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Were there butterflies? Which ones?

I sowed, and this time the butterflies were not sown, only a small membrane of flying stuff, but for some reason it just bounced like a steed. Maybe Ilyich noticed something...

Probably did... but I took pictures... I sat them down properly, drove them to exhaustion, etc. Shooting is not catching, you need to understand the difference.

it may take 30 minutes to take a picture of a disturbed brachycerus before it moves again.
I'll add another photo from myself.
May 2016, Zaporizhia region.

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it may take 30 minutes to take a picture of a disturbed brachycerus before it moves again.

The trick is, you don't need to worry too much, I don't even trust Arthur with this case. I didn't have him in a coma for more than a minute.
In general, the "record" was with Acalles echinatus, after bathing, I lay for a couple of hours. But, on the other hand, it was necessary to see what it really looks like.

 
In general, the "record" was with Acalles echinatus, after bathing, I lay for a couple of hours. But, on the other hand, it was necessary to see what it really looks like.

Interesting. And the liquid is ordinary water or also what kind of "special solution"?

And then what would he do with them?

Take a glass tube, fill it up to half with water, drive a cotton swab, run the uterus, drive a second cotton swab. And wait. As soon as the workers appear, you need to start feeding them from time to time with various seeds, syrup and dead insects. But it is best to read on the site of some ant breeders, there will be a picture.

Interesting. And the liquid is ordinary water or also what kind of "special solution"?

Just water, with detergent I did not risk, I need to run the same later. In a natural environment, I thought they are still flooded sometimes, it is litter. I.e. some time of exposure to just water for them should be normal.

It's strange, Boris, that Arthur didn't tell you about the brachycerus, because he went after them. 1
, 2, 3, 4-Brachycerus sinuatus

I wonder how it was determined before the view?
A very complex genus!

I wonder how it was determined before the view?
A very complex genus!

I thought you and Igor had gone through everything in that gully and found out what it looked like . I think Igor once told me that this is sinuatus, but if everything is not so simple with this group, then Brachycerus sp.

I thought you and Igor had gone through everything in that gully and found out what it looked like . I think Igor once told me that this is sinuatus, but if everything is not so simple with this group, then Brachycerus sp will remain for now.

Well, Nikita, and you should write: According to Igor Kovalev, Brachycerus sinuatus lives there, It's really him, Arzanov confirmed this definition of Kovalev.

Also B. sinuatus?
Kuyuk-tuk Island, solonchak, 13.04.17

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Also B. sinuatus?
Kuyuk-tuk Island, solonchak, 13.04.17

Well, on the salt marsh, this Brachycerus accidentally got, probably fell off a cliff. Specimens from Kuyuk-tuk, I. V. Kovalev defined, also as sinuatus. But they were bigger. And so it is not really possible to determine it from the photo. It's just not clear what else there might be? At one time, a friend from Sevastopol spoke about three types collected only in the Crimea

Well, on the salt marsh, this Brachycerus accidentally got, probably fell off a cliff. Specimens from Kuyuk-tuk, I. V. Kovalev defined, also as sinuatus. But they were bigger. And so it is not really possible to determine it from the photo. It's just not clear what else there might be? At one time, a friend from Sevastopol spoke about three types collected only in the Crimea

there are no cliffs above that place http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=46.11480...447374&z=16&m=b

The size of my copy. 14,5 mm from the end of ndkr. to the edge of prsp.

These beetles live on lily pads, which are definitely not on that salt marsh.
Look for Arzanov's work on Brachycerus in Kavkazky Vestnik, where everything is laid out on the shelves. I don't have this one working.

These beetles live on lily pads, which are definitely not on that salt marsh.
Look for Arzanov's work on Brachycerus in Kavkazky Vestnik, where everything is laid out on the shelves. I don't have this job.

Great! I found it and will attach it for everyone
http://www.ssc-ras.ru/files/files/CEB1(1)Arzanov2.pdf

Something this year still did not add up to the trip to the south, then the weather, then something else, finally agreed with Djon and Shustov from Zaporozhye to go for two nights in pisky, then to Odessa.
In Oleshkovsky sands, we decided to go south near the village of Burkuty. this is already Holopristan district..
We spent one night near an old oak grove in the middle of the sand, from here along with the traditional species for these places-alopecuri, opalina, cailino, etc. and such E. dodoneata, E. abbreviata, M lunaris .
Second night sagebrush-feather grass steppe rather.
The most interesting thing was that S. naruenensis and quite a lot of Epimecia ustula, balsamitae and verbasci do not count.What was not compared to Proletarka, the ring road we usually went to is pavonia and fortalitium.
After two nights of ryabyata zaporzhtsy went to Odesschina, my health failed me and we went with vafdog in the direction to Kiev with a stop on the rocks near Voznesensk
Here are photos of V. Epishin(vafdog)















































Something three times uploaded photos, pulled the order and numbering, but oh well.
Here's more that's already on the Hadena
selenis spreadsheets

Cucullia naruenensis



Cucullia balsamitae & C.verbasci

Epimecia ustula


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Vadim, Alexander, Vasily, thank you for the company! And, separately to Vasily, for the invitation to join and for riding - many thanks

Maybe someone knows this Ancylosis from a previous post? Previously, it was defined by a very reputable friend as syrtella, but there are big doubts about the correctness of the definition.

Maybe someone knows this Ancylosis from a previous post? Previously, it was defined by a very reputable friend as syrtella, but there are big doubts about the correctness of the definition.

According to Leroux (2014), pallida, syrtella, and deserticola are similar. But I don't know them by sight.

