Fauna and flora of Sakhalin

Here are more of today's ones. Another bird hovers in one place, falls sharply down. Crows have mating games. The white-headed cowbird blooms. Different flies. And finally, the first butterflies.

As for the bird in photos 0156-0715, it seems to me that this is a field lark (Alauda arvensis) or someone very similar to it (again, please indicate at least approximate dimensions, so it will be much easier to determine exactly).
Fly in photo 0683 - big buzzer (Bombylius major).
And the butterfly in photo 1021 is a common polychrome (Nymphalis polychloros).

As for the bird in photos 0156-0715, it seems to me that this is a field lark (Alauda arvensis) or someone very similar to it (again, please indicate at least approximate dimensions, so it will be much easier to determine exactly).
Fly in photo 0683 - big buzzer (Bombylius major).
And the butterfly in photo 1021 is a common polychrome (Nymphalis polychloros).

Vasily Vasilyevich, why are you misleading people?
Nymphalis polychloros does not live on Sakhalin, it is Nymphalis xanthomelas, which is also easily distinguished from N. polychloros
Learn some math.part of it lightly, and then you will help others with the definition. And then somehow they developed such activity in all the topics at once...

Nymphalis xanthomelas (Esper, 1781)
Great urticaria or polychromatum black and yellow
In Korshunov polychromatum oriental


It is similar in appearance to polychrome, but differs from it in the presence of a white spot between the dark border and a dark spot at the top of the wings. The main background of the wings is red with black spots. Blue spots are developed only on the hindwings. The butterfly flies in forests, floodplain thickets. Overwinters, the female is fertilized. Eggs are laid in spring in groups of up to 100-150 pieces on the branches of a forage plant.
Adult Nymphalis xanthomelas larvae are black, with white speckles forming broad longitudinal stripes, and fine light hairs. They wear 6 rows of black spikes, and the spikes of the lower row from the 4th to the 11th segment are located on reddish spots.. They first live in groups in a spider's nest, from May to June. When disturbed, the caterpillar freezes and becomes like a twig (Bulavous lepidoptera of Central Asia 236-238, Kites). Chest legs are reddish. Forage plant of caterpillars-willow, less often honeysuckle, nettle, etc. (Opr. DV, volume 5, part 5, p. 304).
The pupa is light brown or grayish in color, often with a light powdery coating, without metallic spots, with two rows of spines on the dorsal side of the abdominal segments, a sharp protrusion on the chest and two on the head end (Club-eared lepidoptera of Northern Asia 238, Kites).
The taxon N. x. sakhalinensis (Matsumura, 1925) is described for Sakhalin.
Sinev and Korshunov are noted for Sakhalin, while Dubatolov is not.

I met butterflies on the top of a hill in the Kholmsky district of the Sakhalin Region on April 23, 2015. The weather was windy but sunny. The butterflies flew singly and in pairs. The pair could be joined by several other individuals. Then a picturesque group of winged beauties with bright flashing lights of wings looked especially impressive against the background of white snow still covering the ridges of the Sakhalin hills. The butterfly sat alone on the rocks of the scree hill. When the butterflies froze on the heated stone, I managed to photograph them. Another was caught by the trunk of a fallen tree. I was surprised that there were no butterflies on either side of the hill in the lower parts of it, and I only saw them on the top, where it was windy.

Maybe a photo of last year's pupa is hers?

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Very likely:
http://mosregbut.narod.ru/nymphalis-xanthomelas.htm
The pupae of such nymphalids are very similar. Only the peacock on the nettle, and this one on the willow usually. But both can be attached to the fence in principle.

It's not exactly a peacock's eye pupa. I have a pupa of this butterfly, it is quite different. Thanks for the support.

A trip along the Kholmsk-Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk highway on April 16, 2015. Railway bridge on an abandoned Japanese railway, small waterfall, dubonos bird.

