Positive temperature anomaly

Nikita, I don't know if the grasshopper will be able to catch locusts on the fly, especially if it is long-legged, but probably this is the creation that in the first picture you will definitely be able to catch on the fly, when I saw behind my back-I almost flew away myself )))))

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And I saw an albifrons bite off the head of a praying mantis and eat it,and locusts generally fly like swifts!

Unless, like slightly shot swifts, because they land very quickly.

Oh, Pan Stepov finally got the right katamenes, with kosher loot, I hope (not too much, though) that this lessened the anger towards the "lying Ymer scientists". By the way, I have already talked to them about the caterpillars of pigeons, this information did not cause much surprise.

What is this strange reaction to the marsh harrier - one of the most common steppe predators? Has the inner rodent woken up in Pan Stepov? The only thing that surprises me about this bird is its surreal color scheme.

The female of a large cerceris of similar appearance to the male has tuberculates in the same place, I still ambushed yesterday, but on closer inspection the appearance turned out to be completely different-even more ugly extravagant: instead of huge swollen temples, it has a long forked shnobel at the end.




I didn't even know there were such things before. So far, I've identified it as C. flavilabris, but I haven't considered all the signs, since the wasp is on the spread, so I can't be sure. Today, these females have become more numerous and even one male was caught (from a distance, completely indistinguishable from the male tuberculates). And the tuberculants, it seems, have already all flown away.

I have filled a huge number of suitable photos of insects over the past three days, but as part of counter-sanctions, I show only one, erotic, as usual, to delight the subtle aesthetic taste of Pan Stepovoi.



However, the counter-sanctions do not yet concern the landscape genre, the topic is still about nature-the weather. And the weather is such that My Megastepp (TM) turns into a semblance of the typical dry steppe of Mykolaiv region scorched by the sun and itchy from all sorts of thorns, which can not but depress.



Only the lower meadow part of the shadow slope is still green.



On the sunny slope of the caragana shrub generally dropped all the leaves, as if it was sprayed with American "Agent Orange". At first I even thought that there was a fire there. Only a few branches show green leaves and ... flowers. A strange phenomenon...





Yesterday, according to the SFS map, severe thunderstorms passed to the south and north of Donetsk, and there was a gap right above us. So I didn't even see any clouds during the day, just light feathery clouds.

PS I decided to soften the sanctions policy a little and show another Donetsk miracle. about which in Nikolaev it is possible only to dream - a creeping horned forest sausage:



Yes, that's the view.

This post was edited by ENO-16.08.2017 20: 47

No, well, it's wonderful-this is all your science, okodemiki - "did not cause much surprise"))
And the fact that the data on catamenes feeding their larvae with scoop caterpillars has spread to the masses, this is just bullshit))
By the way, in addition to the caterpillars of pigeons, they carry caterpillars of at least 5 different taxa, and this is the minimum, because this is what was noticed mainly by conservative, non-destructive methods!
True, the most important scientist - Carcharot, in principle, as if only "posted an ad", he refers to other masters, but at the same time boldly asserts exclusivity.
Moreover, 95% (tm) of the data on the biology and ecology of catamenes dimidiatus from the article on the lifestyle of K. flavigularis, to put it mildly, do not correspond. In fact, this suggests that before writing something, it is necessary and very necessary to observe the species yourself at least a little, especially since it is clearly available in a large number, and not to start from external data.
But the paper will tolerate everything)

Mda, the caterpillar of the oak hawk moth, which we have a lot of, I only this season in the same topic posted his photo

Where do you get a lot of oak hawkmoth when there is not a single normal forest area, not only within the city limits, but also within the borders of the region? Could it be three oak trees in Central Park? I remember very well that this season I posted here a photo of an oak hawk moth (for which I was awarded a separate commendation), but I don't remember Panov's similar one, a link to the studio.

From the camel
This, by the way, simply confirms the strategy of our "okodemic scientist", to blurt out something without a word, and then proclaim-from where?
A photo of an oak hawk moth in this topic and this season I posted

Sednya on Yegorino place go, still a bunch of akrid show you!I'll take a picture of the train, too.

And I will die of envy

Alex, don't be jealous (c))))
Better let our sower envy and plow.
By the way, it is typical to be discouraged about the "tropics", in fact, all the wasps that I have in the picture, with a probability of 90% are found near Donetsk, this follows at least from the determinant, except that there is no data on Sphex leuconotus, but cryptocheilus octomaculatus, guttatus, batozonellus, and others, the same katamenes, they probably live there.

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By the way, about the males of Cerceris bumpy. Today I saw about 50 females of this wasp, by the way, in excellent condition, and at the same time no more than 10 males, and by the way, the "bugorchata males" in the photos of our okodemik, albeit under the "approval" of imperialist gurus, but they somehow do not quite look like bugorchata males.. In general, the whole thing is muddy )))

I wonder why I should go there.

