Spring insects

I don't know how it is right now, we still have snow, and in the early spring you can catch T-shirts (Meloe), and whatever wakes up...

We have seen 3-4 moths today.. I don't know the type, I haven't seen it myself (a friend catches it every year), according to the description - gray on top, yellowish on the bottom.

I don't know how it is right now, we still have snow, and in the early spring you can catch T-shirts (Meloe), and whatever wakes up...

But the snow has already gone down, and during the day the temperature rises so much that you can safely walk down the street without a jacket, in just a sweater. I've already seen flies and ladybirds waking up on the street.
In the topic I would like to discuss exactly spring beetles, even better early spring ones. For example, I came across information that Dromius fenestratus is caught only in early spring. About T-shirts I think everyone knows about the May beetles probably too
I also remember someone saying that Mycetophagus tschitscherini also comes across only in spring. These are the facts I would like to hear about... Maybe someone came across some rare beetle exclusively in the spring? It would be very interesting to read such stories.

First you need to decide what is still considered spring... Because spring in March and May-this is very different spring!
If you take the early spring-there are some water beetles (mostly floaters), especially in puddles left after melting. There is a rare wingless paddler, Agabus bifarius (=kessleri). There may also be a rare northern trifle, such as divers.
There is also such a abscess - Apalus bimaculatus, it comes across only in early spring when the first thawing appears, it is found on dry forests, where single andren bees nest. But the species is very local - the population can occupy an area of several tens of square meters. meters.
Dromias (and not only Dromius fenestratus) are indeed more common in the spring, but I came across them in June and autumn. Mycetophagus tschitscherini-occurs in May (usually), but sometimes flies until mid-June. T-shirts also come across until mid-June. And most nutcrackers can be called spring species...

If you take the early spring-there are some water beetles (mostly floaters), especially in puddles left after melting. There is a rare wingless paddler, Agabus bifarius (=kessleri).

Interesting!
And in what biotopes does it occur?

I caught it (bifarius) on the border of Kiev.- Chernihiv. areas in different types of water bodies. Practice shows that most of the "spring" beetles are caught at least during the entire cold period, just in the spring, entomologists who are hungry for a winter (not like this) are more actively collecting. In addition, in the spring period, some insects are characterized by migration, and something can get to their native region from afar, near-water animals can be found anywhere. In my opinion, it is more appropriate to discuss methods that give interesting results during this period. I came across interesting animals in soil traps, during the daytime summer. It is interesting to collect in open, well-warmed places sifting sod. In floodplain forests, you can effectively remove dust. Well, of course, you can actively catch water animals using standard methods - a net + water traps. In recent years, I have tried this technique:" combing " with a net through dead wood over puddles-sometimes it turns out very well.

Very valuable, Elizar, about the abscess! How many times have you encountered a similar beast? And M. tschitscherini meets me for some reason all season round until September...

A. bifarius - I know one place - a forest park near the city, comes across when fishing in late April. early May in puddles under the canopy of a spruce forest. You can collect a lot with luck...
Apalus bimaculatus - also one population, found in 2005, now every year we go, look... (this was not yet...). At one time we found up to a dozen and a half beetles, but we take no more than a couple of three... A search in the surrounding area yielded no results.

I also saw some apalus in June , but the populations are really local - more often this is due to the colonization of Andren...

About apalyusov interesting! What do they usually sit on, at what time, etc.? And then I can't imagine how to find them

By the way, I was fishing today, I went out of town. Rummaged under the bark, stuff like that (mostly).. I found small long flatbills with long barbels-gray ones with red legs (they are still often confused with barbels), a few small things, a few nebria under the bark, golden eyes under the bark, an interesting flat bug, aphodia flew a lot, cows ran around, I found a lot of barbel larvae - in a rotten pine, under the bark of oaks and hornbeams (exactly I can't say what the stumps and trees were), and what I liked most was a few large black riders with a white spot at the base of the perdnespinki and a white ring in the middle of the antennae, similar to those with a partially red belly, which (as I saw in the BBC movie, lay an egg in caterpillars alkonov (but probably not limited to this)). Well, that's probably all.

By the way, I was fishing today, I went out of town. Rummaged under the bark, stuff like that (mostly).. I found small long flatbills with long barbels-gray ones with red legs (they are still often confused with barbels), a few small things, a few nebria under the bark, golden eyes under the bark, an interesting flat bug, aphodia flew a lot, cows ran around, I found a lot of barbel larvae - in a rotten pine, under the bark of oaks and hornbeams (exactly I can't say what the stumps and trees were), and what I liked most was a few large black riders with a white spot at the base of the perdnespinki and a white ring in the middle of the antennae, similar to those with a partially red belly, which (as I saw in the BBC movie, lay an egg in caterpillars alkonov (but probably not limited to this)). Well, that's probably all.

