Fauna and flora of Sakhalin

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cute epiplemis! Dysaethria - moza.

  
25. I couldn't remember the family, but these beetles are at work

28. those beetles again

Stenotrachelidae, Cephaloon, probably pallens

61. Some red book lily

LILY OF THE LANCEOLATE (TIGER) (tiger) (Lilium lancifoliumi Thunb. Lilium tigrinum Ker-Gawi.)
Blooms in July-August.
A rare species. In the RSFSR - the north-eastern border of the range. In Russia, it is found only in the Khasansky district of Primorsky Krai. In other areas of Primorsky Krai, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, it grows as a wild animal. Outside of the Russian Federation, it is given for China, Korea, and Japan.

32. Ochlodes ?sylvanus

Like Ochlodes venatus (Bremer & Grey, 1853)

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Kamchatka Trillium (Trillium camschatcense)
Kamchatka trillium. The Trilliaceae family. A perennial plant up to 40cm tall. with thickened rhizomes. The stem is erect, ending in three-leaved whorls of rhombic pointed leaves. The flowers are solitary. Perianth is white. The petals are oval, 4cm long. Blooms in late May-early June. The fruit is a fleshy berry, edible.
It grows in forests and meadows of Kamchatka, Sakhalin, northern Japan, and Northeastern China. Recently, it has gained popularity as an ornamental plant.
Blooms for a long time, up to 15 days. But if plucked, it will wither quickly.

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61. Some red
book lily LANCE-leaved LILY (tiger) (tiger) (Lilium lancifoliumi Thunb. Lilium tigrinum Ker-Gawi.)
Blooms in July-August.
A rare species. In the RSFSR - the north-eastern border of the range. In Russia, it is found only in the Khasansky district of Primorsky Krai. In other areas of Primorsky Krai, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, it grows as a wild animal. Outside of the Russian Federation, it is given for China, Korea, and Japan.

I'm sorry, of course, I'm not a botanist at all, but is this tiger lily, which we have in different front gardens and cottages planted? Maybe Michurintsy really tried, but this flower was no more than half a meter in height and the flowers are 2 times smaller than garden tiger lilies. Photos of the entire plant, unfortunately, are out of focus. I was told what it was called, but my memory did not hold this name And large feral tiger lilies are common there - I watched along the roads...


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Kupena Folk names of kupena officinalis: wolf apples, wolf grass, wolf berries, voronets, wolfberry, crow's eyes, gladysh, crane's eye, magpie's eyes, crane's pods, Solomon's seal, kupena-lupena, signet, hare cabbage, hellebore forest, deaf lily of the valley, bloodstone, tirlich, cockerels.
In all parts of the plant , especially in the fruits of kupena, there are cardiac glycosides inherent in the lily of the valley – convallatoxin, convallarin, convallamarin. The leaves contain flavonoids and a large amount of vitamin C. The rhizomes of Kupena officinalis contain a large amount of starch, mucus, alkaloids, vitamin C, glucose, arabinose, and fructose.
In the old days, herbalists, healers called this plant the Solomon seal, as preparations from the plant help those who have an intervertebral hernia, stomach ulcer, diabetes mellitus.

A source: http://domovouyasha.ru/kupena-lekarstvennaya/

On Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, hellebore, another of the most poisonous plants in the world, also feels great. Botanists have found three species of it in the islands. The leaves of this perennial herbaceous plant are much like those of the lily of the valley, and in July and August its white flowers adorn moist meadows. However, it is unlikely that anyone will decide to recommend hellebore in a bouquet. The plant poison of this plant is able to penetrate the skin. If the plant juice is accidentally rubbed on your hand, then at first you feel warmth, which turns into a burning sensation. A little later, the hand completely loses sensitivity. Even the smallest particles of hellebore root dust cause severe lacrimation and sneezing. About the danger of hellebore should be said especially and therefore, so far no antidote has been found for it.
http://www.sakhalin.ru/Region/reader/flora.htm
I have a photo of cheremitsa in the Kholmsky district like this. I don't know the type.

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Here is another Sakhalin fathead Ochlodes venatus (Bremer & Grey, 18530)?

