Armenia - August 2011?

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headshotboy, 25.05.2011 0:13

It may not be here, but being a kakgbe-beologist and personally acquainted with some of the local inhabitants, I will try here. If something happens, don't shoot

I want to go to Armenia in mid-August, for a couple of weeks or so (no more work will allow). Places - I haven't really decided yet, but I want to drive through different landscapes. Once upon a time - a very long time ago - I was in Ijevan, in the forests, in the dry steppe in the Khosrov Nature Reserve, in Syunik, in Arevik, Essno, in Yerevan (but Yerevan hardly counts).
The trip is purely "wild", to see the country, while the "base + radials" scheme is supposed, but this is for now.
Approximately-by plane to Yerevan, then - either stop, or take a car, or transport (trains, minibuses...), get up where it is convenient.

I really want to see something specialized, if possible-I'm not an entomologist (although I was once very fond of it), but I will help with the process with great pleasure, without claiming the results

While I'm going alone, I would like to find a companion who is close in spirit, if someone wants to join - we will be happy to discuss the details.

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17.04.2012 23:52, headshotboy

Before leaving, I thought about whether or not to take the camera, but in the end I decided not to take it for the first time - I took a soap dish, which I sometimes regretted later. On the other hand, crawling on all fours on scree with a heavy DSLR is also somehow not always convenient...

This is what it looked like at the time of arrival:

The grass on the slopes was completely burned out, only alpine meadows bloomed somewhere from 2800m and above:

Garni Gorge:

Dipper from there:

Shikahoh, dybka:

Grasshopper:

Small shit trucks cheerfully and cheerfully pull apart a cow cake:

Nerkin Andes, potamon in the river, at the exit of the mink:

Another potamon, walking along the bank:

The same procerus:

The trees are overgrown with lichens - very impressive:

The wasps were bitten to build a nest, it seems, in a hollow post of a metal fence - I can hardly imagine what the temperature is inside, or the nest itself is still in the soil. But, nevertheless, a couple of "fans" are constantly on duty at the entrance:

Goris, rocks and landscape:

Bolivarian Republic of:

Ukhtasar, petroglyphs:

A peculiar place, cool, foggy. The silence was absolutely fantastic, and I mistook the hum of the tongue for the distant sound of a car engine.

In the same place, larkspur:

There were two or three tongues constantly circling around her, and I think it was a gemaris - I never knew who it was, a plump hawk moth with a dark overall color and transparent wings. Yazykany hovered, allowing themselves to see, but this UFO-no, just swung back and forth, circles and zigzags.

The lake is more like a puddle than even a pond:

The banks and bottom are large rubble, there is no sediment as such, and some beetles, beetles like coryx and tadpoles hide very quickly in this rubble. The water is very cold, but insects and tadpoles are active. Caddisfly larvae and, apparently, freckles are crawling on the rocks. There is no submerged higher vegetation, along the banks - sedge, buttercups, something else.

Actually, I had a very good trip... We need to repeat it...

This post was edited by headshotboy - 18.04.2012 00: 03

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18.04.2012 15:18, headshotboy

2 Dracus: potamonids are found all over Transcaucasia, two or three species. And, in general, quite massive. Large males can be almost the size of a man's palm-impressive animals

do not like them locally (the claws are strong, and crabs grab their legs in the water very noticeably) and push, but there are still more crabs

Bogomolchik-yes, butterscotch. I was surprised by the presence of larvae in August, but, apparently, the rain and cold of the first half of summer are to blame. Goris and further south were full of adults, but Garni was mostly full of larvae.

2 Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg: Yes, a spectacular beast, and the color options are different - more green, more yellow, more colorful...
But they, infestations, usually sit in the crowns of trees-males yell, females do not yell. They are rarely found on bushes and soil, and the bushes there are such that, to put it mildly, you will think a hundred times before climbing into them. Hold it-a tree gracefully intertwined with brambles...
Therefore, I don't understand how to take them yet.
And you need to catch it just before leaving, or keep it somewhere before that. To carry boxes with live dybkami in a backpack in 40-degree heat is not a coward, they will just die, and that's all. Pitifully.

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