Fabre Forest Breeding and Observation House

It's already closed.

Original Text

The Fabulous Forest has already been closed. Currently, it is reopened as the Omurasakikan in Kuriyama Park. It seems that it has not been decided what to do with the site of the Fabulous Forest, but it seems that the Omurasaki Pavilion has been playing a role for a long time. The fish and insects on display, and the butterflies in the breeding house were very good.

Nature is rich.

Original Text

There is a sign at the entrance from the national highway, but it is difficult to understand. If you park your car in the parking lot and enter the Fabulous Forest and go up about 90 steps, you will see the Fabulous Forest Insect Breeding House. If you have weak legs, there is a parking lot for the administrator next to the breeding house, so I thought you should ask. The breeding house is a building with about 10 tatami mats and a facility with a net in the natural forest in the back. Inside the building there are many butterfly specimens and emblems when His Majesty the Emperor came ...

A flashy male and a plain female.

Original Text

It seems that many people are not good at larvae, but when I went to ＧＷ, it was already an adult and a butterfly. When you see the light shining and shining metallicly, the male is beautiful. The female is a little plain brown. The male is sober so that it is not found by the natural enemy because of breeding in order to attract the female conspicuously. The explanation is also fun.

Metallic blue butterfly 々

Original Text

The oyster was a butterfly 々 larger than the butterfly. It was beautiful with a pattern in metallic blue. The staff explained that it was said that the larvae overwintered under dead grass, and it became a snail in spring and flew in the sky in early summer. But it's rare to see because it flies high. I enjoyed it with explanations. It's a national butterfly 々. I've seen it with stamps a long time ago.

You can see the black butterfly cypress.

Original Text

There is a sign along National Highway 234, but it's a little hard to find. The parking lot is large, and if you go up the stairs and go up the slope further, there is a breeding house you aim for. Butterfly specimens, explanations, photographs, etc. are exhibited in the small hall. A cypress tree was planted outdoors, which was covered with a net, and there was a larvae of the cypress. It seems that he was still born in January, and he was a cute figure that was less than the same brown 2 ㎝ as the branch. Eventually he grew up in a green caterpillar about his small finger, and ...