DUBONOS VULGARIS

Coccothraustes coccothraustes is a bird of the finch family (Fringillidae) of the Passeriformes order. Total length 16-18 cm. Weight 46-60 g. In the male, the top and sides of the head are brown. The throat and band around the beak are black. The back and top of the wings are dark brown. The collar is grey. The breast is brownish, the middle of the abdomen is white. The wing has a broad transverse grayish-white stripe. Flywheels are black with a metallic sheen and with cutouts on the tops. The tail is short, brown, with a white tip. The bill is massive and high; bluish – gray in spring and summer, brownish-gray in autumn and winter. The female is similar to the male, but duller in color; her outer wings of the secondary flight wings are silver-gray. It is distributed in Eurasia, North-West Africa. It breeds all over Sakhalin, on the Southern Kuril Islands (Kunashir, Iturup). During the breeding season, it is found on Paramushir Island. During seasonal migrations – on all islands of the region. Nesting migratory, nomadic and wintering species. Migration dates: second half of April – May and September-October. Wintering grounds are found in Japan, Taiwan, and rarely on Sakhalin and the Southern Kuril Islands. During periods of nomadism and migration, it forms flocks of 15-20 individuals. Habitat: deciduous and mixed forests, overgrown clearings. During periods of nomadism and migration – forests of various formations, tree and shrub thickets, settlements. The breeding season is in May-July. Monogams. They settle in separate pairs. Nests of dry twigs (in the tray – grass stems and leaves, pieces of roots) are located in the forks of tree branches at a height of up to 20 m. In a clutch of 4-7, usually 5 bluish with brown spots eggs. The female incubates; the male feeds her. The incubation period is 11-13 days. The chicks are reared by both nesting partners. The baby bird leaves the nest on the 12th-14th day of life. They feed on insects, plant seeds, and in autumn on the seeds of mountain ash, rosehip, cedar elfin, and other plants.
Authors:
Nechaev Vitaly Andreevich

Nechaev V. A. Birds of Sakhalin Island. Vladivostok, 1991, pp. 624-625.

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April 26, 2015. So the peacock's eye was caught in the photo. I want warmth and spring. But all around is gray - withered leaves and broken branches. Only lizichton pleases the eye and the emerging larch needles. Aralia's kidneys are just waking up.

In nature, it is found on all the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, Moneron, Bolshoy Shantar, Kamchatka and in the Far East in the Uda region, as well as in Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu).
I photographed a lisichiton growing in a well-watered roadside ditch. The plant makes a literally stunning impression: among last year's withered foliage, beautiful, large white bedspreads that resemble greenhouse calla lilies stand out sharply. It usually grows in picturesque groups. It looks especially good near streams, where its elegant and white bedspreads are reflected in the water blue. Lisichiton also settles in ditches on compacted poor soil, in darkened areas where small inflorescences and leaves develop.
Only in optimal habitats in floodplain forests on alluvial, well-moistened and drained soil does the lizichiton really reach a huge size. It grows together with Saltha fistulosa and forms very picturesque groups during mass flowering.
Herbaceous perennial with a thick short rhizome. Small flowers are collected in an ear 10-13 cm long, 3-4 cm wide. They bloom in early May (the cover appears earlier) and only then grow leaves that reach a height of 1.5 m in favorable conditions by the end of summer. An elongated wide-oval cover with a strong pleasant smell has significant dimensions— 16-25 cm long and 13-16 cm wide. Mass flowering occurs from mid-May to early June, but even after its end, the blanket retains its decorative effect. By the time the seeds ripen (in mid-June), it begins to fade and gradually disappears. In July-August, the rosettes of leaves reach their maximum size, the thickets almost completely hide the standing person. Winter hardy.
The plant is poisonous, especially the flowers and rhizome. Alkaloids, glycosides, and saponin-like substances were found in the rhizome (Konyukhov et al., 1970). In the leaves, the content of alkaloids drops sharply. The local population uses crushed and boiled leaves to fatten pigs. It is indicated (Sugawara, 1937) that all parts of the plant are used for respiratory diseases. It has been known in culture since 1886. (Poletiko and Mishenkova, 1967). It is mentioned in a number of works (Rageu, 1932; Dictionary of Gardening, 1956; Wyman, 1971).

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Olga Titova: Is there still snow on Sakhalin?

Olga Titova: Is there still snow on Sakhalin?

On the coast of southern Sakhalin, the snow came off. But a little higher in the hills still lies, you can judge from the photos.

A walk through the forest on April 29, 2015: primroses-goose onion, doubtful crested, kaluzhnitsa, and some insects.

Deceptive or doubtful crested bird-Corydalis ambigua
North Pacific-type range: Russia (Sakhalin and Moneron, usually, Kuril Islands — all islands, usually; Uda District, Okhotsk, Kamchatka, Komandorsky Islands), Aleutian Islands, Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu), North-Eastern China, Japan- ov Korea. It grows in forests, shrubs, tall grasses, on the grassy slopes of sea shores, along streams on fertile soil (sod-humus, alluvial-layered). Mesophyte.

