When I became interested in insects

I've lived in Obninsk since I was a child-there is a lot of nature and it is accessible by distance.During childhood: vacation, pioneer.camps,dacha, etc., always engaged in trapping, read books-my parents were happy-my son is a humanitarian.Then the army, study, 15 years of Gazprom, marriage and other interesting events.Trapping remained only for large fish with sports gear.The 2nd child was born when my daughter was 2.5 years old-she asked to catch a flying swallowtail in the city, and in the evening I almost caught a prionus-I flew on the playground in the evening,it was 2010.We caught butterflies, made the 1st collection, I won't show it to the forum.I found our forum, read almost the entire archive over the winter,found out for myself that it was an interesting case, plus the family was even very much in favor, and they promised to participate and help.Started in the spring of 2011.So far, everyone in the family likes it:catch,prepare,spread, and make collections.My daughter looks at books for children and with pictures about insects, knows a lot of Russian names, personally caught ground beetles on dirt roads with a headlamp.I am very happy about my new hobby, THANKS to the forum.In addition, I buy tropics and collect collections of especially liked animals of exhibition quality and size, as far as available resources are available.Probably everything.

P.Since there are no insect lovers in my environment,I will give you a few statements:nerd, Vika let him drink at home, botanism is a very terrible disease, ochkosaurus, a dangerous person-we don't know what to expect from him, and so on in the same spirit.

Hello everyone!!!
Despite the fact that I am still only 12 years old, I love entomology VERY much.
My interest in insects (especially butterflies) started when I was two years old.
It all started when I watched my uncle go on expeditions to Peru, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia. And brought from there mountains of mattresses. I also wanted to collect them. I caught insects with my hands, the only thing I didn't understand at that time was why butterflies should be pricked and shoved into boxes. I just used to take cabbage plants and hives and put them in photo frames.
Then, at the age of 6, my interest in insects faded. I was indifferent to them.
But at the age of 12, the interest came again, I remembered how at the age of 5 I found swallowtail caterpillars and found bears in the entrance. And the interest returned with more force and seriousness.
How happy I was when I was sitting at night behind a sheet and scoops, hawkmoth, cocoonworms, ursins flew to me and I thought and I think that this is the best activity in the world – Entomology!!!))))

As I understand it, the last message is from Roman Yakovlev's son. The shift is growing-then

It all started when I watched my uncle go on expeditions to Peru, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia.

As I understand it, the last message is from Roman Yakovlev's son. The shift is growing

Ahahah )))))
No, I'm not Roman's son, but I know him very well)))
I am the nephew of Vyacheslav Doroshkin, he is a friend of Roman)))

Personally, according to my observations, everyone who is interested in insects is also interested in reptiles. Matches at least 0.8!

Ahahah )))))
No, I'm not Roman's son, but I know him very well)))
I am the nephew of Vyacheslav Doroshkin, he is a friend of Roman)))

from after all ... "uncle" read in the American way "dead" (dad). sorry - it's time to stop traveling abroad

Personally, according to my observations, everyone who is interested in insects is also interested in reptiles. Matches of at least 0.8!

Golden words, I even thought for some time (not seriously, of course) to leave entomology as a hobby and go to the Department of Vertebrate Zoology, to study systematics of geckos

I am now 13 years old.I was drawn to butterflies for a long time, but the last straw to start serious study was the caterpillar of the milkweed hawk moth, from which the butterfly later hatched. I was 10 years old at the time. I didn't even have a net then!!! Now I have a full set of equipment. Since spring I'm going to breed Attacus atlas.

In kindergarten, he began to show an interest in insects, mainly butterflies, and the first meeting with a swallowtail finally decided the matter...

From the first milliseconds of my life, I started noticing beautiful things.. The first entomological memories (unfortunately, the memory does not extend further) relate to kindergarten, even then the teacher brought me soldiers and other animals, one such soldier once bit me.. it was not pleasant, I yelled and cried
Well, it was up to 5 years.. I don't remember exactly when
Another memory of those years refers to when I collected leaf beetles in the yard. Well, some glimpses of the moments when I found insects and watched over them. Later, I tried to start collecting a couple of times, but a bunch of dead beetles in a jar in the heat made it stink.. I once put a bunch of beetles without having time to sort them out, and then I went somewhere, came back, and instead of beetles there was no longer clear what.. So my hobby was postponed..
But somewhere in the 5th grade I decided to take it seriously and from that moment my collecting began

It wasn't a soldier, they don't bite... Most likely it was a mummified predator...

