A. tau female. I can't catch it for a long time

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Sergey Rybalkin, 17.03.2010 20:16

I catch a lot of males every year, in the daytime, sometimes there were 10 pieces a day. I caught a female once, about 15 years ago, when she flew out from under my feet (she was resting during the day, and I scared her off while passing by). No matter how much I tried to see the light, even in places where there are a lot of males flying during the day, it is interesting that males sometimes fly to the light at night. Maybe someone will share their thoughts on how to catch a female. Still not in the collection.

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17.03.2010 21:33, Andrey Bezborodkin

You're just out of luck... If there are many males, females should not be rare. We don't have many males near St. Petersburg: on a good day, seeing them three or four times is already good. At the same time, females meet me periodically. During the day they sit in the grass, waiting for the male. Last summer, the couple copulated right on the porch in the country... The females fly late in the evening, and we can see them, because the nights in the second half of May are already quite bright, almost white. They like to flutter around the apple trees at dusk, in the company of some crunches... I caught one on the fly in the evening. But there was never any light; I think they stop flying when it's completely dark.
How to catch it? Look for a cluster of males during the day, carefully inspect the low grass. It is very difficult to catch on the fly - the flight is uneven, although it is smoother than in males.

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28.05.2011 22:44, А.Й.Элез

On a warm but cloudy day, it can fly (often very sluggishly) from tree to tree, laying eggs (for example, on a goat willow). Before death, even on the straightener can throw eggs (and left alive - even more so, especially on the branches of birch or goat willow), caterpillars are brought up very easily. It only flies to the light from a close distance (especially if it was hatched nearby literally on the current day before turning on the flashlight). You can walk in the near-land zone of deciduous or mixed - if only with forage plants - forests and on the soil (on grass, on shrubs, on tree growth) look for a female resting during the day or even a couple in flagranti. Only in the latter case, you need patience.