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Descoreba simplex Butler, 1878. Identified by Belyaev E. A., FEBRAS Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences.
Pachyerannis obliquaria. Identified by Vasilenko S. V. Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals Siberian Branch of RAS (ISEA SB RAS).
Now comes the final stage of a large database update site. To synchronize the ph of comments and the new base, the ability to download new pictures and comments of the user temporarily. Term launch of a new version of the database and the inclusion of all interactive - no later than 28 February.
Parasitic wasp tracks down the Large White butterfly (Pieris brassicae) female which is ready to lay eggs by its special anti-sex smell that repels males. The wasp hangs on the butterfly and being carried suchwise to the Brussels sprout plants where the butterfly lays eggs. A joint research project* of entomologists at Wageningen University and the Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität ...
Galina, the Synev catalogue says that H. lycaon is rather possible to meet in your lands (Astrakhan region/Kalmykia). If you still seriously doubt, please, let me know and the photo will be published for the website folks could confirm or deny the identifying...
As rightly noted by Alexander in a particular topic, no satirid on site no. There subfamily Satirinae family Nymphalidae. Now intermediate taxa are not shown on the website during the week should start to appear, along with updating the database. But the satire itself, will remain in the Nymphalidae.
BBC Planet Earth did all possible to watch unwatchable: namely, they fixed a powerful Canon HJ40 super-telephoto lens to a helicopter, combed through steep and seemingly desolate rock slopes for hours and, finally, found few grizzly bears that climbed up that dizzily high, threw away mammocks of stone just to have a moth dinner. BBC Planet Earth, moth-eating grizzlies
The endangered El Segundo Blue Butterfly (Euphilotes battoides allyni) population increases in the Dunes Habitat Preserve at Los Angeles International Airport. The Los Angeles Times reports that a lately made survey shows the species population grew 8% since 2010, from 120610 to 125920 butterflies. Sadly, first few years since it was established the preserve suffered several vandal attacks. Late ...
The Insect Museum works since 1995 in the Akademicheskaya (Elizavetinskaya) gallery in Pyatigorsk, Russia. There is a collection of about 1000 tropical and Caucasian insects partly gathered by Valentin Tikhonov, entomologist and the owner of the collection comprised Caucasian and South American butterflies. Other exposition pieces are originally from tropical farms and private collections, some ...
“A Butterfly's Wing” (Křídla Motýlí) exhibition is open this Thursday, February 9th in the Small Gallery (Malá Galerie) of the Museum of Kroměříž district. The exhibition is dedicated to Max Švabinský, a well-known Czech painter and graphic artist. It was arranged by painter's friends together with the museum to mark 50 years since his death (1873—1962), also 100 years since ...
The first National Moth Week calls on everyone who is interested in moths to take part in moth watching and surveying. During the Week there will be arranged a “Moth Night” for both professionals and amateurs could communicate and exchange stuff and skills. You are also appreciated to organize your own “Moth Night” in nature: go bring friends together, turn the lights on, place them near ...
That's because the name name. Without the "Dutch" where a lot of it, look, there's even a wiki ???? pit (for another species) is an indication, but the Dutch do not see ...
Well, if it should've been? Half of a neighborhood can use the same outer IP-address. Besides, many users have got dynamic ones...
On December, 25th Sori Yanagi, the Japanese designer and creator of the famous Butterfly Stool, died in Tokyo. He invented both simple and exceptionally elegant model performed with two pieces of moulded plywood that is fastened with brass rod. The stool shape reminds a butterfly's wings and at one time a traditional Shinto shrine torii gate. As Matilda McQuaid, the deputy curatorial director ...
The American Museum of Natural History in New York published a well-done book set 'The Exquisite Butterfly Companion: The Science and Beauty of 100 Butterflies' which includes a field guide to identify 100 butterfly and moth species plus 100 colored paper sheets with images of an each of 100 species. Images are perforated and can be used for making flying models of butterflies and moths, all ...
Every year since 2003 The Association for the Environment and Nature Protection of Germany (Bund fur Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland) chooses a butterfly or moth and announces it The Butterfly of the Year (Schmetterling des Jahres). This status is gained by some rare or declining species which has to be protected and sustained. Last year's butterfly was The Purple Emperor (Apatura iris). The ...
The Lepidopterists' Society was created in 1947 by students Charles L. Remington and Harry K. Clench in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They announced to their colleagues the intention to create a society which would be aimed at popularizing the studying of Lepidoptera. They decided to publish on a regular basis a thematic bulletin and also promote everyway the exchange of butterflies/moths and ideas ...
According to a survey made by Butterfly Conservation and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) nearly three-quarters of all UK butterflies and moths have shown its reducing over the last decade when even rather common Lepidoptera have depopulated by 24%. The survey results show that the most reducing species are The Pearl-bordered Fritillary (Boloria euphrosyne), The Duke of Burgundy ...