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RippeR, 07.09.2008 16:19

a team of non-polar explorers goes on a night fishing trip!

In early July, we arrived in Labytnangi. We had to stay there for 1 day before setting off for the village of Polyarny, which is just between Selekhard and Vorkuta and 10 km north of Poyaronyi Kvardrat.
At first we thought that we were wasting the day, but then we went out to the vicinity of Labytnang and realized that we were mistaken. Under Labytnanagmi flew enough Lycaena helle ssp. We have already flown Erebia arctica, Coenonympha tullia ssp, Clossiana selene ssp., Proclossiana eunomia ssp. and other animals. There were also beetles - a few pterostiches, elephants, and other small things. From the most interesting - metalloid diazema and Carterocephalus silvicola, which no one has seen here before (like...), as well as Saperda populnea.
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first day's catch

S. diazema
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and the next day we went to a non-polar village (in fact, now you can't call it a village - there are only ruins and a few gullies with geologists). That's where the main investigation began. The year turned out to be wildly strange - there was almost nothing that should have been and there was a lot that should not have been at all ))) the snow at this time had not melted everywhere yet,which is why many butterflies have not yet appeared, and some have just begun to appear, although they should have been flying long ago. Some early spring grandmothers flew with late summer ones.

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07.09.2008 17:00, RippeR

We will continue to:
So the first day in the Nepolar region.
First we went to the Bolshaya Pipudynya River. The last thing I expected was Polyommatus kamtschadalis taimyrensis, but the strangest thing was that it was one of the first butterflies I caught. This year is anomalous because taimyrensis, which is supposed to fly at the end of July, took off at the beginning and flew together with minimus, semiargus, etc. Interestingly, in previous years there was a lot of astragalus, but there were no taimyrenzis (only a couple of times it was met in 15 years), and this year it was not easy to see astragalus, but there were enough taimyrenzis.
Local minims are very interesting - many males have a silvery coating that reaches almost to the edge of the wings, where the recco breaks off (in general, they make all the other minims that I have met in terms of beauty). We also met a couple of Oeneis norna, Erebia diza, Proclossiana eunomia ssp.
And in the evening we went for a walk to the river Sob, catch sovonek and pyadenek well, and other nonsense. The catch was small, but there were some very interesting bastards.

here is a female camchadalis..

and this is the owl meloleuca

this photo is already a nocturnal journey. almost all the photos were taken around 2 am.

rosemary, there was a lot of it, but for some reason it did not sit on the nightgowns, as in the past years.

and this is willow!!! There are a lot of different types of willows, but this one really struck me.

Maroshka!

astragalus

onion

and what a sky there is!

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07.09.2008 17:19, RippeR

And the next day was suitable for eneis-warm and little wind. So we went up the hill behind the aeneis. There were no eneis at all until 12 o'clock! But I caught Erebia fasciata, the only 2 males for the trip, and all sorts of animals, including several meloleuca and Xestia queta, and 1 more close species. And then I started running after the swallowtail, which completely exhausted me, so that my limbs were shaking. Then I saw 1 female Oeneis bore, and then I started running after the swallowtail again, which led me to the second hog, which I barely crushed with trembling hands from chasing the swallowtail. Then I also caught 1-2 hogs, 1 of them also made me run well, so I almost turned both legs a couple of times ^_^ but I won. And towards the end of the day's journey, I caught Oeneis magna, the only female during the journey (Sasha also caught only 1 and also on this day). We thought that everything was fine, and they just started flying out, and in the next few days we should catch a lot of them, but we were wrong, it turned out that the year was not the same and the Aeneid was not enough at all.
Erebia diza

The first Aulonocarabus truncaticollis polaris was caught by Sasha (as was the second). I was just crawling over the rocks, and I guess I just got out.

and here we lived. all conditions, *****.

