Australia, Northern Territories

And I have a joy here - two beetles flew into the balcony and I diligently scared them with a flash! All neighbors are aware of the great joy. They don't understand it, but they share it.

If it turns out again that they're not beetles, well, I dunno...

   And I have a joy here - two beetles flew into the balcony and I diligently scared them with a flash! All neighbors are aware of the great joy. They don't understand it, but they share it.

If it turns out again that they're not beetles, well, I dunno...

Send a photo to the studio!!!

Is it a grasshopper? It's huge, almost the size of my hand. I don't want to touch it until it's dry, and then I'll take pictures from all sides. Do you need to pay attention to something specific and take a close-up?

It's not a grasshopper, it's a locust (filly).

Send a photo to the studio!!!

Here, I show you! Beatle.

UPD
Goldfish (family Buprestidae).



This post was edited by Ele-W-10.09.2010 06: 06

I'm telling you. There were two beetles. First, with a loud buzz, one arrived, then, after 5-6 minutes, the second arrived. The first one that arrived was the one that was bigger, the second one was the one that was smaller. And they look very similar and since I ran from one corner of the balcony to another, from beetle to beetle, I do not know which one of them is which, in the pictures they are the same. I think so.

Beetles are terribly fussy and loud, constantly nervously breaking off and rushing around the wall. It is not possible to take a photo in flight - it is very fast and always unpredictable. Here are the portraits.

The images are still there, but we don't have the energy to process them, because it's already five minutes to midnight. I'll do it tomorrow morning and show you.

It's not a grasshopper, it's a locust (filly).

Oh, yes, thank you, that's right-a filly. I forgot. There was already such a monster in the forest, but this one, which is now drying at home, will be bigger.

Here, I show you! A bug?

The bug! A good one! Golden beetle (family Buprestidae).

I don't know who, they look like bees. Or on the OS, although not striped.



UPD
was wrong, it turns out these insects were already on the very first page.

Осы. Ropalidia sp. (Vespidae, Polistinae).

Wasps. Ropalidia sp. (Vespidae, Polistinae).

Thank you, I signed the title to the pictures.

The bug! A good one! Golden beetle (family Buprestidae).

Hurray! After all, the beetles have not all emigrated to the best lands from our North yet.

My question is ripe. I'm going to the bush for a few days in a few days and I'll have some free time, as well as some photography equipment and alcohol. I remember being advised to try this:

if it is not hard and there is an interest, bury the traps in the soil with local crushed clam ( in the bush of course) drop on the bottom of alcohol that will crawl, all the best

Hence two questions:

1. What does "trap"mean? Do you need to make it somehow? How? From what?

2. Can a crushed clam be replaced with something else? There are no clams where I will be, and I'm afraid to drag them with me, because the heat can smell terrible.

And an additional question. What else can you do to attract insects? Maybe there are links to traps and recipes?

My question is ripe. I'm going to the bush for a few days in a few days and I'll have some free time, as well as some photography equipment and alcohol. I remember being advised to try this:
Hence two questions:
1. What does "trap"mean? Do you need to make it somehow? How? From what?
2. Can a crushed clam be replaced with something else? There are no clams where I will be, and I'm afraid to drag them with me, because the heat can smell terrible.

A trap is an ordinary plastic disposable cup, preferably of good volume (so-called "beer"). It is dug "neck-deep", flush with the ground surface in the soil. As a bait, you can use not only bait from, for example, shellfish-vinegar (apple, wine), beer, any brew is perfect... I think that your expedition to the bush will not be so long, so I can recommend this option (in a hurry). Take a small bubble (penicillin or smaller) or just a screw stopper from a plastic bottle, fill the bubble or cork with cotton wool and moisten the cotton wool abundantly with vinegar. A bubble (cork) with cotton wool is placed in a cup dug into the soil. You should dig several traps (well, say, at least 5-10 in one place), and it is advisable to choose these places in different stations (bushes, stream bank, open terrain, etc.). You should check the traps no earlier than in a few hours (in the evening they were set - checked in the morning). Ground beetles should be best caught in such traps. Of course, with" professional " fees, fixing fluids are also used, and everything is organized somewhat differently, but I don't think you will need this. I wish you success!

