Crimea, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova

Good evening to all!
The end of summer was not a success, although August began just fine. The last trip to Kondritsa in early September also turned out to be so-so, except for the single Cychrus semigranosus, there is nothing to remember. By the way, it's a good beetle, I haven't seen it in a long time. And most importantly, completely intact, my old series of traps (Chisinau, Durlesti Forest, 2009) - all cripples as a selection. It is not stored in cups.
And two trips in the first days of August turned out to be quite impressive. Even beyond expectations, given the dryness and generally the end of the season. We were in Capriany and Lozova, Straseni district. The permanent team consists of Sasha, Sasha, Andrey and Natasha. They got into the Capri coders from a new side for us, to be honest-just by mistake, but it turned out well. The first one was the giant nutcracker Stenagostus rhombeus, 21 mm, under the bark of a dead-standing hornbeam. Recently, good nutcrackers rarely come across, all or ampedus, or atous, or agriotes. And then immediately without any transition bam, and such a handsome man!! Naturally, I grabbed it right away, only then I thought that it was just possible to shoot it on my new plastic board (Samsung Galaxy J1 ace), large and on a light background... True, already without paws on the front legs. Then I also shot in the forest, but the result is not for demonstration. So all the pictures are home-made, dry stuff.
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My" Moscow " friend and former courier Sasha, who was trained by me to pick at all sorts of nasty things, came across a crushed horse pile. I would have walked past it, but he didn't, so he went through it in good faith and found a few Aphodius maculatus specimens. But a new look for me!! As a reward, he was allowed to eat blackberries, which were plentiful and very sweet, without any time limit.
Deeper in the forest, we climbed into a ravine, at the bottom of which there were puddles with a light current - somewhere above there was a spring. Under the rocks are a lot of Agabus bipustulatus, just crawling out on the wet clay, and sitting like sheep at noon, in a heap and head to head. I took a dozen, and at home, upon careful viewing, one of them turned out to be Agabus sturmii, red base of elytra and epipleura. It's also a new species, and I should have taken a closer look in the woods.
The last worthwhile find was Oligomerus ptilinoides, from the anobiidae. I fished it out of the wood dust, it was also dry and not A1 quality. Well, nothing, I was glad, especially since, as it turned out later, I already had Oligomerus-s, and even from different places, only brunneus-s. Honor him and respect, and a worthy place in the collection! And in general, the outing in the mood was just great. These two young deer, Sasha and Natasha, tried to gallop forward, and my Sasha clung to every bramble bush, and I mostly hung out somewhere between them, maintaining an internal connection by whistling and yelling.
The next trip, to Lozovo on August 14, was undertaken with the cherished goal of finally finding Cymindis humeralis. The year before last, I had a couple of these places in my hand, but I accidentally dropped the jar, and I've been eating myself for this for two years now. Last year, the raid ended in nothing, no tsimindis was found. This time I also didn't get anything, but the young deer caught as many as 4 pieces, two of which were solemnly handed to me!


Three specimens of Stomis pumpicatus were also caught from ground beetles. I had one last year, I think, a metropolitan one, from the Rose Valley Park. A random find. But it was small and completely black. Maybe a different kind, you need to soak it and spread it out normally. Until the hands reached. Cute, by the way, bug!

Four distinct species were found under the bark of lying trunks of different breeds. Quite unexpectedly, a colony of Ostoma ferruginea was found in a wild cherry tree. This is the first time I've seen her in Moldova. There are a couple of copies from the Kaluga and Vologda regions, now here is the Moldovan series. I didn't take pictures of them.
Under the bark of an oak tree, one of my main finds of the season was made - the black calf Neatus picipes. Sasha (eviforester) also got one, and during the pre-departure smoke break, we came to the smart conclusion that this is not tenebrio molitor. I was hoping that maybe this is T. opacus, which I haven't met yet (molitor is common, obscurus is not frequent, but it occurs). That would be great. But at home it just turned out that this beetle is not worse. A much better one! I think so

Small flocks of Rhysodes sulcatus and Pleganophorus bispinosus were found in the completely rotten and soft wood of what appears to be beech. So they grazed in groups of three. So they were taken.


