Crimea, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova

Is this the name of Pan's religion?

Yes, pan himself recently made a vow to ignore me, while he keeps it. Already breathing became easier.

Cucullia chamomillae flew well yesterday and the day before yesterday.
And now lightning and thunder are thundering... Well, well!

We, in the Kherson region, also had rain today. I went to Balka this afternoon, clouds flew in after 14: 00. I didn't see any daytime butterflies or field horses, so I also got caught in a downpour. In the distance, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled. Only at the bottom of the beam did a moth slip away from me into the reeds without posing.

01.04.16 got out in a beam in the vicinity of the village of Novokairi. It seems like one of the best (in the sense of preserved) beams of the Kherson region. At the beginning of the hike, I mostly took pictures of all sorts of plants, because in the morning there were no butterflies at all, a cold wind was blowing. I found in the beam dream-grass, some kind of woodland (bloomed in isolated instances in the bottom of the beam), a lot of goose onions and hyacinth. The butterflies came out a little later, but some were shy and very active, so only a few got into the frame. Despite the fact that there are a lot of nettle bushes in the pod, there were no wintering nymphalids. A list of what happened:

Issoria lathonia - 1 pc.;
Vanessa cardui-4 pcs., in the steppe;
Vanessa atalanta-1 pc., in the hearth;
Polygonia c-album - 1 pc., in the hearth;
Antocharis cardamines - 6-7 pcs., in the hearth;
Gonepteryx rhamni - 8-9 pcs., in the hearth.

Limonnitz saw most of all: healthy lemon-yellow butterflies flying across the beam. After two o'clock in the afternoon, small clouds flew in and immediately all the lemongrass trees disappeared somewhere, but the admiral and the cornerwing came out.

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This post was edited by Wave Storm - 02.04.2016 23: 20

Here are some rare flowers found! I see the tulips are already full, we don't even have buds yet. Very cool was the photo of drunken mating horses.

Here are some rare flowers found! I see the tulips are already full, we don't even have buds yet. Very cool was the photo of drunken mating horses.

ENO, by the way, not all the flowers were found. There, according to data from the Internet, there should still be adonis, but they were not found.

Mating horses are the easiest to shoot, compared to solitary ones: they are quieter (however, like most mating insects). I followed the horses for a very long time, only this pair was able to be photographed.

Also, I was hoping that there would be caterpillars of bears, cats and Hebe, but there were none. Last year, there was no need to look for them, they came across themselves under their feet.

This post was edited by Wave Storm - 03.04.2016 02: 17

It depends on what you shoot. I already took plenty of such pairs many years ago with a regular soapbox pseudo-macro, in the late x..., and with my new lupolinza, they stupidly won't fit even half into the frame. And you clearly have cool optics there.

Strange all this, hebe's caterpillars are now somehow more even than usual, I've already been to how many steppes - gigatons of them climb everywhere, and adonis too-usually these are some of the most resistant plants in steppe places, that is, there may not be crocuses/frogs, even gymnosperms, hyacinthella, tulips, but there are adonis if even a little land was saved.

Last week was a contrasting one. Rain, strong winds, and only a couple of relatively sunny and warm days. Naturally, I couldn't resist going to a couple of places
In full bloom scylla (proleska), goose onion, mother and stepmother, violet, adonis, ryast. Dream grass, kaluzhnitsa and yellow tulip in buds. A lot of lemongrass (I saw only males) and anguloptera. A couple of hives, sooooo many kravchiki and T-shirts . A few years ago, not really, again a lot of conisters. I picked up a few geese of a rural bear and a brown-yellow bear, and also some huge hairy one, but I didn't have time to take a picture - I just threw it into the jar and immediately began to weave a cocoon (I also think some kind of bear). American white (brood) after mating began to shoot eggs)))I hope the cherry blossoms bloom before the geese appear.
That's something like this

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Hello friends!
I haven't looked in a while, but here I managed to get out, the weather cleared up, there is something to show.
Actually, this is my second trip of the season, but there are no photos from the previous one, then I'll show you the mattresses
later. Cricova. 03,04,2016

