Places and times of butterfly flying

I saw it in Pyatigorsk today!
Beautiful and fresh!
Flutter on top of Mashuk.

I met them in the Kherson region on April 11, 2014. I haven't seen it yet this year, we have rainy days now. When it gets warmer-16-20 degrees in the daytime-then, I think, we should go out.

Lemongrass plants are already out , but I think their imago overwinters, and the swallowtail has pupae...so starting from April 11, you can catch fish. thank you.

I've been celebrating in the Moscow region since the last decade of April.
And for April Fools ' Day - to Pyatigorsk, to Pyatigorsk...

But I haven't seen lemongrass yet, although I've been to the places where they are found.

Where in April in Ukraine can you meet polixena, podaliriya and other representatives of sailboats and nymphalids? On the 13th, I'm going to a mixed forest with a predominance of pine and oak, with a lot of herbaceous plants, not far from my village. Who can tell you what kind of butterflies you can catch?

Where in April in Ukraine can you meet polixena, podaliriya and other representatives of sailboats and nymphalids? On the 13th, I'm going to a mixed forest with a predominance of pine and oak, with a lot of herbaceous plants, not far from my village. Who can tell you what kind of butterflies you can catch?

Polyxene - near small rivers,streams, at the bottom of gullies.Podaliriy can be found anywhere, more often in open places, perhaps in dachas,in villages.

Where in April in Ukraine can you meet polixena, podaliriya and other representatives of sailboats and nymphalids? On the 13th, I'm going to a mixed forest with a predominance of pine and oak, with a lot of herbaceous plants, not far from my village. Who can tell you what kind of butterflies you can catch?

Poliksenu-closer to May, where there is a kirkazon. On the lawns around the village - mnemosyne. Podaliria, swallowtail - in the gardens. Nymphalids - overwintered.

Polyxene - near small rivers,streams, at the bottom of gullies.Podaliriy can be found anywhere, more often in open places, perhaps in dachas,in villages.

Poliksenu-closer to May, where there is a kirkazon. On the lawns around the village - mnemosyne. Podaliria, swallowtail - in the gardens. Nymphalids - overwintered.

Thank you, colleagues! I'll take your advice into account. However, I would like to know who you can meet in the forest.

This post was edited by Vasily L. - 10.04.2015 15: 56

Thank you, colleagues! I'll take your advice into account. However, I would like to know who you can meet in the forest.  

It will probably be more interesting to first meet, and then write to the forum, what insects you met)

There was another question: when and where will you be able to meet hawk moth during the day? I am very interested in them, and go out for night fishing... I'm still a novice entomologist, and the equipment, to be honest, is not yet available. Thank you so much for your answers!

There was another question: when and where will you be able to meet hawk moth during the day? I am very interested in them, and go out for night fishing... I'm still a novice entomologist, and the equipment, to be honest, is not yet available. Thank you so much for your answers!

Vasily, I recommend that you familiarize yourself with the structure of the site and try to find answers to them yourself in the existing topics before asking questions (which have already been repeatedly raised here by novice amateur entomologists). Believe me, it will be much more interesting.
http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=502359
http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=224072
http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=72363&st=0

In the Kherson region, the rainy period ended and yesterday (10.04) I saw a swallowtail in the vicinity of Novaya Kakhovka (pisky)

This post was edited by Wave Storm - 11.04.2015 17: 03

... I already did it yesterday (10.05)...

Rushing the time? Or do you already have May?

Thank you, Dmitrich. Yes, I was a little hasty.

Thank you, Dmitrich. Yes, I was a little hasty.

I can't stand it any longer myself!

Where in April in Ukraine can you meet polixena, podaliriya and other representatives of sailboats and nymphalids? On the 13th, I'm going to a mixed forest with a predominance of pine and oak, with a lot of herbaceous plants, not far from my village. Who can tell you what kind of butterflies you can catch?

Transmit on 13 rains!

Transmit on 13 rains!

Here in central Ukraine, they say it will rain in the afternoon. I'll try to make it!
P.S. Well, it wasn't raining that day, and I was quietly picking up insects. You can read the report of my trip to the forest here, if you want.: http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtop...0&#entry1547336.

This post was edited by Vasily L. - 04/15/2015 13: 44

Friends, can you tell me where in the forest-steppe zone of Ukraine at this time of year, you can meet the Archon apollinus butterfly of the Sailboat family (if it flies here at all)? I would very much like to see it and add several copies to my collection. I have heard that they develop in one generation and fly only in March and April, and the food plant of caterpillars of this species is kirkazon. Thank you very much for your answers.

This post was edited by Vasily L. - 04/15/2015 10: 07

Friends, tell me where in the forest-steppe zone of Ukraine at this time of year, you can meet the butterfly Archon apollinus

Archon is not found here, but you can see an approximate list of daytime butterflies of Ukraine here: Wikipedia

who doesn't sell Gren Archon?

