Random finds or great luck when catching

Case one: In my first beetle-collecting season (1988), in mid-April, I went out of town and went to the ditches near the CHPP to look for water beetles. I see a large beetle moving off the surface into the murky water. I draw randomly with a net-Dytiscus latissimus!!!
Second case: 1988, August, Kyrgyzstan, Issyk-Kul basin, Przhevalsk. We catch beetles with my wife (for me) and butterflies (for her, although by now she has given up this business). Suddenly, a large mother-of-pearl (Argynnis pandora) appears, but it flies high, you can't even reach the net when jumping... Out of desperation, I throw the net vertically, it freezes at the top point right on the course of pandora and she flies into it, the net begins to fall and the butterfly ends up in gauze...
Perhaps you can remember other cases, but the most clearly remembered ones were those that occurred at the dawn of an entomological career.

Yes, there were a couple of interesting cases. Two years ago, I found Anax imperator on the side of the highway (apparently also hit by a car) also in perfect condition, the species of this dragonfly has never been seen in those places before. I didn't see any more imperator there. And another thing: once in a field near the forest, I covered a moth of Angerona prunaria with a net in the grass, I was waiting for a pleasant surprise: in addition to prunaria, the hawk moth Laothoe populi was sitting in the net. It turned out that he was sitting on the same blade of grass and was not immediately noticed by me. These are the stories.

Here's another story. It was in 1988, I rested/worked in LTO near Kharkiv (for those who did not find those times - a labor and recreation camp), it is clear that it was practically impossible to catch. Once, during a morning exercise session (running around the stadium for about 15 minutes plus a warm-up), I hid behind the cafeteria building to get some rest. I look, and on the wall of the dining room, where someone threw out some kind of oily-looking liquid, two lilac hawkmoth are sitting one under the other. At the bottom, where there was a puddle of this liquid, there were a bunch of smaller butterflies. I wish I knew what kind of filth it was that butterflies were so attracted to.

I wish I knew what kind of filth it was that butterflies were so attracted to.

And it became interesting to me.... Maybe some syrup?

In 2005, he worked at one of the enterprises in Rostov. During the lunch break, I examined its territory, where there were preserved areas overgrown with shrubs and free-standing trees. unkown mixed grasses. At the beginning of August, I inspect a lonely old willow-bredina (goat), and at a height of about two meters with a tail, I see a large barbel, obviously from the creakers, sitting on a branch. The willow trunk is almost without knots at the bottom, remembering forgotten childhood skills and everything I know about rock climbing, I climb-crawl on the trunk, reach for the beetle with a hand trembling with tension and excitement and remove it. I slide down and see that I have become the owner of Anarea (Saperda) similis. This is the only copy in my collection. According to Elizara, who specifically studied this issue, no A. similis finds were recorded in the Yaroslavl region either before or after this case. And the next year this willow was cut down during the improvement of the territory of the enterprise

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Here's another story. It was in ' 95. I was at a military training camp near Kovrov in the Vladimir region. When I got back, my family told me that they had put a butterfly in a jar for me. Knowing that these are usually absolutely banal views, I only looked at what was sitting there the next day. Oh, I forgot to tell you that we found her sitting on a watering hose this afternoon. It turned out that this is a female treewort corrosive. Since that time, I have caught only one male treewort with a lamp. In general, in my opinion, in the Moscow region this is quite a rare butterfly?

Here's another story. It was in ' 95. I was at a military training camp near Kovrov in the Vladimir region. When I got back, my family told me that they had put a butterfly in a jar for me. Knowing that these are usually absolutely banal views, I only looked at what was sitting there the next day. Oh, I forgot to tell you that we found her sitting on a watering hose this afternoon. It turned out that this is a female treewort corrosive. Since that time, I have caught only one male treewort with a lamp. In general, in my opinion, in the Moscow region this is quite a rare butterfly?

In my opinion, it is not uncommon. But females generally fly extremely poorly.

Or here's a fresher story... Three years ago, I was sitting on a chaise longue when I remembered that a female flower eye was eaten by skin eaters. Let me think I'll catch it, since they fly around the site. Just one flew in and landed on the peony leaves. I catch it, get it, and watch it... what was my surprise when it turned out to be krupnoglazka - the first and last caught in Moscow.

In general, in my opinion, in the Moscow region this is quite a rare butterfly?

I've never fished in the Moscow Region, but a male flew to Bolkon in Moscow.

Not quite a story, but still a good case: Although podalirium was noted on the territory of the Balashikha district, it was still very rare. Once I went to the dacha there for a few days in May, and I managed to find a site near a quarry with a relatively high density of podalirium, by the way, Oeneis tarpeia was also caught there, which is practically no longer listed on the territory of the region. There were always unexpected things to be found in this clearing, especially if the spring was warm. Unfortunately, since last year this catch place was plowed.