I was also pleased with a couple of Chrysolina olivieri leaf eaters. It's not exactly super rare, but I have three males in my box, all picked up from the ground. And here on the food plant and the female is. The botanic forum suggested that this is some kind of Galeobdolon. Similar, but doubtful. I didn't find any absolute similarity. By the way, can someone tell me?

A couple of Abemus chloropterus staphylins were also caught unexpectedly. One copy. I had met them not long before on a narrow path in Chisinau, in the Valley of Roses, and then two at once, in some white mass formed on the bark of a rotted log. And one infernal escape!
It will be necessary to go to Lozova in May, otherwise it somehow happened that this is a purely autumn point. And at the end of this September - too, to feel out about intrigues. In the sense of karabusov.
That's all for now. Good night, thank you for your attention.

This post was edited by Chegar - 12.09.2016 00: 39

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There is no golden yolk in the vicinity of Feodosia. Only alfacariensis and croceus / erate.
Crimean ground beetle is not only in the area of Feodosia, but also in Feodosia itself. I don't know about the glasses.

I'm sorry, of course. I'm not much of an expert on egg yolks , but on the "Golden Beach" near Feodosia, I saw very bright colias, clearly something like myrmidon or golden. True, I was without a net and did not catch it. And in the Tract caught a few Colias chrysotheme, in my opinion. I'll spread it out and post photos. I came from far away and for me Koktebel is in the vicinity of Feodosia.

And most importantly, completely intact, my old series of traps (Chisinau, Durlesti Forest, 2009) - all cripples as a selection. It is not stored in cups.

How many caught cichruses and in Siberia and the Far East this problem was not. Normally, it is stored in cups. Even in the east, when the glass is half full of ground beetles overnight, you check every other day and all the cichruses are intact.

Thank you. Is it possible to find beetles in September?

I saw a ground beetle about ten days ago. But, in the Simferopol district.

I'm sorry, of course. I'm not much of an expert on egg yolks , but on the "Golden Beach" near Feodosia, I saw very bright colias, clearly something like myrmidon or golden. True, I was without a net and did not catch it. And in the Tract caught a few Colias chrysotheme, in my opinion. I'll spread it out and post photos. I came from far away and for me Koktebel is in the vicinity of Feodosia.

Myrmidon from the Crimea is not known. Golden is known only from the western part of the Crimea. The last finds were in the eighties. The species is highly likely extinct in Crimea. As for the eastern part of the Crimea, including the Golden Beach and the Natural Boundary, it has never been marked here, because there is no forage plant - Astragalus austrianus (in the Crimea - an endangered plant species).

And most importantly, completely intact, my old series of traps (Chisinau, Durlesti Forest, 2009) - all cripples as a selection. It is not stored in cups.

How many caught cichruses and in Siberia and the Far East this problem was not. Normally, it is stored in cups. Even in the east, when the glass is half full of ground beetles overnight, you check every other day and all the cichruses are intact.

I checked the cups once a week and mostly crabs fell into them-Carabus regalis and Carabus coriaceus. Maybe the company wasn't right for keeping the mustache safe.

...on the "Golden Beach" near Feodosia, I saw very bright colias, clearly something like myrmidon or golden. True, I was without a net and did not catch it. And in the Tract caught a few Colias chrysotheme, in my opinion...

This is Colias croceus.

This post was edited by Dantist - 12.09.2016 11: 09

How long is it possible to meet her at the end of August - in September? And do proceruses fall into glasses?

Caught in Karadag at the end of August, ran in the afternoon. I didn't catch it in glasses in the Crimea, but in Transcaucasia I caught 2 proceruses per 100 glasses in 3 days.

This is Colias croceus.

WELL, of course croceus!! I didn't buy the book "butterflies of the Crimea" at the time, now I'm making people laugh!

I checked the cups once a week and mostly crabs fell into them-Carabus regalis and Carabus coriaceus. Maybe the company wasn't right for keeping the mustache safe.