"Shot" - what's that for? And the psychiatrist Pana needs to be visited on the occasion that his last brakes were broken: he is already openly writing obscene insults. Soon, probably, matyuki trample. Although, this is just one of many worrying symptoms. So it's time for Pan to relax at bedtime by looking at a fly strawberry (at the end of the post), and right in the morning - to the hospital, to set his brains, if, of course,there is still something left to set.

The male in my photo is the most bumpy, I collected it and examined it in detail, drove it through the key. The only possible alternative - an undescribed similar species that reproduces without the participation of females - is omitted. So AVA-respect for the definition of such a photo, and Pan Stepov also needs to go to the optometrist - it's a muddy matter to enlighten your eyes. And, by the way, H. Z. what kind of males pan saw next to females tuberculates, these cerceris on one plant for several species at the same time feeds, almost indistinguishable without catching or a good macro image, especially for males. And the size and color vary very much, which is reflected in the determinant. Photos, except for the first one, are rare slag (even by the standards of the latest trends in panov photo art), it would be better if the author uploaded them to his favorite Ukrainian Pancake.

Oho, our temperature has become more or less cool,it does not reach 40 degrees at all.

Nikita, how did you go to Yegorino's place yesterday?

akrid then lay out, there is no time.

Today's weather can be described in one word: wind! No. It's better this way: WINDMILL! And its combination with the drought has created something terrible, like the American dust cauldron. Dust obscured the sky, all sorts of perekotipoli not only rolled but also flew. And the worst thing for me is the allergenic ragweed pollen. One good thing is that due to the long drought, pollen productivity was far from at its maximum. Otherwise, after crossing this wonderful emerald-green field, I probably would have thrown the horses.



As it was, he just blew his nose and cleared his throat. In general, of course, our farmers do a lot of tin with these "pairs" of their own: they burn fuel and ruin equipment for the benefit of the American biological weapon with the divine name. Here is a perfect illustration of why steam is the purest evil in our time:



Which side of the road was ploughed this year and which side wasn't, I don't think there's any need to specify, or where there will be many times more of this terrible weed if both fields are sown next year.

The target was the dalnaya gulch, which is, how should I put it more correctly, a tributary of the one I usually go to.



Judging by the state of the grass cover, at least this year a human foot has not set foot there. Only once did a car pass through a neighboring deposit, and then the track was almost overgrown. The neat rows of grasses only partially interrupted the animal paths that led from nowhere to nowhere. And grass from the category "you will be up to your waist", and most of it is dry, prickly and tightly woven due to the presence of wiki in its composition. The day passed. Another significant nuisance that the wind caused was the almost complete impossibility of photographing insects on inflorescences, because all of them were moth-driven with terrible force. Here it is, the power of the Donbass winds, there is no such thing in Ukraine:



Here, with the resize, I just missed, so in order to move, you will have to click:


But the skill is not only not drunk, but also not blown out by the wind, so a few successful pictures even in such extreme conditions still turned out:





However, that's all. Not even the usual hymenopteran species found in my gully were there. Apparently, the matter is in the low water content of the soil, even the stream at the bottom is almost dry. The result is poor flowering and low nectar production. So I came up with a clever idea: what if the tubules do not nest in my beam, but simply fly there to feed, since there are much more abundant sources of nectar due to the special hydro regime than in the surrounding area? It is quite possible that males migrate further than females, which is why I have never seen the latter-they do not reach. And well, pull such a head, and you also need to dig holes and catch elephants. Another thing is a carefree lightweight male who has done his duty.

In general, the results of this selfless expedition to the other side of the ambrosia Sea were scanty. If I had stayed in my gully, I would undoubtedly have taken out twice as much of everything. There is one watering hole at the spring that is worth it! The only gesheft-two kilograms of blackthorn for compote scored, in my beam such a large and numerous for some reason there is no, most likely-because of constant falls.




Otherwise, "My Megastep", as well as the adjacent "My Megalug" and "My Megales" rule! No matter how much I walked around the area (before the war), I never met a more interesting biotope anywhere. Those places that need to go an hour or more by bus do not count.

And there is no need to doubt that my picture of the oak hawk moth is there, and only a couple of pages ago.
Need to be able to see (s)

And "full" is how much? As much as a scoop of gammas?

Fully fl approx. 10 individuals for all the time of observations, I think-this is quite complete, compared to almost all other groups of hawkmoth, not counting macroglossum, and milkweed caterpillars, oak probably in second or third place, well, it is also inferior to loach maybe. This is considering that I didn't catch them on purpose. caterpillar, too, by the way, once found)

Whether Pan describes some parallel reality, or stupidly takes for oak another kind of hawk moth, poplar, most likely. There are even oak trees growing at all, where did pan see these hawkmoths? You give me a picture of the whole individual!

