Papilio machaon

It remains to rename the topic to "sailboats" - and off we go...

Yes, you just need to create a separate branch "images of insects"by analogy with the local forum on plants. Possibly with subsections "bugs", "bugs", "butterflies", etc. We all come across good photos, so why not create photo galleries by species or family? But fill them only with beautiful images, without pursuing the definition goals.

You can laugh, entomologist friends,but probably only you can understand my feelings! Today, for the first time in 22 years, I saw a Swallowtail live in our city of Stary Oskol, Belgorod region,it was a miracle just for me!!
I didn't expect this and didn't believe that we have such a miracle)I was in shock for about 5 minutes,he so smoothly flew past me and went high into the treetops. I will now hunt for him and his caterpillars)

Have you ever seen the swallowtail dance, when several butterflies soar in the wind over one place? What a wonderful sight! It is at this moment that the meaning of the name "sailboats"is particularly pronounced. But podaliriya has the effect of soaring almost always.

I remember my first meeting with a swallowtail-walking through the gardens in Ukraine, in the Donetsk region, about 5 years ago, or even more .I came across a very excited specimen - seeing it took my breath away-a swallowtail ,my dream (at that time), about 40 meters away from me ,I froze and waited for it to fly up, here it is next to me, I wave the net this way and that, and still did not catch it , and then raced for a long time after him ,but he was faster and flew away quickly .still, after a couple of days, I managed to take 1 at the same place ,I don't know the same or different

.. I swing the net this way and that ,and still I didn't catch it , and then I ran after it for a long time ,but it was faster and flew away quickly .still, after a couple of days, I managed to take 1 at the same place ,I don't know the same or different

A net is not a fountain! You and fotik run after him... Yes, what would the picture then, do not be ashamed to show people!

Precisely! I saw my first swallowtail and took a picture, though I hunted for two hours - I got a very suspicious one. Somewhere this film is lying...

And tell me, please, what does the Papilio machaon caterpillar look like? 3 years ago I was fond of insects (amateur), in the summer I caught a gesenitsa, for the life of me, I don't remember what it looks like!!! and in the spring, the swallowtail was "born".
And another question: I brought a caterpillar from Ukraine about 7-9cm, green, fed on grapes, in the spring a butterfly hatched with a wingspan of about 10-15 cm, similar to attacus atlas. Who could it be?

swallowtail caterpillar http://babochki.narod.ru/gu-mach.html
And the green caterpillar is probably the Pear Peafowl (Saturnia pyri).

If the butterfly is similar to Attacus atlas, then it may be the ailanthus peacock-eye Samia cynthia

Yes, the south of the European part is ssp. gorganus Fruhstorfer, 1922

On June 5 of this year, I took a photo of a swallowtail caterpillar in the vicinity of Budapest. Is it possible to determine the plant on which it is sitting from such a picture?

On June 5 of this year, I took a photo of a swallowtail caterpillar in the vicinity of Budapest. Is it possible to determine the plant on which it is sitting from such a picture?

By the way, Marikovsky wrote that the horns smell of expensive tobacco. No matter how much I sniffed in my barefoot childhood , I didn't understand whether my parents didn't allow me to smoke expensive tobacco, or whether the concept of "expensive" is still relative.

On June 5 of this year, I took a photo of a swallowtail caterpillar in the vicinity of Budapest. Is it possible to determine the plant on which it is sitting from such a picture?