Colleagues ask for help with the collection of hawthorn Aporia crataegi L.

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Dmitrii Musolin, 05.06.2020 22:52

Colleagues ask for help with the collection of hawthorn Aporia crataegi L. (Lepidoptera: Pieridae):

We are very interested in samples of hawthorn imago from any geographical location, for any years. The samples are necessary to study various aspects of wing morphological variability within the wide range of this remarkable pest species!

There is a minimum sample size of 25 individuals of the same sex. The maximum sample size is unlimited (hundreds, thousands).

The material must be accompanied by the following information: place of collection, date of collection (year-required!), approximate estimate of relative density at the time of collection, full name of the collector.

If you still have information about the phase of population dynamics (mass breeding outbreak or depression), it is advisable to indicate this. If there is no such data, or no one remembers exactly (!), then make a note "there is no data on the number".

Requirements for the material itself. Adults should have unwashed and intact wings, and their condition should allow them to determine their gender.
If you have piled up hawthorn seeds (in any form-on layers, in envelopes, etc.), they suddenly start eating leatherworms, and you are sorry to throw them away - send them to us.

If you do not mind and do not take much time, especially in the years of its huge numbers, catch hawthorn, just now begins its life.

If you have any questions, please contact Elena Zakharova, Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Evolutionary Ecology of the Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (zakharova@ipae.uran.ru)

Postal address: 620144 202 8 Marta St., Yekaterinburg, Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences https://ipae.uran.ru/