Sunday, 18 July 2010


First weekend since their dad arrive to Japan. It was nice sunny day so we took a picnic to the park by the river.

Kids dicided to do some bug hunt rather than play with water.
The challenge! The Bug Hunters!
They found pretty orange butterfly, big beautiful black butterfly which was about 20cm across, they caught some dragonflys, grasshoppers and a long-horned beetle with white spots on black back which was rather handsam.


A grasshopper and a long-horned beetle. grasshopper loved aubergine we put in a cage for them! He was really chomping on it!

And they found a cast-off skin of cicada. There are thousands of cicada here in summer and in the morning, oh, they are sooo noisy!

And the creature of the day.....

they found a tortoise!!

It was soooo lovely!

Hunny was very happy and she really really wanted to keep......

I think it might have been somebody`s pet and it was released as that person didn`t want to keep anymore.

Oh, it`s so swee~t!

That evening, we found another cicada, this time it`s in the pupal stage.

We took it home to watch.

The skin we found earlier on the left and in pupal stage one on the right.

It was happning quite quickly for first an hour, but in half way it slowed down. We waited for a bit but wasn`t happening much and also it was getting late. So we went to bed expecting to here loud buzzing noise in early morning. But sadly,something gone wrong and it was stuck in a skin and it`s wing and legs were formed squished..... next time I see one, I`ll leave it as it is to not disturbe......

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