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Project Noah Nature School
Love photography & nature. From Scotland, but lived in Japan for 4 years. I'd love to know more about some of the things I've photographed.
Isle of Lewis, UK
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Not a tanuki, but a masked palm civet. Had no idea that anything like that could be found in Tokyo.
Is this some kind of mayfly?
About 3cm long - never seen anything like it before.
I believe that this is a ladybug (てんとう虫) in the early stage of life - does anyone know what kind it is?
I managed to get a closer shot of a mejiro - this time in a cherry tree :)
That's interesting to hear. In Japanese this is called a 'mejiro', which means white eye, and the area I spotted it is Mejiro in Tokyo!
Thanks for that information! At least I can get rid of the romanization of the Japanese name.
A Japanese friend ID'd this as a 'shouryou batta' ショウリョウバッタ（精霊蝗虫）, with the 'batta' meaning grasshopper. The scientific name is acrida cinerea, but I can't find a common name for it.
Thanks, Argy Bee. As the body is so slender, I didn't even think of it as being a katydid, but more likely a phasmatodea.
Clearly a dragonfly, but what species? I spotted this one in Tokyo.
