Positive temperature anomaly

Something is not possible to find water lovers under the lights, only one water lover and plavuntsa found last week and that's it.
Today was a little summer.

In the early years Nikita began to write in the haiku style

Yesterday we also had not exactly a small summer, but quite a big spring, especially in the evening. I heard the cuckoo and hoopoe's voices. But I only heard one lark from afar. Although I went along the route where in the past years dozens of them took off right from under my feet. This is strange. I heard the first lark a month ago, did they really fly back to the south? Or did you take a break from cold and hunger? Meadow harriers are also not nesting in this field, but this is understandable - there are few rodents this year. In general, in fact, there is only one bird species in the entire field - the black-headed chased

I finally saw a flying messor queen with a male hovering behind it, but only one. Most of the nests were out of summer. Steppe almonds for the second week in a state of "just about nothing", only some branches in the calm bloomed. I hope everyone will open up today. There are a lot of buds in this ode, it should be beautiful. But the irises are expected to devour olenka-there is nothing special to photograph. Plum blossoms are already in full swing, and in the gardens with apricots, all pollinators have switched to it. Plums are scarce in the fields, and apricots are still in high demand for both andre and lyazioglossums. In general, Alex, remember: if you want to get a crop of apricots, cut down all the plums in the area, you can leave the plum, it blooms later and almost does not overlap with apricots. It is also mandatory to cut down late-flowering willow species. Speaking of willows. Goat willow in a beam, which, hung with all possible bees, I photographed for many years, and someone not grown for many years sawed for the sale of "willow" fse. The two-legged sawflies must have killed her, and they brought in some kind of fungus last year. Only a few thin live twigs that had grown from the root remained. And yet, judging by the number of buds on the dead branches, this spring should have been such a mega-flowering, which this beam has not yet seen. Now he won't. Last spring, I picked up a large branch of this willow that had been discarded by the harvesters and stuck it down the stream in a rather difficult place to reach. And she did. And bloomed, apparently, too sickly. However, they also got to her and cut her up.

Photos will be available later. Possible....

You can't cut something that isn't there.
There are no plums. No one's. There are no plums. Cherry is only there.
Willow is quite rare. Not nearby. Our climate is harsh. There are no pollinators on flowering swamp bushes. Cold weather. Only bumblebees fly, they are looking for a place for nests.

Come on, there are willows even in the Arctic Circle, in the form of creeping shrubs. Plums you have exactly the same "no " as" there were no " cars in the USSR Who every year tells us here about "blackthorn"?

The first sign that apricot blossoming has been successful is the falling of the petals, and the earlier it begins, the better. Ideally - on the second or third day after the beginning of flowering. We have the same problem with this. For the second week they are blooming, and there are almost no petals on the ground. But there are aborted flowers. But the flowers. affected monilia is not so easy to reset, they grow tightly. So it's a shame that the branches have already started to die off. If the apricots had bloomed a week earlier or a week later, they would have passed the peak of the rains. While the sepals of the buds have not spread out, exposing the petals, and also after the flowers have completely flown around, the rains are only good for apricots. But you can't wet the petals!

Bumblebees have already gathered to nest, so they managed to eat and pollinate something. We are also currently being searched, so the phenology is keeping up with yours

Yesterday it was summer! Still, I was a little mistaken, and the last day of April was a little warmer than the first. But he's the only one! Let's hope that this is the end of the "spring will not be" curse.

Finally, messors, summer nehrusch, freckles (suddenly!), polyxenes (I've only seen one male so far) flew out en masse, larks came in after all.

Blackthorn and steppe almonds began to bloom, but so far only in the warmest places, not en masse.

Nafotkal a lot of insects and birds, but work on two foronta - this is a complete kabzdets. You take a picture of insects, a huge harrier flies out right at you, or some kind of verbal bird sits down a few meters away and sings. You start feverishly changing the lens. And my current bird lens consists of two parts, each in its own case and both with a threaded connection. And it is worth completing this procedure, as the harrier is already gone, and the singing bird has flown a hundred meters. But an interesting bee arrives and you have to return everything back I envied real poultry houses, not so much their expensive autofocus optics, so much the fact that they can afford not to be distracted by insects Of course, you could just take a lens only for birds or only for naseokim, but in such cases, according to the law of meanness, almost always get caught ptivopositional, but there will be no search result. Verified. So ideally, you probably need to have two bags with two cameras equipped for different tasks, just as professional anglers-athletes usually have several spinning rods in the boat...