To me woodwives prliletali in the middle of July on light, males.

A couple of years ago, I went for a walk in search of beetles on the outskirts of Kiev. But it turned out that the whole area is so densely packed with the private sector that only an hour later I managed to get to a small pine forest. And then it turned out to be an island among the stone castles of the "new Ukrainians". In general, I was not upset, and decided to examine this uchastochek. The result was this publication: Kizub I. V., Nazarenko V. Yu. The First Find of Doydirhynchus austriacus (Coleoptera, Nemonychidae) in Ukraine. Vestnik Zoologii. 2005. Volume 39, No. 6. p.76
http://www.v-zool.kiev.ua/tocs/e39-6.htm

Not quite a story, but still a good case: Although podalirium was noted on the territory of the Balashikha district, it was still very rare. Once I went to the dacha there for a few days in May, and I managed to find a site near a quarry with a relatively high density of podalirium, by the way, Oeneis tarpeia was also caught there, which is practically no longer listed on the territory of the region. There were always unexpected things to be found in this clearing, especially if the spring was warm. Unfortunately, this unusual place has been plowed since last year.

What year did you catch tarpea there?

What year did you catch tarpea there?

2004. I flew in a single copy along with several banal marigolds.

And here's my story. May 2005. I arrive at work on Monday and find someone else's cigarette pack lying on my desk, crumpled and dirty. I look in, and there's nothing to see but the foil. Irritated, I toss the stack into the wastebasket. Somewhere in the middle of the working day, one of the employees says - I put a pack on the table, there is a butterfly, I brought it to you from the dacha. I ask without much interest, especially since I didn't see anything in the pack myself. Yes, just answers-small, gray, nondescript. All right, I thought. And the employee, leaving the office, and no longer addressing me, adds-she is at night and HER EYES ARE ON HER WINGS. I'm under the table, but there's no basket. I'm in the hallway, and my basket is with the others at the garbage chute and the cleaner is vigorously throwing out the contents. When I reached it in two jumps domshalsya. it was my basket she was shoveling out. I found that crumpled pack. I unfolded it, and under the foil sat a still-alive male pavonia, and in perfect condition.
Now, when I see a crumpled pack of cigarettes on the street, I always remember this story.

And today my friend and I went out to smoke on the lawn in front of the university - he caught me Lebia cyanocephala.

2004. I flew in a single copy along with several banal marigolds.

Utter nonsense!!! If you don't mind, please post a photo of the instance and exact information about the point.

Not quite a story, but still a good case: Although podalirium was noted on the territory of the Balashikha district, it was still very rare. Once I went to the dacha there for a few days in May, and I managed to find a site near a quarry with a relatively high density of podalirium, by the way, Oeneis tarpeia was also caught there, which is practically no longer listed on the territory of the region. There were always unexpected things to be found in this clearing, especially if the spring was warm. Unfortunately, this unusual place has been plowed since last year.

Yes, the case is just super!!! Not only is there a glade with podaliriyami (I've never seen them in the MO), but also TARPEA!

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I'll try to post a photo. Guest, Served, occasionally and still come across in the MO, but in the mass as there is not seen once. I caught 2 copies and just tarpeyu. The description of the point is as follows: not far from a very large quarry there is a heavily burned forest, naturally there are burnouts with cypress (maybe not cypress, they were long pink flowers), mostly burnouts were small in size, dragonflies, mother-of-pearl, etc. flew there, and I managed to find one large clearing on the outskirts of the forest, in at the time of discovery, the weather was cloudy and cool, and I didn't see anything but a couple of blue dragonflies. I decided to come back when the weather conditions are better, and I was lucky. I often went there and saw some very interesting things for MO, like Brenthisdaphne, a very rare species. The case with tarpea is amazing, I have never seen this butterfly at least in the MO, but here it is such luck , as for podaliriya for some reason, there was such a massive number of years, later I met them there as single individuals, and last year, after the vygorki were plowed and fenced (maybe under the roof of the forest). dachas? I hope that this year they will be again, although after such an anthropogenic impact is unlikely. At least last year, apart from the banal, I didn't see anything near that forest. This is an interesting story.

Another story about an accidental capture. 3 years ago I was sitting at the dacha, about five o'clock in the afternoon, drinking beer. A thunderstorm was gathering outside, a strong wind picked up, and suddenly something bright, large, orange, and clearly nocturnal was flying five meters away from me. I have a badminton racket at hand, I run, catch up at the fence, knock it down, it falls into the grass next to the car, and I mark the place of the fall very roughly. I spend about ten minutes crawling around the car, sifting through the grass, starting to boil, but eventually I find it. It turned out to be a female oak cocoonworm, the first one I caught at the dacha near Orekhovo. Then, however, a year later, another female flew into the world. I attach a picture of this random capture for clarity.

