Identification of Hymenoptera (wasps, bees, ants)

... Apparently, I'm a really fast learner! ...

Do not confuse the concepts of fast and hasty... It is because of the second one that you have a lot of blunders.

Alexander, have you watched my latest Parpactus with a red belly base?)

Have you not yet realized that we are not interlocutors, but competitors? Why should I reveal my cards before the results of my research are published?
If you want to create your own website, then do it yourself. I even removed all my comments from the forum dedicated to discussing it.

Your copper!
That's precisely because of people like you, I have long formed a certain opinion about certain circles And even cards, then what, money and two barrels?
Do you have any idea what you're writing, is it a business or a love triangle?
Author of an amateur site, as a competitor in publishing research results)))))))))
And after that, someone else writes to me that my position is too categorical, mdooooaa ))

Is this Formica pratensis?
23.03.13. Rostov region.

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Is this Formica pratensis?
23.03.13. Rostov region.

For the Rostov region-Formica pratensis. Other similar species are much further north. The anthill should be almost flat (not domed) of twigs and earth.

Thanks TimK, yes almost flat. There were two sizes of ants, the second photo shows both. What does size mean here?

Many species of ants are characterized by workers of different sizes. So more loot is collected. Small ones are collected by small workers, large ones-by large ones. But in most species, there is no strict distinction between large and small workers. There are usually intermediate forms as well. Similarly, Formica pratensis has intermediate-sized forms.
Among our ants, workers in the genus Proformica are strictly differentiated by size. Proformica doesn't have intermediate-sized forms. Only large and small ones. Below in the photo are small and large working proformas:

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For Anatolia52.
I looked at your site.
For ants of the subfamily Proceratiinae, the species Proceratium avium is indicated, which does not live in Russia. It is better to indicate the only species of this subfamily in Russia, Proceratium melinum, which, by the way, lives in the Rostov region.

This post was edited by TimK - 24.03.2013 11: 02

Bali Island Indonesia. Can you tell me about these instances?
1. Scolia

2. Vespa

Bali Island Indonesia. Can you tell me about these instances?
2. Vespa

There is a good guide to Vietnamese vespids. Don't want to define it yourself?

Alexey, what groups are there? Well, if it is available and there is an opportunity to purchase it, why not. To be honest, I don't feel much interest in the exotic, just suddenly there is something very noticeable and so they will say by the general appearance. I mistakenly believe that all this is large and easy to determine )))) If not, then of course sooner or later my hands will get to them )))).

Actually vespins, without eumenins. However, I also have work on eumenins of South-East Asia.
Evgeny, if you remind me of your email address, I will reset your work on vespids of Vietnam.
I also have several vesps from Southeast Asia, like identified.

Everything seems to have been sent. At the same address that I had.
I found a job on Eumeninae. There's a tour of the Oriental Region and Papua. English italian

Bali Island Indonesia. Can you tell me about these instances?
2. Vespa

This is obviously one of the color variations of Vespa velutina

Your copper!
That's precisely because of people like you, I have long formed a certain opinion about certain circles And even cards, then what, money and two barrels?
Do you have any idea what you're writing, is it a business or a love triangle?
Author of an amateur site, as a competitor in publishing research results)))))))))
And after that, someone else writes to me that my position is too categorical, mdooooaa ))

At the risk of incurring another wave of dissatisfaction from the moderator, I still decided to respond to your message.

I don't know exactly how many experts from the "inner circles" you have had a chance to communicate with. But I'm just black letters on a gray background. I wrote about the competition with a bit of irony, and you took everything at face value. Calm down and keep a "certain opinion" about virtual interlocutors to yourself, without knowing them personally.

But then seriously. Are you familiar with such concepts as "copyright", "intellectual property", and "plagiarism"? Have you personally published at least one work in the open press? Can you understand, for example, how I was "pleased" to see in the proceedings of an international (!) conference a report by unknown authors compiled from paragraphs copied one to one from my journal publication, not even mentioned in this report? This is the style of "work" of amateurs. Order to love and favor? No, please don't… So, it is you who do not understand what you are outraged about.

Thank God that the bulk of my work lies in an area that is strictly regulated by the provisions of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, violations of which automatically throw their authors in the trash.

AVA, what does plagiarism and copyright have to do with it? I'll keep my opinions about copyright to myself, but I'll leave it to the left.
I will say that my answer was to your refusal just to help explain the differences regarding some oss! And that's all.

My opinion is that if you are a professional scientist, then you should share such information with the "people", since in my understanding a scientist should be guided primarily by the desire to bring knowledge to the masses. Your article will be read by a few specialists, and here there is a chance to help many amateurs.

"Calm down and keep a" certain opinion " about virtual interlocutors to yourself, without knowing them personally."
I made up my mind solely from what I read
And as for my general opinion, I made it up, believe me, on the basis of certain experience.
I do not claim that the whole "system" is like this, but cases that differ from the general norm are just exceptions.

I don't think I even mentioned you." Or not, and you see donkey ears?
And the transition to the identity of the opponent is a banal rudeness, indicating the lack of elementary education. Despite quoting other people's (again) thoughts...
I don't talk to hamams, so you're ignored... Dixi.

As you wish. Even if you really are the only and best specialist, as you say about yourself ("we simply do not have taxonomists, except yours truly") communication with you was unpleasant to me because of your character. So I don't care much about your ignore.

...My opinion is that if you are a professional scientist, then you should share such information with the "people", since in my understanding a scientist should be guided primarily by the desire to bring knowledge to the masses. ...