I wonder how Pan Stepova solves this problem. Oh, no. it doesn't solve it in any way, recently he has only birds on his photos (mostly smeared) and burrows, which he apparently hesitates to post on the forum. But there is one good photo, it would be possible to post it.

Where are my photos? Yes, there is no time for me to take off the mess, just have time to skidvyvat on the computer. So sometime later, After the rain on Thursday

We have willows, but they are not very close.
Blackthorn is not a plum.
It was +20, wind 25m / s, still at work, now the wind has weakened, heavy rain.



This post was edited by alex017-01.05.2021 20: 33

Today, a friend and I found a lot of swimmers and water lovers, as well as copra and nehruschi began to fly to the light.
Tomorrow I'll go for a walk in the afternoon, I think it will be hot.

  
Blackthorn is not a plum.

Sit down, botany class two

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%...%B8%D0%B2%D0%B0

In the process, Pan Stepov was banned by the Yinaturalizd from posting links to photos on third-party resources
By the way, the expert dokhtoru khvilosokhvii Dennis Davydov-also two in botany, two times Ukrobotanika-it is such

In honor of the bright day of the Resurrection of Christ, I will post a few photos.

The post was edited INO-03.05.2021 04: 31

Here's what an early symptom of moniliosis looks like:



If you see such a thing on your small tree, do not hesitate to pick the affected flowers!

So that the next day it doesn't become like this:



It's still too early to photograph the worst stage, but if it shows up, I'll add it separately.

Christ is risen!

The message was edited INO-03.05.2021 05: 19

Sit down, botany class two

What does botany have to do with it? It is the plum, not the blackthorn, that we grow very little, vanishingly little.

Despite the fact that a home-made plum is a type of plant, not an animal, fungus or bacterium

The message was edited INO-03.05.2021 06: 14

Oh, I spent the winter early! On the 3rd, it was already 26 degrees and it was quiet - summer summer. And on the 4th - only +12, and in the morning-in general +7, and the wind is terrible. I had to re-install the balcony door with foam rubber. But it is clear, and the sun is very strong now - around noon it is very hot in the head, despite the thermometer readings. So a lot of new things have bloomed, and it is pollinated slowly, although, of course, not as actively as it could be at the appropriate temperature for this time of year. I remember that last year the steppe almond tree was full of xylocopa, podalirias, and mother - of-pearl, and today it's just melifera, a couple of species of halictids, and a buzzard. Curiously, colletes cunicularius is a plant that is completely ignored and flies strictly on the blackthorn bushes blooming nearby. And the Melifers respond by completely ignoring the blackthorn. Surprisingly, these plants are almost from the same genus with very similar flowers. Only different color and smell. The cherry plum is already flying around, very quickly it managed to pollinate perfectly, deftly skipping before the blackthorn, plum, cherry, cherry, cherry, peach, moss, and all the rest. what bloomed yesterday-today. But all this wealth is clearly not enough pollinators, especially in this cold. And the apricots were only half flown, the other half of the petals were stuck due to moniliosis. But it seems that on most trees the disease slowed down at an early stage, and did not pass into the drying of branches. In some places, even the ovary is preserved. There will be pock-marked fruits, well, okay, if only there were.

Before planting, eremurusov found information that they are very afraid of the bay, that they can not be watered completely. As a result, I almost dried it out!
We have + 25, then +5. Sometimes it pours, strong wind. Ahead promise for 10 days +20 in the afternoon. Waiting For

When planting, and for the first time after it, absolutely everything needs to be watered, unless you plant it in a swamp. And then, as soon as it starts, in your area, why water anything at all?

I checked the apricots: sadness is a misfortune, moniliosis is true, only a few trees are drying out, but it's not evening yet. But the ovary is affected, on average, by 90 percent - now there will definitely not be a normal harvest. Just some one and a half rainy days - and what is the best effect of trees that have bloomed belatedly and weakly? And those who decided to skip this reproductive season, in general, everything is fine. Other fruit trees bloom profusely and without surprises. Especially lush this year are the sweet cherries. But we have it - it's like maggots. That's really where 100% of "fish with worms" Is So useless ornamental plant.