A week of cichrus in cups of course will not stand! Especially if it's hot and humid.

WELL, of course croceus!! I didn't buy the book "butterflies of the Crimea" at the time, now I'm making people laugh!

In April 2008, I caught males of the first generation of croceus near Karadag .And he was also sure that the golden one was very similar to her. And they were different from the croceus caught near Feodosia. Later, I figured out that croceus can be different.
The website butterflies of the Crimea is very good, if there is no book.

Carpathian mountains, Chernogora ridge 2016
Duvalius (Hungarotrechus) corpulentus Weise, 1875 & Leistus baenningeri Roubal, 1926,
Duvaliopsis pilosella rybinskii Knirsch, 1924

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Good evening, everyone.
On Monday, Sasha and I had an unscheduled trip to Lozovo, "on the intrikatusy". Everything turned out well, and most importantly-the weather! The forest is an early autumn fairy tale, and the smell!! But in the first two hours, picking at all sorts of snags did not bring ANYTHING AT ALL! If you don't count individual coriaceuses and assimilis in the set. All the most important things happened in the last hour.

So they started photographing stuff like mushrooms. Which by the way was a great variety and variety. However, there were no beetles in them.
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And amphibians. The toad was rather indifferent to us, but the little tree frog seemed to be frightened.


And yet, in the old mushrooms, such as oyster mushrooms, there were some small black beetles in the company of diaperis. Something about their outline was different from everything else small and black. I took three pieces, the forum identified them as Cyllodes ater (thanks, stierlyz). Then two species of staphylinae from Quedius, such as Q. cruentus and truncicola, were caught in the sodden and cotton-soft beech wood. The second was identified by a light brown belly. I tried to take a picture of them, but it was useless. In the photo (from your mobile phone) I just didn't find them. At last we came to an old clearing with huge beech logs twice the girth and a sort of palm tree growing right where the loggers ' camp had been. Funny guys. Woodcutters are humorists.[attachmentid ()=271333]
And here, in a clearing, under the bark of another log, I found a settlement of my favorite black-bodied beetles, namely Platydema dejeanii, 9 pieces. They fit on an area the size of a palm, further scalding of the log did nothing. By the way, another species of the genus, Platydema violaceum, is not found in the cluster. Actually, this discovery alone made our trip extremely productive. But that wasn't all. Just a couple of minutes later, under the bark of another log, there were 4 pieces of other black bodies-Corticeus unicolor! Probably the largest of the kind. I've never seen two types of black heifers in one trip.
In the end, there were also intrigues, two high-quality pairs. But already on the way back, almost at the car parked on the forest road, not far from the edge of the forest. It was us who had passed them three hours earlier. No need to start with them!
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But I didn't complain. Two types of black-bodied chicks! For one exit!
Kishinev was inexorably approaching...
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Autumn has come. If the vegetation in the forests is dressed in colorful outfits, then the steppe has withered and lost most of its colors, but you need to go to the steppe. In the southernmost part of the Zaporizhia region, Atmanay, where last year, in early October, during the registration process for EMN, 3 specimens were caught. Tholera hilaris, previously known from Ukraine from three specimens from the Luhansk region.
Vadim and I ("shustov") left on Sunday, September 25, in the afternoon, just like last year, we were late for darkness and already turned on the lights, an hour and a half after sunset. The temperature for autumn is normal at 21.00 - +15, but the wind is strong, predicted as 4-5 m / s, on average it was about 3 m / s with light gusts. From the windy side, all the butterflies were blown to the leeward side and to an additional screen set downwind from the main one. Years are normal, but mostly of two types:
Xestia trifida, a very beautiful owl and very similar to Tholera hilari s, only the antennae of the males are thinner.

Next in number was Xestia cohaesa, also a very interesting species, cited by Z. F. Klyuchko for the whole of Ukraine, only attempts to find this species in collections did not lead to anything, all Xestia_cohaesa from Ukraine were Crimean. But now it is also found on the mainland in the very south.