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Here is the photo. It can't be done better. I usually scan my copies because I don't have a digital camera with a macro, but it's impossible to remove the tarpe from the pin (it will break), the butterfly is very much battered with a mustache and a belly no longer there. Fotkal from a mobile phone (moreover, the camera is 1 MP, and even without a flash), at first it turned out to be a nightmare, but after correcting the photo with an image editor, I got a not so hot, but still intelligible image. So meet Oeneis tarpeja, I think a female (large spots.the male is usually smaller):

Please also indicate the geographical location of the point.

Please also indicate the geographical location of the point.

I can hardly specify it

From the first message, it follows that this is the Balashikha district, which part of it is at least?

The north-western district of Balashikha is somewhere like this.

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lepidopterolog, do you think it could be a stray individual? Even when captured, the butterfly was a little battered and faded. What is interesting is how many times I went there later and did not meet more tarpey.

Most likely zaletnaya, the last time tarpey was seen in the region more than 30 years ago, and even then in the eastern part. And here - Balashikha district, on the border with Moscow... I can't believe they're still there." But still, this is a very interesting case.

Although, on the other hand, eneis are usually not prone to dispersals and all sorts of migrations...

In Nizhny Novgorod, tarpeya flies at the Sormovsky cemetery. The main thing is that the conditions are suitable-forage plants were and bore too strong anthropogenic pressure.

It seems that everything is being caught in accordance with the plan and there are practically no cases of commenation.
Then another one of your own. On May 9, 1995, I went to watch a salute on the railway bridge of the Ukhtomskaya station of the Kazan railway. This is the outskirts of Moscow. Quite a lot of people gathered. On the way back, 100 meters from the bridge, under a street lamp, I saw a huge butterfly winding circles. The pole was high, no less than 10 meters. I flew under the lamp itself, not intending to go down. Plus a crowd of people returning from the fireworks. In general, I stood in the company of friends under the streetlight and waited... After 20 minutes, everyone had already had a drink under a bottle of beer, the benefit of the stall was very close, patience was beginning to fade and decided to take measures to stimulate the butterfly to fall. I couldn't think of anything more clever than trying to knock it down with wet dirt. Here it is necessary to take into account how we looked under the lantern, throwing up the ground . In 20 minutes, we managed to knock her down and when she started to fall, we rushed to catch her. As a result, it fell on my shoulder, and we tried to find it in the dark on the ground, until someone noticed it on me. This was my first female small peacock-eye and by the way the only one I have caught so far on the territory of Moscow. The photo is exactly what I attach. By the way, I congratulate all St. Petersburg residents and fans of our sport on Zenit's victory in the UEFA Cup!!!

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Given the method of extraction-excellent preservation and straightening of the material. Respect.

Here is the photo. It can't be done better. I usually scan my copies because I don't have a digital camera with a macro, but it's impossible to remove the tarpe from the pin (it will break), the butterfly is very much battered with a mustache and a belly no longer there. Fotkal from a mobile phone (moreover, the camera is 1 MP, and even without a flash), at first it turned out to be a nightmare, but after correcting the photo with an image editor, I got a not so hot, but still intelligible image. So meet Oeneis tarpeja, I think a female (large spots.the male is usually smaller):

I would like to say a few words about this photo.
The partial presence of shadows around the rear fenders is disconcerting. It was as if the background had been wiped off, but pieces of it remained in hard-to-reach places. If the background hadn't been removed, this photo might have looked like this::

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And if the photo was not blurred, then like this:

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The original version is located at:
http://www.sungaya.narod.ru/rhop/sat/Oen_tar.htm

Dear Nozer, please comment on my message and dispel my doubts.

The original version is located at:
http://www.sungaya.narod.ru/rhop/sat/Oen_tar.htm

Dear Nozer, please comment on my message and dispel my doubts.

Well, I'll comment. I wrote that the photo turned out to be very, very poor quality (I took it from my mobile phone). I had to edit it in the image editor, replace the background with a lighter one, and perform many other operations with it.I didn't put out what I got in the original photo (otherwise, there wouldn't be much to distinguish at all). I would like the photo to be at least a little distinguishable. But since I'm not a photoshop pro, the improvement was rough. You can be sure that BlackWidow is a copy from my collection.

And here's the story: The only (to my shame) available copy of Drypta dentata... was caught on the floor in a minibus

early September 1997, Sochi arboretum...it's hot, I bent down to drink over the fountain (well, remember before there were such things everywhere), I look and there are some caterpillar excrement poured there...I lift my head up..oleander..in troem, they searched for 20 minutes and nothing...eh sighed sadly ..I walked 5 meters away and suddenly saw her...the caterpillar of the oleander hawk moth is an interesting case..not green, as I thought, but yellow and huge, like a sausage...in short, two days later pupated..and in early October, a butterfly came out,I wake up in the morning and it flies around the room...beauty...