Fiddler beetles

Here is my culture a month ago still in small 3-liter terrariums.

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tell me what he's got.". And then it's interesting, especially for barbels. In the meantime, I will come and call, find out, time will pass......)

This is one of the most interesting things. Barbel meridians and all I know.

Well the meridians are not so bad It will be necessary in general to see for yourself

- And who can tell about the cycle of development of Cetonia aurata in nature? - The book describes everything in such a contradictory and confusing way!... At our CMS, the visual numerical spike occurs from mid-May to June in the flowers of lilac, rosehip and privet.
- And I met some individuals on April 4!!! and on October 4th!!!

Our aurats also start flying singly from April, fly in the city until July, then disappear. They fly in the mountains in August. They like to sit on rosehips, roses, apple trees, plums, umbrella trees, sometimes they are strongly eaten. I found larvae and pupae in nature in July and August. At home, I now have Aurat larvae, some of them are already of the last age, and they will soon pupate.

We have only P. cuprea in the mass in our forests...
In addition to flowers, beetles sit around the clock in any weather on the stems of compound flowers (like thistles), and almost always just below the flowers. It should be understood that they drink juice from the wounds made by Larinus sturnus weevils.

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Yes, I also had to observe bronzes on different types of compound flowers (tartarus, thistle, thistle, safflower), sitting on a stalk and drinking juice from wounds. And not only large ones like aurat and marble, but also small things-olenki and valgus-were also "applied" -. Thank you PG 18 for the reminder. This summer we had a drought, many bronzes died on the asphalt path in the park, which in the morning was watered with a hose-crawled out in search of moisture and died crushed under the feet of passers-by

As much as we often come across Cetonia aurata on the KMV, for me, the most spectacular discovery in the city of Zheleznovodsk was "The CAUCASIAN BIG BRONZE (Potosia speciosa) the most spectacular of the bronzes: it is golden-green on top, less often fiery-red, the sides of the pronotum, the bottom and legs are blue, up to 30 cm long mm. This species lives in the forests of the Crimea and the Caucasus; beetles are found on tree trunks with leaking sap."
"I've never seen her before!" - why?, - if this specimen did not fly from Transcaucasia over the Great Caucasian Ridge!
- Has anyone caught it in Russia, not in Transcaucasia?
- And here, - by the way, - I found it on the Internet: -

Description: Beetle with a length of 23.0-29.6 mm. The upper part has a dull greasy sheen, somewhat iridescent, golden-green, sometimes bright red; the sides of the pronotum and elytra, the underparts and legs are blue. Elytra are evenly convex, behind the middle near the suture without longitudinal indentation. The body is without white spots, with a weak dotted line. The anterior process of the mid-thorax is broad, smooth in scattered points [1,2].
Distribution: Described from the Georgievsk district (Stavropol Krai). It is distributed in Asia Minor and Near East, North. Iraq and North. Iran, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, South-west. Turkmenistan, Ukraine (Crimea). In Russia, it occurs in the Caucasus; the northern border runs from the Kuban Delta to the village of Ilskaya, Krasnodar, Pyatigorsk; to the south of this strip, it occurs throughout the Caucasus [1,3].
Habitat: It lives in broad-leaved forests, both on plains and in mountains, but usually does not climb to high altitudes. Larvae develop more often in the hollows of old trees-oak, willow and others. Beetles fly from May to October, the main year falls on June-August. They are found on trunks with protruding sap, which the beetles usually feed on [1]. The development cycle is at least 3-4 years.
Number: No quantitative accounting was carried out. Indirect data suggest that the population is declining. The main reason is the felling of old deciduous forests almost all over the area.
Protection: It is necessary to create specially protected natural areas in the habitats of the species in the Krasnodar and Stavropol territories, limit the logging of old forests
.: 1. Medvedev, 1964; 2. Medvedev, 1965b; 3. Miroshnikov, 1987.
Compiled by: N. B. Nikitsky

Here is a map of its range:

Here is a map of its range:

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