All-season pests flew singly. Tholera hilaris, did not exist. At 23, we decided to drink coffee while we were cooking, poured it, so that it would cool down a little, went to see what's on the additional screen? All the same, but suddenly a very frisky Xestia trifida with a striped body arrives!!! He is Tholera hilaris!!! and then it started, they flew up one by one several pieces at once. they ran around without stopping, jumping from one section of the screen to another, forcing us to run around.
The coffee was cold, but a dozen had already been caught. The excitement passed a little and I remembered about the camera



Three views dominated the screen now. the temperature dropped slightly to 12 degrees, but the flight lasted all night. our waiting was brightened up by mice who thought that it was for them that we turned on the lamp to attract butterflies, which they were happy to catch and eat. they were careful, and only after fighting with a competitor did they linger in the light, arranging performances for us.
Of the interesting butterflies still flew a single Eublemma amoena

and a rather rare moth, Eupithecia variostrigata, found in our south.

The day was met with a fine drizzle, and the night temperature was 14 degrees, by lunchtime the drizzle stopped, there was an autumn steppe around


Cranes were already flying south in the sky

Reviewing the collected material, we once again stated that there are no females among Tholera hilaris, only males, with varying degrees of flight. Where are the females? telephone consultations gave hope that females can fly at dusk. We're staying one more night.
the wind has changed direction, so we expand the screen and move the additional one. The wind blows along the road, does not frighten the drizzle, we will walk from screen to screen along the road . And the drizzle started right at dusk, we turn off the DRV on the screen so that it doesn't explode, but it won't last long, precipitation stops but the temperature is a couple of degrees lower than yesterday, but the wind is quieter. The first Tholera hilaris appeared, but again males, but here is one female, here is another, but the flight is not at all like that of males, having arrived hard, they quickly calm down. Only 4 pcs reached the screen. By the age of eight, the females stopped feeding. we begin to carefully examine the territory adjacent to the screens, and find more females that have not reached the screen.

they are completely passive, moving very slowly.


Males are several times smaller than yesterday, but still fly all night

From time to time beautiful birds arrive Cervyna cervago


Again, the mice brighten up the expectations, last night they got used to us and run around under our feet snatching delicious butterflies,

Our attempts to distract the mice from the butterflies with cookies, in our case with spices, did not have the desired effect, but we gave the mice a side dish to the meat dish. In addition to the mice, the area around them was teeming with Argiope bruennichi spiders, both on the screen and under our feet, we invaded their kingdom by breaking the trap nets.

In the morning, the sun appeared, the temperature rose

Around the screens near the mice's burrows were traces of their feast.

Taphoxenus gigas, an inhabitant of rodent burrows, ran alone.

The long-awaited trip is over, 23 types of scoops (in a broad sense )were noted in two nights
Eilema pygmaeola
Eublemma amoena
Macdunnoughia confusa
Autographa gamma
Protoshinia scutosa
Helicoverpa armigera
Spodoptera exigua
Hoplodrina ambigua
Cervyna cervago
Sunira circellaris
Aporophyla lutulenta
Tholera cespitis
Tholera hilaris
Anarta trifolii
Mythimna vitellina
Mythimna albipuncta
Agrotis ipsilon
Noctua pronuba
Noctua interposita
Xestia trifida
Xestia xanthographa
Xestia cohaesa
Xestia c-nigrum
Home, we leave the mice for a gift-a crust of bread.


This post was edited by Djon-29.09.2016 12: 22

And amphibians. The toad was rather indifferent to us, but the little tree frog seemed to be frightened.

"Little croaker" is a sharp-faced frog.

"Little croaker" is a sharp-faced frog.

Sorry, I made a mistake. Shamefully.

The first Tholera hilaris appeared, but again males, but here is one female, here is another, but the flight is not at all like that of males, having arrived hard, they quickly calm down. Only 4 pcs reached the screen. By the age of eight, the females stopped feeding. we begin to carefully examine the territory adjacent to the screens, and find more females that have not reached the screen.

they are completely passive, moving very slowly.

