Great Insect Fair (Edo-Tokyo Museum)（2010年7月4日開催）

Insect product shipment.

Shows that a variety of insects to know!

Friendship is not just fun and insects, an exhibition of new styles to learn from insects insects

Summer 2010 will be held at the Edo-Tokyo Museum.

 

"Worm" was born about 400 million years ago now, swelled on the earth, while subsequent changes in the environment compliance, has now been confirmed that about one million species of insects. New species are discovered every year since at least several thousand, and that number is said the idea of species spanning 500 million.

 

Such insects are of great interest for the children of the times. Awareness of environmental issues including global warming and also by the growing trend of the times and nature-oriented, feel the human relationship with nature "bugs" to interest, they become more than a generation Masu. However, our human relations and insects, and experience other than a biological point of view, learning opportunities were limited.

 

"Insects" and human relationships are inseparable, especially in Japan because many insects warm humid climate, topography and long from north to south, the Japanese Mashi Haki live with than the insects and deep relations with Western or. From things familiar, such as food and clothing, when the child sumo and stag beetles, picking a dragonfly, picking, semi indulging in hunting for fireflies, like the season to the sound of insects and Haiku songs, draw pictures, motifs of decorative sayings I have been familiar with such insects as part of the culture.

 

Now, scientific analysis and mechanisms that insects have special abilities, has begun to attempt 活Kasou future. Japanese and insects such ties, and reaffirmed at a Tokyo Edo, modern, consider the relationship between humans and insects and in the future. This exhibition is just "bug" not only to know the ecology of "an exhibition of insects from a new perspective" as well the children are the future "and discover the entrance to the worm," We want to provide, hope it will be held under.

 

Navigator of the exhibition as "Project Team steamy looking" to promote a deeper knowledge of insects, "said Mamoru Takeshi Yoro" "Saburo Okumoto Hiroshi," "Mr. Ikeda Kiyohiko" hired by three. Also the director of Japan Society of insects, some cartoonists work on insects of southern Setagaya, Tokyo, "said Mitsuru Translations cooperation" project as well. Children and adults enjoy this exhibition.

 

Great Insect Fair - official website]