Entomology news in mass media

Sometimes I come here, and what do I see? Fantasies.

And it is much more appreciated in the West that you love so much...

How do you know I love the West? It is hard to find a greater anti-Westerner than me in this world. Pay off.

 
Offhand (from my own experience): Decticus verrucivorus, Hyles euphorbiae.

So what was the experience like? In more detail. Measured in the Moscow region, and then near Donetsk? Or how? We need more details. I don't believe in bare words.

If you want more - Google akdemiya to help, ask for something like "latitudinal variation in body size" or "converse Bergmann's rule" in conjunction with the name of the squad of interest, and you will be happy, supported by a bunch of bourgeois articles that you naively consider the true last resort.

This is called: get off topic. "Search, see..." You give me specific links. Let's discuss it.

And someone saw their radical increase in East Antarctica, South America and the Himalayas.

Please provide links. Here are mine.
On the unprecedented rapid melting of ice in the Arctic: http://sci-dig.ru/geography/led-v-arktike-...ednie-1500-let/.
About the same melting in Antarctica: http://sci-dig.ru/geography/uroven-mirovog...a-na-4-5-metra/.
About the same in South America: http://ecowars.tv/discovery/1029-ledniki-y...at-bystree.html.
And the same in the Himalayas: http://news-mining.ru/news/ledniki_gimalaev_rastut/.
The latest article indicates that glaciers are growing in some areas of the Himalayas. Contrary to the general trend there. But that's what happens. The world is heterogeneous. 90% of its territory may experience warming, 10% - cooling. And on the whole planet: warming. So?

A kind of manifestation of the law of Lomonosov-Lavoisier: somewhere it will arrive, somewhere it will decrease.

Yeah. And there is an average result for the planet.

But more interesting is that residents of the European part of Russia recently saw a "year without summer", and now, it seems, they will also see a year without spring.

Oh, a lover of short stretches, of course! But I like long ones: https://yandex.ru/images/search?text=%D0%B3...%84%D0%B8%D0%BA.

I understand that you regularly advertise this particular site here from year to year...

From year to year? This site? Well, references!

Since funds are spent on promoting this idea immeasurably, then the sources that allegedly confirm the SOE will be Googled much more than those that refute them, who are not paid at all.

And what scientific sources refute it? Interesting to see. I, as a Russian patriot, believe our Gismeteo: https://www.gismeteo.ru/news/klimat/18408-g...rasnuyu-chertu/. and you?

  
How do you know I love the West? It is hard to find a greater anti-Westerner than me in this world. Pay off.

Well, how can a real anti-Westerner unconditionally trust articles in Western magazines?

  
For those who are at least a little familiar with the topic of meteorology or at least trite is able to compare weather forecasts with the fact, this site has received the nickname "Gusmeteo". If they can't predict the weather normally for a week, then what about climate change? Alas, not everything Russian today is sound-the result of shitocratization.

Regularly, by type of activity. and even just for fun, I look at forecasts on Gis. For the day ahead - still somehow, sometimes, get +/-. And basically, as they say, there are only 2 options:
- you will find out the weather for tomorrow tomorrow and
- everything is God's will!

This post was edited by major65 - 16.03.2018 17: 51

Kievans, what, really?

Entomologist explains the reasons for the invasion of butterflies in Kiev

Very, to put it mildly, dumb explanation

Kievans, what, really?

Entomologist explains the reasons for the invasion of butterflies in Kiev

Still, yes, yesterday from my balcony I counted 60 pieces in half an hour.
But by the way, in the spring they were also more than usual.

This post was edited by KM2200-05.06.2018 22: 32

Cool, I envy you, I wish we had them in the south too.

I don't know where to put it.. go to the archive
https://adderley.livejournal.com/tag/Olsufiev
entomologist Count Olsufiev Grigory Vasilyevich

Fruit flies were able to navigate by the sun
Link to the original article in Current Biology in the same place.

