuus
Seven-spotted
Ladybug 12
Seven-spotted Ladybug: 
Start of a new journey, flying into the blue sky, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata,  Annual fleabane, Erigeron annuus, Honeybee, Apis mellifera
Seven-spotted
Ladybug 13
Seven-spotted Ladybug: Landing on the leaf of Common Vetch, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata
Seven-spotted
Ladybug 14
Japanese Rhinoceros Beetle, Japanese Horned Beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus
Japanese Rhinoceros
Beetle
White Stripe Longhorn Beetle, Batocera lineolata
White Stripe
Longhorn Beetle
Leaf Rolling Weevil: The leaf rolling process and the nidus, or the cradle, Apoderus jekelii
Leaf Rolling Weevil
Yanbaru Long-armed Scarab, Cheirotonus jambar
Yanbaru Long-armed
Scarab
Indolestes boninensis
Indolestes boninensis
Common Skimmer, Sympetrum frequens, Rice
Common Skimmer
Butterflies of various colors
Butterflies of
various colors
Honeybee and Chinese Milk Vetch: A spoonful of honey is collected by 500 bees, Apis mellifera, Astragalus sinicus
Honeybee and Chinese Milk Vetch 2
A flower bed and insects in spring, Small White, Old World Swallowtail, Common Bluebottle, Field Mustard, Tulip, Pansy
A flower bed and
insects in spring
Honeybee and Chinese Milk Vetch: Flying from flower to flower, Apis mellifera, Astragalus sinicus
Honeybee and
Chinese Milk Vetch 4
Honeybee and Chinese Milk Vetch: Collecting nectar and pollen, Apis mellifera, Astragalus sinicus
Honeybee and
Chinese Milk Vetch 6
Honeybees and a beehive, Larvae, Nectar, Pollen, Apis mellifera
Honeybee
and a beehive 1
Honeybees and a beehive, Larvae, Nectar, Pollen, Apis mellifera
Honeybee
and a beehive 2
Honeybee, Beehive, Honey, Pass
Two bees
are passing honey
Euhadra quaesita, Sought-after False Hadra
Euhadra quaesita
Ant Lion traps: Small funnels lined up by the root of a tree, Hagenomyia micans
Ant Lion
Black Carpenter Ant: Three poses from vertical angle, Camponotus japonicus
Black Carpenter Ant 1
Black Carpenter Ant: Sharing jobs in the burrow, nest, queen, worker, Camponotus japonicus
Black Carpenter Ant 2
Molting process of Pill Bug: Taking off faded “pants” first, and then “shirt” … , Roly-poly, Armadillidium vulgare
Pill Bug 6
Pill Bug: Rectangular-shaped droppings are good manure of the earth, Roly-poly, Armadillidium vulgare
Pill Bug 7
Pill Bug: Gathering under fallen leaves, Roly-poly, Armadillidium vulgare
Pill Bug 8
Red Swamp Crayfish: Taking a walk under Duckweeds, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii
Red Swamp Crayfish 1
Red Swamp Crayfish: A narrow escape from an attack of a Little Egret, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii
Red Swamp Crayfish 2
Red Swamp Crayfish in Ostentation: The first-ever close-up of the mouth, perhaps, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii
Red Swamp Crayfish 3
Red Swamp Crayfish: A grown-up deep red male called “Makkachin” in Japanese, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii
Red Swamp Crayfish 4
Red Swamp Crayfish: Beat me, if you can!, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii
Red Swamp Crayfish 5
Red Swamp Crayfish: Tackling together, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii
Red Swamp Crayfish 6
Red Swamp Crayfish: OK, you win!, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii
Red Swamp Crayfish 7
Red Swamp Crayfish: A male catching a Chinese Mystery Snail in a pond, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii, Medaka, Oryzias latipes, Stone Moroko, Pseudorasbora parva, Rosy bitterling, Rhodeus ocellatus ocellatus, Cipangopaludina chinensis malleata, Japanese Tree Frog, Hyla japonica
Red Swamp Crayfish 8
