Small stuff

Spring was warm this year. Flowers bloomed early. Small stuff like insects came out soon. So I start off with a rather big post. With all sorts of creatures and greenery

Narrow-leaf Pasque-flower, Okinagusa, オキナグサ (Pulsatilla cernua)

Stones were arranged around the flowers to mark the place and to protect them. Somebody had found a piece of jaw and placed it on one of the bigger stones.

Sembonyari センボンヤリ (Leibnitzia anandria)

Kishimushiro, キジムシロ (Potentilla Fragarioides var. Major)

Momiji Ichigo, モミジイチゴ (Rubus Palmatus)

シハイスミレ （Viola Violacea Makino）

ヒゴスミレ (Viola Chaerophylloides var. Sieboldiana)

タチツボスミレ  (Viola Grypoceras）

Asian Royal Fern ゼンマイ (Osmunda Japonica)

Sawaoguruma, サワオグルマ, (Tephroseris Pierotii)

Kusa Ichigo, クサイチゴ (Rubus Hirsutus）

Big Geometer Moth, maybe Biston Robustum (トビモンオオエダシャク)

Japanese Fire Belly Newt (アカハライモリ)

おたまじゃくし

Yamakagashi Tiger Keelback, Rhabdophis Tigrinus (ヤマカガシ)

Nekonomeso, Chrysosplenium Grayanum (ネコノメソウ)

Shojo Bakama, ショウジョウバカマ (Heloniopsis Orientalis)

Noble Orchid Shunlan, シュンァン Blooming soon

Japanesewild Iris, the Butterfly flower (シャガ)

Japanese Skink, ニホントカゲ (Plestiodon Japonicus) Male in breeding color 

Japanese Skink, ニホントカゲ Plestiodon Japonicus (juv)

Dark Evening Brown (クロコノマチョウ)

Blue Admiral, ルリタテハ (Kaniska canace) 

European Beak or Nettle-tree butterfly, Libythea celtis (テングチョウ)