We survived the winter of 2006...

Thank you for the topic!!!
From observations of spring-the year of wintering beetles in many species began only in the first days of May. As early as May 1, many people were sitting in winter cribs. which is very late! I assumed it was due to freezing temperatures (- 35-37, several nights in a row)elm sapwoods will freeze out: trickle and pygmy (the latter has Yaroslavl as the northernmost point in Eastern Europe). Trickle successfully overwintered... I haven't reached the pygmy's habitat yet.
Judging by the flowering of bird cherry trees (in the city on May 16, in the woods - yesterday). this phenophase is within the long-term average norm.

On the weekend I'm going to go to our forest-steppe (Serebryano-Prudsky district), to see how the Southerners are doing - both flora and fauna.
So far (information from a colleague): polixena in Solotcha (Ryazan region) successfully wintered and flew on time (in mid-May). It lays its eggs on the newly emerging kirkazon!

From butterflies: I saw a raspberry tree only on May 9, raspberry leaves just hatched. In previous years, it appeared significantly earlier.

Orthosia scoops appeared in the second half of April, and Lycia hirtaria, Apocheima pilosaria, A. hispidaria, and Agriopis marginaria moths flew out in Izmailovo Park with the first thawing, as they should. A separate specimen, and completely fresh, Lycia hirtaria was collected as early as May 13. Cerura vinula crested also on May 13, which is quite normal, even a little early, since the captured male has already flown for a couple of days in appearance. A good and interesting moth Rheumaptera cervinalis, trofically related to barberry, was collected in two copies (one fresh, the other completely battered) also on May 13.

In general, I don't notice any rough shifts in the timing of the summer, at least in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region.
In addition, Callophrys rubi flew in Luzhki near Serpukhov on May 7 in large numbers, and there were both fresh and battered specimens.

I forgot to add that the moths Paradarisa consonaria and Aethalura punctulata were already flying on May 12-13, just like last year.

Malinnitsa also met on May 9, zero.
The Polyxenes were late, I don't remember how late.
Mnemosyne starts flying with us from about May 1, and it started only now, everything that I caught is zero.
Glaucophysikhe Alexis on April 1 last year caught (and some ex. already beaten slightly were). This year, I found the first time on May 12, mostly there were wholes, and I met the last two wholes (out of many broken ones) on the 19th
.Last year, on the 5th, I caught Anagliptus mysticus and Leptura rufipes on the same flowers. In this case, flowers have not yet bloomed in these numbers, I found only today, and I didn't see angliptus at all, only rufipes a couple of pieces
were late and Dorcadions were observed.. I can't remember for how long, but it's not too bad.
A friend said that some moths (I don't remember the type) also did not appear as it should.
And in general, a delay of 2 weeks is practical for everyone.
Also Leptidea sinapis, morsay, napi, rapi, daplidice, cardamines, other
Chervonets, argus, bellargus - when it was not necessary.
From what's on time-cicindela soluta and campestris
Not on time Agapantia violacea sideshow? , Theophylaea subcylindricollis
It seems that podalirias and swallowtails appeared in time ,ниNis tages. Also Platycerus carboides caprea? Some nutcrackers (I don't remember the name, small black ones with half a red pronotum), sanguineum nutcrackers or whatever they are. Barbel phytoecia pustulata.
Last year, on the 5th, or maybe a little earlier, I saw Scopoli cerambics, but now they are not there yet.
And so on

Caught the light this Saturday on the border of the Moscow and Kaluga regions.
There are fresh crested Stauropus fagi, moth Cyclophora punctulata, Lobophora halterata, Selenia dentaria, Hypoxystis pluviaria, stale moth Calliteara pudibunda, moth Trichopteryx carpinata. The red peacock-eyed Aglia tau flies for at least 1.5 weeks. Again, quite fresh and flying specimens of the moth Rheumaptera cervinalis (barberry is). Everyone flew on time.
It is worth noting that in those places, garden trees and shrubs (blackthorn, pear and again barberry) suffered greatly from frost, although there was more than a meter of snow.

There is one interesting observation: this year we practically did not have I. latonia! Last year, there were a lot of them in the spring, it was a massive species. This is only my second year of observation, so I don't know if this is normal or not. In general, it is felt that many types of butterflies are smaller. But there are exceptions. For example, there was a very active summer scoop-orthozium of various types.
The flowering of many of the "main" plants that feed on butterflies - bruise, thistles and others-is incredibly late. I only saw the macroglossum today. In general, one feels not so much a delay as a decrease in the number of individuals of some species.

Last weekend I went to Serebryano-Prudsky district, where we have the last virgin steppe in the region. There are no deviations in the phenophase, but there are simply not enough butterflies - all of them. Looks like they're frozen... Although there is nothing wrong with the southern plants.
I. latonia flies later - let's see how much it will be.

And yesterday I was in a completely different place - on the riding swamp. I checked the population of O. jutta. So there weren't many butterflies there either! Although it's strange: there are northern creatures there! But the density of butterflies is again low: on my last visit there, for example, there was a "soup" of Ematurga atomaria: they crowded in the small woods like mosquitoes. Now-units in sight.