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Parasemia plantaginis (Plantain bear)
Opmsana in the book of Klitin-there is above.
Origin: The butterflies are common in Europe, inhabiting wooded lowlands and meadows with a predominance of acidic soils. Males fly only during the day, while females are also found at night.
Size: Wingspan 32-38 mm.
Description: The hindwings of males are white or yellow with black spots, in females-red also with spots.
Character:
Content:
Feeding:
Reproduction: Caterpillars appear in August-May, they are covered with red hairs, feed on herbaceous plants (plantain, kulbaba, sorrel). The caterpillar overwinters.
Additional information:
Caterpillar
http://mypets.by/parasemia-plantaginis-med...odorozhnikovaya

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Tiger lily — L. tigrinum Ker-Gawl. = (L. lancifolium Thunb.).
Homeland-Southern Primorye, Eastern China, Japan, Korea. L. lancifolium Thun-berg is widely known under the old name L. tigrinum Ker-Gawl, which was given to it in 1810 by the English botanist D. Ker-Gawler. However, a study conducted in 1925 by the Japanese botanist G. Koizumi showed that this species was described earlier, in 1794, by K. Thunberg. Thus, its priority name is L. lancifolium, and its former name (L. tigrinum) has become a synonym. The usual Russian name, L. tigrovaya, can be reserved for this species as a synonym.

In China and Japan, for more than 6 centuries, it has been used mainly as a vegetable — the bulbs are edible. Long-term culture contributed to the formation of a triploid semi-sterile form in L. tigris, which is widespread throughout the world .the range of the species and beyond. In our country, it grows in the south of Primorsky Krai, Sakhalin and Kunashir. The diploid, fruiting, form of the species is also known. It is rare, found in mountainous areas of the islands of Kyushu, Iki and Tsushima.

The plant is 120-140 cm tall. The bulb is ovate up to 7 cm in diameter, dense, white scales. The stems are well-deciduous, pubescent, blackish-brown, in the axils of the leaves with numerous stem bulbous bulbs of black color. The leaves are arranged in regular order, sessile, lanceolate, glabrous or pubescent along the edge, up to 12 cm long. The flowers are turban-shaped, drooping, 8-9 cm in diameter, pink-orange with large, dark purple spots on the inner side of the tepals. On the outer lobes of the perianth there are calloused formations. The inflorescence has up to 25 flowers. Blooms in July for 20-25 days. It doesn't tie any seeds.
It grows in almost all residents ' gardens. Photo from my hill.
Family
of lilies Liliaceae Lilium lancifolium Thunb.

Status. R(3). A rare species.

A highly decorative plant that has passed out of cultivation, outside its natural range.

Distribution. It is found as a naturalized species in the southern part of Sakhalin Island and along the coast of the Tatar Strait (Uglegorsky, Tomarinsky, Kholmsky, Korsakov, Anivsky and Nevelsky districts) and on Kunashir Island. In the Russian Far East, it is found in the wild only in the Khasansky district of Primorsky Krai [1,2]. In Russia, it is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant. Outside of the Russian Federation, it is indicated for China, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula (1,2).

Biology and ecology. A powerful perennial bulbous polycarpic plant with a brown-purple, rough, slightly ribbed and spider-pubescent stem under the inflorescence,1-1. 8 m high. The bulb is ovate, up to 5 cm in diameter, with broadly oval white scales. The leaves are numerous, alternate, lanceolate, up to 18 cm long and 0.7-1.5 cm wide, usually in the axils bear glossy-shiny dark purple-brownish bulbs 5-8 mm in diameter. The flowers are numerous, turban-shaped, drooping, red-orangish, with dark purple spots inside, 7-10 cm in diameter, collected in a raceme inflorescence up to 40 cm long. Perianth leaves are lanceolate, up to 10 cm long and 2.5 cm wide, pubescent inside, strongly curled during flowering. Anthers are linear, dark purple, up to 1.6 cm long, with a very large amount of pollen. The column is up to 6 cm long. The box is oval, up to 4 cm long and 2.5 cm wide. Reproduction is vegetative, by means of brood bulbs. Blooms in August-September.

On coastal mixed grass meadows, coastal ramparts, rocks, forest clearings, along country roads.

Limiting factors. Digging up bulbs and collecting plants for bouquets
by the population.

Security status and measures. It is included in the Red Book of the RSFSR with the status 3 ® , a rare species (1), as well as in the "List of Plant world objects listed in the Red Book of the Sakhalin Region" (3). It is recommended for protection in the Russian Far East (2). It is protected in the Kurilsky Nature Reserve (4). It is cultivated in the Sakhalin Botanical Garden (5).