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And here are the mattresses from last Sunday)
Moldova. Razen. 27,03,2016

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Finally, the heat wave begins

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My patented method of macro photography Without any attachments, on any fotik suitable))

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Good evening, everyone.
I made a reconnaissance trip to Rezeny yesterday, the set of beetles is about the same as Sasha's (evilforester) from the same place. But most importantly, I found the elytra with the abdomen of Acinopus ammophilus under the caked check. I did not immediately understand what it was, I did not see the beetle in such a half-finished state. Yes, actually, I didn't see it in one piece either - there is a single crushed copy from the bus station in Armyansk, Crimea. I'm lucky for the flawed ammophilus. It remains to find the pronotum and it will be possible to glue one whole. We will search for it.

Good evening, everyone.
I made a reconnaissance trip to Rezeny yesterday, the set of beetles is about the same as Sasha's (evilforester) from the same place. But most importantly, I found the elytra with the abdomen of Acinopus ammophilus under the caked check. I did not immediately understand what it was, I did not see the beetle in such a half-finished state. Yes, actually, I didn't see it in one piece either - there is a single crushed copy from the bus station in Armyansk, Crimea. I'm lucky for the flawed ammophilus. It remains to find the pronotum and it will be possible to glue one whole. We will search for it.

I also found Lebia cruxminor and a pair of Pleurocleonus quadrivittatus

I also found Lebia cruxminor and a couple of Pleurocleonus quadrivittatus in the rasens

Sasha, Pleurocleonus quadrivittatus - also not bad! Don't throw them away. You can give it to me...

Judging by the gathering and appearance, spring is moving faster in Moldova than in the North Caucasus... Congratulations on your interesting findings... Kravchiki super-not met alive.

Yesterday, Severodonetsk, Donets floodplain. Up to +10, but partly cloudy, cold wind.
Of the plants, the most profusely blooming Siberian woodland (already on the decline; I met one with almost white petals) and spring chistyak, but there are a lot of leaves because green color prevails. Common crested grass, chesnochnitsa, goose onion, vetrennitsa, veronika plushelistnaya, violets, tulips (there are already green buds and one yellowed), a bit of mother-and-stepmother (it is also on the Milk skull).
There are a lot of birds in the swamps-gray herons, mallards, teal snails, snails-but you don't get close, they fly away right away, in the forest I saw starlings, chickadees, jays, buntings, finches, pheasants screaming everywhere.
But with insects tight-a few diptera, a couple of bumblebee species, beetles Pyrrhocoris apterus, 1 Epicometis hirta. Of the mace-moustaches – 1 copy of Polygonia c-album and all, from which several "moths" flew, only one was photographed – Tortricodes alternella Dasystoma salicella. I tore off the bark of dry trees, thought about how last year there would be a lot of phyllonorycters, depressaries – I didn't find them at all, only gold-eyes, spiders, bedbugs Lygaeidae, a couple of elephants I once identified them as Otiorrhynchus caucasicus.
In general, spring has been stagnant for a month after a bright start, but if you believe the weather forecast, everything will get better this week.

























This post was edited by Sergey-D-04.04.2016 19: 36

Sergey-D, could you describe exactly the biotope in which the butterfly found in the last photo - Dasystoma salicella, including nearby growing plants?

several "moths" flew from the micro, but only one was photographed – Tortricodes alternella.

Sergey, I agree with Ilya that this is Dasystoma salicella. Very interesting find. The first indication for the steppe zone of Ukraine.

Thank you Ilya, and I automatically added it to Tortricodes alternella, I'm correcting myself. Biotope-approximately as in the 10th photo from the end, the woodland+chistyak is blooming, the tufts are smaller, the garlic plant is not blooming yet. The floodplain forest is oak, followed by maples, elm, linden, ash. I attached a larger photo.

Sergey, I agree with Ilya that this is Dasystoma salicella. Very interesting find. The first indication for the steppe zone of Ukraine.