Isn't it too early for O. jutta? She may have just started her summer period.

Near St. Petersburg, everything is fine with moth moth, A. levana comes across, of course, all the overwintered nymphalids in large numbers, almost all the usual whiteflies, including A. cardamines. But I didn't meet any pigeons at all, except for C. rubi.
Banals of ground beetles, racehorses and nutcrackers, ground beetle hornbill, ragii also run.

Isn't it too early for O. jutta? Perhaps she was just beginning her summer period.

It's not too early for us. Just in the middle of summer. This is the Moscow region, the southernmost population in Russia.

By the way, last weekend, that is 03.06. caught the freshest female Eudia pavonia.

We haven't seen any satyrids yet, except Pamphilius! Last year there were lupins and yurtins, and Galatea started flying.

Egeria should have flown out about two weeks ago, but I haven't seen any of them yet.

Egeria has already flown to Estonia, I saw them the day before yesterday, but I am sure that they appeared even earlier. Aglia tau in all fly, they always regularly appear in June)) By the way, I am afraid of the terrible number of moths Ematurga atomaria, which terrorizes the pine forests of vlod to the point that I kicked a bush-and from it immediately 6 atomaria in different strons! I wonder if this is true everywhere.

Yes, this also happens in our Moscow region.
The butterfly is numerous.

dabb, I wouldn't say that the tau are flying all over us now. In addition, as a whole, many spring species are scarce. For example, silkworms and E. pavonia were not seen at all this year, although two years ago there were mass departures in the same biotopes. I think that the population still suffered because of the cold spring.

dabb, I wouldn't say that the tau are flying all over us now.

Tau, apparently, flew away: in the twenties of May, they were decently (Lukhovitsky district). Pavonia was found fresh, hit by a car-at the very beginning of June.

I spent the weekend climbing in the woods. The impression is twofold: there are also "spring" species - gray long-moustached barbel, T-shirt, etc. At the same time, young caterpillars of the red peacock-eye, some hawk moth on a birch tree. That is, in early spring it was probably delayed, and in late spring it was apparently leveled by warm weather in May.

What about the iridescent plants (A. iris, ilia)? At the dacha I used to fly at this time, but now I haven't seen any of them. No one came to the bait either. And in general, there are still very few daytime butterflies...

Not all butterflies are small, there are some that are more than last year. This is a thick-headed forest-it is full of flies now. There is also more Pontia edusa. I saw Galatea today, just one.

to Dracus: in about a week, only if the weather is good, the situation with poplar tapeworms will improve. And perelivnitsy even later may appear.

On June 3-4, friends in the east of the region (Avsyunino) have already caught four species-Smerinthus ocellatus, S. caecus, Laothoe amurensis, Sphinx pinastri.
I personally caught the freshest S. ocellatus and Deilephila elpenor

And yet the frosts hit the butterflies. This spring, aberrations of the variegated moth Araschnia levana are not uncommon. Crested whales do something - Clostera curtula and C. pigra later appeared, Stauropus fagi was caught in mid-May and again-a fresh male in mid-June.
Linden hawk moth Mimas tiliae, quite fresh male collected on June 17, while in the Moscow region they fly out in mid-May.

Limenitis camilla in the Domodedovo district of the Moscow region at several points in the last 4 years in June constantly observed "in quantity", and this year finally none.
Probably frozen out.

Limenitis populi already appeared last week. L. camilla will also appear soon.

Yesterday (26.06) I was fishing in Solnechnogorsk district (north along Leningradka), I caught a lot of pigeons, sennits, 2 satyrs (I can't tell you the exact name now), I saw Chervonets ognennogo, I saw Urticaria a couple of times, I didn't meet any more more or less large butterflies. Caught in a field near the forest, the size is somewhere 100m*100m.

Caught June 28 Vanessa Atlanta (Moscow region. Domodedovo district), so I think it's not too early?
And Limenitis camilla for the first time saw 27, in the same places as before, but in previous years they were already flying up to 15, but they were too late!

AP topic, coming soon

I will try to make an assumption for now-specifically for the south of Ukraine, especially where there was no snow or there was very little-the cold snap is supposed to affect primarily insects wintering in the form of imago, and wintering pupae suspended from ratsenia and lying on the surface of the earth.
And also the number of grasshoppers can be very reduced, like locusts do not react so painfully to severe frosts.

In this case, the situation in theory is somewhat worse than in 2006 - then there was a lot of snow, and not prolonged cold - Cumin exposure below-20C was only one day in the south of Ukraine. This happened later and later.

Now the Cumin exposure is below -20C for the third day, and a repeat is expected for another three to 4 days. Perhaps, by the way, this explains the rarity of butterflies wintering in the form of imago-they are very rare, perhaps frequent low-snow but cold winters are to blame. Where there is a lot of snow, it is much easier to winter there.