The post was edited INO-06.05.2021 18: 51

Alex, do osmias live in your famine-hungry parts? If so, make them Fabre beehives out of bundles of reeds or just drill holes in a piece of wood. Harvest everything. what blooms in the spring will go up, especially in a year or two

I have a cherry tree growing right under my balcony. So, I see through binoculars that it is pollinated almost exclusively by my homegrown osmia, and in any weather! Well, even belyanki fly there sometimes. But that doesn't count. It is a pity that it is not so easy to grow and apply some parasitoid cherry fly








The message was edited INO-06.05.2021 20: 26

I don't know about osmium. It is quite likely that they live.
But our cane will be too thin, we need to make it from other plants.
Yes, and there is no time. It's already night, and I still have some stuff to finish. Tomorrow comes summer! +20.
The heater in the greenhouse keeps the temperature cool. Next year, you can plant seedlings much earlier in the greenhouse.
But the peach (which was purchased in the store) froze. He can't go without snow. The kidneys began to crumble.
The grapes are frozen to the ground, but there are two live buds.

And apricots?

How thick are your reeds? Osmia cornuta has a hole diameter of 5 mm (it is better, of course, more, but it is also squeezed into such ones), bicornis - even less. Well, a drill and drills with a diameter of 6 -10 mm, I think you will find, drill holes - 5 minutes to do (if the drill is manual-then 10 ). After all, this is not your "garbage", but a real benefit for the harvest

Speaking of eremurus, I recently read the list of plant species recommended for inclusion in the CC of the DPR, Eremurus spectabilis is listed there, so it grows wild somewhere in our country, but specifically I recently bloomed not far from home-such a "mini-eremurus", called Bellevalia sarmatica:



And to the heap:

Oh, I now have to work as a photographer in this topic for two

Nearby (within tens of cm) with frozen peaches and grapes grows a columnar varietal apricot, which is not intended even for deceptive advertising brochures for our 4th zone. Its leaves are beginning to bloom. I didn't freeze at all this year, but last year I froze up to the level of snow filled in. While the same peach did not freeze last year (but was covered with more snow, almost to the top of the head).
Other apricots that wintered outside:
bought from Siberia without traces of burns, the kidneys began to swell, and bought from a local seller as adapted with traces of burns, but on one the kidneys began to swell, the second is smaller-it is not yet clear.
At a distance from the surface in the bayonet shovel - ice plate. It spoils everything.
Our reed is quite thin, there is a hole of about 3 mm. "Pipes" from other plants can be collected. As a child, rowan spat from them. The problem is only with time and the presence of osmium.
Considering that now all fruit trees, except honeysuckle, do not bloom, but only the buds swell, they will begin to bloom in a week or two, then there will be enough pollinators. There have never been any problems with pollination of blackthorn.
Now I bought another blue varietal blackthorn (there are also apricot - yellow ones). If the more fastidious varieties of plums and apricots do not work, then the blackthorn will definitely grow.
And the garbage I was doing was transplanting domestic plants. They already tore some pots in half, the soil fell out, required transplanting, and the surplus was sold.

What about the flowers? In apricots, they should bloom before the leaves! What kind of burns? Frostbite or something? So if they were in the apricot before blooming, you will not see any burns, just the buds will not open, and even the branches will wither. Burn is usually called moniliosis, but it only develops during the flowering of flowering.

Not all "pipes" will work. For example, in boligolov my osmia refused to settle flatly. Well, if you already have a lot of bees and they are all-weather, then you can not breed osmium. But I doubt it, though...

And you do not have a blackthorn, there is a variety of home-made plums, tie up already with botanical illiteracy!

The post was edited by ENO-05/07/2021 09: 27

What flowers?! After how long do apricots bloom from the seed? Now, in the first year, the leaves are a joy. Flowers are a dream.
Burns - black scars on the bark.
Not a blackthorn, but a blackthorn. For example, the Matyunin variety form.
I don't know what the general secretaries are saying, I only know that the heating networks were tested recently for the first time at a maximum temperature of 130 degrees. This means that frosts of -50 and below are expected.
Global warming is expressed in local temperature increases in some areas and decreases in others, longer autumns and springs (which is what happens), blurring of seasonal boundaries, a decrease in maximum temperatures in summer and an increase in temperatures in the off-season and winter.

Primroses

Garden strawberries are blooming

Eremuruses are spikelets and marigolds are blooming

+20, sunny, strong wind

This post was edited by alex017-07.05.2021 12: 14

I don't know exactly for what year, but obviously not later than the fourth blooms, somewhere at a height of one meter. This is if it grows in the steppe and suffers from pyromanias every year. And if you do not shoot it, but rather take care of it... In general, all stone fruits bloom very quickly.

Oh, you have strawberries blooming at the same time as ours! Our truth is in the open ground.

I read this about global warming from school somewhere in Soviet books. That in fact, the temperature increase is provided not by an increase in maximum temperatures, but by an increase in average ones, while the maximum temperatures, on the contrary, decrease.

