Ant Mimic

Here's an ant mimicking jumping spider from japan:

Myrmarachne Spp. Ant-mimic Jumping Spider

And an ant one branch over:

Chinese Pond Terrapin

Pootling about in a canal in Kyoto:

Chinese pond terrapin - Mauremys reevesii

Chinese pond terrapin - Mauremys reevesii

Skink Vs. Centipede

Nihon tokage - Japanese Skink - Plestiodon japonicus

The early skink catches the big, scary centipede: https://vine.co/v/iUU2pxbtnQP (video)

Nihon tokage - Japanese skink - Plestiodon japonicus

Greened Up Brackets

Monday Mushroom #103

Bleached, old bracket fungi - a fertile substrate for algae.

Kanahebi

Takydromus tachydromoides - kanahebi - Japanese grass lizard

Takydromus tachydromoides - kanahebi - Japanese grass lizard

Shimahebi

This is the first snake of my Kyoto adventure - a shimahebi, the Japanese striped snake or Japanese four-lined ratsnake, Elaphe quadrivirigata in the dank, mossy forest just outside the city limits.

Shimahebi - Elaphe quadrivirgata

Shimahebi - Elaphe quadrivirgata

Groovy Wedge

Fencepost of the Week #112