Thank you, Alexander!
Well, then the second-on insecta.pro from the south of the Odessa region copy

Yes, Sergey Novitsky is already calling me.

Judging by the gathering and appearance, spring is moving faster in Moldova than in the North Caucasus... Congratulations on your interesting findings... Kravchiki super - not met live.

on kravchiki we have a massive view, come in early April, we'll show you, see enough)
on Thursday we promised +25, so yes, spring is in full swing
, work interferes with having fun

This post was edited by evilforester - 04.04.2016 20: 28

Opened the season on April 3-4, two day excursions in the vicinity of Slavuta, north of Khmelnitsky region. The species composition is identical on both days: rhamni, io, c-album, xanthomelas, Archiearis parthenias, and Endromis versicolora. Yesterday I doubted about the latter, something red flashed through the trees and disappeared into the forest, and today I chased him to the distance of an elongated net, but unfortunately to no avail, but now, if possible, there will be a reason to shine in this place.

on kravchiki we have a massive view, come in early April, we'll show you, see enough)
on Thursday we promised +25, so yes, spring is in full swing
, work interferes with having fun

Catch some of them and we'll exchange them sometime. It is unlikely that you will be able to arrive in the near future...

We decided with I. Kostyuk to open the season in a more serious way, what was near Kiev in late February and early March, then the actual opening, without hope of an interesting result. March 31 and April 1, two nights , one on the rocks in the Mykolaiv region, the second Odessa region on the top of the Kuyalnytskyi estuary. Igor was interested in adding points for maps of Volume 6 of GME, since the south of Ukraine is empty according to Bistonini, but I may have something interesting for me.
With Bistonini it turned out-in the mass of stranaria, after midnight in the mass of hirtaria. well, a little A. marginaria. New to me Tricopteryx polycommata to this point is only in the Carpathians and in the Crimea. I've never caught O. miniosa myself, and then a couple arrived after three in the morning (from 4 to 5-30 it was +1, in the heat of the day) .Absolutely fresh N. pronuba and Ph. methiculosa(31.03 !).Otherwise, the usual set of spring and winter shovels.
Photos almost all I. Kostyuk
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Here's what I selected


Further Odessa region

This post was edited by svm2-06.04.2016 19: 18

They chose a short road between Voznesensk and Ivanovka and in vain, the road is not that bad, but rather it is not there. Well, somehow we got there. Igor had previously Googled a forest plot near Severinovka, as they promised a strong wind both in the evening and at night. Since the evening, the forecast was wrong , and after midnight the forest did not help, a very strong and cold wind rose, so the fishing ended .
Points added for Igor. In addition to the usual spring and winter ones, Calophasia lunula, Simyra nervosa, Asphalia ruficollis( like the first reliable find for Ukraine), Dicranura ulmi flew .For me intesnaya Eupithecia abbreviata(never caught) well, Hydria cervinalis is not included in GME 3 for this region









what is selected

I stripped off the bark of dry trees, I thought how last year there would be a lot of phyllonorycters, depressaries

Since there are so many greens already, you can start looking for depressant caterpillars. I found it starting in March.

This post was edited by okoem - 06.04.2016 22: 53

Hello everyone 07.04 left with Alexander (evelforester) in Colonitsa near Chisinau. My first fishing trip is finally here! I am also waiting for the release of imagos from the pupae of Arctia festiva (27) and Arctia villica (1).

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Hello, dear sirs!

09.04.2016 On the road from Ochakov to Nikolaev.
In the Mykolaiv region there is also Euchloe ausonia.
It was found at two points on the right bank of the Bug estuary: the first-in the area of Cape Adzhigol; the second-in the area of the Voloshskaya Spit. Biotope as they say in all descriptions by type. Along the roads, the soil is mostly clay, here and there limestone outcrops, various grasses (weeds), rare shrubs (rose hips, hawthorn, etc.).
Systemizers can put points on the map. I suspect that it exists along the entire coast of the estuary.
I also wanted to find Zegris eupheme, the places are the same, but so far, alas.

