From a Nature Photographer... Photography Record for July 6th (Insect, Plant, Mushroom, Amphibian, Wild Bird, and Landscape Photography)

 

An introduction to the kinds of things Shigeki Iimura photographs every day... (all uncropped)

Old World swallowtail, common mormon, pale grass blue, white admiral, Japanese paper wasp, stick insect, autumn darter, black garden ant, Japanese beetle, giant centipede, dayflower, creeping cucumber, Chinese lizard's tail, shaggy mane, little grebe, rice paddy landscape

An Old World swallowtail that pupated on a fleabane plant on the edge of a rice paddy (Ritto City, Shiga Prefecture)

Old World swallowtail pupa; it will not become a butterfly as it has already been parasitized by a pteromalid wasp

A common mormon that pupated on a trifoliate orange hedge (Kyoto City)

Common mormon pupa; I wonder if this one will be able to become a butterfly...

Pale grass blue laying eggs on the underside of a wood sorrel leaf (Ritto City, Shiga Prefecture)

A white admiral laying an egg on the underside of a honeysuckle leaf (Moriyama City, Shiga Prefecture)

White admiral, a single tiny egg on the underside of the leaf...

In the meadow, a Japanese paper wasp has caught a larva and is making a meatball to carry back to its nest (Ritto City)

A stick insect larva on a cherry leaf, swaying in the wind along with the leaf (Ritto City)

In the rice paddy, an autumn darter dragonfly nymph seems to be extending its jaw to eat something (Ritto City)

On a stalk of Japanese pampas grass, a black garden ant is gathering mud to farm aphids (Ritto City)

There was a Japanese beetle eating a Japanese knotweed leaf on the forest road

There was a giant centipede preying on a huntsman spider in a scrap wood pile (Kyoto City)

The dayflower, a flower of Kusatsu City, Shiga Prefecture, is in full bloom (Kusatsu City, Shiga Prefecture)

Small creeping cucumber flowers were blooming on the shore of Lake Biwa (Kusatsu City, Shiga Prefecture)

Chinese lizard's tail in the female stage, with the pistil emerging (Ritto City, Shiga Prefecture)

Shaggy mane, which, as its name suggests, melts into a black liquid and disappears in a single day (Kyoto City)

A little grebe parent and child, feeding on a small fish (Yasu City, Shiga Prefecture)

Rain falls on the rice paddies in the mountain village (Ritto City, Shiga Prefecture)

The terraced rice fields in the rain are in the midst of silence (Ritto City)