Identification of Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

maybe kanesh was stressed - but she refused to eat apples.. they threw a piece of wood, a lettuce leaf, and she wrapped herself up in all this and only sometimes twists her head. right now like to sleep collapsed )) okay, I feel it's time to create a topic ) about kossus and two amateur entomologists )

The fact that you found it "on the street" means that it has eaten its fill and is now going to pupate.

According to the description of the caterpillar's behavior, it looks like this. But not the fact that any caterpillar of kossus crawls out for pupation, or even so-I think they rarely crawl out for pupation at all, their cocoons are found under the bark right on the forage tree. It's just that very often these caterpillars migrate, and at any age, then they are usually picked up. Although I haven't seen any migrating caterpillars yet.

We continue the epic with kossus. I found here that breeding this particular butterfly has been a problem for a long time. But then Russian scientists came up with an original method. The caterpillar, ready for pupation, is placed in half of the bread, from which the crumb was previously removed. Cover the top with the second half and tie it with a rope. In spring, a butterfly nibbles through bread.
Well, has anyone ever done that? And then it's a pity this monster))))

All the butterflies were shot in the Moscow region

Some kind of dustpan, can you tell me more precisely? Filmed in the Moscow region.

http://nature.doublea.ru/pix/sovka1.jpg

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This is probably some kind of moth, but I couldn't determine which one exactly... Filmed in the Moscow region.

http://nature.doublea.ru/pix/pyad1.jpg

Gentlemen, I apologize in advance for the quality of the drawing, I didn't have a camera at hand at that time, and I'm not much of an artist. But maybe experts will be able to determine what kind of butterfly it is. I saw it on the border of the Ivanovo and Vladimir regions.
I really want to know when it is possible to"hunt" with a photo gun

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Most likely, it is a hawk moth, if the front wingspan is really about 10 cm. Which one is it? It is difficult to say: ocular (Smerinthus ocellata) - most similar, maybe bindweed (Agrius convolvuli) and lilac (Sphinx ligusri).

Please help me identify these scoops:

Thank you, the first one I was also more inclined to vitellina, but the second one I think can be Pseudaletia unipuncta, if they have a certain variability?
Although on the other hand, I identified this scoop as Pseudaletia unipuncta:
Very different
indeed...

The third one is flying in large numbers now. In general, it was considered orthosia gracilis, but something does not look much like...
The fourth one is also quite similar to Armiger's pictures and drawings.

Yes, interesting scoops are now flying...
And here's a picture from last year, 050605, it's not c-nigrum, maybe it's Xestia triangulum?

Thanks! Now you can "select a new species" from a long-standing collection
And here's another scoop from yesterday, and a weevil flew in.

Weevil of course yes, it's hard to determine, just maybe someone will be interested. And for the scoop, thank you very much! I have no mention of such a scoop, only in the lists of butterflies of the Crimea, and there are no pictures.
As for the scoop, which looks like a ferrago, I was told that it has a brush of black hair at the bottom of the joint of the abdomen with the chest. so the one in the picture does not have such a brush. Maybe this brush isn't necessarily black?