But is it really possible to do this?

Sometimes you even need to. For example, elephants with scales on the back and elytra, such as frachnikovs, are unrealistic to take whole, but if you put it on a pin alive, it" grows " a new one in a couple of days and looks fresh.

When I was 5 or 6 years old, I had nothing to do during the day, so my mother advised me to eat butterflies... Well, I got seriously carried away quite recently at the age of 12-13.

My mother used to take me to the zoological museum when I was six. There I hovered for a long time near a stand with tropical butterflies. A few weeks later, I accidentally caught a mourner (she sat on me in the park, I covered her with a cap and brought her home. released it the next morning). This is the biggest and most beautiful butterfly I've ever seen in person. After that, I realized that I wanted to catch butterflies. The first net was made from a plastic baby stick.
Since there was no information on how to collect and what to do next with insects, the first butterflies caught were glued to cardboard using PVA or something similar. It was a fun time.
At the age of 14, I was somehow too shy to walk with a net and gave up collecting. And only after ten years I couldn't stand it and started fishing again. So 3 years gradually and lovims.
By the way, I had to dream about the second mourner for another 6 or 7 years. It's bad that they flew in those parts where I caught as a child. She is probably still one of my favorite butterflies. Although we managed to capture more interesting animals and make collections of various tropical species, but still...

Yes, mourning in my memory also remained: I played in the sandbox, decided to check if the plastic car will fly , but it did not fly, but the mourning bag fell out of it.
And once we were in Lazorevsky, which is on the Black Sea, walked around the town and saw an exhibition-sale of insects, well, I went there was no one there, only an uncle with glasses was looking at Madagascar Urania, I go with a smart look, the uncle saw me, got into conversation, I asked what kind of hat he had the first butterfly, he says-swallowtail, I say-I have a winter shovel, he looked at me and said a phrase that forever lay in my memory - in such trifles as scoops understand...

I'm like everyone else-I've been fishing for as long as I can remember. I remember when I was very young when my father brought home a poplar hawk moth and stuck it with a needle directly on the wallpaper(of course, without any straightening and so on). and when we went to Belinsky park, my brother went to the carousels and swings, and I went to the flower beds with marigolds-then there were the most beautiful peacock eyes, now you will not meet such eyes(joke). and for all the summer holidays to visit my grandmother in the village-that's really where the expanse is! all window sills are in jars and cones. and the first book was in the children's library, but I don't remember the author or the title anymore, but there was something about tropical fishing for light)

Which is also cool - I've never noticed this before. Moreover, he quickly found himself in a special position in the army

This depends not only on the environment, but also on the habit of the "nerd"himself
And with the army you just got lucky, captain-butterfly, well + habitus probably)))

And my interest woke up at the age of 11,which is quite recent.From Jules Verne's book The Fifteen-year-Old Captain, when one of the characters was an entomologist...

And it was summer and the next day I went on an insect hunt in our garden.Mostly I collected beetles,but if I saw a butterfly, I'd like to catch it.I threw the beetles into small medicine jars and waited for them to suffocate there.
I dried dead specimens in the sun on a piece of cardboard,and then pasted them on paper or on dried plants.
All this happened at my grandmother's,and I live in Minsk.

My interest probably began with the time when I began to learn to walk and my father, in order to somehow occupy me on a walk, showed me all sorts of beetles. For as long as I can remember, I've always collected and kept insects.
At school, biology was the only subject I managed to do well in, although I didn't study it as well as the others, but I won Olympiads in it and ecology.
Then my life took a turn in the direction of technology, although not by my will, I received a couple of technical education, but I never got rid of the craving for insects. How I didn't get rid of the ability to see a green caterpillar in dense foliage just by passing by. Insects are forever!

