Crimea, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova

I don't know much about semi-finished butterflies (as my father called pigeons), they almost all look the same to me, but it's a fact that pandora has never met them before midsummer. Yenakiyevo, Shakhtersk or even botsad is not an indicator, I'm talking specifically about My Megastep (TM). There I know every dog (literally and figuratively), and certainly someone, and such a hefty mother-of-pearl would definitely notice. So, if the spring generation of pandora exists in our area, it will be with a number below the detection limit (maximum, two cripples per beam, although I strongly doubt this). But in August they are full (although from year to year this "fullness" fluctuates quite strongly). But of course, from Nikolaev it is more visible than Donetsk butterflies. The big one is seen from a distance (C) .

Dzanat, +1

Because they are small, nondescript, and hard to distinguish. Not at all like nymphalids, mother-of-pearl or sailboats. But this is purely my aesthetic taste. For science, everyone is equal, but butterflies are not my diocese.

Because they are small, nondescript, and hard to distinguish. Not at all like nymphalids, mother-of-pearl or sailboats. But this is purely my aesthetic taste. For science, everyone is equal, but butterflies are not my province.

Yes, I would not say that they are plain... take even the same eros (male)... just an amazing butterfly!
And the collection of pigeons is very pleasant to look at, especially when there are blue and blue pigeons together with red gold pieces. And if there is still put raspberries under the hood, then in general an explosion of colors turns out...
Another thing is that dissecting them is a complete w..
Especially if you need to soak the dry ones. I've had some rare gold coins lying around for a year now, and I can't get close to them for fear of spoiling them...

"nondescript "

not enough unpaired for the full collection of " our " chervonets

"nondescript "

I also consider them the most beautiful of our daytime butterflies! They look like little morfids.
I really like their color of the underparts, the caudates are often more spectacular than the top. Don't you spread
your pigeons upside down?

I agree, but also tityris, alciphron and helle..

I meant from red, put a separate box in a series - it will be beautiful
And leave the tomares, to maintain the color.

Poor golubyanki, You don't even know what is better, to have a "personal dislike" for them and not touch them, like Esox, or "ardent love" with pinpricks)) For pigeons, it would certainly be better if they were disliked))
Pigeons are beautiful on flowers in nature, and so, if not for science - a temporary removal of ogranic material from the cycle of substances.

As they say, about tastes, do not argue. In addition, I was referring exclusively to our local pigeons, among which 99% are gray or very slightly bluish. And in dry form - so generally a complete disappointment. Here chervontsy is a pleasant exception, although the size also did not come out. Here photographed in nature yes flash yes. But I have thousands of such arthropods photographed from various systematic groups, and each has its own charm, if you try to understand all of them, you will not have enough time to work.

Good day to all. Today I decided to go to the Amrosievsky marl quarry, the purpose of the trip was himaris kroatika. We left Shakhtyorsk at 9: 00 a.m. and arrived at the quarry at 10: 00 a.m. We continue on foot from the checkpoint, because everything is blocked. The food base for the caterpillars is gorgeous, but so far there were no croats in sight. I sat down in the pine stands to take a break and a croatica flew past a few meters away at the speed of sound. I decided to stay in the clearing, but two hours later (12-30 hours) I managed to catch a female laying eggs, and more than a dozen croatiques flying past the clearing. I don't know, maybe I arrived late, maybe the wind, they are rushing very fast and more croats could not be caught. I apologize in advance for the photo, because I do not have a professional camera, all photos were taken from a phone or soap dish. If any of the Donetsk residents want to try their luck for the second season or next year, come to Shakhtyorsk, we will take you there. With confidence, you can put a point on the map of the Amrosieski quarry, croatica is there in large quantities. A clearing measuring 30x20 meters. The female was caught flying around.

Cool. Do you have macroglossum stellatarum flying there? Only croatica? Or are they both dating? Just wondering how you can tell the difference on the fly...

M. stellatarum, yazykana polno, polno and H. fuciformis. And you can see the difference on the fly, believe me, and the biotopes are different and the feed base for caterpillars.

31.05.2017. Kharkiv region, Zmiyivsky district, near the village of Gusinaya Polyana

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Once again, I will return to the topic of Neolycaena rhymnus from the Vinnytsia region. So to speak, a photo confirms the existence of a population of this species in those parts. Surroundings of Yampol, Mokhnata tract, June 2, 2017.

