Sochi/Adler end of August 2008

Catch lemongrass in any quantity, very necessary!!!

- Unfortunately, I will go there this year at the end of September...
- The littoral zone is very poor in insects in general! - I've heard - that this is because this place is somehow neither one nor the other; - heat-loving species freeze out with minor short-term rare but accurate cold snaps; and temperate species can not withstand too warm winters. In the mass, except for the turnip, only egeria and podalirium catch the eye. Well, the pigeon Icarus.
- Although I caught Shamil's thinworm there once. And I thought I caught a glimpse of what I thought was an Ionian polychrome...
- If you have the opportunity, please call me at the KMV (Pyatigorsk, 500 km from Adler) - you are welcome. There's a lot to do here!

So I came back this morning. The plane was delayed for a day, but it could have been worse
Overall, I'm happy with the trip. On bulavousym here is what we managed to catch:
1 Iphiclides podalirius (Linnaeus, 1758)
2 Ochlodes sylvanus (Esper, [1778])
3 Erynnis tages (Linnaeus, 1758)
4 Carcharodus alceae (Esper, 1780)
5 Colias crocea (Geoffroy, 1785)
6 Gonepteryx rhamni (Linnaeus, 1758)
7 Leptidea sinapis (Linnaeus, 1758)
8 Pieris brassicae (Linnaeus, 1758)
9 Pieris rapae (Linnaeus, 1758)
10 Coenonympha pamphilus (Linnaeus, 1758)
11 Maniola jurtina (Linnaeus, 1758)
12 Lasiommata megera (Linnaeus, 1767)
13 Pararge aegeria tircis Godart, 1821
14 Minois dryas (Scopoli, 1763)
15 Argynnis paphia (Linnaeus, 1758)
16 Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus, 1758)
17 Lycaena dispar rutila (Werneburg, 1864)
18 Lycaena phlaeas (Linnaeus, 1761)
19 Celastrina argiolus (Linnaeus, 1758)
20 Everes argiades (Pallas, 1771)
21 Polyommatus icarus (Rottemburg, 1775)
22 Limenitis reducta Staudinger, 1901
23 Lasiommata maera (Linnaeus, 1758)
24 Aricia allous (Hubner, [1819])
25 Pieris napi (Linnaeus, 1758)
26 Heteropterus morpheus (Pallas, 1771)

There are still some things that need to be determined for different people, and I'll post a list later.
2Ekos: I've only seen two lemongrass whales, and I caught one female-I'll give it to you if necessary.
2Andreas: Thank you for the invitation! I think there will still be an opportunity to go to KMV, especially considering that our relatives live there.

something is not thick

2Ripper: Yes, but there is something! As Andreas had said, there were really very few insects, and they were particularly surprised by the almost complete absence of them when fishing at night in the light.

the light is not enough? That's really weird..

I'm in shock myself...

my friend was in Adygea, they say there are very few diaries, and even more so nocturnal ones.. But in Moldova, it seems that the year was normal..

in Siberia, this year also turned out to be very catchy, and in the south, they say, there was a drought for more than a month, maybe because of this, there were not many butterflies. The first night I hung a lamp near the hotel room - it was flying very poorly (3-4 butterflies per hour), I wrote it off at first on the abundance of coknuring light sources in the form of street lamps and a small amount of greenery around. In the following days, I went to catch the light in the mountains to visit local residents - a little better, but also not thickly. I have a house in Omsk on the 9th floor from the window better flies! Here are the cases. I also went to collect butterflies in underground passages on fluorescent lamps-also not enough, although I caught a couple of species that did not fly to DRV.

On poberezhye always years "shitty". As I see from the training camps of my colleagues in the Black Sea region, we need a car, a generator and a person who knows what and where, and, most importantly, when. And everything will be fine.
So there is no reason to be upset.

yes, in fact, no one was upset! the main goal of the trip was to relax with my wife and daughter, and butterflies are in the background, but still I came back satisfied. For the first time in my life I met podalirius, egeria, vixen, red tape reducta, yolk crocea, yazykana, which is already pleasant in itself! We don't have them in Siberia! Unfortunately, I didn't have a chance to wash death's head, bindweed and oleander, but I'm not too upset. I saw the death's head, but it flew past the lantern, the infection, the generator didn't take it with it, it was too heavy, but it was difficult with the guides, or rather they didn't exist at all - I was looking for a place myself.

This post was edited by Konung - 31.08.2008 19: 24

- Now I'm going back to Dagomys on the 16th. I don't know if I will be able to go fishing, since I will be with a woman (unfortunately). And I really liked the path from Khosta to the Yew-boxwood grove... - There I was once catching pigeons with a zebra-skin underbelly (by the way, I saw very similar ones in October in Greece near the city of Argos)... Sorry for the spam.

"I've already arrived. I only went up the coast. I caught one ground beetle, 2 staphylinae and a ladybug.
Photos posted in the topic "Small photo report" in "Images of insects".

This post was edited by Andreas - 09/25/2008 11: 41