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Hello, every one! Welcome to this page. This page is from Japan. The contents of English Page is different from Japanese Pages. If you can read Japanese language, please read Japanese pages so as English one.

There are four seasons in Japan. In fall of Japan we can see many dragonflies like the photo below. It is called Red Dragonfly in Japan. I hear that such dragonfly can't be seen in Germany. Can you see such dragonflies in your area?

This dragon fly is very familiar for Japanese people. It also appears in Japanese children's song. We can see so many Red Dragonflies after the day when typhoon has passed away. We have many typhoons here in '97. Typhoon season of Japan is usually in fall. But in this year, in the west southern part of Japan, many typhoons came and gave large damages. Though Japanese fall is from September to November, in this year typhoons came to Japan from the beginning of August.

The photo above is Shiokara Dragonfly(Orthetrum albistylum speciosum). This one can usually be seen during summer in Japan. Japanese summer season is from June to August. TV news had told us that the summer in this year would be cold one because of the influence of El Nino( the rise of sea water temperature in the offing of Peru).But the Japanese summer in this year was not cold one nor cool one.

By the way, I want to tell you about the relations between butterfly and weather. There is a word "Butterfly Effect". The word Butterfly effect is produced from the observations of one butterfly in the Amazon area. It is that the butterfly on a leaf of wood moving it's wings or not, we can forecast the weather after days.

Like such expectations also seems to be able to say about cabbage butterflies and swallowtail butterflies in Japan. I have been observing the relations between the Japanese summer weather and butterflies for about these six years. I will write the observing results here. It is as follows.

In '92 in Japan, I could see few cabbage butterflies during spring. And swallowtail butterflies is out of my impression. The year was very cold summer and rainy days continued for long time in Japan. Japanese rice product decreased and Japanese Government imported rice from foreign countries. And Japanese Government also accepted the free trade of rice.

In '93 in Japan, though the number of cabbage butterflies was so few the before year and so the eggs of the cabbage butterflies might be few, I could see some cabbage butterflies during spring. And then unusual shortage of water in Kyushu area and Shikoku area(where is south west part) in Japan had happened.

In '94 in Japan, it was very hot summer in Kanto area where is the middle south part of Japan. I couldn't observed butterflies as I was defeated by heat.

In '95 in Japan, I couldn't see cabbage butterflies but in May and June I could see many swallowtail butterflies. It was cool in July but in August it became to be very hot and we couldn't have rain. So we experienced the shortage of water in Kanto area.

In '96 in Japan, the order that I saw cabbage butterflies and swallowtail butterflies was reverse order. I saw swallowtail butterflies and then saw swallowtail butterflies. It was cool in July but it became hot in August and the shortage of water in Kanto area continued.

In '97 in Japan, I could saw a cabbage butterfly and a swallowtail butterfly in the same day 26 April. And then I could many swallowtail butterflies. This year is the year when El Nino occurred. In the year El Nino occurs it usually becomes cool summer or cold summer in Japan. But it became usual summer this year in Japan.

These are the results of my observations. How is it in your area. If it is interesting for you, please try it and if you have some such like information please tell me it by E-mail.

Thank you for your time.