Information sources. 1. Krasnaya kniga..., 1988; 2. Kharkevich and Kachura, 1981; 3. " List of objects...", 2005; 4. Barkalov and Eremenko, 2003a; 5. Data compiled by the author.

Compiled by A. A. Taran.

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Krasodnev Flower I
attach photos of a flower in the Kholmsky district.

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Possibly Viburnum furcatum Blume ex Maxim. (Viburnaceae family)
Viburnum
vilchataya That's how it blooms here.
The Ainu used viburnum branches to make bows, snares and traps, and the fruits were consumed as food. http://semenaseeds.ru/kustarniki/kalina-vilchataya

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Kupena Folk names of kupena officinalis: wolf apples, wolf grass, wolf berries, voronets, wolfberry, crow's eyes, gladysh, crane's eye, magpie's eyes, crane's pods, Solomon's seal, kupena-lupena, signet, hare cabbage, hellebore forest, deaf lily of the valley, bloodstone, tirlich, cockerels.

The "folk" names seem to have been stolen from a 19th-century botanical dictionary, which lists both local names kupena lekarstvennaya and kupena mnogotsvetkovaya for various localities, languages, and dialects of the Russian Empire, and are only of historical, philological, and other interest. Currently, such "quotes" from various old publications are used mainly by all sorts of freaks from "folk-traditional ""medicine" to give reasonableness to their pseudoscientific nonsense. About half of these names currently correspond to very specific plants, which often have nothing to do with kupena.
The description of hellebore that you have given refers specifically to hellebore (Veratrum), and not to cupena (Polygonatum), completely different plants.

The "folk" names seem to have been stolen from a 19th-century botanical dictionary, which lists both local names kupena lekarstvennaya and kupena mnogotsvetkovaya for various localities, languages, and dialects of the Russian Empire, and are only of historical, philological, and other interest. Currently, such "quotes" from various old publications are used mainly by all sorts of freaks from "folk-traditional ""medicine" to give reasonableness to their pseudoscientific nonsense. About half of these names currently correspond to very specific plants, which often have nothing to do with kupena.
The description of hellebore that you have given refers specifically to hellebore (Veratrum), and not to cupena (Polygonatum), completely different plants.

The description was not given by me, but I provided a link to the sites. I agree with you in many ways, I read about one thing, but it seems that they write about something else. Of course, it would be good to know a reliable source of information.

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Leptura mimica

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I tried to make it easier to identify thickheads by creating a hint scheme.

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I'm sorry, of course, I'm not a botanist at all, but is this tiger lily, which we have in different front gardens and cottages planted? Maybe Michurintsy really tried, but this flower was no more than half a meter in height and the flowers are 2 times smaller than garden tiger lilies. Photos of the entire plant, unfortunately, are out of focus. I was told what it was called, but my memory didn't hold this name And large feral tiger lilies are common there - I watched along the roads...
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You have Lilium distichum.
Tiger lily (Lilium lancifolium) in the Far East is also there, and in Primorye is not even feral.
Yeah, by the way, she's in Olga's picture.
And so as not to get up twice: daylilies like Middendorf, and viburnum really Viburnum furcatum.

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I will allow myself to post here one very interesting and local resident of Sakhalin. It seems to be confined to the southern part of the island. This is the cocoonworm Amurilla subpurpurea Butler. It is a nominative subspecies on the island.

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Vadim Viktorovich, I have a couple from the central part of the island. Andrey Zubov's fees (RippeR)
d. Palevo 50.36'47" N - 142.43'29" E

but, khokhlatok counted quite a bit-25, in my opinion, species from different sources. I can put those that were kindly provided by Andrey by analogy.

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You have Lilium distichum.
Tiger lily (Lilium lancifolium) in the Far East is also there, and in Primorye is not even feral.
Yeah, by the way, she's in Olga's picture.
And so as not to get up twice: daylilies like Middendorf, and viburnum really Viburnum furcatum.