Red Swamp Crayfish eating a snail-1: Gnawing the shell again and again, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Chinese Mystery Snail, Procambarus clarkii, Cipangopaludina chinensis malleata
Red Swamp Crayfish 9
Red Swamp Crayfish eating a snail-2, -3 & -4: Breaking the shell, seizing the snail, and finally eating it, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Chinese Mystery Snail, Procambarus clarkii, Cipangopaludina chinensis malleata
Red Swamp Crayfish 10
Red Swamp Crayfish: A female in berry crawling softly, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii
Red Swamp Crayfish 11
Red Swamp Crayfish: Growing stages, 1st and 2nd instars, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii
Red Swamp Crayfish 12
Red Swamp Crayfish: An enemy is coming, help us Mom!, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii, Stone Moroko, Pseudorasbora parva
Red Swamp Crayfish 13
Red Swamp Crayfish: Process of molting, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii
Red Swamp Crayfish 14
Red Swamp Crayfish: Growing young ones, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii
Red Swamp Crayfish 15
Wintering Red Swamp Crayfish: What is that strange hole in the bank?, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Hibernation, Procambarus clarkii
Red Swamp Crayfish 16
Large Brown Cicada, Abura-zemi, Graptopsaltria nigrofuscata
Large Brown Cicada
Honeybee and Chinese Milk Vetch: A favorite haunt of some little insects, Honeybee, Black Carpenter Ant, Eastern Pale Clouded Yellow, Butterfly, Seven-spotted Ladybug
Honeybee and
Chinese Milk Vetch 1
Honeybee and Chinese Milk Vetch: A spoonful of honey is collected by 500 bees, Apis mellifera, Astragalus sinicus
Honeybee and Chinese Milk Vetch 3
Honeybee and Chinese Milk Vetch: Collecting nectar and pollen, Apis mellifera, Astragalus sinicus
Honeybee and
Chinese Milk Vetch 5
Honeybee and Chinese Milk Vetch: Coming back to their beehives with nectar and pollen, Apis mellifera, Astragalus sinicus
Honeybee and
Chinese Milk Vetch 7
Honeybee and Chinese Milk Vetch: Coming back to their beehives with nectar and pollen, Apis mellifera, Astragalus sinicus
Honeybee and
Chinese Milk Vetch 8
Black Carpenter Ant: On the ground, workers patrollinging around the burrow, nest, Camponotus japonicus, Common Dandelion, Pansy, Canvas shoes
Black Carpenter Ant 3
Black Carpenter Ant: Queen and her workers labouring under the ground, burrow, nest, Camponotus japonicus, Flower bed, Canvas shoes
Black Carpenter Ant 4
Black Carpenter Ant: Wow, we have got a delicious meal!, worker, Camponotus japonicus, Narrow-leaved Vetch
Black Carpenter Ant 5
Black Carpenter Ant: Let's store foods in our house!, worker, Camponotus japonicus,  Dandelion
Black Carpenter Ant 6
A battle of Black Carpenter Ant: Take my formic acid!, Camponotus japonicus
Black Carpenter Ant 7
Black Carpenter Ant: Carrying parts of Swallowtail across spring field, Camponotus japonicus, burrow, nest, Dandelion
Black Carpenter Ant 8
Black Carpenter Ant: Queen and her workers working hard (horizontal section), burrow, nest, Camponotus japonicus
Black Carpenter Ant 9
Pill Bug: Rolled up into a tight ball against an Ant, Roly-poly, Black Carpenter Ant, Armadillidium vulgare, Camponotus japonicus
Pill Bug 1
Pill Bug: A roly-poly of excellent assembly, Armadillidium vulgare
Pill Bug 2
Pill Bug from three angles-1: Yes, even I am a Darth Vader, Roly-poly, Armadillidium vulgare
Pill Bug 3
Pill Bug from three angles-2: Rolling over like a marble, Roly-poly, Armadillidium vulgare
Pill Bug 4
Pill Bug from three angles-3: Well, it's time to get up..., Roly-poly, Armadillidium vulgare
Pill Bug 5