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07.09.2008 17:40, RippeR

In the following days, except for the last one, we visited mostly the same places.
In addition to the above, we have added:
Clossiana angarensis ssp, Boloria alaskensis sedykh, Issoria (Rathora) eugenia, Colias palaeno ssp., 2 Colias hecla (I got only 1 in the last day and then in terrible condition with--), 1 time I got Erebia rossi is not very good quality. Clossiana thore ssp., by 1 Pyrgus andromedae.
From beetles - all sorts of beetles, elephants, pills, etc.
They set a lot of traps, but they only caught small things, and only a few Morphocarabus henningi oviformis and everything in the bottom place.. Some of them were also collected by hand under the stones. Cychrus caraboides was also found, but very fancy, smaller than usual and narrower.. The subspecies, as I understand it, is not yet known??

slonyara, something like Liparus arcticus

Gulag!

lemming

every 5-15 minutes, the sky shows different faces, and sometimes such interesting clouds come out

polar ivan tea

widespread, but very expressive nutcracker

polar poppy

in-copula minims

pick-me-ups. All carnations are nomral, lilac, and this one... and 1 bush was completely white..

eunomiya sits at night and even a blow to the muzzle will not interfere with her... After all, even though the nights are bright, the daytime animals hide and calm down, so much so that nothing can frighten them away.

here's an interesting acronym

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07.09.2008 17:52, RippeR

and this is the last day.
We went up the mountain to see if there were any Parnassus islands. Unfortunately, there weren't even any forage plants..

But there were Erebia dabanensis, a couple of Colias hecla flew by, on top there were a lot of machaons and Pontia callidice (males), well, all sorts of little things like dizs, a couple of palen, a bunch of scoops, which I almost could not catch because of their speed.. Sasha caught a rare metalloid called something like ino.. I can't remember for the life

of me, and I also caught an interesting scoop that looks like staudingeri, but it's kind of strange, it's hard to say what exactly it was.

On the same day, on my return, I caught the only trunkatikollis polaris.
I also (forgot to mention) caught a lapona bear a few days ago. And there were scoops hochenwarti and cordigera, as well as other different small scoops.
We also saw a couple of other bears, but they were too brutal and flew away..

Basically, that's all...

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25.09.2008 21:12, Guest

...The last thing I expected was Polyommatus kamtschadalis taimyrensis, but the strangest thing was that it was one of the first butterflies I caught. This year is anomalous because taimyrensis, which is supposed to fly at the end of July, took off at the beginning and flew together with minimus, semiargus, etc. Interestingly, in previous years there was a lot of astragalus, but there were no taimyrenzis (only a couple of times it was met in 15 years), and this year it was not easy to see astragalus, but there were enough taimyrenzis.

kamtschadalis there is not associated with all astragalus, but mainly with A. alpinus, which grows in places along railway embankments and along pebbles on the banks of the Sobi...
silvicolus-known from the Polar Urals a long time ago, was recorded almost annually.
E. arctica... Oh, come on-E. euryale euryaloides..)
O. magna where are you now?

And the topic is interesting. Thank you for the pictures. I was under the impression that it is better to go to the north in odd years...

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25.09.2008 21:49, RippeR

PG18:
Kamchadalis flew almost everywhere this time.. true, the largest crowd was outside the village, to malaya pipuda, near the lake. And there wasn't enough astragalus. And at the railway embankments, everything was leveled, and even doused with something, so that almost nothing grows there now..

I've never heard of sylvicolus.. well, okay ))

And the Arctic seems to me more like E. euryaloides arctica, but since everyone writes as they want, I did the same )))) But euryala euryaloides is, in my opinion, too much

About magna et oya very stupidly smorozil

) I wanted to write melissa... But I couldn't go after Magna - the water level in Sobi was wildly high and didn't fall off..

And you can go to the PU every year, because every year is different, and this one is generally bad)))

23.10.2008 13:19, RippeR

The Arcto-Alpines really didn't really fly

, and the Boreal ones weren't visible at all.. I couldn't get to the right bank of the river - it was too much water, too big.. We went to Sobi's, but there was an explosion of pigeons - semiargus, cupido and a little kamchadalis.
It was still snowing in some places, so we didn't even go too far. and in one place, where there should have been money already in full swing, snow lay, according to our calculations, 4-6 meters in height (i.e. there is such a gorge..). Erebius and Klossian also had a lot of people. For example, it was possible to take only 1 polaris, although in that place there was always a larger number. But according to observations, it does not occur year after year - there have already been years when there were no eneis or polaris, etc.

I imagine that such a large cluster of centaureai and Andromeda is probably a sight! I love thickheads!!!!!1111111111adin

I'll have to go with you sometime

))