Lena, thank you, tell me, please, a reliable site for determining plants, if there is one. I fell for the words "red book lily". On Sakhalin, there are only three lilies in the Red Book: The Lily family Liliaceae
081) Cardiocrinum Glen-Cardiocrinum glehnii
082) Japanese kandyk-Erythronium japonicum
083) Lance-leaved lily-Lilium lancifolium

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I will allow myself to post here one very interesting and local resident of Sakhalin. It seems to be confined to the southern part of the island. This is the cocoonworm Amurilla subpurpurea Butler. It is a nominative subspecies on the island.

How beautiful. Thank you for getting to know your own fauna. Now I want to see it in nature.
I found something that looked like cocoons. I don't know what it is. Maybe someone will help you understand.

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Family of Araliaceae Araliaceae
Kalopanax semilopastnoy (Dimorphant, "white walnut") Kalopanax septemlobus (Thunb.) Koidz.

Status. R(3). A rare species.

Relict, located on the north-eastern border of distribution. An ornamental plant.

Distribution. It is found in the southwestern part of Sakhalin Island (Anivsky, Kholmsky, Nevelsky districts), on the southern Kuril Islands: Kunashir, Iturup, Shikotan. In Russia, it also grows in the south of Primorsky Krai. Outside the Russian Federation – in China, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula (1, 2, 3, 4).

Biology and ecology. The tree is 8-12 (20) m tall, with a slightly branched straight trunk 20-30 cm in diameter, with gray, longitudinally cracking bark. Branches and trunks (in young trees) are covered with sparse, strong, expanded to the base spikes up to 2 cm long. Leaves on long, up to 30 cm, expanded petioles at the base, palmate-lobed (sometimes palmate-separate), symmetrical, 10.20 cm in diameter, almost leathery, glabrous, dark green above, light green below, usually heart-shaped at the base. Lobes 5-7 in number are triangular-lanceolate or oblong, with a serrated edge. The inflorescence is large, complex, spherical, umbrella-shaped, corymbose, up to 40 cm in diameter, at the ends of the shoots. It consists of numerous umbrellas gathered in panicles. The flowers are small, with yellowish, green, oval-elliptical petals. Fruits are almost black, juicy, spherical, 4-5 mm in diameter, wrinkled when dry. Blooms in July-August, bears fruit in September-October.

The tree of the first tier, grows in mixed and broad-leaved forests, among sparse forests, in bamboo forests, on the edges, in river valleys and on mountain slopes.

Limiting factors. Unauthorized logging for the sake of valuable "white walnut" wood, forest fires, weak seed renewal.

Security status and measures. It is included in the Red Book of the RSFSR with the status 3 ® , a rare species (5), as well as in the "List of Plant world objects listed in the Red Book of the Sakhalin Region" (6). It is recommended for protection in the Russian Far East (7). It is protected in the Kurilsky Nature Reserve (8). It is cultivated in the Sakhalin Region botanical garden (9).

Information sources. 1. Klyuikov and Tikhomirov, 1987; 2. Kitagawa, 1979; 3. Ohwi, 1965; 4. Nakai, 1952; 5. Red Book..., 1988; 6. " List of objects...", 2005; 7. Harkevich and Kachura, 1981; 8. Barkalov and Eremenko, 2003a; 9. Data of the originator.

Compiled by A. A. Taran.

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Lena, thank you, tell me, please, a reliable site for determining plants, if there is one. I fell for the words "red book lily". On Sakhalin, there are only three lilies in the Red Book: The Lily family Liliaceae
081) Cardiocrinum Glen-Cardiocrinum glehnii
082) Japanese kandyk-Erythronium japonicum
083) Lance-leaved lily-Lilium lancifolium

Olga, you can also ask to identify a plant from the image in this topic on molbiol. You can also view photos of plants and get help with identifying them at Plantarium. Users partially overlap, and there are more people on the Plantarium.

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Caterpillar Lithosia quadra (Linnaeus, 1758)
A female Lithosia quadra flew into my window in the summer.

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Lena, thank you, tell me, please, a reliable site for determining plants, if there is one. I fell for the words "red book lily". On Sakhalin, there are only three lilies in the Red Book: The Lily family Liliaceae
081) Cardiocrinum Glen-Cardiocrinum glehnii
082) Japanese kandyk-Erythronium japonicum
083) Lance-leaved lily-Lilium lancifolium

I was so "sold" - a local botanist called the plant Red book...

