Source: CCTV.com
08-21-2008 10:43
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The moist air signals to the spider that it should spin its web. The hot days compel the insects to fly low, presenting the spider with a good chance to catch some food.
In the morning, the sun shines on the wings of the butterfly through the moist air. The beads of moisture mean a storm is brewing. After a month in flight, it has achieved nothing. Now the low pressure is demanding more energy every time it spreads its wings. Can it find a mate before it dies?
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After more than 40 days of rapid growth, the bamboo has reached the roof of the forest. This is the end of the competition, as a new life enjoys the vernal breeze.
The wind travels through the dense bamboo, bringing a familiar smell to the cramer butterfly’s sensitive villi. Though weak by now, it spreads its wings and sets off, helped by the wind.
Among the bushes, the spider has spun its web. It reflects the sunlight so that it shines like the dots on the butterfly’s wings.
Even in the last days of its life, the cramer butterfly keeps on flying. It waited in the pupa for 6 months. Then for 30 days it has flown, with increasing difficulty, just to come here.
The familiar smell grows stronger and stronger.
The new bamboo has survived the wind and rain. Its stronger fiber tissues have made it more flexible, and it is now capable of withstanding the storms.
The bamboo leaves are too slippery to adhere to, and the rain only makes its wings heavier.
Now, new lives are being created inside the female butterfly.
The spring suddenly turns into a torrential river, and reaches the bamboo.
The bamboo, firmly rooted in the ground, withstand the floods together. Their roots absorb the water.
The rain transforms the valley’s appearance. The Chinese stump-tailed macaques are less active, as they try to save energy.
The male butterfly clings to the bamboo. Its forefeet have lost their strength.
It is just 3 days since its encounter with the female butterfly.
The under-developed bamboo is wiped out by the rain.
After the rain, the healthy moso bamboo appears fresher and taller than ever in the Wuyi Valley.
After the storm, the female butterfly leaves its offspring on the alianthus prickly ash leaves. And so new life appears on the moso bamboo in the sunshine, at the beginning of summer.
Editor:Yang