A small plant with bluish-purple flowers and beautifully dissected delicate leaves. Growing, it forms bright blue glades.
Japanese researchers note the nutritional and medicinal properties of the crested duck. In spring, the stems, leaves, and nodules can be eaten boiled, soaked in soy, or together with other sheep (Miyabe and Mitake, 1907; Kimoto and Sirasaka, 1936).

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Dear forum experts, I identified the butterfly as Nymphalis xanthomelas (Esper, 1781). But I don't know much about beetles. tell me, please, what kind of buzz in the previous message.

Incomprehensibility in my garden.

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Dear forum experts, I identified the butterfly as Nymphalis xanthomelas (Esper, 1781).

Yes no, this time not xanthomelas, but also overwintered N. vaualbum.

April 26, 2015.

Bee from the last one - to-one photo by Andrena clarkella (Kirby, 1802)
We have a custom one on the other end of the country

It rained for a week. During this time, the ground squirrel grew up, and it became clearly noticeable that someone was feeding on it. Here is some moth caterpillar, a white coating on the back of a burdock-either a disease, or someone's egg laying, a lot of little things I don't know. All I know is a tick and a scabbard. Also the bee Andrena clarkella (Kirby, 1802). I will be grateful for your enlightenment.

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ps he was either planted specifically for a photo shoot, or he accidentally landed

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Tiger lily — L. tigrinum Ker-Gawl. = (L. lancifolium Thunb.).

It is listed in the Red Book of the RSFSR with the status 3®, a rare species (1)...

Oh, these fairy tales, oh, these storytellers!

The lanceolate lily, better known as the tiger lily, is one of the most common species of the genus in Russia. In the European part, cultivated plants are also known as"royal curls".

Wild diploid plants are smaller in size and are quite rare. But polyploids (usually triploids) are the most common and almost universally cultivated ornamental plants. In the" free " state, such plants are quite common in the forests of Southern Primorye, for example, in the Ussuri Nature Reserve. Populations of these sterile plants are easily maintained with high breeding potential by stem bulbs.

The inclusion of this species in all sorts of Red Books is as much nonsense as the appearance on their pages of the Maak sailboat - one of the most common species distributed throughout the range of its food plant - Amur velvet.

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ps he was either planted specifically for a photo shoot, or he accidentally landed

The bug was sitting just like that, I couldn't get a bigger one off. During the walk, he was the only one.

[quote=AVA,13.05.2015 09:38]

Osmunda, chistoust-fern (Osmunda).
On the nearby hills it grows only in one place, limited.

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Oh, this cherry Sargent, in the people sakura, every year do not take your eyes off! After soaking the berries in water to get the bitterness out, you get a delicious jam. Birds also love cherry fruits.

Rose Family Rosaceae


Sargent cherry (Sakhalin cherry) Cerasus sargentii (Rehd.) Pojark. (Syn. Cerasus sachalinensis (Fr. Schmidt) Kom.)

Status. R(3). A rare species.

Highly decorative plant.

Distribution. In the Sakhalin region, it is distributed in the southwestern part of Sakhalin Island (Tomarinsky-locus classicus, Anivsky, Kholmsky, Nevelsky districts), on the islands of Moneron, Kunashir, and Iturup. On the territory of Russia, it is also noted in the southern part of Primorsky Krai. Outside the Russian Federation, it is found in Northeastern China, Japan (Hokkaido and Honshu Islands), and the Korean Peninsula (1,2,3,4).

Biology and ecology. Deciduous tree 8-10 (15) m tall, 30-40 cm in diameter, with dark brown bark peeling off and shining on the branches. Buds are elongated-ovate-cone-shaped, reddish-brown, glabrous. Leaf blades 6-13 cm long, 3-8 cm wide, ovate or ovate-elliptic, shiny above, with a drawn pointed tip, rounded or rounded-wedge-shaped at the base, often asymmetrical, glabrous on petioles up to 2-3 cm long. The leaf edge is sharp-needle-like. Flowers 2-3 in umbellate inflorescences. The diameter of the flowers is up to 3.5 cm, the petals are from pale pink to whitish-pink, with a slightly wavy edge. Pedicels 2-3 cm long, almost glabrous. Bracts 5-7 mm long, broadly ovate, spiny at the edge. Sepals are narrowly triangular, sharp, glabrous, up to 7 mm long. Fruit-drupe, 8-10 mm in diameter, spherical, blue-violet-black, shiny, sweet and sour. Blooms in May, bears fruit in July-August.

In broad-leaved, less often in coniferous-broad-leaved and stone-birch forests.

Limiting factors. Small number of populations, weak seed renewal.