This post was edited by ENO-18.08.2017 22: 38

Fully fl approx. 10 individuals for all the time of observation, I think-this is quite complete

And in years can you translate this "for all the time of observations"?

Whether Pan describes some parallel reality, or stupidly takes for oak another kind of hawk moth, poplar, most likely. There are even oak trees growing at all, where did pan see these hawkmoths? You give me a picture of the whole individual!

And yet, according to most photos in the studio

These numbers don't matter. Just a loud statement of the pan that the oak hawk moth in Nikolaev surpasses all the others in number, except for two or three banals, disavows all his other revelations on this topic. This can't be happening. Or rather, probably, it can be in some hypothetical multi-kilometer stand of oak monoculture, which is especially funny when applied to almost completely treeless Mykolaiv region. Yes, there will even be more death's head than oak hawkmoth, if it is found at all.

And in years can you translate this "for all the time of observations"?
And yet, according to most photos in the studio

Well, since 2000.
We really have a lot of them, in some years it was possible to meet three times a season, and under such circumstances - I was riding a bike - an oak hawk moth is sitting on the road
And okodemicheskiy ikspert at least looked in KK before broadcasting
http://redbook-ua.org/ru/item/marumba-quer...isschifermller/

I looked in, and what's there? The main useful information that can be gleaned from there is that the caterpillar develops on an oak tree, with all the consequences that follow sad for pan in the light of the landscape features of his region. There are two filled-in points, so I won't argue, someone once caught this hawk moth there. But the fact that it is there in terms of number in the second place after yazykan (or in the fourth after loach is not important) is a surreal fairy tale for the smallest and most stupid. Although this remark perfectly suits the poplar hawk moth, which makes me more and more suspicious that it was our meganaturald who took it for oak. That's why he's embarrassed to post a picture now. After all, it is hard to believe that he limited himself to photographing only one eye.

This post was edited by ENO-19.08.2017 13: 21

As requested by Decticus, here are my acrids.

And besides akrid, did you find anything else interesting?

Oooh That's scolia
In general, it is strange that our okodemika does not have pictures of all these wasps, ordinary wasps, cryptoheiluses, batazonellus, sphex) But there is one thing-they fly only in the hottest weather, at noon )

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And besides akrid, did you find anything else interesting?

In general, nothing, but when I went in the previous times, I came across real locusts, giant prusy (4 centimeters), a jump of orange-brown color and ruspolia.

Photos of Sphex funerarius and Scolia hirta (and why did Pan have such an unhealthy delight in her?) I have a lot, I didn't post it, because it's just banal stuff. We don't seem to have any other sphex and cryptoheyluses. A picture of a male cerceris tuberculata has already been taken, and how, I wonder, does it differ from panov? Today, by the way, I caught another one with the missing left front paw. What is interesting is that the previous one had exactly the same injury, hz.what are they doing there with this paw? Still no females in sight. Although I'm lying: I caught a glimpse (for a split second) of some very large female cerceris feeding on a salt shaker, but I'm not sure that it was a tuberculate, too dark. Maybe just flavilabris to record size overfed, their (smaller) there were a lot of them. Or media. And here's another thing, Pan meganaturalizde: we do not patch up any cerceris (except for very small ones) in the heat of the day. Massively feed on flowers only before 10 am and after 2 days, in the interval-only single specimens. Lacerticide this year has not yet been seen, the population is depressed, it seems. You've even seen her bury a spider in the past, haven't you, Pan?

And now a question for pan: where on his megaphotographs are there any eumenines, except for katamenes, at least any crabronids, except for one type of cerceris, German, typhia, spangle (except for one poorly filmed)? After all, the probability that all this is found in Mykolaiv region is 100%, in contrast to the probability that we have at least one of the species that the pan has found here. And there are also bees...

I've taken a lot of interesting photos at the watering hole today, including some that I've never seen before. Interestingly, everyone drinks directly from the point of seepage of underground water, and a meter below - only polysts, and even those are few. That's what a clean guy he is, it turns out. In general, the place is mega-promising, I am sure that if you turn gray there for a day or two, then katemenes will fly in, and many others. However, I'm afraid a little earlier will arrive sunstroke, because there is such a local lowering of the terrain, where no wind penetrates at all, only the sun's rays. After sitting for half an hour, the legs on my knees were so hot that they almost burned my skin. Fotiku also got sick, but, like, moved away later. But cerceris (any), it seems, do not drink water at all, like most bees.



