And an additional question. What else can you do to attract insects? Maybe there are links to traps and recipes?

Read here on these links:
http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=232159&st=0#
http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=94850#

Elle, what kind of lens isn't a Tamron 90/2. 8 by any chance?

A trap is an ordinary plastic disposable cup, preferably of good volume (so-called "beer"). It is dug "neck-deep", flush with the ground surface in the soil.

I will have a problem with digging in due to the specifics of the soil, it does not dig better than concrete at the end of the Dry season. I'll try to think of something.

Elle, what kind of lens isn't a Tamron 90/2. 8 by any chance?

Yes, almost all the photos of insects were taken by this Tamron, only the camera changed. Tamron is my favorite, and I rarely twist it, except when necessary.

Read here on these links:
http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=232159&st=0#
http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=94850#

God, what horizons are opening up!!! The list of" I need it urgently " is being updated at an insane rate. I was particularly impressed by the yellow plates, which I love so much.

Remnants of images with bedbug larvae.



Fannie Bay, Darwin, NT, Australia. July.

It turns out that yellow plastic plates are a terrible shortage. I got about a dozen different-sized plates in the battles, set them in the monsoon forest. I hung a couple of dozen plastic cups on the bushes and buried them in the ground (sideways, but still) - inside the lid (yellow), in the lid cotton wool with apple cider vinegar and honey or beer. Nine cups hung inside a large ficus tree. Tomorrow I'll go check what happened.

I wish you every success! I'm just afraid the ants will eat everything.

I wish you every success! I'm just afraid the ants will eat it all.

Thanks!

The ants appeared right away, and before I had everything set up, they were already running in. We can't hide from them anywhere. Well, let's see if anyone else gets caught. True, they were not in the ficus tree, probably they do not live there.

And more zlatki. There are two of them in the pictures here.

Darwin, NT, Australia. September.

I checked yesterday's traps - ants of all sizes and one small, nondescript bug. I left all the baits and plates until Wednesday.

goldfish noble beetles

where the ground is heavy a spatula is not needed a regular chisel is suitable

I checked yesterday's traps - ants of all sizes and one small, nondescript bug. I left all the baits and plates until Wednesday.

Dashing trouble beginning! Well, first of all, the catchability of soil traps depends on the seasonal activity of beetles (if I'm not mistaken, is it the beginning of spring now?). And, secondly, the so-called "nondescript beetles" are oh, how interesting!

where the ground is heavy a spatula is not needed a regular chisel is suitable

We have in most places instead of soil - stone and compressed clay sand with ochre, I have already picked it with sharp objects with exceptionally low efficiency. But I learned to find places near water with fairly loose soil, watched wild chickens and found out how to identify such areas.

Dashing trouble beginning!

I'm already beginning to despair - I don't see beetles for nothing, nor do they fall into traps. It feels like they're just barely there.

Location of the action.

The trap.

A lonely little beetle.







The beetle turned out to be terribly small and terribly quick, so it ran away quickly, it's not normal to take a picture of such a creature alive in the forest, so all that turned out to be three fuzzy frames.

I dug up the glass again nearby. I'll go there on Wednesday.

There was some kind of life in a puddle nearby, but I'm afraid to go in there, because there are leeches there.

The trap.

In fact, the cups should be dug deeper, flush with the ground (as they say, "flush" )

A lonely little beetle.
The beetle turned out to be terribly small and terribly quick, so it ran away quickly, it's not normal to take a picture of such a creature alive in the forest, so all that turned out to be three fuzzy frames.

And what? Very interesting little spangleworm (family Nitidulidae). Up to the view, of course, I can not master yours .

In fact, the cups should be dug deeper, flush with the ground (as they say, "flush" )

There is a further layer of washed stones and roots. Yesterday I dug up a glass in a slightly different place, there is loose earth, dug up by chickens.