Migratory locusts and other gregarious locusts north of their permanent range

Just forumchanin gumenuk posted photos of a herd Asian woman from the Ramenskoye district of the Moscow region: http://molbiol.ru/forums/uploads/post-16651-1351236089.jpg, http://molbiol.ru/forums/uploads/post-16651-1351236079.jpg

I want to apologize in advance for being off-topic .
But the presented insect close to locusts is also quite unusual for the places of its capture:
20.07.2012 Moscow region, Lukhovitsky district, okr. Beloomut village, forest sandy road, isolated among the mass of blue-winged filly. Leg. V. Smirnov.
Although there is not far r. It is also quite unusual for Calliptamus italicus (Linnaeus, 1758). I would like to know what people think about this
PS And once again I apologize for posting "off-topic": I just didn't find one.

This post was edited by vasiliy-feoktistov - 12/19/2012 11:53 am

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I think that it would be worth starting with determining the phase affiliation. Here's from Bey-Bienko, Mishchenko, 1951:

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I think that it would be worth starting with determining the phase affiliation. Here's from Bey-Bienko, Mishchenko, 1951:

Based on the signs you have given: I have a single-phase female. Specially now "estimated" the ruler.

Then, apparently, the area also crawled to the north - what can I say here.

In general, I'm very interested: how will the rather severe frosts affect all these "new settlers"? Because I still have the hypothesis that the change in habitats is associated with the curtailment of agriculture, and at least not only with warming.

Isn't there a feeling that these unexpected meetings are largely caused simply by a sharp revival of traffic on the north-south routes?
The highways are loaded, there is a lot of transport - there are also more" passengers".

Essno, this is all a plus-and the intensification of agriculture (reduction of plowed areas), and climate change, and transport...

Well, to call what is happening with agriculture in the Russian Non-Black Earth region, "intensification" somehow I do not turn the language However, this is not a "Conversation", and therefore I will not develop this topic. As for the role of roads... To be honest, when I came across the Novgorod copy, this is exactly the idea that immediately arose. But with the Pskov finds it doesn't work out any more: there are dozens of kilometers from major highways. Although, for example, botanists have long been talking about the role of railway highways in plant dispersal - steppe vegetation creeps north along embankments with their exposure effects and water runoff, something sprouts from cars and sprouts, etc.

In our Tula region, the Italian prus lives very locally either along the Oka River on sandy wastelands near pine forests together with the blue-winged mare (but much more numerous), or in the southern corner of the forest-steppe along slopes with limestone outcrops, where, oddly enough, there is no blue-wing. In the Kaluga region, the prus lives similarly on the sands, even a little further north than in our country. Therefore, it is logical if in the Moscow region it is in similar places, but with a low number and episodic surveys, it did not fall into the field of view.
Only this year, for the first time, I saw signs of settlement activitythe prus. They, while in a small number, climbed on agricultural fields adjacent to the slopes, sometimes more than 10 km from the nearest belt-filled habitat. But since it is a xerophilic species, it is likely to settle either on wastelands on the sands,or in fields, especially after harvesting.
Transport, of course, carries a lot, but the filly is too timid a beast to travel far this way.

I had to once again correct the title of the topic - otherwise, really, where to write about the finds of all sorts of pruses?

At least Prus didn't seem to have reached the Northwest yet. Although I'm already mentally preparing myself

This post was edited by PVOzerski - 12/21/2012 09: 47

At least Prus didn't seem to have reached the Northwest yet. Although I'm already mentally preparing myself

And apparently you're doing the right thing when you're preparing
Today (06.07.2013) Calliptamus italicus (Linnaeus, 1758) was discovered in the Vladimir region, in the immediate vicinity of the platform Omutische Gorkovsky direction of the Moscow Railway (117 km. from Moscow), which is much closer Belomuta (160 km. from Moscow). Moreover, it was found not only individually, but as a whole crowd (at least 20 individuals were observed). I took three of them for good measure. True, there is a Gorkovskaya railway nearby and a rather long tributary of the Oka River - Klyazma.
Some photos.
1) A map with the following symbols:
1. Gorkovskaya railway
station 2. Klyazma River.
2) Biotope.
How do you like this?

This post was edited by vasiliy-feoktistov - 07.07.2013 07: 06

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