This post was edited by ENO-20.08.2017 23: 01

Well, finally, even some pompillida in the pictures is))
Actually, the scolia in my picture is not hirta at all, but fallax
I meet dozens of individuals of the two - point stichus, tuberous cerceris, sphex two species (or maybe three-with flavipenis ), ammophila, scolium fuciformis, hirta, maculata, colpae (by the way, it is surprising that the pictures from megastepi (s) do not show the most widespread and ubiquitous pyatipoyaskovaya colpae), batazonellus and various species "small" cryptoheiluses and also sometimes a large cryptoheilus like annulatus, but they run away, but they still run away, a bunch of philants, various small eumenins, crabronids, gallicts, anthophores, and all this fotkayu.
And I put here only 1% of everything

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Well, why does pan suddenly think that I put up more than 1%? The only difference is that I try to put out the best, not the worst, like Pan. Although I can hardly believe in this bike prokhudzhee, rather Pan all this. Because there is no patience required for normal marophotography. In the spring, when all the familiar things are inhibited, but on broken corpses, gathering dust on the closet, it certainly comes out much better, yes...

A lot of philanthropists - this is in terms of numbers, although near-global.. hmmm, they're like that, they'll suck anything out of anything))
About scolia-the remark is correct, however, after a little study of the information, I am sure that this is 99% not hirta, neither in habitus, nor in pubescence, it does not look like hirta in any way

So this is either a fallax (in the glabula determinant) or it can be a shrenka, and-we are talking about the population, so you can catch an oska, and not necessarily on a needle, just remove the head in detail and release it. Although IMHO there and so it is clear that we have this kind of scoliosis, which okodemik can only dream of

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And I,when I was at Yegor's and went home, I decided to walk on the mown grass and found a large gray Aiolopus, the length was 33 millimeters with wings.

Nikita, I thought - "I found a big gray Auplopus, the length was 33 millimeters with wings", I think, wow!!! I read it more carefully, Googled it.. Soooo ))))
And scolia is not hirta, not hiirta

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And what is the ATM in the habitus of pan confused? Has he ever even tried putting" Scolia hirta unifasciata " in Google maps? Not by habit they are determined but by the specific features of the sculpture of pokrovov (by the way, not at all on the head) here is the key written by Karharot: http://karadag.com.ru/static/media/uploads...eryga_38_14.pdf. And Schrenk's scolia is different in everything, there is nothing for Pan to dream about. Here is the one that I saw in 2015, it was similar, but not caught - not a thief.

Especially at the request of viewers forumochitateley:



The photo, as Pan likes, sanitation, wasp pose clearly illustrates the attitude of Donetsk katemenes to the southern Ukrainian meganaturalizds. Interesting info: katamenes refills with water in about 10-15 seconds, eumenes and euodinerus-in 20-30 seconds. Apparently, there is in the body of Eumenin some special mechanism for rapid absorption of water. Bruszko is lengthening right before our eyes. And if his rings have already spread out as much as possible, then everything, it's too late to drink Borjomi to direct the camera, will now start sinking.






For comparison: sphecids, crabronids, vespins suck for five minutes, and still their abdomen does not increase significantly in volume.






In general, it is good at this spring (even though it was hot): you sit on a piece of bark, relax, and a variety of interesting insects come to you and pose - babble! It's a pity that not everyone is interested in water, it seems that Cerceris has a general prohibition law. Otherwise, I would certainly have waited quietly for the female tuberculates there, instead of walking for three fields.





Then I found another spring, in the deep shade of the trees, where there was also a lot of wasps, but a completely different species composition, except for the ubiquitous polistes and Eumenes koartatus. But there are almost no photos from there, because it's dark, and I was too lazy to dance around the flash. Is that the backside of a typhoid with an exposure time of 1/25 sec:



The moral of the photo, addressed to Pan Stepov, is the same as in the case of katemenes.

And, finally, one more picture from the series of those that, in theory, should be posted by Pan Stepova rather than me, but not fate:



P.S. I hope after I shared a picture of Donetsk katemenes, Pan Stepovoi will share a megafot of Mykolaiv discelia, at least one, as a response gesture. I don't even hope for a picture of an oak hawk moth.

Aiolopus is not thalassinus,but something else,I don't know.

You need to look at the head in order to make sure that this is not Schrenk's scolia, and yet yes, it is not. According to the determinant of the European part, this is glabula scolium, which according to Carcharot became fallax scolium, it does not look like hirta at all. I did not put the part with the strip in vain, I thought that the okodemic would look more closely and see that the strip in Hirta scolium does not tend to double from below, which is visible in the pictures and uniform
And in general, these scolias are as similar as cryptocheilus octomaculatus and bathozonellus

Well, finally, our scientist found katamenes!: But after such a picture, katamenes will not fly there again
And why should I provide a picture of the discelia? Again okodemik sucked something out of his finger)) I didn't say that I found it, although I'm not saying that it's not here, unlike some people
A picture of an oak hawk moth I have already posted, and by the way not one, here on the Forum and other pictures are from other children

According to the definition of the European part, this is glabula scolia,

Then it's better to immediately "globule"!

Well, really, this is even boring, but how not to dip okodemika in their own mutually exclusive paragraphs