Positive temperature anomaly

Now it was so hot that it was necessary to eat berries instead of water (in which there was also water), now my friend Vlad said that he found a green leaf-shaped grasshopper 15 cm long(ovipositor 5 cm), I thought that it was some tropical resident who came and brought a Malay long-legged grasshopper directly to us.

Now it was so hot that it was necessary to eat berries instead of water (in which there was also water), now my friend Vlad said that he found a green leaf-shaped grasshopper 15 cm long(ovipositor 5 cm), I thought that it was some tropical resident who came and brought a Malay long-legged grasshopper directly to us.

And in general,there are cases when tropical blacksmiths are brought to Russia, which then lay eggs and there are too many of them for the next year.

Do you have a different view of Pestryanka? It's just difficult to determine the type

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Something summer never really comes back. The maximum was +27 the day before yesterday. And then with a cloudy sky. Yesterday it was clear, but only +24, and at sunset in balka in general +15. Rain is also not particularly present, so it will water the asphalt to the color of "polka dots" and stop. Although there are notable clouds, and somewhere in the neighborhood it is clearly pouring well. There are no mushrooms. But there are berries: strawberries, cherries, cherries, mulberries. The harvest is average. It would have been much larger if not for the spring hail and cold weather. In My Megastepi (TM), the peak of flowering of all sorts of different megastep plants is observed. Fresh polychromatic flowers have emerged from the daytime butterflies, but they can't be photographed, as they stay high in the crowns, feeding on oak juice.








This post was edited by ENO-20.06.2017 00: 53

Now it was so hot that it was necessary to eat berries instead of water (in which there was also water), now my friend Vlad said that he found a green leaf-shaped grasshopper 15 cm long(ovipositor 5 cm), I thought that it was some tropical resident who came and brought a Malay long-legged grasshopper directly to us.

I also have a lot to say. There is such a proverb "... money is not to turn bags". Is there even a single breeder of tropical grasshoppers in Tsimlyansk? Not Moscow tea. This is a tropical butterfly still has a chance to notice in the sky, and even if someone suddenly releases a grasshopper, then you'll see figs. Your friend's imagination is either very hypertrophied, or his tongue.

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Something summer never really comes back. The maximum was +27 the day before yesterday. And then with a cloudy sky. Yesterday it was clear, but only +24, and at sunset in balka in general +15. Rain is also not particularly present, so it will water the asphalt to the color of "polka dots" and stop. Although there are notable clouds, and somewhere in the neighborhood it is clearly pouring well. There are no mushrooms. But there are berries: strawberries, cherries, cherries, mulberries. The harvest is average. It would have been much larger if not for the spring hail and cold weather. In My Megastepi (TM), the peak of flowering of all sorts of different megastep plants is observed. Fresh polychromatic flowers have emerged from the daytime butterflies, but they can't be photographed, as they stay high in the crowns, feeding on oak juice.

We also have a complete gloom. It is clear that the summer is abnormally cold this year, as in the ill-fated 2013. Heavy rain and cool weather.
And what is the bronze in the photo? It is similar to P. speciosa... or N. aeruginosa?

We also have a complete gloom. It is clear that the summer is abnormally cold this year, as in the ill-fated 2013. Heavy rain and cool weather.
And what is the bronze in the photo? It is similar to P. speciosa... or N. aeruginosa?

Isn't that Protaetia affinis, by any chance?"

Affinis have characteristic indentations on the elytra, closer to the back of the abdomen, there do not seem to be such, although of course it would not hurt to look from a different angle and specify the size

I wonder why it's not Aurata. ))

Well, actually, aurata usually has transverse whitish spots on her elytra, but this one has clean elytra. And in general, Cetonia is not very similar imho. Of course, I can be wrong, maybe a subspecies or an aberration...

Not by chance, but quite purposefully removed from a five-meter height and transplanted lower for a staged scheme, the male affinis.

Today the weather is warmer: +26 during the day,+23 at night (but this is not in Balka, it was already 19 there in the evening), sunny, almost windless. There are still no mushrooms, and, meanwhile, soon the ground in the forest will dry up completely. Early varieties of cherries and sweet cherries depart, and late varieties begin. But the greatest harvest this year was on mosquitoes, after sunset their number even on windswept hills is amazing. There's never been so much.

The number of polychromatic flowers in the crowns has increased, as well as a lot of all kinds of leaf-makers, shovels. At dusk, even a large hawk moth was found on the flowers of carnations, it seems, euphorbia. But there are no catocals. There aren't enough deer beetles this year, especially compared to last year. Some fillies and very quiet grasshoppers started striding. But the field cricket is already heard much less than in May. You can't hear the voices of night birds at all. Although before the war, at such a time, owls squeaked from almost every tree. Apparently, they could not withstand almost nightly shelling, and left these regions, because they hunt by ear, in general. I've only ever seen one owl in the city on the roadway.