Hello! I am looking for an expert entomologist who could comment for the newspaper "Podmoskovye Segodnya" on the information about the common hummingbird butterfly discovered in the Moscow region.
"Ecologists of the Verkhovye Nature Protection Fund, who monitor rare species of flora and fauna commissioned by the Ministry of Ecology, have recorded in the Shatura city district a large star – shaped moth, or common yazykan, a rare moth from the group of hawkmoths listed in the Red Book of the Moscow Region. "The last time this species was discovered on the territory of the Moscow region was more than 40 years ago, but it was first recorded in the region in the second half of the XIX century."

You need an expert opinion that answers the question:
"The value of this species?"
- Is yazykan rare only in the Moscow region or in Russia as a whole?
- Does this species need special measures to protect it?

I will be grateful for the answer, you can also write here 2008.olga@inbox.ru

You should contact Andrey V. Sviridov, an entomologist working at the Moscow State University Zoo Museum.

You should contact Andrey Valentinovich Sviridov, an entomologist working at the Moscow State University Zoo Museum.

Thank you for your advice!

...two friends-under whom the Zoo Museum's butterfly and beetle sections, areas where 9 out of 10 entomologists work, have become "more dead than alive".

Perhaps you know better on the spot. But if the butterfly section is, unfortunately, actually "rather dead", then the beetle section does not seem to be limited to one "friend"after all?

...and I would also add - if something is wrong, refute it.
ZM MSU is not a separate institution, but is just a division of biol. faculty of Moscow State University (similar to the department) - where if not all the "color" of the Moscow zoological professorship is concentrated, then its significant part. And who prevents this "beau monde" from conducting a proper personnel policy that "revitalizes" museum sections? Instead, it continues to cultivate one of Moscow's most odious entomologists - one of your supposed "friends" - who posts fake books on the Istina website almost every year. Recently posted as many as two under the same name! Everyone knows this, and the who is still there.

I wrote more details by email, and here I will inform my colleagues (probably not for the first time) that in recent decades I have noted the yazykan and its caterpillars in various districts of the Moscow region and even in the city of Moscow. The species is not very common, but it is almost eurytopic and tolerates (like most hawkmoth) urban development. It's just that Muscovites often break down to hunt outside the region during the season, and in rare intervals with the weather, they are not always lucky, etc., but residents of the regions or some Madagascar or China so far hardly often come to mind to go to Moscow or the Moscow region to catch a tongue. If we'd searched more often, we'd have been sick of that language long ago. You might think that the cabbage patch in the Shatursky district often catches our eyes...

Well tuupye... The song of crickets was mistaken for the sounds of "bugs"! https://korrespondent.net/world/4051024-naz...ov-ssha-na-kube.

And in another message they write that cicadas are to blame. https://liganews.net/world/3708_1509320421. Dumb and dumber!

https://ren.tv/novosti/2017-08-25/naydem-i-...lomatov-ssha-na. Crickets-save yourself! You will be held accountable! Ahhh!..

Monarch butterflies are on the verge of extinction! Why? What versions does anyone have? https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/an...-of-extinction/

https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/21543-a-ra...he-week-2-10-19

Australian scientists have concluded that the number of half of all insect species is rapidly declining, and a third of the species may disappear altogether, which will lead to a global environmental catastrophe. This is reported in a press release on Phys.org.

The researchers analyzed information obtained from more than 70 databases and spanning a time span of more than a century. The main reasons for the decline in the invertebrate population were the destruction of habitats, including forests, urban growth, an increase in the area of agricultural land, and the widespread use of pesticides. As a result, the total insect biomass decreases by 2.5 percent annually.

According to the authors, the disappearance of insects can lead to a catastrophic collapse of ecosystems, since insects are pollinators of plants, including the same agricultural crops, and play an important role in maintaining food chains. In Europe, an estimated 80 per cent reduction in the number of flying insects has contributed to a 400 million decline in the bird population over three decades.

Scientists note that the extinction of arthropods may be the largest since the Permian and Cretaceous periods. However, this can be avoided by reducing the use of toxic substances and strengthening measures to restore wild ecosystems.

