March 5th, 2026-March 9th is Spring-KEICHITSU(Insects awaken)-7th KOU “Hibernating insects surface.” It depicts hibernating insects crawling out of the soil as they sense the warmth.
This includes not only insects but also frogs, lizards, and snakes, none of which I have seen yet this year (things in the lunisolar calendar are about a month earlier than that in this area). By the way, the frog egg mass was found on March 3rd in 2024, March 13th in 2025, and not yet this year.
There were many traces of the soil being dug up all over the field. Those were molehills. Moles don’t hibernate, but they become less active during the winter. Now that it’s warmer, they’ve probably started roaming around again. Strangely enough, this is the only place where there are so many hills, and it’s their favorite field.
