Entomological fairs and exhibitions. Insektenborse, Bursa

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09.03.2012 20:27, А.Й.Элез

And where can you even find him dead?

Vasya, I once posted a picture of a dead beaver taken in Mytishchi on the edge of the Yauza marshes (I think it's Vodoprovodnaya Street). The specimen was quite fresh, but I was too ignorant to look for beaver fleas on it, and it was too early in spring to look for dead eaters. The beaver has indeed spread throughout Moscow (even in the valley of the Setun River, right near Victory Park) and across the region, and now and then you have to observe the landscape disfigured by beavers: ditches, pits, fallen trees, dams. An animal is where it is not rare and harmful to humans during life. Not pharmacists, not forestry workers, and not furriers, but ordinary rural inhabitants are sometimes forced to take up arms against this rascal, who destroys the land above the dam by flooding, and below it by drying up, disfiguring the roads, etc. But I did not ask whether it is good or not to mow the beaver "for personal self-satisfaction" (??); to in addition, M. B., someone has a veterinary weapon for shooting with sleeping pills, or at least knows someone who has such a weapon for work (although it is instantaneous, otherwise the beaver can abruptly fall asleep no longer on the shore and not yet in the hole, but in the water and forever). My question was addressed to the beetles, I just want to know if these beetles live on the dead meat for some time or if they quickly leave it after the death of the beaver? Ie: does it make sense to search for this particular species (and not banal dead eaters) to pick at carrion and to what stage of its decomposition?
P.S. I'll answer where I started; but if there is a more appropriate thread, I ask you to move the conversation about beaver fleas there from this one.

This post was edited by A. J. Elez-09.03.2012 21: 23

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10.03.2012 1:42, Victor Titov

My question was addressed to the beetles, I just want to know if these beetles live on the dead meat for some time or if they quickly leave it after the death of the beaver?

Logically, Platypsyllus castoris fully lives only on live beavers and after some time will simply die on a dead one if it cannot find a new "host". In places of beaver settlements, there are probably no problems with this, but if the beaver went "wrong" and died, the pipe and the beetles.
Personally, I put a series of P. castoris in my collection (and also shared it with my fellow countrymen), asking a hunter I knew to bring me a freshly cut beaver skin. We have really bred them beyond measure, since the factor that restrains their number has disappeared: skins are not in demand - fur is out of fashion, there are no natural enemies (wolves) near human habitation, and beavers are not near people-even henna. There are, by the way, lovers among hunters who eat beaver meat with pleasure, and even consider the tail a delicacy. So, with one skin, brought to me in a plastic bag about a day after the shooting of its owner, a good series of beetles was taken and managed. And I didn't have to comb it out too much - the beetles themselves ran away from the cooled skin.

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26.11.2013 19:33, Liparus

Visited the exhibition in Kharkiv.

"Recently, the exhibition" Insect Show Museum " opened in Kharkiv, which presents more than 1000 unique exhibits.

The author of the project is biologist Yuri Ivanov. The shop windows display butterflies with a wingspan of up to 25 cm, beetles up to 15 cm long, stick insects, praying mantises, grasshoppers from all over the world.

- 20 years ago, I felt, and then realized that my main mission is to popularize insects and the beauty of the surrounding world, - says the entomologist. – And since 1993, I started doing exhibitions.

During this time, several exhibitions of amphibians and reptiles, an exhibition of birds and, of course, exhibitions of insects were presented to the public. Yuri collected some of the outstanding arthropods himself, but mostly exchanged or bought them.

Ivanov is silent about the cost of the collection, but says that the exhibition presents the most expensive and most rare insects.

You can see cockroaches, bird-eating spiders, elephant beetles and other rare live and dried insects until the end of January 2014 at Constitution Square, 26 (m. Sovetskaya Street/Historical Museum (near the Puppet Theater))."

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