In Harmony with Neighboring INSECTS and SPIDERS

Message from nature in Japan

		For Japanese page, Click here Since Aug. 13, 1998 Updated on Oct. 6, 2020

How important bugs are in Japan's culture.

The Little Princess Who Loved Insects : A Twelfth-Century Tale from Japan.

Summer in the Japanese countryside - Reminiscences of Summer.

Not A Cockfight But A Spider-Fight : Kajiki.

Baguio Children's Spider Fighting Contest

Spider 'Sumo' Fighting in Kumamoto and Kainan.

An analysis on the ways of using slender sticks on spider fighting.

Japanese fighting jumping spider.

Why do the spiders have come to make the webs?

Common Spiders in Japan - Some info and pictures.

The Photographs of Spiders' Webs - Networks of silk.

The biting behavior of the orb web spider, Nephila clavata.

A list of spiders in and around Mt.Shigi-san, in western Nara Prefecture.(in Japanese, with English Summary)

The Drawing Song of Spiders.

The SATOYAMA Gallery : The four seasons in the Japanese countryside.

The wildflowers, Oni-tabirako, look like fireworks.

Funa-zushi in Lake Biwa.

A Large Blue Spider in Hanoi.

Figure of a Spider in Nasca : the symbol of fertility.

Entomophagous fungi of Tibet : where no arthropod is safe!

A Resplendent Quetzal : The symbol of freedom.

Sounds of the rainforest of Borneo.

My Holidays in Papua (Irian Jaya).

Gary Snyder's anthology, "Turtle Island".

Forest Newspaper - a collection of stories about wild life in Russia.

	Black house spiders Badumna insignis
A cockroach appeared from a bean-jam pancake Periplaneta australasiae	A camouflaged orb web spider Cyclosa omonaga
Bee flies - They are spring insects Bombylius major	Avant-gard spiders Cyclosa octotuberculata
Tiger beetles Cicidela japonica	Alpine spiders Pardosa paramushirensis
Butterflies in high altitudes Aglais urticae	Silver-plated spiders Cyclosa argenteoalba
Moths in winter Erannis obliquaria	KABUKI costume spiders Synaema globsum
	The bolas spiders in Japan Ordgarius sexspinosus
	The new form of terrorism
	New The Scorpion-tailed Spider Arachnura logio

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