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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

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: Rectangular-shaped droppings are good manure of the earth, Roly-poly, Armadillidium vulgare

Pill Bug: Gathering under fallen leaves, Roly-poly, Armadillidium vulgare

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 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: A roly-poly of excellent assembly, Armadillidium vulgare

Pill Bug from three angles-1: Yes, even I am a Darth Vader, Roly-poly, Armadillidium vulgare

Pill Bug from three angles-2: Rolling over like a marble, Roly-poly, Armadillidium vulgare

Pill Bug from three angles-3: Well, it's time to get up..., Roly-poly, Armadillidium vulgare