Hmm, so all this can be attributed to the winter harvest . ( impatiently, - already you broke through...
. I envy you in white)And you said that you still have a month and a half to wait . And here they are ,the beetles have already flown out . Flies and mosquitoes on the walls of buildings, and that is already pleasing to the eye and heart.
But what really leads the most active lifestyle in the spring is...?
I only know about Sarabus . menetriesi ( can be captured from mid-April) and C. nitens. Although one and the other and in the summer in isolated cases comes across. Chleenus costulatus is also a spring species.
On sawyers-naturally that dorkashi! They go best in May.

We have had an active year of moth-malaria since March 7, but there is still no strong activity, in early March there was a decrease in T to -17C in the morning, and therefore, despite the warm winter, activity is weak. But last year there were marginals from March 23

We have had an active year of moth-malaria since March 7, but there is still no strong activity, in early March there was a decrease in T to -17C in the morning, and therefore, despite the warm winter, activity is weak. But last year there were marginals from March 23

Here it is worth noting about the early harbingers of spring: lemongrass and urticaria. These I repeatedly in February (and even in January, it happened. But I don't live in the south) I watched it on the warmed edges . The snow has not yet come down, and they are already pleasing to the eye.
And yes, Mnemosyne also seems to be the most active year in May. Aglia tau has been flying since the beginning of April.
In fact, I have repeatedly observed the appearance of some mosquitoes and other small things in January-February when you sit on the ice and fish . The temperature is -5, -8 C, but with the sunny moons of the coast, the animals are active(even once when I was there, I remember seeing spiders). So you think about some kind of antifreeze in the blood of these beetles. (the hole freezes in a matter of minutes)

This post was edited by rpanin - 10.03.2007 21: 57

Where exactly did you come across C. nitens, and under what circumstances? This species is very interesting, because in recent decades only one point of its finds has been reliably known in the Moscow region. In the 1950s, it was common. I mean, can you share your Carpathian thoughts on catching this species?

Good results in the spring gives fishing for blue cars. Last spring(late April-early May), I caught a lot of water beetles in this way. Naive creatures think that this is a pond and sit on the hood and roof of the car . Naturally, this is all during the spring, evening summer.

But about the capture of this species (nitens). From what my Belarusian colleagues whispered to me. Hod-most in May(mid) . It keeps near swamps, mainly in pine forests ,but on dry sandy areas (islands). Caught during the day..That's probably all.
Good luck!

This post was edited by rpanin - 10.03.2007 22: 13

I think it's simple. Nitens is a meadow species that leads a diurnal lifestyle. I hope you understand that large, beautiful, clean meadows usually turn into dirty plowed fields, with fertilizers, pesticides and other things. In the best case, they are used for pastures. Another reason to break Lent ahead of schedule and eat mutton...

Still early - polyxenes, usually released in April. Glaucopsyche alexis also takes off early, the year before last'05 caught 2 jokes on April 1. Morimuses come out sometimes in April. Purely spring beetles-Platycerus carboides (I think I catch them in May, and maybe even in April, then they are not there.). Well, dorcadions - of course.. usually in April they are already very good, but in 2006 neodorcadion billiniatum came out well only by the end of May, and the rest of the drkashi were delayed in April, they came out only in the second half of the month, as it was cold. Horses appear in early spring, especially campestris, although the second time in late summer they still come out.
Well, May can be considered the most fruitful month for catching barbels and goldfish in all their splendor (at least for me, not counting some species that go in June-July)
May is the time of peacock-eyed grusheva. Well, probably many other peacock
eyes And, in a month, also the release of Geotrupes vernalis. Although it is still possible to find it later, its most important time is April-May, when it is massively in the poop climbs.
Spring is the time when many shrubs bloom (mainly in May), then you can more than catch barbels-Leptura rufipes, sexguttata, Cortodera sp, Stenocorus quercus, meridianus, bronzes like Potosia fieberi.

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Today I went out to nature... Nothing coleoptera was seen on the ground, but in the melting spring puddles, upon closer inspection, there were quite a few such creatures. There were a lot of small divers from the genus Hydroporus - I caught about 10 pieces - it looks like they all belong to the same species. I also caught a larger swimmer (about 7 mm) - this is some Agabus from the subgenus Gaurodytes, it seems to be quite an interesting animal - I've never caught such before.
Back in the spring, I caught a stream running along the bottom of a grassy ravine... Weevils Sitona It turned out like this: I decided to comb the last year's grass in the stream with a net, and instead of the expected floaters in the net, I found these weevils along with the grass. It seems that the water just flooded the ground in which they wintered, and they had no choice but to get out on the flooded grass.

  
Back in the spring, I caught a stream running along the bottom of a grassy ravine... Weevils Sitona It turned out like this: I decided to comb the last year's grass in the stream with a net, and instead of the expected floaters in the net, I found these weevils along with the grass. It seems that the water just flooded the ground in which they wintered, and they had no choice but to get out on the flooded grass.

Yes, it happens. I went to the Ministry of Internal Affairs last year. This is how I "hunted" in early May. There, by the way, at this time Brachyta caucasica flies on peonies.