But I became interested after I was bitten on the ass by a dog.I'm 13.I've been doing entomology almost all my life.When I was from 2-6 years old, I took a glass jar or bottle with me to the street and started collecting all the bedbugs,bronzes and other beetles there.I kept it on the balcony, which was completely filled with these cans.Soon ,when I came up with the idea of pricking insects(I had no computer,no Internet,no books about entomology), my collection began to grow and interest began to disappear, but after a couple of years it returned.It was after a meeting with a bindweed hawk moth.I was shocked by the size of this "bird".Creeping up to the flower bed, I reached out and grabbed it with a light movement,but because of the thorny paws, it was very painful and not pleasant for me.My mother gave me celofan and I spent the whole way home looking at this hawk moth in a bag.After that, I just started raving about entomology and catching things.In one evening, I caught so many locusts that all the locusts could fit in 3 shoe boxes.Every year I began to discover something new.This has been going on for 6 years and I can conclude that entomology is not just one of the sciences,it's LIFE!

I voted for "Deep Childhood", although in my understanding this phrase means the period up to 7 years.

At age 7 (or 8? I don't remember any more) they gave me a book called " Butterflies. A miracle in the palm of your hand. Flowers". It is beautiful, and very well and clearly and, most importantly, everything about insects and insecticides was correctly explained there. I knew it by heart.

And in parallel with this, I had a friend who once caught a "cabbage patch". He said that they were asked to dry them for the summer. And that's how we started collecting insects. At first, I collected beetles by sticking them in a candy box. But then I switched to butterflies. Достал 2 книги: "Колекція метеликів і жуків" и "Насекомые СССР". I caught one specimen from each species. In total, I collected about 33 different butterflies. It lasted for about 5 years. Then we stopped being friends, I began to catch less, get less involved. But in fact, my interest in insects and nature in general did not fade.

4.5 years ago, I found the books "Natural monuments of the Kherson region" and "Flora of the Kherson region"at home. I read it with great interest. I wanted to study insects again. Since 2010, I decided to try photographing them. For me, photographing is also about catching insects. Only the loot here is the image files saved to the memory card in the camera. Although, if there were more opportunities, I would probably collect butterflies. I found this forum back in 2009, but until November 2011 I just read it without registering. I learned a lot of new and interesting things, thank you.

6 years. Estuary Kuyalnik . A large specimen of the dung beetle Geotrupes stercorarius . I keep it to this day as a keepsake, immersed in arachnology.

I didn't know where to insert this great photo, so I decided to go here.


Emmanuel Evzerikhin. The girl with the herbarium. 1938

PS: Evzerikhin is a Soviet photojournalist, known for his social. realistic and military photographs (Children's Round Dance Fountain, Stalingrad, 1942, etc.)

This post was edited by scarabee - 24.10.2013 18: 14

And the story of my 12-year life (of course, on the part of entomology) is as follows.
I became interested in insects at the age of four, when I first saw a deer beetle in my yard. Or rather, two deer beetles. A male and a female. During mating. Under the impression of contemplating these majestic creatures, I began to collect and starve (well, where did I have a real stain then) the most beautiful, of course, in my opinion, insects. During the seven years of such "collecting", I collected about forty species. I didn't rethink my passion for entomology until I was eleven years old, when I learned about special equipment for collecting insects. But I spent the last year studying the basics of entomology. And just now I decided to seriously engage in this business, so I ask you about what interests me, before that I got as familiar with the relevant topic as possible. So please don't judge me and my questions too harshly. After all, this is, in fact, my first field season. But I am sure that I have many interesting sights and discoveries ahead of me! And soon I will collect my first entomological box!

This post was edited by Vasily L. - 04/20/2015 17: 31

..please do not judge me or my questions harshly. After all, this is, in fact, my first field season. But I am sure that I have many interesting sights and discoveries ahead of me! And soon I will collect my first entomological box!

In a good way!

Hello everyone!!
I'm not an entomologist and I don't know the names of butterflies in Latin, but after looking at photos of reports on trips and expeditions, I almost choked on saliva!
In 1995-1996, my younger brother and I decided to build our own collection of butterflies. I begged an old box from my school insect collection from my biology teacher and made some nets out of an old fishing podsachnik and tulle to go hunting. At first, I used a stain from a can of cotton wool soaked in toluene, but the butterflies were very erased, so I decided to use a penicillin syringe with ammonia.
Biotope-a clearing near a mixed forest in the suburbs of Perm.
If there are fellow countrymen, I would love to talk to them.
P.S. What is the first butterfly in the collection can be seen at a glance on the spread.

Lighter photo

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At the age of 6, I started taking an interest in erect wings,I am now 12 years old.