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Well, now yes, in this perspective and I see that affinis. It's just that the angle wasn't quite right in terms of definition...

It is likely that the 15 cm grasshopper was introduced with plants last year,and now it was so warm that in the spring they hatched and began to grow to a 15 cm imago.

It's unbelievable. It doesn't happen that way. Winter would have killed them. Imported animals live strictly until the cold weather. Otherwise, we would be swarming with various imported insects, which can be seen occasionally in the summer.

Some entomologist from Malaysia brought a blacksmith and released him by accident.

No, it was the crew of an alien ship that took samples for study in one place, and returned them back in a slightly different place. How do they, aliens, know the subtleties of Earth's zoogeography? Nikita, I see, is turning into a fat noble troll.

Today, the thermometer finally hit thirty again. But I went out in the late afternoon, this time purely to pick berries. Strawberries did pretty well. True, the weight of the staff has dried up for the most part even before maturation (and so almost every year), but everything is fine with the drought-resistant steppe viridis. Also satisfied with a lot of cherry flasks. But mulberries, though numerous, are small and tasteless. And this is already strange: usually either one or the other, depending on the humidification mode, and here both vices at once. But there are few sweet cherries, but the share of wormwood is small.

To my great surprise, I knocked down a low-flying female affinis under a cherry tree. So there they are, where did they get out of the oak forest, and the ripe cherry tea will taste better than oak juice! I also caught a rare animal called a mantispa with a bottle of fruitcake.

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I knocked down flying beetles with my hands, and even caught flying grasshoppers, and we had a pendulum, but closer to lunch the rain rushed, and by late evening (during sunset), I still did not see the winged glabra .

Still yesterday's photos from Yegorina's place.Another horde of large red ants was in my yard.

Nikita, watch your glabra before it's eaten )))

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So I have dried glabras,a male and a female, and the Turkmen filly has already shed in the imago, I hope.

I went fishing the other day. First I tried fishing in a little-known flooded quarry with a tiny water mirror and a huge depth. Before the war, there was a lot of palm dye, and thanks to the efforts of fishing enthusiasts like me, populations of perch and pike began to form little by little. I arrived at noon - on the morning dawn and was immediately surprised by the complete absence of other fishermen. Also unusual was the absence of any living creatures in the shallow water, except for tadpoles and a few headwaters. Previously, it was always full of small carp, and sometimes quite decent individuals swam out. The view of the roof of the "palace" standing on the shore hinted that "Ukrainian humanitarian aid"was arriving at this place. I thought that in the pond the fish was drowned out. Further fishing showed that the patient was more likely dead than alive - there were four carp, the size of a little finger, and no hint of a bite of something larger. This is on the bloodworm, worm and semolina generally ignored. I didn't see any splashes, either, except for the milky and froggy ones. But I photographed the exit to the land of tadpoles.

Then I decided to go to the Pesochny pond, where there are definitely large fish (for example, I saw a huge carp there in the spring). In a straight line, it is a couple of kilometers away, but everything is built up by the private sector, I had to get lost, paving a new route for me. But I found a unique place for Donetsk - a birch grove. Unlike other attempts to introduce this tree in the city, which turned out to be somewhat unintelligible, there was a main factor here - water, the trees were still planted along the stream. As a result, it turned out very similar to the wild birch forests in the Donets floodplain. Maybe even podberezoviki grow there, but this time, however, I didn't find it, only one russula.

I came up to Pesochny from the "tail", and let me, I think, check out the nests of runner ants, in case I get to the mating race. I didn't see any running as such, but I did catch two winged queens. One went straight to the nest, and the other wandered thoughtfully at a respectable distance. I snapped it up with her, and then Prue too. Then the fishing subsided. the carp did not bite at all, although it jumped. Neither at me on float rods, nor at the men who are located next to each other on donkey feeders. Rather, one of them still got a bite during the day, but when vyvazhivanii, he managed to catch the tackle for his own net-track placed near the shore, as a result - gathering and unraveling. Moral of the story: don't be a redneck, catch by legal means. I caught about five small cranes and two okushkas. And then he caught a water snake in a cage, which got into it, swallowed one of the fish, and on the way back got stuck like Winnie-the-Pooh in a rabbit hole. It took a long time to persuade him to go out through the neck.

