1,000-Knock Challenge to Overcome Insect Phobia, No. 216: Ectropis excellens

Between you and me, while I was walking down the hallway of a certain conference room at work, I thought, 'Hmm?' and when I got closer to look, sure enough. It was dark underfoot, but bingo.

I went back to where I left my bag, took out my TG-7, and started shooting. LCD light on.

The featured image is a focus-stacked shot, but the following are single shots without it.

You can't really tell what this is.

I'll shoot from below. Being able to do this is the good thing about a compact digital camera. It's something you absolutely cannot do with a single-lens reflex camera.

Hmm, a type I recognize.

Still, it's hard to tell even from this.

Attempting to get it on my hand.

Failed easily. It started vibrating its wings at high speed. Oh no, it's going to fly away.

Thanks to that, I can also get a shot of the underside.

Even better.

Just then, a client walked behind me while I was crouching to take pictures, and they were talking about something at the entrance of the room.

I had no choice but to go back to work.

After that, I looked for it every time I walked down the hallway, but I couldn't find it.

When I got home and looked it up in [ ], I concluded it was Ectropis excellens.

When I searched my past Twitter posts on Twilog, a few came up. Furthermore, I searched within Note to see if I had perhaps featured it in the 1,000-Knock Challenge before, and two hits came up.

The article above also quotes my Twitter post, and since what I'm trying to do is no different from this time, I had a little laugh.

The photos of Ectropis excellens in the article above are better, so please go take a look! I mean it, I mean it, I mean it.

By the way, the other article is below,

I feel a strange connection to Ectropis excellens.

There was one at my workplace, too.

When it flies around indoors at night, it's definitely big enough to make everyone scream. Well, even if they're small, people who are afraid of bugs will scream regardless.

I think it has a pretty cool form, so everyone should try to appreciate it.

"See, it's not scary, it's not scary."

Just like the fox-squirrel from "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind," it won't bite you. (I love that scene in Nausicaä.)

You can find the list of insects for the 1000-Knock Drill to Overcome Insect Phobia below.

[Children's Insect Specialty School] - 1000-Knock Drill to Overcome Insect Phobia