Fukushima

Itate
After having collected in Fukushima City and Minamikunugimori, my Japanese companion and I collected 35 true bugs and 17 leafhoppers in Itate. It took us nearly the whole day to find this number of insects. For the first I saw leafhopper Cicadella viridis, pale with nearly no pigmentation and in addition with many malformations. In Itate I saw also for the first time the big plastic bags with radioactive material and forsaken rice fields. It reveals the helplessness of humans toward such a catastrophe. All the forests in this region are irradiated.

Image:

Head of a leafhopper, Cicadella viridis from Yamakiya Sakai, Japan. The animal is pale without its natural coloration and an indentation on the right side
Watercolor, Zürich 2017

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Head of a leafhopper, Cicadella viridis from Yamakiya Sakai