Dark ground shovel
Spaelotisravida (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
The forewings are grey-brown, with black streaks at the corners.
Caterpillars are omnivorous. The butterfly lives in forest and open biotopes, in agrocenoses. Years are observed from the beginning of July to the end of August (Opr. DV volume 5, part 4, 535). A butterfly came to me on September 15, 2014.

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Continuation of the book "Insects"

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My five kopecks. end of July 2012

Aporia crataegi (Yu-Sakhalinsk district)



Lethe diana (Busse hall)



Carabus avinovi (Warm Lakes region)



Carabus kurilensis (Giant Cape Pass)



Trichius fasciatus (Okhotsk region)



Gnorimus subopacus (Yu-Sakhalinsk region)



Cychrus morawitzi (Busse Hall)



Neomyzia gebleri (Warm Lakes region)

Small
owl Rivula sericealis (Scopoli, 1763)
The very name of this moth-a small-growing scoop-indicates the small size of this butterfly species: the length of the fore wing is only 1 cm. The color is soft, slightly yellowish, the pattern is weakly expressed, on the forewing, closer to the edge, a dark kidney-shaped spot. A dark stripe also runs along the edge of the wings.
The caterpillars develop on weinwood (Calamagrostist) and sedge (Sageh). The butterfly lives in wet and swampy meadows, floodplains. It flies from early July to mid-September. (Opr. DV volume 5, part 4, 72). Small scoops overwinter at the caterpillar stage. I met a butterfly on the afternoon of July 19, 2012 on a hill covered with Kuril bamboo.

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Small
owl Rivula sericealis (Scopoli, 1763)

I can say with confidence that there are no more numerous scoops than this one. It flies at my dacha in the Leningrad region from May to September with overlapping generations, and there is no night that it does not fly to the light

Scoopwort modestly
named Polypogon tentacularia (Linnaeus, 1758)
The color of the wings of the modest scooper is also modest: whitish with brownish pollination. You can see two light brown narrow transverse stripes.
The caterpillars develop on the withered leaves of herbaceous plants (Poaceae, Hieracium. Epilobium), after wintering - on leaf litter. The modest firefly lives in deciduous and mixed forests, shrubby thickets. Butterflies of this species are found from the end of June to the beginning of August (Opr. DV volume 5, part 4, 64). I met a butterfly on August 1, 2014 on a hill, it was sitting on a fern.

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Continuation of the Book. Natural history of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. Insects. 2011. Author: A. K. Klitin, Author: Vertyankin A.V. Paper, offset printing. 29x20. 5 195 s.

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Pied meadowsweet, or common
Neptis rivularis (Scopoli, 1763)

The upper wings are brown. On the outer part of the forewing there is a band of separate white spots, smaller white spots in the central cell of the wing. On the rear wing is a wide band of merging spots of the same color. The bottom drawing is a copy of the top on a light brown background.
The egg is shaped like a thimble. Pied meadowsweet lays eggs on the upper and lower sides of the leaf. Immediately after leaving the egg, the caterpillar makes a shelter out of leaves, in which the caterpillar molts and overwinters at 2-3 years of age. Forage plants of caterpillars are rosaceae. In adult age, the caterpillar of Neptis rivularis is brown-gray with a yellowish back, the same color of the longitudinal lateral stripes and slashes on the 4th-11th segments. Segments 2, 3, 5 and 11 bear paired outgrowths. The pupa is gray in color and darkens on the night before its release (Korshunov, Bulavous Lepidoptera of Northern Asia, pp. 232-233).
The butterfly flies along river valleys, in clearings, on open mountain slopes with shrubs in July and August. On Sakhalin, it is represented by the subspecies Neptis rivularis bermani Bryk, 1942 (aino Shirozu) (Opr. DV, volume 5, part 5, p. 298).
The butterfly in the photo was found on Volkova Street in Kholmsk on 10.07.2013.

