Far Eastern hawkmoths

Thank you very much. I thought so.

Here, I post pictures of two hawk moth in nature. Everything was photographed in June of this year in the EAO, in the Bastak Nature Reserve.

Hemaris affinis on the inflorescence of Deutzia amurensis from the hydrangea family. He posed for us for about 5 minutes - a bunch of photos were taken. Just before that, 2 or 3 days of continuous rain, and at this moment the sun peeked out and there was only one flowering plant nearby. Well, he flew to eat right away, hungry


This is also Hemaris affinis, on the flower of the radiant Stellaria radians from cloves. It was us who ran into a whole clearing of this plant (on the site of a long-abandoned village), so there were no bumblebees there-just AWFUL!!! You could catch a hundred in an hour. And this is no joke! You could grab them with your hands. I've never seen such a crowd of bumblebees in my life!!!


Well, this is our usual species-Smerinthus caecus


This post was edited by Ekos - 19.10.2007 07: 42

hundreds of bumblebees! I can't even imagine it!

hundreds of bumblebees! I can't even imagine it!

I was also freaked out when I saw THIS, but I didn't catch much, because as luck would have it, I didn't have a syringe with ammonia or ether at hand, and when you just press them down, the quality is lost, they are beaten instantly simply... Nafig need a bunch of low-quality hawkmoth, when they are not needed by anyone... Maybe next year I'll visit that clearing again, hoping for the same number of bumblebees

I remember WOROZZZ was interested in the eastern pine hawk moth Hyloicus morio arestus.
Below 2 ex, one South Pribaikalye p. Taiga wed current of the Temnik River June 1993
And the second Primorye Khasansky district July 2006

Pictures:

morio_baykal.jpg — (159.84к)


morio_DV.jpg — (152.26к)

Forgive me MOROZZZ-I want to slightly duplicate the butterflies already shown, namely the genus Marumba from
Dvostok, I do not indicate labels, because all species are quite common in our Primorye.

Pictures:

Marumba_gaschkewitschii_m.jpg — (129.32к)


Marumba_jankowskii_m1.jpg — (135.79к)


Marumba_jankowskii_m2.jpg — (137.38к)


Marumba_maacki_f.jpg — (141.31к)


Marumba_maacki_m.jpg — (123.05к)


Marumba_sperchius_f.jpg — (142.89к)


Marumba_sperchius_m.jpg — (144.35к)

by the way, there is a photo of sphecodina in nature here:
http://macroclub.ru/i/showphoto.php/photo/972

But, there is still something to continue:Acherontia lachesis

There is such a beast-so Acherontia lachesis, Vietnam, Can Tho.

I haven't seen any butterflies myself, but there are some gentlemen who claim to have caught Acherontia lachesis in our Dvostok.

I haven't seen any butterflies myself, but there are some gentlemen who claim to have caught Acherontia lachesis in our Dvostok.

Probably in Primorye. One of the most unusual places in the Far East.