Hmm, familiar slogans… But just explain to me why it is for the sake of specialists "should share ... information with the "people"? With the very one who considers almost all scientists parasites who satisfy their interests for people's money (by the way, very, very modest and paid for the very articles that "only a few specialists will read").

Researchers, like other creative people, are not guided by the "desire to bring knowledge to the masses", but only by their own curiosity, the desire to solve the problems they face. And this applies not only to biology.

So, we don't owe anyone anything! If I have an itch for popularization, and I want to share "with the masses", then I can do it. And I will share only those results that I think have already been solved. But no more than that. But what is currently under investigation is the area of exclusively my professional interests.

Hmm, familiar slogans… But just explain to me why it is for the sake of specialists "should share ... information with the "people"? With the very one who considers almost all scientists parasites who satisfy their interests for people's money (by the way, very, very modest and paid for the very articles that "only a few specialists will read").

Researchers, like other creative people, are not guided by the "desire to bring knowledge to the masses", but only by their own curiosity, the desire to solve the problems they face. And this applies not only to biology.

So, we don't owe anyone anything! If I have an itch for popularization, and I want to share "with the masses", then I can do it. And I will share only those results that I think have already been solved. But no more than that. But what is currently under investigation is the area of exclusively my professional interests.

Just the opposite. The normal desire of creative people, creators - to show their creation to the people. Even if the people do not need this creation for nothing. But resentment against the people who do not appreciate, do not understand, the desire to hide their creation from the "bad" people-these are the characteristic features of the "MISUNDERSTOOD GENIUS". Or am I wrong? Read more here:
http://askalex.ru/2012/04/10/o-neponyatyh-geniyah/
This is not my article, but I like it.

This post was edited by TimK-26.03.2013 22: 18

Comrades, let's create a separate topic to find out who owes what to whom.
TimK, you are warned for a rude attack.

Everything seems to have been sent. At the same address that I had.
I found a job on Eumeninae. There's a tour of the Oriental Region and Papua. Russian language Italian

Alexey thank you, I received the book article, I will understand, well, you can also use eumins, I also have five types there, maybe something will turn out

This is obviously one of the color variations of Vespa velutina

Alexander thank you. Because of the heated "battles", I didn't notice the answer right away. There were a few hornets caught on the heels, but this one was different in color.

Alexey thank you, I received the book article, I will understand, well, you can also use eumins, I will also have about five types there, maybe something will work out  

Sent. True, the file is more than 20 megabytes and there is some garbage with a link. In computers, I'm like a traffic jam and did not understand. If you don't get it, I can find a link to this work on the web and download it yourself.
Py Sy Evgeny, I'm completely confused about something - are we on you or on you?

Alexey, thank you, everything is clear. Yesterday I took the first step to master this work-I bought a dictionary of Italian words :-)
As convenient as possible. I have no problem on "You" : -)

That's how it turns out... And he asked me to call him "My Lord"

I don't know you at all uncle

Yesterday I moved one animal from a dirty incubator to a clean one. Its name is Odontoponera transversa. I also took a picture of her and the cub. Who knows? Maybe you'll find one somewhere near the warm sea....

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28.04.2012
MO, Railway
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Ophion?
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For the Rostov region-Formica pratensis. Other similar species are much further north. The anthill should be almost flat (not domed) of twigs and earth.

And what can we say about this form of an anthill and its appearance? Rostov region on 01.04.13.

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And what can we say about this form of an anthill and its appearance? Rostov region on 01.04.13.

We have similar anthills on the Karelian Isthmus Formica pratensis

And what can we say about this form of an anthill and its appearance? Rostov region on 01.04.13.

It looks like the same ones. The anthill is mostly made of earth. Tall, but there are some of them. From the subgenus Formica so Formica pratensis build. You can tell for sure by the hairs on the occipital edge of the head and body. These photos are hard to see. Formica pratensis should have spaced hairs along the entire occipital margin. You can't see it in the photo, but that doesn't mean they're not there. I don't see anything that contradicts Formica pratensis. But only hairs can dispel doubts...

This post was edited by TimK-02.04.2013 10: 51

Here is a photo of a working Formica pratensis. See how hairy it should be? (upper edge of the head, chest). Compare it with the ones you have.

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28.04.2012
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Similar to Ophion obscuratus Fabricius, 1798

Please identify a small bee. 01.04.13. Rostov region.
On the flowers of Gagea pusilla

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And two more. 01.04.13. Rostov region.
1.There is also a very small one.
2. On the glass of the headlight.

Is it Vespula germanica? June, Mordovia

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Is it Vespula germanica? June, Mordovia

Yes, she. Moreover, a female with a "classic" type of pattern. Often there are other options.

Please define it. An anthill in sandy soil. 04.04.13. Rostov region.

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Please define it. An anthill in sandy soil. 04.04.13. Rostov region.

You can't tell from these photos. You need to see the hairs on the upper edge of the head and on the front, mid-spine, epinotum and stalk. It can even be raptiformica (Formica sanguinea). But most likely someone from the serviformics subgenus. They have anthills with no outbuildings. And who exactly? You can't tell from these photos. Purely externally, they remind me of Formica subpilosa. Now I will attach a photo of this ant. You can compare the location of the hairs. If you can , try to take a similar picture of your own. So that the hairs can be seen. Then I'll try to determine. And so this is fortune-telling on coffee grounds.

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Who's that?" Under the bark of a poplar tree, today (7,04,2013), Mordovia.

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