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30.07.2020 23:45, ИНО

I've been hearing strange noises for the last two days

, so I sit in silence, broken only by the buzzing of wasps and bees, and then a very loud sound comes from the reeds: "Porokhobraty ta porokhosestry, Zelyu get! cic-cic-cic-cic-cic-...cyccicrrrrr "Each tactile "cic" is very similar to the stridulation sound of decticus aluifrons, but the frequency with which they follow is much larger and constantly increases, so that at the end it turns out to be a solid crack. It lasts about ten seconds and goes silent for two hours! Then it repeats. At first, I thought it was some kind of cicada, since the usual Cicadetta concinna is characterized by such a lazy stridulation, and its pattern is somewhat similar (although the elements that make up it are completely different). I listened to the recordings of all the cicadas that can theoretically live in our country (three of them, except for the aforementioned one) - not at all. They remain erect-winged. Nikita, do you know a grasshopper or locust that would suit my description of striudulation?

Well, and a fresh portion of Blurry Assholes (tm) for Pan Stepovoi

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04.08.2020 17:39, ИНО

Wow, there's still green grass in Panov's dry steppe - I can't believe it! But we already have that everything is yellow with purple spots of kermea. It should be the other way around. Blooming blueberry and no one eats it. Kermek is clearly more to the taste of insects, although it sucks to take pictures in it. It blooms more powerfully than ever, but only in those places that burned out last fall and therefore did not suffer from fire in the spring.

I haven't heard any decticuses at all this year. Some tettigonium, too. And there are plenty of locusts, although the small prussians were born. But the oedipods are very large. And a lot of trumpeters. Alas, the strange chatter of reeds was no longer heard.

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05.08.2020 11:35, ИНО

To be honest, I am not aware of the situation with the diagnostic signs specifically of the female pregrandis. But other lycosides are usually determined by arachnologists by kabzde epigine. They do not look at the color, because they usually get their hands on a spider made of alcohol or formalimn

I have" Boxes", but such a spider will not fit in them. Although this individual is not to say that it was particularly huge, about three centimeters on the body, with such a swollen belly. Maybe immature? I have a much larger syngoriensis specimen. What kind of dancing is there, if compared to a heteroscord or pterinochilus, this tarantula is a clumsy, good-natured firebrand? Like alopecosis. I fearlessly pushed the grass apart with my hand in the immediate vicinity, so that it would not interfere with taking pictures.

Of course, I won't be able to find that exact spot again - the road is long and monotonous. But I don't think the spider was alone. I saw a lot of glowing eyes on the roadsides, but I bent down to this one only because it was sitting in the lane between the ruts, almost under my feet.

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05.08.2020 12:42, Hierophis

Well, who knew that she was still so small, okodemik already voiced after the size, and also wonders, " I'm like, I'm like.". But it would be like this, I would have to look for a male

About the life cycle-to be seen nowhere, probably.
However, I know him because I've watched these tarantulas and others too, watched them, and kept them at home, and raised spiders

Here's about arachnologists, a year ago I was talking about this - your academic arachnologists haven't seen him, pregrandis, alive, except in the form of a crooked dried belly, where not only "kizdu", the eyes and contours of the cephalothorax can't be made out, but it's difficult to understand that this is a tarantula

And all why, yes, because it is necessary to go to the steppe, and there you do not like at a symposium, it's the steppe, it's hot, dusty, and most importantly-there can also be tarantulas, they will still bite!

05.08.2020 17:44, Hierophis

Here's another interesting thing, and this is just on the topic of the wasp, which supposedly I was ashamed not to know, although I just knew that there is a similar species there, unlike okodemiga, but that's it.. - from whom are the important academic arachnologists going to distinguish this tarantula? Even in our fauna I don't remember any similar ones

There are certainly Mediterranean tarantulas, there are a lot of them, but in general they are also all different in appearance, and what did they forget there, in polar Yuzovka

Pregrandis is actually an Asian species, a typical tarantula in Kazakhstan, it is almost used to polar frosts, but still it needs high temperatures in summer and autumn to develop.