March 15th, 2026-March 19th is Spring-Last stage of KEICHITSU (Insects awaken)-9th KOU “Caterpillars become butterflies.” The 9th KOU represents the arrival of real spring. It gets warm enough for caterpillars to turn into butterflies.
Here’s my first cabbage white butterfly this year! The rapeseed flowers that they love haven’t bloomed, though.
Was it just a newborn? It would be more accurate to say it was blown away by the wind rather than fluttering around. I looked for where it had been blown and found it! It was staying on top of some broccoli that had been left out after harvesting.
Broccoli is the same kind of rapeseed. This butterfly is quite clever, isn’t it?
In the fields, TANETSUKEBANA have begun to bloom. Since these are wild rapeseed flowers, we can see many butterflies fluttering here and there soon.