Good hunting, everyone!

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The "daytime" endromis that flew away from me a couple of days ago didn't give me any rest, I really wanted to document it for this point, and on the night of April 8-9, I still got out to shine. The place is located in the vicinity of Slavuta, near the almost dried-up lake Terebezhi. Unlike most of the neighboring forest districts with planted pine trees, there is still a mixed birch forest, previously quite swampy, but in recent years, like everything else in the area, it has dried up a lot. Years were excellent, the sun shone from 20-00 to 01-10, longer was not possible. The list of species is not complete, with scoops I'm still on you, only what I can accurately determine:

Endromis versicolora (2 males)

Achlya flavicornis

Alsophila aescularia
Chloroclysta siterata
Eupithecia lanceata
Eupithecia sp.
Acasis viretata
Trichopteryx carpinata
Selenia dentaria
Aethalia punctulata
Ectropis crepuscularia
Biston strataria
Lycia hirtaria
Apochema hispidaria
Agriopis leucophaearia

Brachionycha nubeculosa
Eupsilia transversa
Panolis flammea
Orthosia gothica
Orthosia incerta
Conistra rubiginea
Conistra vaccinii
Conistra erythrocephala
Lithophane socia

Well, to send the atmosphere a couple of photos from your phone.

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08.04.2016 opened the night season. The night is warm and clear. We flew a lot, but nothing special - 90% is the six Orthosia cruda, cerasi, incerta, Conistra rubiginosa, vaccinii, Hypena rostralis. Единично Orthosia gothica, Conistra erythrocephala, Egira conspicillaris, Panolis flammea, Eupsilia transversa.




Of the moth species, many are Cleora cinctaria, a few are Costaconvexa polygrammata, and Lycia hirtaria.

A pair of leafhoppers (Doloploca punctulana, Gravitarmata margarotana), Diurnea fagella is common from the" moth", the rest - Depressaria sp., Agonopterix alstromeriana, Caloptilia sp., Plutella xylostella, Mompha confusella - are isolated.


And another orthosis-miniosa or kruda?


This post was edited by Sergey-D-12.04.2016 11: 58

Hello everyone
Well, I opened the season. 11.04.16 Belarus Grodno region Zelvensky district 1 km From the village of Voronichi, the edge of a mixed forest. I got there so fast that I forgot the screen frame. I had to make it on the spot from improvised materials.




I switched on the flashlight at 21.00. Endromis versicolora was the first to arrive on the screen. After that, nothing flew for half an hour. Then scoops, moths, and several species of micra began to catch up.
Drepanidae:
Achlya flavicornis

Geometridae:
Biston strataria
Cleora cinctaria
Ectropis crepuscularia
Phigalia pilosaria
Selenia dentaria

Noctuidae
Cerastis leucographa
Cerastis rubricosa
Conistra vaccinii
Eupsilia transversa
Lithophane socia
Orthosia cerasi
Orthosia cruda
Orthosia gothica
Orthosia incerta
Orthosia populeti
Panolis flammea

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I was waiting for your report, I was wondering what can fly in the west of Belarus at such an early hour, but it turned out that every single one of them looks like ours, it was even a shame!

Micra, if you don't know - Semioscopis steinkellneriana, Diurnea fagella and Ypsolopha asperella.

I was waiting for your report, I was wondering what can fly in the west of Belarus at such an early hour, but it turned out that every single one of them looks like ours, it was even a shame!

Micra, if you don't know - Semioscopis steinkellneriana, Diurnea fagella and Ypsolopha asperella.

Not - well, what can fly there now from what is not in Moscow?
Polyploca ridens? In the Moscow region there is, only terribly rare.

Not - well, what can fly there now from what is not in Moscow?

Well, in the summer there were some exclusive fires from there, Noctua janthe/janthina there (although the last one in MO is )

Polyploca ridens? In the Moscow region there is, only terribly rare.

Where?!?!

  
Where?!?!

I join the question! Just the other day, I was thinking about the possibility of catching her here.