June 5th- June 9th, 2024 is Summer – BOSHU (Grain beards and seeds)-25th KOU “Praying mantises hatch.” Mantises are also called as praying mantises, because their upright posture with forearms crossed makes it look like it is praying.
It’s time when the baby mantises are born.
I found a mantis egg sac while walking. It seems that the babies have already been born about a week earlier than the 25th KOU’s seasonal description. They are beneficial insects that eat aphids. Come to my vegetable garden, please.
We are currently in the “BOSHU” term of the 24 SEKKI that divides one year into 24 seasonal terms. BOSHU refers to thorns that grow on husks of rice and wheat. Right now is the time to sow grain seeds, and in Japan it is the time to plant rice seedlings.
Here in the southern part of Nagano City, rice planting has finally begun, about three weeks later than in OMACHI and HAKUBA areas.