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-world-catastr...se-insects.html - World seeing 'catastrophic collapse' of insects: study

Well, what can I say about this? I saw the destruction of tropical forests in Asia firsthand, and not somewhere out there on the outskirts, but in a large national park with a world status. I was very surprised how this is even possible, because the reserve is the same. The technique has been worked out for a long time, you cut your impudent plot, large trunks for export, you burn the dry land - slash-and-burn development. If you look at the outskirts of these forests in the dark in the evening from some high-rise dominant, you can see numerous red tongues. It gets scary, because all the biodiversity is there, in these green patches. Even more disturbing is the realization that copies of these places on Earth do not exist in principle. I was still thinking, well, if they allow themselves to cut down protected areas now, then what will stop them at all? In a word, there is a sense in the conclusions of Australian scientists.

North American and Australian biologists during an expedition to the north of the Moluccas Islands in Indonesia made a sensational discovery. In a termitarium on a tree more than two meters above the ground, they found a male individual of the giant Wallace bee, which for many years was considered extinct. The last time these bees were seen was 38 years ago, when their population plummeted due to massive deforestation in the region.
https://news.mail.ru/society/36391450/?frommail=1

Australian scientists have concluded that the number of half of all insect species is rapidly declining, and a third of the species may disappear altogether, which will lead to a global environmental catastrophe. This is reported in a press release on Phys.org.

The researchers analyzed information obtained from more than 70 databases and spanning a time span of more than a century. The main reasons for the decline in the invertebrate population were the destruction of habitats, including forests, urban growth, an increase in the area of agricultural land, and the widespread use of pesticides. As a result, the total insect biomass decreases by 2.5 percent annually.

According to the authors, the disappearance of insects can lead to a catastrophic collapse of ecosystems, since insects are pollinators of plants, including the same agricultural crops, and play an important role in maintaining food chains. In Europe, an estimated 80 per cent reduction in the number of flying insects has contributed to a 400 million decline in the bird population over three decades.

Scientists note that the extinction of arthropods may be the largest since the Permian and Cretaceous periods. However, this can be avoided by reducing the use of toxic substances and strengthening measures to restore wild ecosystems.

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-world-catastr...se-insects.html - World seeing 'catastrophic collapse' of insects: study

Well, that's right: building up, trampling, burning fires, expressways that beat insects, toxic chemicals, etc. Anthropogenic pressure becomes unbearable for ecosystems. There is no way out. In the third world countries - explosive growth of the birth rate and urbanization, in developed countries-an influx of migrants, a further increase in the population and the same urbanization... Not bad in Russia, except for the Moscow region and a few other super-urbanized territories. Ecosystems are still holding out. I have not yet observed a decrease in the number and species diversity of insects in our country.

Well, that's right: building up, trampling, burning fires, expressways that beat insects, toxic chemicals, etc. Anthropogenic pressure becomes unbearable for ecosystems. There is no way out. In the third world countries - explosive growth of the birth rate and urbanization, in developed countries-an influx of migrants, a further increase in the population and the same urbanization... Not bad in Russia, except for the Moscow region and a few other super-urbanized territories. Ecosystems are still holding out. I have not yet observed a decrease in the number and species diversity of insects in our country.

So after all, the progressive depopulation of territories, at least in our north - west, does not contribute to the extinction of insects at all. In the distant now 80-e student years, there was a dilemma-in which of the neighboring villages to drive to the club for dancing, but now..... the former crowded villages are entirely tracts or, at best, summer cottages of St. Petersburg residents, yes Mokvichi

That's what I said. And I am glad that in rural areas the population is decreasing, that in some places it is already a nature reserve. Happy as a nature lover and entomologist. As a patriot of my country, I will be happy if its population does not decrease - if the cities have the same number or grow slightly.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X9VVzalSkjE - Tula region is being attacked by snow fleas

Please, who in the topic explain what can be caused by the population surge of these collembolos. What kind of view is it, if possible, to determine? It would be very interesting to get objective information from a specialist on this group of insects.

https://youtu.be/jfIfYKvyPVo - Almost 30 thousand rivers have disappeared in China.

