Hi friends.

Hi friends. It was cold morning but warm day today. Little spring messenger 1st has been born today. This is モンシロチョウ Monshirochou, cabbage butterfly, small cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae. It’s very common in Japan, in Kumamoto. You know it’s named cabbage because its green caterpillar eats cabbage leaves. The butterfly sucks nectar from the rape-flower.Ex, Cabbage, Broccoli, Daikon, Nanohana. The butterfly starts to appear the time the flowers bloom.Yes, it tells spring is coming! Usually, from spring to fall, the pupa becomes butterfly in one week or 10days. But it doesn’t become butterfly during winter. They wait spring comes. If you also find some cabbage butterflies in the field, in the garden, you might also feel spring has come to youーAtsuko(Ü)