Something this year still did not add up to the trip to the south, then the weather, then something else, finally agreed with Djon and Shustov from Zaporozhye to go for two nights in pisky, then to Odessa.

Here is such an interesting Mimas tiliae in Burkuts caught.
01.05.2017

Great report!
Have you all ever come across Hebes by chance? I ask because I have a pupa of Hebe the bear all lies and lies, but the butterfly does not come out.

Great report!
Have you all ever come across Hebes by chance? I ask because I have Hebe the bear's pupa lying around, but the butterfly won't come out.

Hebes were not accidentally found everywhere, both in Burkas and on Kuyalnik. Only years they start after 2.00, and even later. it's time for the butterfly to come out of the chrysalis.

06.05.2017. Kharkiv region, Krasnokutsk district

In more detail...
http://barry.fotopage.ru/gallery/article.php?id=211

16.05.2017. Kharkiv, Zhuravlevka

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Report on a trip to Balka on 17.05.17, Kherson region.

It's a little hot in the sun and a little chilly in the shade. I left in the late afternoon.

What was missing: turnips and rutabagas, mignonette whiteflies, and, oddly enough, bayberry pigeons, although there were a lot of argus and alexis. And shashechnits are few both in number and in species composition:cinxia and one Phoebe, but no trivium or didymus.
From what was clearly visible, but did not get into the frame due to its mobility and timidity:
- mottled moth - 3-4 pcs.;
- lemongrass - 1 pc.;
- unpaired chervonets - 1 pc.;
- jaundice alfakariensis.

And the rest - in the photo:

21.05.2017 went to Spartak near Kiev. Unfortunately, it didn't work out with the weather, as everything was covered with clouds from which it periodically dripped. Nevertheless, I collected almost everything I expected, although mostly sporadically. I was pleased with Hyphoraia aulica, I didn't expect to meet her.

From what I saw/caught:
Parnassius mnemosyne
Pieris napi
Pieris rapae
Pyrgus malvae
Carterocephalus palaemon
Boloria euphrosyne
Glaucopsyche alexis
Celastrina argiolus
Lycaena phlaes
Lycaena tityrus
Gonepteryx rhamni

Of the beetles, apart from the fact that there was nothing special in the photo, except that Clerus mutillarius took a little.

I took a photo from my phone, so I apologize for the quality.

23.05.2017. Kharkiv region, Krasnokutsk district

http://barry.fotopage.ru/gallery/article.php?id=213

Hemaris croatica

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Report for Saturday, 27.05.17, stepnaya balka, Kherson region. The mobile forecast was completely screwed up: it was supposed to rain, but there was no rain, and it was just overcast and stuffy. They fly, in principle, all the same butterflies as 14 days ago, but there are no lemongrass and angloptera. Still no gravel, and I think I missed it, but I can't figure out how yet. Hawthorns fly well from whiteflies in such weather. I managed to capture one hawthorn trying to lay its eggs on a hawthorn tree. In general, they are frightened and do not fly very quickly, but due to their large size - far away. I also came across a draughtsman with an interesting color, as for me - this is Didyma. Still often found in the shade of bushes and thickets spotted moth, in order to remove which, you will have to feed the mosquitoes. Pandora's first mother-of-pearl jewelry appeared. Caught a sluggish polyxena, probably living out her last day. There are also koscinia striata, bloody bears, alfakarinsis jaundice, field mother-of-pearl.

Polyxenes and pandoras are something, at least by our standards. Do you have it like this every year?

Polyxenes and pandoras are something, at least by our standards. Do you have it like this every year?

I hadn't seen Polyxene before at the end of May, and I usually couldn't get out in late May or the first half of June. But pandoras appeared in the steppe in the second half of May and in the 13th year (18.05.13). But I didn't see Polixenes then. Probably cold April and the first half of May affected this year.

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Bavius was now in the caterpillar stage, sitting on the inflorescences of these sage trees. At least he should have been sitting.

Yes, it's full of baviuses now, they can come across until the end of June, and even more so in such a season! )
I don't even take pictures of them anymore)
Pandoras also always overlapped with polyxenes, but again, this season pandoras appeared much later, so they can be in the first days of May.

In our country, pandoras do not appear until July (sometimes only in August), and polyxenes do not even reach the beginning of May. At the end of May - already their pupae. Right now, we have an off-season with daytime butterflies, except for the nondescript little things like whiteflies, pigeons, and fatheads. Fill the gap exclusively checkers Phoebe. But in the varieties of g... lubyanka, alas, I do not understand. Fuck some on every corner (photos in the topic about the weather), maybe they are called Bavius...

We don't have pandoras until July (sometimes only in August).

You don't have enough pandora's box observations. I remember there were already a lot of them at the end of May - beginning of June on burdocks in 2010 (Yenakiyevo).

About pandora-this is yes, in general tin, so you will read, and you do not understand where that Donetsk is located, maybe it's somewhere near Perm ))) It has at least two generations, and maybe even three, in our region pandora is not the earliest butterfly, but one of the latest, you can meet it in early November.

 
This is unlikely. Somewhere in the south of the Donetsk region should be, as in many places of the Zaporozhye region the view is common.

Nevertheless, there are baviuses in the pictures.

I have already seen pandors in Shakhtersk on May 20. On May 27, pandora and nebo were full, but there really weren't any baviuses.

Although I was mistaken, there are still no bavius megasnaps)

Although I was wrong, there are still no bavius megasnaps )

Then Vladimir's version seems more real

Well, that version concerned the presence of more flying butterflies in our area, where they definitely exist. And I thought that I saw the Baviuses in the photos from near Donetsk.
I kind of took the last photo of Bavius on May 6, but that doesn't mean anything, since I didn't take them on purpose )

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