Colias myrmidone

Nishtyag!:)

Nishtyag!:)

Nishtyag. Come on, go ahead, there's enough for the whole forum. I, after all, did not go all there, and the butterfly is there almost everywhere.

It's quite yellow for you. We have in the Urals orangier, with the Spanish P. kr...

Well, what it is. and that is insanely happy. Although, there are instances that catch up with C. romanovi in color from above.

But my last year's one in slightly unreal shades...

For those who are interested, I present the forage plant Colias myrmidone, namely Chamaecytisus ruthenicus (Russian broom). The first photo shows flowers and leaves, and the second shows a general view of plants.

A couple of years ago, in mid-July, my friend and I went to Podosinki specifically to find myrmidon. We were walking in the direction of the river Nerskaya-the place is exactly like in the 3rd and 4th pictures of Frost. But babaochek was not. The weather turned bad in the afternoon, and we returned with nothing. (We caught, however, some interesting barbels and goldfinches on pine logs right in the village). But we found a broom tree, and the timing was such that a butterfly should fly. It was decided to go to the same place again the following weekend and look for butterflies properly again... Have arrived. They began to search for Myrmidon again, with the desperation of those who were doomed to another setback. It got to the point that a friend - such an uncle of a sickly build with a net, began to pester the local population with the question, did they see such a small orange butterfly here, which flies so fast that it is almost invisible? People gawked and honestly said they'd never seen anything like this before, but it wasn't clear what they hadn't seen - butterflies or a big guy with a net... But we did take Myrmidon that day. In the clearing (as in Picture 3), St. John's wort, hawkweed, and something else were blooming. Chervonets, mother-of-pearl, haylofts also flew in quantity. Myrmidons appeared in the clearing 1-2 times in 3 -5 minutes. We took them then 7 pieces. That's the story.

Small series of C. myrmidone, July 2007 (4th from left - June), Gus-Zhelezny, Kasimovsky district, Ryazan region