十月も半ばだと言うのに、マツヨイグサが咲き、そこにバッタが寄り添っている。最近の暖かさに勘違いして、両者とも季節外れとは薄々思いつつも、活動を開始してしまったのだろうか。
その同じ日の暮れる前に、歩道をもこもこしていた黒いボディに赤い突起の、色合いは毒々しいけど多分チョウになるのよのツマグロヒョウモンの幼虫と、思われる芋虫を発見したのだった。
夏前の頃より九月に入ってからの方が、親のチョウをいっぱい見かけた。そこからのつながりで生まれたのかしら。これからサナギになってどこかで越冬をするのか、もしチョウになってしまったらどうやって寒さをやり過ごすのか。そんなことを考えながらも兎にも角にもヒトなんかに踏まれないように、草むらへ、棒切れに掴まらせて移動させたのだった。
それぞれが各々の、寿命いっぱい生きられますよう…。
It's almost the middle of October, so it's a bit too late to open its flower.. this evening primrose. It also had the little grasshopper, I'm not sure if he(she) was baby/young. Both of them would have made a mistake, it would be warm season, but actually the beginning of autumn, even it's been still warm.
In the same day of earlier, before sunset, I found a caterpillar creeping on the footpath that had a black body and many little red nubs...it looked uncomfortable but he would be a butterfly(Argyreus hyperbius).
I've seen many imagos of it in September rather than before summer around August. The baby might have connected from them? He will emerge from a pupa then overwinter? Or, if he becomes a butterfly, how to spend his life, it is going to be winter. I was worried about him but anyway, saving him first from being stepped by a human. I put him in the tussock with a mini stick.
I hope that everyone will have their own longevity.
*not sure about my English...