Sasha did the females give you eggs?
Will you breed them?

Sasha did the females give you eggs?
Will you breed them?

I was away, and from the phone only likes are loaded, and messages and a personal account, the spam filter blocks. I'll answer the Question briefly:
Yes.
No.
The females immediately began to pour eggs after being caught, but we immediately put them in their natural environment, then we remembered about you, but it was too late.
Yesterday called "Egorus", esmu left one female, but gave a few dozen eggs, but this is after ethyl acetate and ammonia. can any of them work? what is the development cycle? Transmit it?

I was away, and from the phone only likes are loaded, and messages and a personal account, the spam filter blocks. I'll answer the Question briefly:
Yes.
No.
The females immediately began to pour eggs after being caught, but we immediately put them in their natural environment, then we remembered about you, but it was too late.
Yesterday called "Egorus", esmu left one female, but gave a few dozen eggs, but this is after ethyl acetate and ammonia. can any of them work? what is the development cycle? Transmit it?

Send it unambiguously.
After ethyl acetate, the killed female motley moth gave eggs from which the caterpillars then safely emerged. So there is hope, especially since Tholera eggs overwinter.

Send it unambiguously.
After ethyl acetate, the killed female motley moth gave eggs from which the caterpillars then safely emerged. So there is hope, especially since Tholera eggs overwinter.

I am waiting for the transfer, and I will send it further

Alas, alas, alas.
There will be no transmission. Confident in the wintering of eggs, the eggs were not warmed and not cooled, we still had positive temperatures waiting for transmission to Zaporozhye and here is information from Melitopol.
I have a discovery...
well, in the sense of new data on the biological development cycles of some
species of scoops at the egg-caterpillar stage... well, like something like that...

"you can't convince people of something you don't quite know...

eggs in winter are scary... what if a fire or a hurricane blew everything to Turkey, or
saigas trampled it or ate it with hay...
a minichervyachek in any crack in the ground will be buried deep...
with uv IR
All the eggs hatched into caterpillars and died .
In Tholera hilaris, caterpillars of the first or second instar overwinter. After the autumn rains, all the cereals went into the growing season.

Alas, alas, alas.    
There will be no transmission. Confident in the wintering of eggs, the eggs were not warmed and not cooled, we still had positive temperatures waiting for transmission to Zaporozhye and here is information from Melitopol.
I have a discovery...
well, in the sense of new data on the biological development cycles of some
species of scoops at the egg-caterpillar stage... well, like something like that...

"you can't convince people of something you don't quite know...

eggs in winter are scary... what if a fire or a hurricane blew everything to Turkey, or
saigas trampled it or ate it with hay...
a minichervyachek in any crack in the ground will be buried deep...
with uv IR
All the eggs hatched into caterpillars and died .
In Tholera hilaris, caterpillars of the first or second instar overwinter. After the autumn rains, all the cereals went into the growing season.

I have Astrakhan Tholera decimalis, wintered in eggs.
And if the geese are out and the grass is frozen, what should they eat? At the first age, they do not overwinter.

I have Astrakhan Tholera decimalis, wintered in eggs.
And if the geese are out and the grass is frozen, what should they eat? At the first age, they do not overwinter.

In my experience, overwintering caterpillars in eggs is a difficult case. They can come out either immediately, or after lying down for a month, without waiting for spring, reacting to humidity or temperature. They can come out at the end of winter, right in the refrigerator.
As for the grass, in the Crimea it is green from autumn and all winter, although frosts sometimes freeze it, but still something remains at the soil level and quickly recovers. We still have more positive temperatures in winter, and cereals tolerate a small minus without damage. For example, X. trifida caterpillars, which are already in their last instars by the end of winter, are already finishing development in early March.
Returning to Tholera, I can assume that in regions with a warm winter, the caterpillars come out immediately, and in regions with a stable minus in winter, only with the appearance of the first cereals.

Cereals partially winter green even where there is a stable minus.