The Mokhnata tract, a biotope far in the background, down by the Dniester river bank.


And this is already below, in the foreground of the thicket of caragana.




The best reference point for finding a locale, butterflies fly just a few meters away from it.


Well, the culprit himself.

One less childhood dream. A little sad.
Moldova, Straseni district, Lozova, 10.06.2017
Here it came true, this dream-to find Rosalia alpina. Already everyone with whom I climbed the Codras for the last three years had caught Rosalia, they had already caught her several times in my presence, they had almost written her down in the banals, but I still couldn't get my hands on her. However, no one has ever caught it in Lozovo, and I didn't even think about it. Just looking for a shady stack to smoke, suddenly I hear screams, the rattle of chitin, the wobble of the ground-two males fight. Sasha managed to make about five frames, I still thought about how to record a video, but one of the beetles seemed to take over, pushed the other one between the logs and had to take them. Otherwise, they would have disappeared in the depths of the stack and I would have been a fool.

They didn't forget to smoke after all.

And the whole trip turned out to be extremely successful. Actually, this is a nature reserve, and the thought of it sometimes came up and was a little annoying. There are signs and barriers, so I didn't know how to unlock them. This part of the forest is not similar to the typical Moldovan Codras, the forest is not dense, many very large beeches, two or three girths, do not stand often. There are dry trunks, both standing and lying. Sometimes just rubble. Somewhat similar to the rainforest of South America.


As soon as we made our way to the first clearing, we immediately got a surprise-Stictoleptura scutellata. Also a ghost bug for me. I never caught it myself. It's missing from the collection. And then suddenly poper, and on umbrellas, and on old stacks, and on individual trunks. I scored a dozen and a half, for sebe and for the exchange. A lot of things flew and crawled, Stenocorus meridianus of all sorts of colors, Leptura (Rutpela) maculata, Gnorimus nobilis. yes, it takes a long time to list. Butterflies, of course, different bronzes, athenis were worn between the trunks, something like eruginosa kept higher and was inaccessible.
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In short, there was a feeling of entomological El Dorado. The main thing here is not that there is a lot of everything, but that there will certainly be something special among it. Then the rosalies appeared. I wasn't even particularly surprised. On closer inspection of this pile, four Dircaea australis were caught on the end of a log near the ground!!! In half a year, the third melandrida!. About thirty years in the collection was the only representative of the family-the most banal Osphya bipunctata. In autumn, Melandrya dubia was sent from the Vologda and Omsk regions, and a couple of weeks ago, a pile of Eustrophus tomentosus was found in a live tree fungus in Kishinev, in Komsomolskoe Ozero Park. Just a whole layer sat in the company of diapers. But the nimble bastards instantly ran away, I got a dozen. And suddenly they are so beautiful, I mean Dircaea australis. Yeah, really...
Platyrhinus resinosus from false elephants, Ectinus aterrimus and Limonius minutus from nutcrackers, and something else were caught, I haven't determined yet. Well, all sorts of small things that you need to sit on. Separate conversation - zlatki. We didn't catch any of them. We saw a lot of them, big green ones, I suspect lampluds, but they were sitting too high on the dry trunks of beeches, one of them went right out from under our noses at the very end of the expedition. I only had time to notice something large, black, like with orange spots. The process of licking a piece of old beech that I've known since last fall for gold leaves:

18.06.2017. Kharkiv region, Chuguevsky district, Yurchenkovo-Kitsevka

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Good day to all. 22.06 I went again to the Amvrosiyevsky marl quarry Novorossia, DPR the purpose of the trip was the caterpillars of the bumblebee croatica. I found 9 caterpillars in a small clearing, the caterpillars are all of different ages (I apologize in advance for the photo). Today, 2 caterpillars have turned brown and stopped feeding, probably before pupation.

Good day to all. 22.06 I went again to the Amvrosiyevsky marl quarry Novorossia, DPR the purpose of the trip was the caterpillars of the bumblebee croatica. I found 9 caterpillars in a small clearing, the caterpillars are all of different ages (I apologize in advance for the photo). Today, 2 caterpillars have turned brown and stopped feeding, probably before pupation.

What did you find it on?

I'm not very good at plants, but as for me, this is Ural golovchatka.

