YUKIMUSHI

There is a insect which appear before first snow of the year called YUKIMUSHI. YUKI means snow, MUSHI means insect in Japanese. They looks like snow, their size is 2 or 3 mm and they are covered by white cotton, so we call them YUKIMUSHI.

After see the YUKIMUSHI, it is alleged to be will snow soon. I have already seen it middle of this month so it will snow very soon. It will come to start very very long winter of Hokkaido.