This is frustrating. I wrote an entry a few minutes ago, but I could not find the right button to publish my entry. The entry was in the end gone. In fact the same disappearance occurred with the ほたる entry. Let me try to remember my ent…

This has been a natural history of my neighbourhood. What we saw today was a firefly. The pale green light was weak and on the ground, but it was surely on and off. It was just beside the Gertrude Jekyll rose. I do not know when the insect…

This morning, about 6 in the morning on the 14th June 2015, we heard アカショウビン, Halcyon coromanda. It must have been in the mountain across the rice fields or maybe down along the houses as it moved from west to south west. How eagerl…

Not every year but sometimes a giant pale green moth visits us. It is too large but beautiful. I do not want to imagine its larva. B told me that his father regards it as his dead little sister. The awesome beauty yet something a little cr…