Urticaria, polychromatica are not often found in our country. But sometimes, I found both caterpillars and butterflies themselves, well, up to five per season can be found along large forests, plantings and girder thickets - on wet ground, and on damaged trunks of fruit trees.

The rest are very numerous, peacock eyes along the plantings, on the ground, mourners, admirals in the crowns of trees, on damaged trunks - the fundamental factor is observation and distance traveled in remote places-especially the latter, significantly increases the probability of meeting these species and many others ))))

Gentlemen, who doesn't know where and when you can meet spring girls in Ukraine? Thank you in advance!

Gentlemen probably everyone in Paris is not a gentleman, but I think that there are spring trees everywhere where there are at least some plantings and birches, but they fly here even at the end of February, you can have it in mid-March, so it's too late)

Clearly! Thank you, friend, if you like. I was a little late. Well, nothing, next season and for this catch (birch trees and planting we certainly have)!

Urticaria, polychromatica are not often found in our country. But sometimes, I found both caterpillars and butterflies themselves, well, up to five per season can be found along large forests, plantings and girder thickets - on wet ground, and on damaged trunks of fruit trees.

The rest are very numerous, peacock eyes along the plantings, on the ground, mourners, admirals in the crowns of trees, on damaged trunks - the fundamental factor is observation and distance traveled in remote places-especially the latter, significantly increases the probability of meeting these species and many others ))))

Please tell us more about the mourning women. Are they really dating you?

Well, yes, but what's so special about it? The butterfly is kind of recognizable-dark with a light border, I saw them more than once, not often of course, but not so rare, I saw it once in dachas, in the crown of trees in the forest cover, on puddles, I don't remember exactly. Approximately like admirals, in principle, if it is good to climb like this, especially in the fall, then you can meet them regularly. Well, I twice saw an oak hawk moth in nature-the one that marumba quercus, once I just found I don't remember already, either on a tree or on a stone, the other time he crawled across the road!!! when I was riding a bike ))

That's what I didn't meet, and hunting, so it's any peacock eyes at night... Well, perelivnytsy, I'm sure that there are, they are just secretive in themselves, even where they are in the mass, they say-they are found only rarely. on puddles or trees with sap.

That's who, for example, how many perelivnits sees during the season in terms of the number of trips? ))

Oh, and I don't remember a single hawthorn tree except when I was at school - that's what they did here - and I never saw it. Although here in Kherson they say there is))) But even there I have never seen =0

Well, yes, but what's so special about it? The butterfly is kind of recognizable-dark with a light border, I saw them more than once, not often of course, but not so rare, I saw it once in dachas, in the crown of trees in the forest cover, on puddles, I don't remember exactly. Approximately like admirals, in principle, if it is good to climb like this, especially in the fall, then you can meet them regularly. Well, I twice saw an oak hawk moth in nature-the one that marumba quercus, once I just found I don't remember already, either on a tree or on a stone, the other time he crawled across the road!!! when I was riding a bike ))

That's what I didn't meet, and hunting, so it's any peacock eyes at night... Well, perelivnytsy, I'm sure that there are, they are just secretive in themselves, even where they are in the mass, they say-they are found only rarely. on puddles or trees with sap.

That's who, for example, how many perelivnits sees during the season in terms of the number of trips?))

It's really hard to confuse them. But it's still pretty amazing.

Perelivnits (our species, A. ilia) I see a lot. At the peak of summer, in a suitable biotope, you can meet a couple of dozen for an excursion. More often, however, there are only a few actually observed instances. However, we do not have a problem observing them, they are not at all secretive (at least males - females, indeed, are larger in the crowns).

You IMHO are more likely to have A. metis.

Strange as it is, because we are close, close to the steppe zone, mourning has not seen poses in a decade, although I actively go out in nature every year and only in early spring. Hawthorn trees have become rarer in recent decades, but their numbers are gradually increasing and you can see dozens of them a day along the steppe gullies.

And the half-breed perelivnitsa lives only on the white willow or on any willows? Because with the white willow there are emblems in nature, and even more so with poplars - in fact, we don't have poplars anywhere in nature, the city is full of pyramidal ones, most likely, even poplar hawks are caught.
There is a white poplar tree outside the city in some places, but not much.
And the white willow happens in the city, rarely outside the city. Here in Kherson, yes, there are a lot of willows along the Dnieper. But so far I haven't heard any news from there with the finds of perelivnits

Thank you, Hierophis. Very interesting.

Steppe zone steppe zone discord. It also has subzones. The Kherson region, for example, is mainly located in the dry-steppe subzone. Here somewhere posted a list of daytime butterflies of Ukraine, so it indicates that many are not found in the dry steppe subzone. Although from somewhere there is data about the variegated moth in the mouth of the Dnieper.

Mourning girls like birches, don't they?

