Сuckoo waspы

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05.05.2010 16:03, Penzyak

Strange, a good branch on wasps-blestyankam - and everyone is trying to push their photos/finds into a common "pile" of epaulettes!?? And why did they open a separate branch for the "American" glitters?

The topic is very interesting, as one artist I know says - " If the glitter wasps were bigger , then they would be MORE POPULAR with collectors than beetles and butterflies!"

If possible, I always collect, so Sergey Shibaev has already identified more than 40 species for the Penza region! In the winter, he was in Mokrousov Mikhail in Nizhny Novgorod and watched his training camp os-blestyanok. It turned out that he has something that we haven't found yet - or rather, in those sandy stations with bee colonies, we didn't look much!

BUT IN VAIN!! Wow, it would be a faster summer! Glitter lovers chat!

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21.06.2010 14:20, Penzyak

Recently, on a trip to the south-east of the Penza region, I decided to catch glitters and quite accidentally mastered a new method of trapping. Since it is terribly dry and there has been no rain since mid-May, the grass has burned out, and what is not dry has been eaten by cattle. In the evening, I decided to catch spangles by mowing (as I had quite successfully caught them earlier at their overnight stays). Alas, a modest result - in this place there were few flowering plants. I went to a dry windfall near the Kadada river (Ilim). I stood for an hour, but alas, I caught little (on the trunk there were few holes made by insects and their larvae in the dry wood). I went to the settled slopes of the right root bank of the river-along the edge of an oak grove and where I noticed small dry stumps. They had long been in a" free float " on a dry slope, burned out in the sun and most importantly were all in the moves of insects! For an hour on three stumps caught more than a dozen interesting wasps-blestyanok! And since there are dry sands nearby it is very likely that among them there will be new species for the Penza region!

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03.08.2010 21:42, Николай Баскаков

Interesting and complex photos in nature. Nikolai, where exactly were these brilliant wasps filmed? These sands on the floodplain or...?

Sand cliffs on the dam.Talgar river.At the base of a colony of solitary wasps.Specially cleared a small area. This year, the horses were heavily podkuzmili, where the colony was in clay, in the spring it was almost completely devoured. Last year, I simultaneously observed from 20 to 40 glitter girls. Due to the lack of a special lens and flashes, I didn't get any good pictures. We had a severe cold snap in July, which is not typical for this time of year. And the Oskis behave more calmly in the cold. This year, very happy German women come across in large numbers. But there are no decent frames yet.