Good year to all! Closing the topic Rosalia alpina.
Here's how those two brawlers from Lozova turned out (report from June 11). As it seems to me, not small specimens - 35 and 36 mm. Did not raise a hand to pierce the beetles, smalodushnichal. It remains to get a female, but this is a matter of technology, somehow she will start up. But this is not the end of the topic.

On June 23, we went to the same place again. There was no one on our perekurochny stack, but it was all in the light and it seems to me that the rosalies avoid hot logs and direct sunlight in general. Then we wandered a little and in the depths of the forest, I will not specify exactly where, I came across another stack and four males were sitting on it at once.
I've always wanted to find Rosalia since high school. I searched in Moldova in different places, I searched in the North Caucasus in the area of Abrau-Durso, Golovinka and Olginka, in the Crimea (Koktebel, Sudak), in the Carpathians (I-Frankivsk region, Kosovsky district . Sheshory), in Greece (Thessaloniki, Delphi). Of course, I've imagined a beetle in the right places a million times, and I've worked myself up to talking freely with the local forest spirits - in the sense of just let me see it, I won't take it, just let me see it. It didn't help, but I'm not sure I was being honest about "I won't take it." The spirits probably didn't believe it either.
That first encounter with the two fighting males was messy and fussy, and I had to take a picture and not miss it. Actually, there is nothing left in the memory, it's good, at least there is a photo. And here are four males in the field of view at the same time. And on the end of the log, and on the bluish beech bark, and in the shade, and with a sunbeam on his mustache. I didn't call out to anyone, just stood there and watched. 10 or 15 minutes, I don't know. Finally, one of the beetles deigned to fly somewhere thoughtfully, and I also quietly turned around and left. The aesthetic hunger was satisfied for all the past and future years. The Rosalia alpina theme has been closed!
Stenurella bifasciata from small barbels and Leptura aurulenta from larger ones were added to this trip. But aurulenta was rare, and it was difficult to catch her, because she was too fast. By the time I realized that, I'd lost a few pieces right out of my hands. And I got a very large female Stenocorus meridianus - 28 mm. I didn't take the meridians anymore, but I did take this one.

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Because of the cold weather, the season, alas, is almost nonexistent. It is necessary to deal mainly with larval stages.
06.07.17 Got out to explore the sands near the station.Udyanskaya, Kharkiv.
The goal was to search for Hipparchia statilinus caterpillars and explore the surrounding area during the search.
The weather was overcast and cool. Just what you need to search for H. statilinus caterpillars. During the hike, I still managed to see a couple of interesting things, but not all of them were photographed.
Saw for the first time ktyr Satanas gigas, sorry flew away . The usual butterfly species for this time of year were encountered. Mostly thick-headed Thymelicus sp. and various pigeons, a couple of pieces of Pontia edusa and Colias hyale. The main goal was achieved (photos below). Please identify any caterpillars and beetles (other than marigolds ) that are not identified. Thank you in advance!

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NIKSTER, what plants do Hipparchia statilinus caterpillars live on in your area?

NIKSTER, what plants do Hipparchia statilinus caterpillars live on in your area?

On cereals

Finally, we got around to posting the report for 03.06.2017.
Ukraine, Kherson region, stepnaya balka.

It was still not very hot that day, and I was surprised by the number of butterflies. Photographing one on a small leaf with flowers, sitting down, you could immediately turn your head a little and find others-different. I also admit that the Bavias are still flying. I saw two butterflies, not the first freshness. Just last time I went to another part of the beam, and there was always less bavia, less there and sage oak (drooping enough). By the way, I met a couple of caterpillars, and only on sage oak, and not drooping. From other butterflies flew mother-of-pearl pandoras and wildflowers; mignonette whiteflies large and fresh, probably just released; various mottled birds, of which there are a lot, and false mottled birds; a lot of hawthorns; thick-headed sylvan and still difficult-to-define gray ones with white spots; fingerwings; bindweed owls; koscinia striata and blood dipper; even in the shade you can see there were quite a few mottled moths, and Camptogramma bilineata was found under a pine tree; pigeons argus, alexis, bellargus, some others low above the ground among alfalfa, icarus, most likely; blackthorn tails had already flown out.


















This post was edited by Wave Storm - 09.07.2017 18: 01

various mottled birds, ... still difficult-to-identify gray ones with white spots; finger-flies;...; thorn-tailed birds have already flown out.

