How about making a garden where butterflies are roaming.
My butterfly Collection Memory of my boyhood as a butterly collector. I had been collecting butterflies for 10 years since I was a primary school pupil. In those days it was said that there were approximately 220 kinds in Japan, out of which I had colleced almost 160. Three-fourths of them I collected for myself and the rest of 40 I got by exchanging butterflies with collectors like me all over Japan. I got to know those butterfly freaks (mostly boys, to my regret) through the column of the science magazinebook titled"The science for children". KUROKOMURASAKI (very endemic one, found only at the riverside of the Tenryu in my locality.)was very popular at that time. They were so popular that I could exchange almost any kinds with them. It was more than thirty years ago. The butterfly of Japan, Omurasaki was also seen at the same place. I still can recollect that exciting moment when I got Omurasaki for the first time in my life. I was only a fifth grader at a primary school. I was deeply impressed by the purple of Omurasaki. It looked almost shimmering. Some years later at the age of 18, I went go to Hinoharu in Yamanashi, where I caught more than 50 OMURASAKI. But I couldn't see that same shimmering purple that made me moved ten years before. he picture left was taken at 3:30 pm on November 4 in 1996. (HIMEAKATATEHA)Red admiral is believed to pass the winter in the form of adults by some, larva by other. I would like to support the former theory. Which theory do you believe? Anyway they are the aborigenee of my garden. They inhabited there long before our house was built. Last year we successfully grow some eggs to 10 adults and let them go. During summer time we found many larvas on the glasses called YOMOGI. But we can't find either adults nor larvas anywhere in winter. I majored in economics and esthetics at the university and stop butterfly collecting then. Somehow I became an English teacher at High School. For a long time butterfly collecting had been out of my interest, though once in a while the sight of the butterflies I had longed to get in boyhood made my heart thumping. As I wrote in my self-introduction, I settled in the suburbs of Hamamatsu city where a lot of nature is still well-preserved. I decided to call as many butterflies as possible to my garden. My challenge will be calling more than 30 kinds. I don't know how long it will take. This year I only took the picture of HIMEAKATATEHA, because I just got digital camera a week ago. I'm sure I will be able to add many kinds to my collection next year. On the list below are the butterflies I have seen in my garden so far.The butterflies already inhabiting in my garden. Sorry right now no English name availabe (will come soon). YAMATO SHIJIMI（KATABAMI） HIMEAKATATEHA（YOMOGI,HAHAKOGUSA） AKATATEHA（IRAKUSA） KITATEHA（KANAMUGURAキタテハ） AGEHA（MIKAN） KIAGEHA（DILL、PARSLEY） URAGINSHIJIMI（FUJI,KUZU） MONKICHO（CLOVER） MONSHIROCHO（CABBAGE） BENISHIJIMI（SUIBA） KICHO（MEDOHAGI） KUROAGEHA（ORANGE） RUEISHIJIMI（KURARA） Plants are very important factor for their inhabitance. So I am trying to plant as many kinds of host plants as possible. I also need some nector plants, too. This year I want to call GOMADARACHO, TENGUCHO, HIODOSHICHO. UMANOSUZUKUSA and KANAOI are growing in my garden. I am dreaming some day I can call GIFUCHO, endangered species to my garden.The butterflies seen visiting my garden HIODOSHICHO ICHIMONJICHO KOMISUJI KIMADARAHIKAGE AOSUJIAGEHA RURISHIJIMI RURITATEHA MONKIAGEHA ASAGIMADARA ICHIMONJISESERI URANAMISHIJIMI TSUMAGUROHYOMON HIMEJANOME TORAFUSHIJIMI KARASUAGEHA MIYAMAKAEASUAGEHA ASAGIMADARA Site I recommend Site where you can see Japanese butterflies 1)Mokuzou Photo-Gallery Other than butterflies you can see a various kinds of insects here. 2)NAGASAKACHO OMURASAKI CENTRE You can see OMURASAKI here. Foreign site you can see butterflies 3)Houston Museum of Natural Science 恐竜や鉱石の展示のほか、アメリカのバタフライが見れます。 Please go and see many beautiful butterflies there
I had been collecting butterflies for 10 years since I was a primary school pupil. In those days it was said that there were approximately 220 kinds in Japan, out of which I had colleced almost 160. Three-fourths of them I collected for myself and the rest of 40 I got by exchanging butterflies with collectors like me all over Japan. I got to know those butterfly freaks (mostly boys, to my regret) through the column of the science magazinebook titled"The science for children".
KUROKOMURASAKI (very endemic one, found only at the riverside of the Tenryu in my locality.)was very popular at that time. They were so popular that I could exchange almost any kinds with them. It was more than thirty years ago. The butterfly of Japan, Omurasaki was also seen at the same place. I still can recollect that exciting moment when I got Omurasaki for the first time in my life. I was only a fifth grader at a primary school. I was deeply impressed by the purple of Omurasaki. It looked almost shimmering. Some years later at the age of 18, I went go to Hinoharu in Yamanashi, where I caught more than 50 OMURASAKI. But I couldn't see that same shimmering purple that made me moved ten years before.
he picture left was taken at 3:30 pm on November 4 in 1996. (HIMEAKATATEHA)Red admiral is believed to pass the winter in the form of adults by some, larva by other. I would like to support the former theory. Which theory do you believe? Anyway they are the aborigenee of my garden. They inhabited there long before our house was built. Last year we successfully grow some eggs to 10 adults and let them go. During summer time we found many larvas on the glasses called YOMOGI. But we can't find either adults nor larvas anywhere in winter.
I majored in economics and esthetics at the university and stop butterfly collecting then. Somehow I became an English teacher at High School. For a long time butterfly collecting had been out of my interest, though once in a while the sight of the butterflies I had longed to get in boyhood made my heart thumping. As I wrote in my self-introduction, I settled in the suburbs of Hamamatsu city where a lot of nature is still well-preserved. I decided to call as many butterflies as possible to my garden. My challenge will be calling more than 30 kinds. I don't know how long it will take. This year I only took the picture of HIMEAKATATEHA, because I just got digital camera a week ago. I'm sure I will be able to add many kinds to my collection next year. On the list below are the butterflies I have seen in my garden so far.
Plants are very important factor for their inhabitance. So I am trying to plant as many kinds of host plants as possible. I also need some nector plants, too. This year I want to call GOMADARACHO, TENGUCHO, HIODOSHICHO. UMANOSUZUKUSA and KANAOI are growing in my garden. I am dreaming some day I can call GIFUCHO, endangered species to my garden.
The butterflies seen visiting my garden
Site I recommend
Please go and see many beautiful butterflies there