Security status and measures. It is included in the "List of Plant world objects listed in the Red Book of the Sakhalin Region" (5). It is recommended for protection in the Russian Far East (6). It is protected in the Kurilsky Nature Reserve (7) and the Moneron Island Nature Park (8). It is cultivated in the Sakhalin Botanical Garden (8). Deserves wider use in green construction.

Information sources. 1. Nedoluzhko, 1996b; 2. Kitagawa, 1979; 3. Ohwi, 1965; 4. Nakai, 1952; 5. " List of objects...", 2005; 6. Harkevich and Kachura, 1981; 7. Barkalov and Eremenko, 2003a; 8.Data compiled by the author.

Compiled by A. A. Taran.

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Diarsia canescens (Butler, 1878) was born on May 10, 2015.

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Traditional hike on June 12 to the Devil's Bridge, 2 km from Vedmin. For more information, see my photo film. Link http://ok.ru/video/4805429866
I would be grateful for your help in identifying insects.

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Moth, by the way, from the genus Eilicrinia! For Sakhalin from this genus, there is only an unreliable indication of E. nuptaria, photos of which I found on the Internet, and the butterfly is also very similar to E. wehrlii, which is found in other regions of the Far East.

Thank you Ilya. Moth charmed me. I see it for the first time. It will be interesting to work with the information.

The Red Book is not a scientific project, but a commercial one. Another way to launder public money. Therefore, the authors of the" red book "will necessarily violently justify and justify its "objectivity". This document can still be applied to large mammals, where it is logical to protect specific specimens, but this approach is not applicable to other living organisms. We need to protect entire ecosystems, including buffer zones, and not just a single butterfly or beetle, 99% of which were born with one goal - to die in one way or another. There is nothing to say about plants. You can protect lilies until they turn blue, you can fine puberty girls by finding a "red book" flower in their bouquet, all this will not give any result if you also actively burn bulbs and seeds with spring sticks from the nearest dachas.

+100 !!!!!

  
Apparently, it is expanding its range, since in 2012 I caught it for the first time in the Amur region, and now it comes across relatively regularly.

About CC-I agree. And who is still in the photo-nuptaria or wehrlii?

I posted the photo in the section" Definition of butterflies " and found the last one on the site http://www.jpmoth.org/Geometridae/Ennomina...ia_wehrlii.html and http://lepidoptera.ru/taxonomy/21552. But I can't find the first one. Ye. Belyaev is leaving for the field tomorrow and will arrive in July. Maybe it will help you identify moths.

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And who is still in the photo-nuptaria or wehrlii?

E. wehrlii.
Nuptaria is yellower, the spot on the forewing is smaller, of a different shape.

Walk to Polyakovsky lake. Golubyanka. Japanese marigold Neope niphonica Butler, 1881 basked in the morning near the ground, on the way back already preferred the coolness of greenery. Walnut pipe cake.Family of Araliaceae Araliaceae
Kalopanax semilopastnoy (Dimorphant, "white walnut") Kalopanax septemlobus (Thunb.) Koidz

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The crested bird is Furcula furcula sangaica. July 5, 2015.

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Scooper Habrosyne dieckmanni (Graeser, 1888) July 5, 2015.

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Possibly Eilicrinia nuptaria Bremer, 1864. July 12, 2015. sheltered from the rain.

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Today, July 18, a trip to Lake Superior, near Chekhov, Kholmsky district, Sakhalin region. There used to be a campsite here. And now moss and ababka mushrooms are growing, you can meet the forest steed Cicindela sylvatica Linnaeus, 1758. The blood killer whale Iris sanguinea Hornem is questionable. Waterfall near Chekhov.

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you can meet the forest steed Cicindela sylvatica Linnaeus, 1758.

The horse in the photo is clearly not Sylvatica.

The horse in the photo is clearly not Sylvatica.

Determined by the photo in the book, the drawing is similar. Let's try another search. Thank you.

The horse in the photo is clearly not Sylvatica.

Sure. As for me, this is Cicindela sachalinensis: http://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/rus/cicind12.htm

Determined by the photo in the book, the drawing is similar.

Yes, it doesn't look like it at all: sylvatika has a black upper lip: http://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/rus/cicind03.htm

Sure. As for me, this is Cicindela sachalinensis: http://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/rus/cicind12.htm

Sakhalinensis is noticeably darker (although the insular ones may be lighter?), the median bandages with sharper angles:

Transbaikalia is more stocky. Nitida's chest is blue.
Most of all, it looks like a hybrid, although the rear light spot, round as in sakhalinensis, is confusing.