... well, as if the news implies that insects in these rivers are also not sweet(

https://youtu.be/hllU9NEcJyg - The Deforestation of the Amazon (NASA Timelapse)

https://youtu.be/EFXs7dhYLDk - Deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest (1985-2017)

https://youtu.be/t2Bw4oAgN9E - DEFORESTATION of the Amazon in 30 YEARS.

https://youtu.be/WKEu90Zsh4A - Bombardier beetle causes vomiting in a frog as part of an experiment (National Geographic)

https://youtu.be/y-UWpKBfpw8 "Entomologists have discovered a Wallace bee in Indonesia.

More precisely, not a frog, but a Japanese toad (Bufo japonicus). I decided to add it.

About the world's largest bee Wallace interesting message - only nafig was to announce its commercial value...

https://youtu.be/szCekGbe6SY - The extinction of bees poses a threat to humanity.

https://youtu.be/kFYS5J2q2ww - Moldova is facing a mass extinction of bees.

https://youtu.be/p0zg0ZMWB20 - Germany is concerned about the mass extinction of bees.

https://m.lenta.ru/news/2019/03/25/botfly/ "The entomologist allowed the parasite's larvae to grow inside him.

American entomologist Phil Torres discovered insect larvae under his skin and decided to wait for them to grow up. This is reported by the publication Vice.

In early March, Torres was working in a rainforest in South America. Apparently, it was then that he was bitten by a mosquito that carried the eggs of the gadfly Dermatobia hominis, common in south-eastern Mexico, northern Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Feeling the heat, the larvae hatched from the eggs and crawled under the skin in the area of the bite.

A few days later, Torres noticed swelling and redness on his back. Looking closely, he realized that it was caused by gadfly larvae that had settled in it. The scientist immediately shared the discovery on Twitter and received a lot of responses from colleagues who congratulated him and admitted that they were jealous.

According to Torres, many entomologists dream that gadfly larvae live under their skin. "We consider it almost a matter of honor," he explains. — In the tropics of the New World, there are two such things:first, to experience the bite of a bullet ant, and second, to pick up a gadfly. I passed Ant a few years ago." He was a little disappointed that the maggots were in such a hard-to-reach place. He hoped they would live on the hand, where they would be easier to observe.

Torres claims to feel the maggots crawling under his skin, and two or three times a day he feels a sharp pain in his back, like a bee sting. After about a minute, it passes. Larvae do not cause other inconveniences. It waits for them to grow up and climb out to pupate. This will happen in four or five weeks. "Ideally, I will be able to catch them, put them in some mud and see how my little ones grow up," says the entomologist.

In January, it was reported that a resident of the UK went to the hospital with complaints of pain in the forehead. After an examination, it turned out that after a trip to Uganda, two fly larvae had settled under her skin.

This post was edited by Tsutsugamushi-Fieber - 03/29/2019 06: 21

https://riafan.ru/amp/1164921-neizvestnykh-...radskom-yantare - Unknown insects were found in Kaliningrad amber.

Kaliningrad, March 28. Novosibirsk scientists working at the Amber Museum in Kaliningrad have discovered new species of insects. We can talk at once about 10 species that were previously unknown to science.

Experts suggest that insects lived in the forests of the Eocene epoch about 40 million years ago.

"We are working with the national treasure, and competent specialists, specialists in a narrow field of this large paleontological world, are very important for us," said Tatiana Suvorova, director of the museum, commenting on the work of scientists from Novosibirsk.

The collection of the Amber Museum has about 10 thousand samples. In 2020, a specialized laboratory where paleontologists and insect specialists will work should be launched on the basis of the museum.

Note that every year scientists describe from three to ten thousand new species of insects. Last summer, British scientists reported the discovery of a 99-million-year-old pollinating beetle in a piece of amber from Myanmar. In 2017, an insect with a triangular head and bulging eyes was found in a piece of amber from the Cretaceous period, which the media called an "alien".

https://russian.rt.com/science/news/575417-...id-zhukov-letov - The new beetle species was named after Yegor Letov.

