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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: Driven off by a Black Carpenter Ant, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata, Camponotus japonicus, Aphid, Aphididae   Seven-spotted Ladybug: Playing dead and coming alive, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata   Seven-spotted Ladybug: Approaching a prey, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata
Seven-spotted
Ladybug 1
  Seven-spotted
Ladybug 2
  Seven-spotted
Ladybug 3
  Seven-spotted
Ladybug 4
Seven-spotted Ladybug: With another species on a Common Vetch, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata, Vicia angustifolia   Seven-spotted Ladybug: Mating and laying eggs, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata, Black Carpenter Ant, Camponotus japonicus, Aphid, Aphididae   Seven-spotted Ladybug: A bright yellow adult just popped out of a pupa, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Eclosion, Coccinella septempunctata   Seven-spotted Ladybug: A spotless young adult trying hard to stretch wings, Eclosion, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata
Seven-spotted
Ladybug 5
  Seven-spotted
Ladybug 6
  Seven-spotted
Ladybug 7
  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: Let me show you my pretty yellow belly, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata   Seven-spotted Ladybug: Climbing an Annual Fleabane to fly away, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata, Erigeron annuus   Seven-spotted Ladybug: Taking off from Annual Fleabanes, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata, Annual fleabane, Erigeron annuus
Seven-spotted
Ladybug 9
  Seven-spotted
Ladybug 10
  Seven-spotted
Ladybug 11
  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: Landing on the leaf of Common Vetch, Lady Beetle, Ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata   Japanese Rhinoceros Beetle, Japanese Horned Beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus   White Stripe Longhorn Beetle, Batocera lineolata
Seven-spotted
Ladybug 13
  Seven-spotted
Ladybug 14
  Japanese Rhinoceros
Beetle
  White Stripe
Longhorn Beetle
Leaf Rolling Weevil: The leaf rolling process and the nidus, or the cradle, Apoderus jekelii   Yanbaru Long-armed Scarab, Cheirotonus jambar   Indolestes boninensis   Common Skimmer, Sympetrum frequens, Rice
Leaf Rolling Weevil

  Yanbaru Long-armed
Scarab
  Indolestes boninensis

  Common Skimmer

Large Brown Cicada, Abura-zemi, Graptopsaltria nigrofuscata   Butterflies of various colors   A flower bed and insects in spring, Small White, Old World Swallowtail, Common Bluebottle, Field Mustard, Tulip, Pansy   Butterfly, Papilio xuthus, Asian Swallowtail, Chinese Yellow Swallowtail, larva, caterpillar, egg
Large Brown Cicada

  Butterflies of
various colors
  A flower bed and
insects in spring
  Papilio xuthus

Chrysopa pallens, Green lacewing, larva, eggs   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: A spoonful of honey is collected by 500 bees, Apis mellifera, Astragalus sinicus
Chrysopa pallens

  Honeybee and
Chinese Milk Vetch 1
      Honeybee and Chinese Milk Vetch 2

   
Honeybee and Chinese Milk Vetch: A spoonful of honey is collected by 500 bees, Apis mellifera, Astragalus sinicus   Honeybee and Chinese Milk Vetch: Flying from flower to flower, Apis mellifera, Astragalus sinicus   Honeybee and Chinese Milk Vetch: Collecting nectar and pollen, Apis mellifera, Astragalus sinicus
    Honeybee and Chinese Milk Vetch 3

      Honeybee and
Chinese Milk Vetch 4
  Honeybee and
Chinese Milk Vetch 5
Honeybee and Chinese Milk Vetch: Collecting nectar and pollen, Apis mellifera, Astragalus sinicus   Honeybee and Chinese Milk Vetch: Coming back to their beehives with nectar and pollen, Apis mellifera, Astragalus sinicus   Honeybee and Chinese Milk Vetch: Coming back to their beehives with nectar and pollen, Apis mellifera, Astragalus sinicus   Honeybees and a beehive, Larvae, Nectar, Pollen, Apis mellifera
Honeybee and
Chinese Milk Vetch 6
  Honeybee and
Chinese Milk Vetch 7
  Honeybee and
Chinese Milk Vetch 8
  Honeybee
and a beehive 1
Honeybees and a beehive, Larvae, Nectar, Pollen, Apis mellifera   Honeybee, Beehive, Honey, Pass   Euhadra quaesita, Sought-after False Hadra   Ant Lion traps: Small funnels lined up by the root of a tree, Hagenomyia micans
Honeybee
and a beehive 2
  Two bees
are passing honey
  Euhadra quaesita

  Ant Lion

Black Carpenter Ant: Three poses from vertical angle, Camponotus japonicus   Black Carpenter Ant: Sharing jobs in the burrow, nest, queen, worker, Camponotus japonicus   Black Carpenter Ant: On the ground, workers patrollinging around the burrow, nest, Camponotus japonicus, Common Dandelion, Pansy, Canvas shoes   Black Carpenter Ant: Queen and her workers labouring under the ground, burrow, nest, Camponotus japonicus, Flower bed, Canvas shoes
Black Carpenter Ant 1   Black Carpenter Ant 2   Black Carpenter Ant 3   Black Carpenter Ant 4
Black Carpenter Ant: Wow, we have got a delicious meal!, worker, Camponotus japonicus, Narrow-leaved Vetch   Black Carpenter Ant: Let's store foods in our house!, worker, Camponotus japonicus,  Dandelion   A battle of Black Carpenter Ant: Take my formic acid!, Camponotus japonicus   Black Carpenter Ant: Carrying parts of Swallowtail across spring field, Camponotus japonicus, burrow, nest, Dandelion
Black Carpenter Ant 5   Black Carpenter Ant 6   Black Carpenter Ant 7   Black Carpenter Ant 8
Black Carpenter Ant: Queen and her workers working hard (horizontal section), burrow, nest, Camponotus japonicus   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
Black Carpenter Ant 9   Pill Bug 1   Pill Bug 2   Pill Bug 3
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   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 4   Pill Bug 5   Pill Bug 6   Pill Bug 7
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: A narrow escape from an attack of a Little Egret, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii   Red Swamp Crayfish in Ostentation: The first-ever close-up of the mouth, perhaps, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii
Pill Bug 8   Red Swamp Crayfish 1   Red Swamp Crayfish 2   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: Beat me, if you can!, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii   Red Swamp Crayfish: Tackling together, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii   Red Swamp Crayfish: OK, you win!, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii
Red Swamp Crayfish 4   Red Swamp Crayfish 5   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 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 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: A female in berry crawling softly, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii
Red Swamp Crayfish 8   Red Swamp Crayfish 9   Red Swamp Crayfish 10   Red Swamp Crayfish 11
Red Swamp Crayfish: Growing stages, 1st and 2nd instars, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii   Red Swamp Crayfish: An enemy is coming, help us Mom!, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii, Stone Moroko, Pseudorasbora parva   Red Swamp Crayfish: Process of molting, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii   Red Swamp Crayfish: Growing young ones, Red Swamp Crawfish, American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii
Red Swamp Crayfish 12   Red Swamp Crayfish 13   Red Swamp Crayfish 14   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