bugs from tokyo

Pictures of little critters in and around Tokyo taken by a Japanese biophile. All blog images are my own.

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Herbivore ladybug larva.

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Shield bug with pincers on its abdomen.

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Macroglossum pyrrhosticta larva.

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Macroglossum pyrrhosticta imago.

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Giant willow aphids and a Japanese carpenter ant.

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Whose wax is this? (Scale insects’?)

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Invasive ladybug from California.

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Asian jumping mantis.

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Scaly cricket on a leaf.

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So tiny.

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Japanese grass lizard.

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Grasshopper nymph.

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Last month I saw a swarm of dragonflies at a mountain top in Tochigi prefecture. They may have already started migrating to lowlands as temperatures dropped.

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Invasive sawfly larva on a false acacia leaf (taken on September 14th, 2022).

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Damselfly on a leaf.