Pestles Z. loti, Z. ephialtes (two forms). The fingerfly is Gillmeria sp., apparently. Thickhead-Muschampia tessellum, a rare thing in the Crimea, only in the mountains, locally. The tail is acacia.

And we have such toltogolovok piled up, although I haven't seen them since the spring. How many generations do they have in a year?

Definitely not July 3? Pestryanki in early June is somehow too cool even for steppe Ukraine!

Although no, I lied, our fatheads, at least the one I photographed as a sample, are probably Pyrgus malvae. We'll have to shoot everyone in a row from now on, just in case, and only then sort out one of these species, or a bunch of similar ones from different genera. The section of the atlas of butterflies of Ukraine dedicated to fatheads shocked me as much when I first opened it with the number of species with almost the same wing pattern (and in no case exactly coinciding with my photo specimens) as the section dedicated to pigeons.

Ilya Y, no, it's June 3, but in general, we can meet mottled birds in the second half of May, if April and the first half of May were warm.

okoem, thank you, I didn't check the tail for the determinants, because I met it in the thicket of blackthorn, and decided that it was a blackthorn. Although, now I looked at your site-the caterpillars feed on blackthorn.

ENO, yes, there, probably, you need to look closely for a long time to learn how to identify thickheads.

This post was edited by Wave Storm-09.07.2017 18: 16

June 23rd. judging by the exifs. But the gap in phenology with Donetsk is really a strand of the month.

Hello everyone. Two hours of free time, a little gas and I'm already in Durlesti. Durlesti is not a crazy house, it is a district of Chisinau, adjacent to a small forest area, which is called the Durlesti Forest http://wikimapia.org/16827775/ru/ And the crazy house is also there, but it's in Suits http://locals.md/2015/legendarnaya-istoriy...-psihbolnitsyi/
I was going to remove the soil. traps that there was no hope for, and visit your favorite clearing. But in the first puddle formed in the road rut, two incredible finds were made, two drowned people - a huge caterpillar of an unknown breed, and a female coriarius. Maybe someone will identify Gus, I can't imagine what a butterfly should be made of such a larva. It's a pity, I completely drowned, I would have brought it out, I remembered my youth.


I have never seen Prionus coriarius in Moldova. Although I knew exactly what it was, I even found elytra. Just in Durlesti, but a very long time ago. There are two males - from the Carpathians (Sheshory) and Moscow (Bitsevsky Park). Now there is a female. Well, what can I say?.. I'm satisfied.

It was quite overcast, but the bug was present pretty much. Stenurella melanura, Leptura maculata, and Pachytodes erraticus lived out their summers on umbrellas, and a male Leptura aurulenta was found on a linden leaf without a left hind leg. I didn't dare disturb the old man. In my favorite clearing (the first photo on the link), Subcoccinella vigintiguatuorpunctata grazed en masse on alfalfa, so the smaller the beetle, the longer the name. Here, for example - Lucanus cervus. By the way, there were also quite a lot of horns, but they were all too small, I didn't take them. On alfalfa, two Lilioceris merdigera were also caught, and on some weeds and then on mint - five pieces of Chrysolina olivieri. My dear bug!




From the scientifically useful, a cool weevil and a certain anobiid were caught. Right now I'll try to identify them, then unsubscribe.
But the main discovery, as is often the case, was made "at the end". A male Rosalia alpina was sitting on a fallen beech tree!!!!. This is just a Durlesti forest, trampled, littered, built up all the mansions of the "new Moldovans", which I have trodden up and down for 30 years. I thought the Rosalia were transferred here in the time of Stefan Cel Mare (15th century). No, here it is sitting, although without its hind legs already. So soon the Rosalies will be running along the paths of the Rose Valley. I am certainly happy for them, but, as they say, "let everything be, but let something not be enough"!

PS Anobiid is still a problem, but the weevil is a new genus for me: Barynotus obscurus

This post was edited by Chegar - 16.07.2017 22: 55

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Hello everyone))) It's been a long time since I've been here . I have accumulated material for several reports for this year.
16.05.2017 Kiev. Concha Zaspa. Let's go with Musson Max for Hyphoraia aulica and pigeon Scolitantides orion. The weather was excellent. Everything was found, although aulica is already a little flown. I also caught a male Hemaris fuciformis as a bonus!

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