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Hotter summers to blame for insect-adverse kids.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n I fondly remember going out to fields and wooded areas to track down insects and other small critters in the hopes of catching some of the cooler ones, like praying mantises or salamanders. I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not alone in this among people in my age group, but this childhood phase appears to be getting phased out among younger generations.<\/p>\n \u25bc <\/span>It is said that the praying mantis\u2019s deadliest predators are kids who forget to poke holes in lids.<\/p>\n According to a 2022 survey by the National Institution for Youth Education, 31.5 percent of children asked said that they\u2019ve almost never tried to catch an insect<\/strong>. This is a significant increase from 19.9 percent 10 years earlier.<\/p>\n While praying mantises are popular in Japan too, the undisputed king of insects for kids has got to be the rhinoceros beetle, known as \u201ckabutomushi<\/em>\u201d here, which literally means \u201csamurai helmet bug.\u201d These sizable insects are so popular they can often be bought at pet stores or even specialty boutiques, sometimes at steep prices. They\u2019re also the closest things kids can get to real-life Pok\u00e9<\/span>mon that can battle each other by butting their horned heads.<\/p>\n However, a report by TBS program N Star<\/em> spoke with naturalist Hiroshi Sasaki, who said that interest in rhinoceros beetles has been waning<\/strong>. He cites the two main reasons as being that parents are also increasingly skittish around bugs and that it\u2019s just too hot<\/a> to go out and interact with insects<\/strong> these days.<\/p>\n Readers of the news online had a mixture of reactions, with some lamenting the loss of playtime with bugs and others feeling it doesn\u2019t make a difference either way.<\/p>\n \u201cKids aren\u2019t catching cicadas and crayfish either. It\u2019s sad.\u201d<\/em> I often thought those bugs were alike myself. When you break down the characteristics of both rhinoceros beetles and cockroaches found in Japanese homes, it seems like the similarities far outweigh the differences. The biggest, and probably most crucial, difference between the two is that rhinoceros beetles usually move really slowly and are easier to keep track of than those sneaky roaches.<\/p>\n In that way, it\u2019s probably good that kids spend time with large beetles and get accustomed to some docile six-legged creatures, so they won\u2019t be quite as distraught when they inevitably come across the more unpleasant ones<\/a> in the comfort of their own homes.<\/p>\n Source: TBS News Dig<\/a>, Hachima Kiko<\/a><\/em> Hotter summers to blame for insect-adverse kids. I fondly remember going out to fields and wooded areas to track down insects and other small critters in the hopes of catching…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/JJ_kamakiriIMG_6241_TP_V4.jpg?w=640\")
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\n\u201cThese kids can\u2019t touch beetles while I\u2019m here battling spiders and roaches every day.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cI hate summer so much.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cEverything seems to be going away.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cI work near the harbor, and I don\u2019t see as many people fishing either. The wind is like a hair dryer.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cI can touch them, but it\u2019s not as exciting as when I was a child. Probably better for the beetles.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cKids often get into bugs through manga and video games featuring them. Maybe there aren\u2019t any popular ones now?\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cUnfortunately, that\u2019s not the kind of thing you can push on a child. They have to get into it organically.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a problem that kids aren\u2019t playing with beetles.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cRhinoceros beetles seem like big cockroaches to me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/akaasikuwagata_TP_V4-e1755205320583.jpg?w=640\")
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