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Peacock's Eye
Aglais io (Linnaeus, 1758)
Peacock's eye is often found both in the city on flower beds, and outside the city limits. The butterfly is easily recognized by its appearance. The wings on top attract attention not only with their rich burgundy-brown color with a gray-black border , but also with large eye spots on each wing. For these spots-eyes, the butterfly got its name. The upper edge of the forewing is decorated with two black spots. The color of the lower wings is black.
The main food plant of caterpillars is nettle, sometimes hops, cucumbers in the garden beds. Eggs are green with 9 longitudinal ribs, resemble gooseberries, clutches of 100-400 pieces on the bottom of the leaves or stems. Caterpillars live together in a nest of leaves entangled in cobwebs. Adults spread out over the primary plant and move to neighboring ones. In adulthood, they are black in color with many white spots and 6 rows of black branched spikes. The pupa is yellow or pale green to brown (depending on the color of the substrate) with a golden tint and spots. Pupation singly on the stems of large grasses, on the bark of trees, hedges. For wintering, butterflies look for cracks in the stumps, bark of trees. The imago overwinters, sometimes the pupa. The average number of years in the middle zone is mainly from mid-July to autumn and, after wintering, from April-May to June (Korshunov, Bulavous Lepidoptera of Northern Asia, p. 242). An adult butterfly can also spend the winter in a variety of secluded places, avoiding too warm places where, due to the increased metabolic rate, it may not live until spring. (Lampert, 2003).
First of all, I met the peacock's eye butterfly on April 28, 2002 in the village, in Kholmsk on Uglovaya Street on May 27, 2011. In both cases, she basked on the rocks. She ate Aglais io on the dandelion tree (Taraxacum) on 28.05.2011, on the pink ochitka (Sedum) on 19.07.2014 near the Sakhalin Shipping Company. The latest encounter with the butterfly occurred on 05.10.2014. The butterfly was beating against the glass of the veranda, where it had entered through a gap for wintering: there had been a cold snap the day before. But the warm sunlight woke her up again.

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Thistlewort or thistlewort
Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)
The photo shows a butterfly on Geroyev Street in Kholmsk on October 12, 2011.

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Island
urticaria Aglalis connexa (Butler, 1881)
A distinctive feature of the urticaria from other similar nymphalids is a series of blue specks (each in the shape of a crescent) running along the outer edge of the front and rear wings. In general, the top of the butterfly's wings is brick-red, and there are three black spots in the front part of the front wings. The underside of the wings is dark brown-gray. The outer edges of the wings of this butterfly are serrated. A characteristic distinguishing feature from Urticaria vulgaris (Aglais urticae (Linnaeus, 1758)) is a zigzag band connecting a black spot at the top of the forewing with a black spot lying below. And if the distribution area of urticaria vulgaris is quite wide, then the island urticaria can be seen only on southern Sakhalin, the southern Kuril Islands and Japan, for which it received its second specific part of the name - island.
The caterpillars develop on nettles that grow in open areas. The adult overwinters. (Opr. DV, volume 5, part 5, 307).
Butterfly flight occurs in any warm season. So in the upper photo, the butterfly is marked on Kolkhoznaya Street in Kholmsk on April 29, 2012, and in the lower photo, on July 27 of the same year, in the Nikolaichuk area of the Kholmsky district.

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Mother
-of-pearl Daphne brenthisdaphne (Bergstrasser, 1780)
Kholmsky district 26.07.2006

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March 7 on Sakhalin brought a meeting with the first insects on the ski track. Chaplanovo village, near the river. Who knows who it is? When the sun was shining, they boldly crawled through the snow, when it was cloudy, they buried themselves in the snow.

Order Freckles (Plecoptera)
Vesnyanki (Lat. Plecoptera) - an order of insects, previously separated from the former order of false-net-winged insects. Adult insects are terrestrial and occur mainly in spring, hence their name. The elongated soft body bears four transparent wings, which in a calm state the insect folds flat on the dorsal side. At the posterior end of the body, for the most part, there is a pair of long tail filaments. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%...%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8

Freckles are aquatic insects, their larvae develop in water. To molt on the imago, they go out on land. Adults usually fly poorly, and some have reduced wings. However, some species swarm near the shore and are able to settle hundreds of meters from the breeding site. The oral apparatus is gnawing, but in the adult stage, freckles, as a rule, do not feed. After mating, the female drops the egg bags into the water, easily touching her belly in flight. http://zooex.baikal.ru/orthopteroidea/plecoptera.htm

Despite the fact that freckles are large insects and are often found along the banks of rivers, not everyone knows them. This is due to the fact that they rarely and briefly fly, are painted in dark colors and lead a hidden or sedentary lifestyle, sitting on branches of reeds, on the bark of trees growing near the shore and in the coastal grass. http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enc_biology...%80%D1%8F%D0%B4

I think I photographed a black freckle (Capnia nigra (Pictet)).

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