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In the morning, my husband asked me if it was cold today, and although I told him, "You don't need Heattech," it was cold inside the bamboo grove early in the morning. There is a thicket of honeysuckle at the entrance, where I have collected larvae of the pale-bordered geometer moth for three years in a row. Around this time the year before last, I collected larvae of the pale-bordered geometer and cocoons of the honeysuckle moth, but it seems it will be a while longer this year. When I passed through the bamboo grove and came out into a sunny field, there was a small copper butterfly larva on a sorrel plant. It was perfectly camouflaged, sharing the same green and wine-red color scheme as the sorrel. When touched, it would roll off the leaf and fall into the gaps where the sorrel stems overlapped, so I cupped my hand underneath to collect it. When I got home and looked at it through a microscope, its green and wine-red body was scattered with many tiny white dots, and it was breathtakingly beautiful.