Upon returning home, I found that the runner's uterus had accumulated. As it turned out, their paws do not hold on to the smooth plastic, and from that, all day in the pocket of her pants, she tumbled and hurt herself. I was very upset, because I know the nests of this ant are only in that place. So the next day I went there again by bus, this time specifically for the runners, and along the way to take pictures of everything. But alas, the winged queens no longer roamed around the nests. One just came out of the hole for a second, and then the bowels went away again. But then I see that the major is carrying something large in his mandibles. You can't see the details on the run. I touched yeshgo with my finger carefully, so that I let go of the burden - so it is, a wingless uterus! And ethos is probably better than winged, as it guarantees fertilization. She immediately took off at a speed slightly inferior to the speed of the worker, it was simply not realistic to catch her hand without hurting. Only a miracle managed to drive it into a jar. In order not to repeat yesterday's mistake, I stuffed a piece of toilet paper into the container and put it in the karma on my chest, where the shaking is less. As a result, the queen arrived safely and, placed in a test tube with previously captured workers, laid a dozen eggs in one night - a record for the fastest ants I have ever kept. I also saw Formica Glyauki's uterus there, so I was already their age. On the way back, I saw and photographed a lot of interesting things. In particular, I found a relatively early pandora, but only one piece. And also, especially for Pan Stepovoi, I photographed in detail various moments of intimate intimacy of Naryvnik Schreber.

And since yesterday, the weather has become mostly overcast, last night heavy rain passed. Now there will definitely be mushrooms, and the first small harvest of velvet moss has already been collected.

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Heat
And plenty of apricots

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ENO: podberezoviki does not have a direct relationship with the presence of birch trees... for example, in the Caucasus (in the lowlands) there is not a single birch, and there are plenty of birch trees in oak and beech forests. By the way, the local name of podberezovika is obabok))

I don't know what there is in the Caucasus, with beech in general, what only fungi do not form mycorrhizae, but in our region, as well as in central Russia, podberezovki are found exclusively under birches and aspens, and other types of poplars do not roll. And in Donetsk that with birches, that with aspens, a big strain. Therefore, even in such seemingly ideal conditions as the photo, it is not a fact that this mushroom exists, since there is no special place for spores to come from. If only with seedlings started.

Today I collected some more mosses. Almost all the larvae of fungal mosquitoes were eaten, we had to cut out a few affected areas, and throw out the rest. The weather cleared up in the evening, the night was generally warm, +20. There were more deer beetles, but there were no bronzes, it looks like "uuhhh", it's fading away.

The swallowtail in Pan Stepovoi's photo is an interesting one, which means that it has already been flown by the spring generation. When did he get out that he was still alive? All of them are not like people: scolia maculata fly until September, swallowtails almost until July.

Maybe the locusts ate the birch tree in your Caucasus,in the absence of grass and trees, the locusts feed on their relatives, like my decticus, which I released into the field long ago.

Maybe the locusts ate the birch tree in your Caucasus,in the absence of grass and trees, the locusts feed on their relatives, like my decticus, which I released into the field long ago.

Without comments)))

The question arises, what is so zabristym recently eats (or otherwise takes inside) Nikita. Did Mr. Stpepova send the parcel?

This afternoon it was +29, sunny. now +21. There is a peak summer of deer beetles, this year something males are all small-horned, and females predominate. It seems that large males for some reason amicably rested at the pupal stage or somewhere nearby. With the bronzes, it became very sad: this time the weather was extremely favorable, but there was still practically no summer. Even on one high branch, where at least a couple of beetles hung even in inclement weather this evening, there was no one. Still, it was a miracle that we managed to catch one speciosisima female and one affinis male on another tree, but it is very likely that this is all. Especially Al. that it was not possible to get a male speciosisima, although there is hope that at least one of the females has already been fertilized, and at least some eggs will be laid. And the few male affinis I've put in the bachelor paddock to avoid fighting with the rest of them over the few females I've got, it looks like they'll only get a pin.

There is a lot of prickly grass in the steppe. Many scoops and bumblebees feed on its flowers. Oddly enough, there are still no stone workers among the latter, and their wombs have disappeared. I wouldn't be surprised if after this summer the situation with this bumblebee becomes the same as in Crimea.

Stridulation of tettigonia caudata has begun. And Viridissima is already yelling at the top of her lungs. This time they were elated by a very small margin. But the decticus is not heard, the dybok is also not visible.

Poperla raspberries, and much more than usual, especially pleased with the size of the berries. However, there is also a sadness here: most of the raspberries burned out during the spring arson of the forest floor. Almost everything has recovered from the roots, but in the first year of life, the shoots do not bloom. If it were not for the cromans, the harvest of wild raspberry moss could be just a record for our region.

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Yesterday I was at Yegorin's place.

If it were not for the cromans, the harvest of wild raspberry moss could be just a record for our region.

