a millipede crawling on a stick, probably Orthomorpha family

glossy black body, with round-shaped yellow lateral keels

The runners of Ipomoea creep across a puddle in an abandoned parking area / 水たまりを渡るサツマイモ属のランナー

the solar array

【ゆっくり料理】木須肉【ムースーロウ】 YouTube video by 美鈴菜館

こちらのレシピは美鈴菜館 (@cooking-meiling.bsky.social) さんを参考にいたしました。タケノコはキュウリで代用して良いと知ったおかげで生まれた組み合わせ。
youtu.be/cuFqUeg2E3E

I got a bunch of moderately ripening fruits. Well, I'm going to make Moo shu pork to enjoy the texture of its rind.

A male teak defoliator (Hyblaea puera) / キオビセセリモドキ♂

From the underside / 腹側

Loving the striking orange fur on the hind legs.

Flower of Jamaican cherry / ナンヨウザクラの花

Unripe fruit / 未熟な果実

Ripen fruit / 熟した果実

Cut open fruits with lengthwise or crosswise / 果実の断面(↑縦↓横)

The Jamaica cherry (Muntingia calabura)
It tastes like fig because of the sourless juice and crunchy seeds.

サザエさん一家 [FamiTracker 2A03 カバー] YouTube video by Molybdenite

ファミコン音源で『サザエさん一家』
このあたりのオタク人気が低い、というか遠い世界扱い(一部のネタ消費を除いて)の楽曲はチップチューンが供給されないので、聞きたければ自作するしか無いのよなあ。
Sazae-san Ikka with #2a03
This song has been used as the end credits theme since 1969 for Sazae-san, which is the longest-running anime.
#chiptune #nes #famicom #8bit #famitracker
youtu.be/C7nFLu7sssg

I never got the idea to take their seed because it can be found anywhere.
I guess I'll try planting as if it were the dusty miller next season.

Female Ischnura asiatica, the forktail damselfly in East Asia / メスのアジアイトトンボ

450g fresh ginger, sliced 550g sugar 850cc water 2 tbsp green sichuan pepper 2 cinnamon sticks 3 whole star anise pods 1 dried red pepper 1 lemon, sliced

Ginger syrup with green sichuan pepper / 青花椒のジンジャーシロップ

1 to 1 for ginger syrup and carbonated water, and a tip of apple cider vinegar Extra tingling! / 麻味ジンジャーエールとしてのメガシャキが好きだけれどカフェインがキツすぎるのでもう自作するしかないじゃない

Used ginger and lemon slices will be candied.

Ginger ale with green sichuan pepper

Giant honey bee (Apis dorsata) / オオミツバチ

Feeding on a yellow elder (Tecoma stans) / タチノウゼンで採餌

Giant honey bee (Apis dorsata)
The droop hind legs are lovely

Bud of bush passion fruit (Passiflora foetida) / クサトケイソウ

Dorsal surface / 翅表

Close-up of the ventral surface / 翅裏

Tawny coster (Acraea terpsicore)

Tawny costers / ヘリグロホソチョウ

Check Six🛩️

half-ripening seeds in an ivy gourd fruit / 半端に熟した中身

perboiled for 30 sec, and stir-fried / 生食は怖いので加熱調理

Tasting time.
...😬🤢🤮
Ok. I had a hunch wild gourds typically get bitter.
Especially, the scarlet jelly covering its seeds is toxically bitter, probably from cucurbitacine.
Otherwise, the rind and skin are tasty like a little tight cucumber.

An unripe ivy gourd fruit (Coccinia grandis) / ヤサイカラスウリの未熟果。カラスウリとは属レベルで離れてる。花のぴろぴろも無い。

Wild ivy gourd on an abandoned site

クロスジスズバチ

Delta esuriens: some internet pages call it "Okinawa mud wasp", but I wonder if that name has been commonly used.

Mating plain tiger butterflies

A female damselfly (Atrocalopteryx atrata) in sunset / メスのハグロトンボ

Golden strokes running on her black wings reminded me of ancient Egyptian statues.

Family Penthaleidae, shot on Feb. 17, Ibaraki / おそらくハクサイダニ?

Hairy rosette of Spiny Sowthistle and tiny mites swarming them
I never knew their hair shapes like sausages.

No tubercle on dorsal
Jagged-edged tail
Indo-Pacific gecko, I guess

Carpenter ant queen resting underneath a green bean leaf / オオアリ属と思しき女王アリ

Chewing

A queen moved into my home vegetable garden. She seems to love bean plants.

Finlayson's squirrel (Callosciurus finlaysonii)

I’m in Thailand for work. Huge millipedes walk on city roads indeed!

Mustard green head (Brassica juncea) / カラシナの花茎

A bowl of wild mustard greens I suppose that contains several species and hybrids.

Orecchiette con cime di rapa / Orecchiette with mustard greens / そのへんのカラシナのオレキエッテ

The first mustard green in the wild this year

A drop of water from a cut reed / 駆られたヨシから染み出した水滴

My headlamp caught a glossy bead on a shaved grass field.
A drop of syrup slowly leaked from the new growth of a still alive reed.

Crisp-banded hawkmoth (Neogurelca himachala) / 越冬中のホシヒメホウジャク

A Crisp-banded hawkmoth had been wintering beside the entrance of my apartment building.

Flowers of a henbit dead-nettle (Lamium amplexicaule) and a winter midge (Hydrobaenus sp.)

Fuzzy heads

😃

Tiny rosette of a Pseudognaphalium affine / ハハコグサのロゼット

Tiny rosette of a Pseudognaphalium affine
This plant has been used in traditional cuisines. However, I don’t really like it because it has too much woolly hair, which makes me feel like dental cotton pellets in my mouth.