So the batch line has changed

By the way, when I see a willow tree near water bodies in a photo from Ukraine, I am always surprised by its beauty. I really like the tree. But this does not grow in our country. Less beautiful grows

What kind of willow is not growing? Babylonian or something? So it does not grow here either. So, it exists, slowly dying in parts - a pathetic sight. And once it grew, once it grew. Apparently, once we were still warmer. And in the determinants in general, only the extreme south of Ukraine and the Crimea are indicated for this type. And even Pan Stepovoi once wrote that it does not grow there (although I doubt it).

Here we have a real problem with species of willows that have large fluffy inflorescences, which are popularly called "willow" - if something grows a little, it is immediately cut out for Palm

By and large, we have only three wild willow species: triandra, fragilis and alba. All of them have small late-blooming inflorescences. Of these, only the latter has some decorative effect due to slightly silvery leaves. So you're much better off with the willows.

The post was edited by ENO-05/08/2021 14: 06

In Ukraine, there are many more believers (Orthodox) than in Russia, which is why the willow tree suffers. We somehow do not cut it very much. And in most cases it is untouched.
By willows I meant something like this:

I like.

Something like this grows in parks under the strict guidance of a gardener. And abandoned to the mercy of fate grows up like this:



And before the first serious frost. Then half the crown will die off and become even scarier. To my surprise, I didn't find any such photos on the web, only idealistic ones that poorly reflect reality. And yes, it is also not friendly with snow and wind - it breaks down, sometimes killing people.

The point is not the number of believers, but the number of "willows". You have it (or rather they are, there are many types) is quite common, and we have in the wild is as common as you apricot Gladly exchanged all our Babylonian half-corpuscles for your willow.

And yes, in Ukraine and here - these are two big differences. Kh. z., in whom it is fashionable to believe there today, in Wotan, or maybe in Satan, but there are fewer true Orthodox there.

I then saw photos of willows from Ukraine on simple photos, not online, from the hinterland, where no one will take care of and specifically trim it.
I didn't get it right away, and your weeping willows suffer from dryness, because they are so liquid. They had a normal appearance near water bodies.
Yes, the willow is a ubiquitous weed that cannot be destroyed by anything. It's very damp here, and it's just the thing for her.
We are warm, yesterday +20 and a little cloudy, but the rain is a little sprinkled. The trees began to turn green.
Happy Victory Day!

This post was edited by alex017-09.05.2021 05: 57

It's not so much the dryness as the frostiness. This photo is actually from Dagestan.

Along the way, you stole our heat. Because we have +10, terrible wind and dampness after a night's rain. One good thing is that those who mark the reeds now will definitely not set them on fire.

Victory is not yet in sight, the fascists are firing again.

What a May this year! In the process, he is going to break the anti-record of the previous one. Yesterday it was overcast all day, and from noon to morning there was also a terrible storm with rain! I used to see such squally winds only in the summer before a thunderstorm, but there they blow for 15 minutes at most, and here-for more than 12 hours. All this time the trees were grinding their branches against the house with a terrible screech, and somewhere windows were being thrown open, something was being torn off and thrown to the ground. What is left of the ovaries of stone fruits and flowers of pears and apples, I'm afraid to even imagine. The temperature is not higher than +13. In general, the horror is pitch-black, just like global warming in action. And the day before yesterday, the polistes had just begun to nest and the caragana was beginning to bloom.

The post was edited INO-05/11/2021 13: 27

Here's what a severe form of moniliosis looks like:



This branch is no longer a tenant, and there are more than half of them in the crown. Alas, more and more such trees are being identified, and most of them suffer from the same diseases as in previous moniliosis years.

But a little damaged tree:



It bloomed after the rains. There's going to be some sort of harvest here, unless it all blew up last night or the hail hits later. Although here, some trubkovert brutalizes, but these are isolated cases.




The post was edited INO-05/11/2021 13: 49

Holy shit! The fifth day pours with short breaks. The temperature is +11. This is May

I used to see such squally winds only in the summer before a thunderstorm, but there they blow for 15 minutes at most, and here-for more than 12 hours.

We have exactly the same situation with the wind!
Previously, everyone used cheap plastic greenhouses, covered with PVC film on clothespins on top, and it was all summer, as the wind is 3-5m/s. And now such constructions cannot be used. If people managed to put such a thing on May Day, everything would fly away. They could withstand the gusts before a thunderstorm, but not for many hours.
We have a heat of +27, sunny, dry, everyone asks for"rain!".
I hope you'll have one soon as well.