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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for cultivating fireflies, capable of easily, surly, efficiently, and safely catching the fireflies in a chrysalid state, and suitable for transporting the fireflies after catching them, and to provide a method for cultivating the same. SOLUTION: This apparatus for cultivating the fireflies is composed of a simulated brook the bottom of which is scattered with sand, or the like, at least one simulated bank which is positioned on one of sides of the apparatus and used so that firefly larvae land thereon, and a housing, wherein the apparatus is further equipped with a floor face mounted on an upper face of the simulated bank, a box-type container for receiving soil laid on the floor face, forming a part of the stimulated bank, and capable of being taken out of the apparatus, and units for supplying and discharging fresh water. The method for cultivating the fireflies comprises utilizing the apparatus. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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