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Welcome to Web Page.This summer '98 was very differnt from these few years.I saw a cabbage butterfly for the foist 11 April this year.It was a little early to find it cmparing with ordinal year.It was different fom my observatins.After 11 April I saw many swallowtail butterflies soon.But this summer was not a hot summer in Japan.We had a few so hot days in the begining of July but after then cloudy or rainy days continued.It would be so hot summer from my obsevations till now,but my expectation was proved as wrong.There were many cabbage butterflies and swallowtail butterflies but it was not so hot.It was abnormal weather of abnormal weathers.
I will tell you two stories about butterflies this time.One of them is about a cabbage buttefly at the top of this page.You can see a cabbage butterfly getting honey of flowers.It seems peace of mind getting honey and beautifle.But it is just dangerous for butterfly.Just after taking this photo,the butterfly was caught by a praying mantis.I took the monent.
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Can you see the moment that the praying mantis caught the cabbage butterfly.This world is the struggle for existence and the law of jungle.So most living thing on the earth manage to live long.A protective color is one of such devices.Thoug coloring is usually for the weaker,in this cace the protective color was for the stronger.It can be said that the cabbage butterfly felt too peace getting honey and was off it's guard.But we men also want to eat foods feeling at home.
The other story is about a black swallowtail butterfly.An ordinally black swallowtail butterfly flies like the photo below.
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But who in the world think that it can fly ! I found out such black swallowtail butterfly on 22 June '98.
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This black swallowtail butterfly looks like a congenital deformity.I found out this butterfly at the gate of my house.Ofcourse it couldn't fry at all.It could only slap on the ground to move.I caught this butterfly and moved it into my garden.It had been lived for five days and dead on 26 June.
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It dead.The wings were worn out and eaten by ants.But it could live for five days in my garden.Do you think the batterfly is a symbol of unhappiness and an ill omen ? But I don't think so.It is sure that there is also fears from Dioxin and other chemical products in Japan now.So if those fears become in real,we can sense it from something unusual of other creatures before human being are affected or influenced directly.If there are no creatures without hunman being,it is very dangerous for human itself.Then don't have pity on this butterfly but pray and hope that the butterfly played its part.Though this deformity is fortunately seemed not influenced from chemical products.I heard that there are deformed butterflies at fixed rate in nature world and I had not found out any other such butterflies this year.But even if it is affected from chemical products it tells us dangers and helps our safty.
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See you next again !
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