By the way, Carabus (Archicarabus) nemoralis Muell., as the most "urbanized" species, appears in the city from mid-April, and very actively. Just walking in the evening, you can collect a bag on the asphalt near the lawns.

The most interesting thing is that this ground beetle settled well in Alma-Ata, arriving here in the year approximately 1986. During these 20 years, the view occupied not only the city - where it became the background, but also got into the mountains-I met it at an altitude of 1500 m.

Nemoralis is a synanthropic species, which is an indicator of highly disturbed anthropogenic cenoses. In untouched stations, the view is missing. Many papers have been devoted to this issue.

Nemoralis is a synanthropic species, which is an indicator of highly disturbed anthropogenic cenoses. In untouched stations, the view is missing. Many works have been devoted to this.

It's strange, then why don't we (Western Ukraine) have it?

In the Middle zone of Russia everywhere.

Kravchiki have already begun to dig out, only just at that, only a few minks are still open!

It's strange, then why don't we (Western Ukraine) have it?

We, in the Kursk region, also do not have this type at all. It is possible that in the north of the region it comes across, but in the vicinity of Kursk it is not found in forests, parks, or, especially, in the city itself.

But about the capture of this species (nitens). From what my Belarusian colleagues whispered to me. Hod-most in May(mid) . It keeps near swamps, mainly in pine forests ,but on dry sandy areas (islands). Caught during the day..That's probably all.
Good luck!

That's right. pine forest adjacent to swamps. it is rare, but all summer long.

With the appearance of spring sap-bearing birches and, especially, such stumps, an excellent "harvest" can be collected on them and from them (in the soil soaked with fermented juice): staphylinids, baby pups, spangles, geotrups, aphodia... By the way, only in the spring and in such places I found the taiga Sphaerites glabratus. When the kaluzhnitsa blooms, the leaf beetle Prasocuris phellandrii gathers on it, I also only came across it in the spring. And last May, for the first time (at least for myself), I found another species of this genus in the Yaroslavl region - Prasocuris junci. Benkovsky indicates it for the forest zone only from the Minsk and Moscow regions.

This post was edited by Dmitrich - 12.03.2007 21: 08

With the appearance of spring sap-bearing birches and, especially, such stumps, an excellent "harvest" can be collected on them and from them (in the soil soaked with fermented juice): staphylinids, baby pups, spangles, geotrups, aphodia... By the way, only in the spring and in such places I found the taiga Sphaerites glabratus. When the kaluzhnitsa blooms, the leaf beetle Prasocuris phellandrii gathers on it, I also only came across it in the spring. And last May, for the first time (at least for myself), I found another species of this genus in the Yaroslavl region - Prasocuris junci. Benkovsky indicates it for the forest zone only from the Minsk and Moscow regions.

Thank you for the practical "spring" advice! About birches - this is very timely and great, it will be necessary to "hurt" a couple if I do not find naturally damaged ones. I've been trying to catch Sphaerites glabratus for a very long time, but I haven't been able to catch it yet. Perhaps it doesn't live in my area at all (after all, it is considered a typical forest species).
This is the first time I've heard about Kaluzhnitsa... Is it a herbaceous plant?

This is the first time I've heard about Kaluzhnitsa... Is it a herbaceous plant?

Well yeah Coastal plant. In Latin - Caltha palustris. Large, yellow flowers (similar to large buttercups), we have blooms in ponds, swamps, bochagam and so on. from the middle (or even from the beginning-in early spring) April to late May-early June. At this address http://cbf.mgpu.ru/Plants/OSN/SemD/vid_Caltha.htm description and photo.
And I came across the taiga in the soil soaked with fermented sap near the sap-bearing birch stump. It seems to me that he should go to the appropriate traps, but he didn't go to me personally

This post was edited by Dmitrich - 12.03.2007 22: 15

Well yeah Coastal plant. In Latin - Caltha palustris.

Thanks ! It turns out that I know this plant (I saw it in nature), I just didn't know that it was called that way

And I came across the taiga in the soil soaked with fermented sap near the sap-bearing birch stump. It seems to me that he should go to the appropriate traps, but he didn't go to me personally

So you sifted through the soil and dug it out?

I. e. Did you sift through the soil and dig it out?

You can say that "sifted", with a discount on its very wet consistency. Taiga was found in the analysis of this soil among toddlers, especially a lot of Margarinotus striola.

Nemoralis is a synanthropic species, which is an indicator of highly disturbed anthropogenic cenoses. In untouched stations, the view is missing. Many works have been devoted to this.

Oops whether?! I'm talking about synanthropy (or is it not a strict conclusion?!)

And I caught taiga in ordinary soil glasses, and oddly enough, I usually went with some toddlers. apparently, they have something close not only outside, but also inside...

Fellow colleagues, can you tell me if anyone has ever caught a glacier and other wingless mecopter? How, where to look, what to lure the beast to?!

This post was edited by scarabee - 13.03.2007 11: 01

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knew and hid