And perhaps there is a pyrogenic succession here... maybe if there were no fires, then there would not be so many raspberries))

How can the fallen forest floor improve the conditions for the growth of one of the most easily combustible shrubs? Not the forest there from the fire falls, clearing the place. From all I can see, fires in our area have a very negative impact on everything and everything, especially in the forests. Here is the steppe for the flow of natural cycles, perhaps, should burn, once every 50 years, and not 1-2 times a year.

Continues to roast moderately. During the day, in the shade, it does not reach thirty degrees, but at night it does not fall below 20 even in the beam, which is not very usual. In the course of half a day, I saw only three potozias on the flight, one large one, probably a specialissimus, was spinning low near an elderberry bush, you could get a net, but not fate. But on sochniki there is no one at all, only deer, olenka and tsetonia aurata. And a huge number of flyers. Of the daytime butterflies, except for the cabbage-like whiteflies, galatas and thick-headed ones, no one flutters, even the admirals have disappeared somewhere. Metriopter stridulation has started. I've also heard of some unusual midnight locust, but I don't think I've ever seen one before. Finally got a rack, but only one. In other years, I would have met dozens, if not hundreds, of them by this time. Hornets began to brutalize the nests of polistov-early and very powerful. In just a day, a dozen tut-tut nests. In general, there are a lot of working hornets this year, almost like in the forest zone, apparently, the cold weather somehow went to their advantage. There were workers of the next on phenology of laying of nests of bumblebee - horse. But there were no stone ones, and even the wombs were completely gone.

I collected 3.5 kg of cherries in the yards and 300 grams of mosses in the forest. The late cherry varieties did very well.

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Today I was picking cherries,then I will go to Yegor and go either to Yegorino's place or to my pit, there were several fires at Yegorino's place due to the wind.

Not because of the wind, but because of the pyromanics. Wind doesn't cause fire, at least not on planet Earth.

This post was edited by ENO - 28.06.2017 18: 55

And here the heat has broken the mark of 40 degrees, probably the decticuses have melted,and the annoying sparrows are fried.

Fried sparrows are a favorite dish in Vietnam.
Meanwhile, we have something very bad going on with the weather, just a nightmare. It's pouring. It's very cold at home, and if it weren't for my powerful lighting, it would have been quite frosty. The flood does not subside due to heavy rains.
I found some wild blackberries for stick insects. I'm waiting for eggs now. they should send it in a few days.

Alex, so you're in the middle of summer there ) I looked at the archive, you have already in the morning above +12 almost always and in the afternoon above +20, Tsr almost all the time above +15C.
Of course, everything looks beautiful, probably when it's quiet. it's nice, not hot or cold, but!! Mosquitoes!!!111 ))

And from Nikolayevshchina, what, all "mosquitoes" emigrated to the EU? Last time I visited My megastep (TM), I stayed up until about 10 pm, so I was almost eaten alive and deafened by the ringing of thousands of wings over my ear. Even polisty ofigeli when they landed on the nest attracted by me mosquito landing. True, Pan does not go out on the steppe at night because of his eternal cowardice, and mosquitoes do not like to roast in the sun, unlike him. That's probably why he arrives in blissful ignorance of the state of affairs with bloodsuckers in his area, thinking that this is solely the problem of the inhabitants of filthy Mordor,and in blissful Europe there are only horseflies, and then switched to a vegetarian diet.

Today in the second half of the day we have a notable downpour with thunderstorms and hornbeam passed, the temperature of miom dropped to +19. And before that, it was +33. On the one hand, it's good-the mushroom season will continue, and Tov has already begun to dry out the land in the forest from the heat, on the other hand, it's bad - the apricots probably beat the few that started. They are not lucky at all this year: during flowering - hail, then-cold weather, just before maturation-hail again.

This post was edited by INO - 29.06.2017 18: 42

I go outside in my clothes, but it's cold to sleep at home, especially in the morning. Judging by the temperature, I have never left in one shirt in the morning, and in the evening, when I returned, my jacket did not interfere with me, i.e. I did not carry it in my hands, it is not hot. In the evening, you can still somehow fall asleep in a warm place, but in the morning it's cold. And damp. Because of the rain. It is rarely quiet here, mostly windy.
There are a lot of mosquitoes near water bodies. It's less stressful in the city.

In Thailand, a favorite dish is fried grasshoppers and spiders, served as chips and pies.

So, we can't go out for a walk on days because of the forty-plus weather, and the ticks are bloodsucking again, I'll go to the Black Sea coast soon, I hope to find truxalis eximia and some pyrgomorph.

In Thailand, a favorite dish is fried grasshoppers and spiders, served as chips and pies.

These dishes are for tourists suffering from exotics. Thais themselves do not eat this.