This post was edited by ENO - 10/21/2016 21: 47

In my experience, overwintering caterpillars in eggs is a difficult case. They can come out either immediately, or after lying down for a month, without waiting for spring, reacting to humidity or temperature. They can come out at the end of winter, right in the refrigerator.
As for the grass, in the Crimea it is green from autumn and all winter, although frosts sometimes freeze it, but still something remains at the soil level and quickly recovers. We still have more positive temperatures in winter, and cereals tolerate a small minus without damage. For example, X. trifida caterpillars, which are already in their last instars by the end of winter, are already finishing development in early March.
Returning to Tholera, I can assume that in regions with a warm winter, the caterpillars come out immediately, and in regions with a stable minus in winter, only with the appearance of the first cereals.

I have about 20 cans of eggs on my balcony right now.
Akhtuba Tholera decimalis overwintered in eggs.

Cereals partially winter green even where there is a stable minus.

In February, I fed caterpillars (possibly Euxoa christophi) with grass collected over the heating main. They also overwintered their eggs.

Thank you, everyone.
Andrey, I have quoted the entire letter written to me, and the phrase

Thank you, everyone.
Andrey, I have quoted the entire letter written to me, and the phrase

it was addressed to me.
In fact, you just had to look in any determinant and read, for example, Klyuchko 2001:

Tholera decimalis: Overwintering caterpillars, sometimes formed inside the egg shell.

Tholera cespitis: Caterpillars live in September-October and after wintering until June. Sometimes formed caterpillars overwinter in an egg shell.

And that's all, it would be necessary to prepare for the breeding of caterpillars. And so they were looking for opportunities to transfer to Moscow, but they forgot about the eggs themselves. they were stored in an unheated room, but the temperature was about 10 degrees, which completely stimulated the caterpillars to exit.

If next year there are female hilaris, then it will be possible to repeat the breeding experiment only in advance to put grass of cereals to the eggs, as well as to try something else, for example plantain. It is interesting to know the differences between caterpillars and pupae of the genus Tholera.

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25.X.2016 Ukraine, KHARKOV REG.,near FILIPOVKA, UDU river., near OSNOVYANSKOE lake.

We were pleased with the black-bodied birds Cryphaeus cornutus (wintering under the bark), Platydema violaceum and nutcrackers Ampedus elegantulus (whose larvae develop in the wood of Willows)...
And of course Cucujus cinnaberinus, collected a large series of both males and females. If you are interested in the exchange , please write to my new address: liparus2016@gmail.com

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Oh, how many mistletoes!
An interesting leaf-wrapper is developing on it-Celypha woodiana, known from Western Ukraine - but Commophila aeneana was also known only from the west...

Oh, how many mistletoes!
An interesting leaf-wrapper is developing on it-Celypha woodiana, known from Western Ukraine - but Commophila aeneana was also known only from the west...

Have you forgotten about the Ixapion variegatum beetle, which is supposed to live on mistletoe?

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Yes, in general, an interesting plant - that's just mowing on it is usually difficult =)

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Yes, in general, an interesting plant - but often hard to reach =)

I did not take a picture of mistletoe at all, but a poplar grove in which there are old, standing and drying trunks of black Poplar, under the bark of which Cucujus cinnaberinus was found...

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25.X.2016 Ukraine, KHARKOV REG.,near FILIPOVKA, UDU river., near OSNOVYANSKOE lake.

Udy river = Udy river...

Interesting horned darkling-can you tell me the name? I have one, haven't defined it yet...

Interesting horned darkling-can you tell me the name? I have one, haven't defined it yet...

Duc, the author made it clear :

 
We were pleased with the Cryphaeus cornutus black heifers

This post was edited by Dmitrich - 26.10.2016 23: 03

Part of the catch, left-males, right-females

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Today, just within the borders of Chisinau, in the landings of "Lake Eight" - Pytho deprsesus. Four pieces under the bark of a dead pine tree. As well as a bunch of larvae, taken with the substrate. I didn't expect to find them in Moldova, our pine forests are thin plantings. A year of surprises!

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