レモンの木｜Lemon Tree｜2020/04/11

去年レモンの木を買ってベランダに置いた。蝶がやってくるのどかな風景が好きだった。しばらくするとアゲハの幼虫が葉を食べ始める。一生懸命食べる姿はとても愛らしい。最盛期には10匹近くいて、千客万来と喜んでいた。というのも束の間、あっという間にレモンの木の葉は食べ尽くされてしまい、茎だけになってしまった。しかも幼虫は知らないうちにさなぎになって、知らないうちに去ってしまう。このままだとレモンの木は枯れてしまうのではないかと心配しながら冬を越した。今朝見たら新緑の芽がいっぱい茎に生えてきた。今年はレモンの実をつくるべく、心を鬼にして幼虫退治に勤しもう。

Last year I bought a lemon tree and put it on the veranda. I liked the idyllic scenery of the butterflies coming. After a while, the swallowtail larva begins to eat the leaves. Eating so hard is very adorable. At the height of the season, there were nearly ten, and I was happy to be visited. For a short while, the leaves of the lemon tree were quickly eaten, leaving only the stem. Moreover, the larva becomes a pupa and leaves without knowing it. I passed winter, worried that the lemon tree would wither away. When I saw it this morning, many fresh green shoots grew on the stem. This year, let's work on exterminating larvae with hearts as demons to make lemon fruit.