Aisatsu

Aisatsu

This blog is for family and friends, to share my feelings and photos with and for myself, to support my fading memory. Readers who have my site translated automatically, please refer to the original if necessary. Especially when it comes to identification. Any comments, anonymous or by email name are always welcome!.

Friday, 23 August 2019

Kanatake walk August 2019

Images of our monthly walk in Kanatake no sato
The highlight was the HUGE moth dangling from a low branch at eye level, so we all could have a good look.



Ailanthus Silkmoth, (Shinjusan) シンジュウサン 
A kind of Saturniid or Silkmoth, (Yamamayuga) ヤママユガ







Japanese Bigleaf Magnolia (Oonoki) ホオノキ (Japanese Cucumber Tree)



Kobushi Magnolia, (Kobushi) コブシ



Chinese Plantain, (Oobako) オオバコ edible, medicinal

 


Mint flower, ミントの花
 


Inubiwa, イヌビワ Not a loquat, but a fig species. 



Nusubitohagi, ヌスビトハギ  The Japanese name translates as thief’s footprints, after the shape of the seed that resemble the footprints of a robber who walks on tiptoes



Knotweed, (Mizuhiki) ミズヒキ



Japanese Agrimony (Kinmizuhiki) キンミズヒキ



Japanese Agrimony キンミズヒキ  with a Hover fly, (Hirata Abu) ヒラタアブ



Bekkouhagoromo , ベッコウハゴロモAsian Planthopper



Kobesomaimai snail, コベソマイマイ



Spangle, (Kuroageha) クロアゲハ



Japanese Freshwater Crab (Sawagani) サワガニ named after Dutch zoologist Willem de Haan (1801 - 1855)



Harlequin Glorybower, (Kusagi) クサギ



Little Grebe, カイツブリ nest made with a plastic bag... !



There were many frogs around the river, specially young Bullfrogs (Ushigaeru) ウシガエル Still small





Indian Rice Frog, (Numagaeru) ヌマガエル





Hidden in tgrass, smaller than the size of a 1 yen coin, a Scoliid Wasp's nest, (Dobachi no su) ハチの巣



, Sweet Autumn Clematis, (Senninsou) センニンソウ or rather (Botanzuru) ボタンヅル



Japanese Katydid or Long-horned Grasshopper, (Kirigirisu) キリギリス



Another grasshopper, with a blue mouth



Female Rhinoceros Beetle, カブトムシ on Japanese Blue Oak tree, (Arakashi) アラカシ 



The day before I stopped by. It was raining and dark under the trees. There were a number of Rhinoceros Beetles:






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