The Insect Day

Mitsuhiko Imamori, a nature photographer, spent twelve consecutive years observing insects living around Lake Biwa, north of Kyoto, Japan. His shimmering photographs offer us a wonderful journey during which the colors, shapes, attitudes, and behaviors of insects will be so many striking discoveries.

You will thus see minute by minute a spider weaving its web; you will witness the fatal attack of a praying mantis on a butterfly; or a grasshopper may even tell you the time. Several hundred species, many of which are found in Europe, are presented here. May this brilliant fauna remind us of the importance of preserving natural environments and may it guide us towards other discoveries we can make at our doorstep, in streams, forests, and gardens!