A new species of pilose beetle was named Augyles letovi in honor of the leader of the musical group "Civil Defense" Egor Letov. This was stated by Alexey Sazhnev, Senior researcher at the I. D. Papanin Institute of Biology of Inland Waters of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

"There was a beetle in an old collection that came into my hands from a deceased colleague who, like me, was engaged in the family Heteroceridae, or pilous. The collection included separate collections from the European part of Russia and from abroad. I began to process collections, raise literature, consult with colleagues, and we decided that a new species of beetle had been discovered, " RIA Novosti quotes the scientist as saying.

He noted that he named the beetle Augyles letovi, which can be translated as "pilous Letova". According to Sazhnev, he made this decision because of the influence of Letov's work on him.

"This has nothing to do with the story about the airport," the scientist added.

Earlier, residents of Omsk suggested naming the airport after Yegor Letov, who died in 2008.

This is not the first time that scientists have named their discovered species after famous personalities. In nature, you can find a beetle named after Adolf Hitler, a parasite named Barack Obama, a butterfly named Donald Trump and a clam named David Bowie.

https://youtu.be/kDA32DY_KBk - Magadan entomologist Nikolai Tridrich hopes that he has discovered five new species of insects.

https://youtu.be/7cdCABh4p_g - Entomologists from Magadan ask for help from colleagues from Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

https://youtu.be/hvZNR_LY11U - Red Book butterflies were transferred to the Local History Museum of Magadan.

https://russian.rt.com/article/89168 - Scientists have discovered cockroaches that lived 100 million years ago in amber.

Inside a mine in Myanmar, a prehistoric insect was found preserved almost in its original form. The predatory cockroach Manipulator modificaputis was trapped in amber for about 100 million years, when dinosaurs lived on Earth.

According to New Scientist, Slovak scientist Peter Vransky announced his discovery. The remains of a cockroach will allow you to learn more about the history of insect development, and about the prehistoric ecosystem as a whole.

https://russian.rt.com/science/article/6087...ndoneziya-zhuki Asterix, Obelix and Master Yoda: Entomologists have discovered 103 new species of weevil beetles in Indonesia.

Scientists have discovered 103 new species of weevil beetles on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Their length does not exceed 3 mm, but German and Indonesian entomologists decided to name these insects in honor of the heroes of the films from the series "Asterix and Obelix", as well as the movie saga "Star Wars". And some beetle species will bear the names of such outstanding researchers as Charles Darwin and James Watson.

German and Indonesian biologists have discovered 103 new species of weevil beetles (Trigonopterus) on the island of Sulawesi (Indonesia). In length, these tiny creatures reach no more than 3 mm. To identify new members of the genus Trigonopterus, entomologists sequenced the DNA of all the weevils they caught on the island.

Three new species, very similar in appearance, but different in size, scientists named in honor of the characters of the popular TV series. The largest beetle with a rounded belly was named after Obelix, the second, slightly smaller, Asterix, and the smallest-Idefix. A small greenish representative of Trigonopterus, which lives in the forest, was named after the character of "Star Wars" - Yoda.

Some beetles were named by entomologists in honor of outstanding researchers: the founder of the theory of evolution, Charles Darwin, and the discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule, James Watson, thus noting the contribution of these scientists to science.

Also among the new species were T. artemis and T. satyrus, named after two Greek mythological characters: the hunting goddess Artemis and the forest deity Satyr.

"Our research is not yet complete, and perhaps this is just the beginning. The island of Sulawesi has a complex geological structure, and many areas have never been searched for these small beetles, " said study author Raden Pramesa Narakusumo from the Biology Research Center at the Indonesian Institute of Natural Sciences.

Sulawesi is famous for its unusual fauna. So, the island is home to an endemic animal called babirussa (translated from the local dialect - "pig-deer"), as well as a pygmy buffalo and crested baboon.