We also have a lot of poplars in the park. Both white and black. But I didn't see any nymphalids living on it.

We also have a peacock's eye somewhere in the city of N. Kakhovka, it was observed in dachas near the Dnieper River in 2006-07 and 2013. Hops grow in those dachas. He also flew into a flower bed right in our neighborhood in 2012. We also have hops in our yard.

Polychrome black and red also flew into flower beds in 2012. In April 2013, I met her on the bank of the Dnieper river near the village of Kazatskoye under an elm tree (Ulmus sp.). Nearby springs gushing from under the shell rock. And in the summer at the same place I met a cornerwort. In general, anglosperms are usually found where there are elms, and I think polychromats can also be found in these places.

As one person told me last year, we have Perevodnitsy. Only I either forgot to ask the place or listened to it.

Hawthorns-yes, on the beams there are. And there are also lemongrass plants. Presumably, lemongrass women eat elderberry, because I have not seen a laxative of Joster.

Urticaria - not seen.

Recently I went to KhSU and watched the work "Latintseva-Denny luskokryl of the Kherson region". I found almost nothing interesting there, there are no lists of butterflies, except for an indication that the mother-of-pearl Aglaya lives in Askania Nova.

I've never seen butterflies on the leaking tree sap. Although maybe they need oak juice. And our oaks are very local. I've never seen them on cow dung either. Although the same island near the village of Korsunka Zakakan very well, and nearby-willows and poplars (but not a full-fledged forest, and single trees or woodlands).

This post was edited by Wave Storm - 24.04.2015 18: 05

How many years I have been fishing, but I have never met a mourner either in the steppe zone in Yenakiyevo or in the forest park zone of Kharkiv.
The peacock's eye is observed in the forest regularly every year, and in the steppe zone only occurs in May and July.
Perelivnitsa A. ilia is quite common in our forest park.
I did not meet urticaria either in Yenakiyevo or in Kharkiv.
Hawthorns are common both in the forest zone and in the steppe.

Yes, you have buckthorn, where there are lemongrasses - on the southern side of the Dnieper-there also seems to be buckthorn, I remember that there was still a plant where the berries were not a brush like elderberry, but separately. We also have buckthorn, but I have only seen lemongrass once, but I have seen hawthorn after school times-never, although they were clearly there before and there were a lot of them. And we have plenty of hawthorns.

We have a lot of angloptera, probably more than all the other butterflies, and I don't really remember that where they met - there were elms, they are found everywhere )

And in the glades among the pine stands, I saw mother-of-pearl fish similar to pafia and aglaya, but I didn't catch them on purpose.

And on the sap of butterflies I saw a lot of times and very different, on very different trees, and never on oaks ) and even podaliriev, but mostly it's all sorts of nymphalids, just again-the frequency and duration of hikes is important. By the way, the manure is full of pigeons, such as glaucopsyche Alexis in the mass, and others also happen. Nymphalids are found in puddles, or rather on the wet ground of course around them)) Although there are also plenty of pigeons there.

Well, mourners, urticaria, admirals and polychromatica are still rare, at least with us, butterflies, this is if you just walk around, don't purposefully search, I figured it out, on average, the occurrence of one butterfly per 300 kilometers traveled

Htya here I am in this season already if on average to count, 350 km passed, and except uglokrylnits, peacock eyes, latoniy, like-one shashechnitsy, and one polychromatic still saw nobody

Well, mourners, urticaria, admirals and polychromatica are still rare, at least with us, butterflies, this is if you just walk around, don't purposefully search, I figured it out, on average, the occurrence of one butterfly per 300 kilometers traveled

Htya here I am this season, if you count on average, 350 km passed, and in addition to uglokrylnits, peacock eyes, latonia, it seems - one shashechnitsa, and one polychromatic still saw no one

Are admirals rare?
We have a lot of them in the fall. And a lot in the forest plantation near the North Crimean Canal, where there are a lot of elms (there are also a lot of cornflowers).

Well, we don't have much. However, the fact that you have a lot of them, we could be convinced that together we saw Admirals together with lemongrass then not a little, well, there are a lot of corner wings) There are generally all such butterflies in the mass, I think, and there should be more mourners there..

In general, we will have this in terms of numbers - the most frequent ones are pandoras, burdocks, latonias, various checkers (I didn't really understand which of them is which), didyms

Then anguloptera, peacock eyes,

Then admirals, polychrome girls

And urticaria, mourning

In our Belgorod region, Mourning is also rare. Urticaria has also become rare in recent years(

In general, I visited today in a gully near the village of Burgunka. 1 lemongrass, several pontius edus, turnips/turnips, polyxenes (less than last year), dawns. But of the nymphalids - only a bunch of latonias, in a day probably half a bucket can be collected.

And it is in such places that mourning birds, polychromatic birds, peacock eyes, and hives should be found?