Crimea, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova

02.12.2017 Kherson region, stepnaya balka. ... However, one small insect arrived (as I understand it, one of the caddisflies).

Why is caddisfly a butterfly? I think it's Deuterotinea casanella. Male.

And ischo one )))) I don't need to go to the forest or the steppe, and you can take pictures of metelikiv at home)

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And ischo one )))) I don't need to go to the forest or the steppe, and you can take pictures of metelikiv at home)

In December, yes in the room-Ephestia sp., vesti-but interesting colors, it is better to cook!

And before that on the screen-Deuterotinea, of course!

I feel sorry for her, and I don't know how to cook them ))

I found a similar color for this name so far only on one photo here
http://www.urral.ru/vid/62.htm

Chet somehow strange, an article about the Urals, and here it is)

And what is the strange thing? Pan believes that there should be no cosmopolitan synanthropes in the Urals. Well, yes, he's "Hungry"...

Here's what's really strange: shortly after reading Panov's post with a picture of a real moth, I noticed a similar one on the wall, for the first time in many months. I even wanted to take a picture to demonstrate the superiority of my own technology, but I couldn't: my moth reacted extremely nervously to the light of the flashlight and flew up every time it hit it. So it was hidden somewhere. And Panova is a drag. And, by the way, it is necessary to beat this moth (or feed it to "mats") without fail, especially for the keeper of the coolest collection of scoops of all times and peoples, which pan considers himself.

Zafotalal just poor ognevku on Vega 11u)
Pictures on Vega-the first and last, in the middle of the supershirk. Vega has a very small GRIP and the diaphragm does not help, but more than 5 is already dark, and you can take a picture of figs with your hands.
But Vega has more MDF, approx. 30cm on the first frame and approx. 50 on the third, so the pictures are cropped, and with a full frame from the shirik, but in the case of shooting from the ceiling, 30 cm only interferes, at 10 cm I rested my hands and took a picture, and so catch it in the peephole ))
In general, Vega is for something from 4 cm or at least from 3x..

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Today is probably the day of domestic butterflies. I had something like Plodia flying around my apartment, it sits down - I look, it looks more like a dress moth with a couple of dots in color, it looks like Caloptilia in the shape of its wings. In general, I suspect that I missed the never-before-seen Sitotroga cerealella

It's a good thing I don't have a firebox anymore. They devoured everything that could be devoured and died.

Ta well, it's depressing, I'm bored without bread crunchers, last season they were, and the year before that, too, it was on whom to experience macro-troubles. And now they were taken out, and the kitchen became dull and empty ))))

And this Sitotroga, in theory, will not go anywhere, and it will also fly out, by the way, you can lure it to the light )

And the microscopic lens, presumably, Pan lost. In the first picture, the GRIP is less than that of normal people when macro shooting with a DSLR, and in the third, the object did not hit it at all. Medium is still where it goes, but you need to sharpen strongly. In general, without a microscopic lens trouble.

Would you be so kind as to name at least one real point from Ukraine?

I just saw the message
Unfortunately, I do not know such a point, although it is visible for Ukraine.

Would you be so kind as to name at least one real point from Ukraine?

Nezhin Chernihiv region (Kostyuk et al., 1998. Mottled Lepidoptera (Lepidoptera: Heterocera) Chernihiv region of Ukraine. Part 3. Moth (Geometridae). Nezhin, 158 p.) (available on Flora and Fauna )

This post was edited by kotbegemot - 08.12.2017 22: 35

meant from the steppe zone

No, this is different, I just noticed that a young (as I understand it) colleague often very confidently makes his arguments, which, it seems to me, are not based either on his practical experience or on literary data, in this case-"more ordinary". So I asked you to give at least one point or say, no, there's probably something wrong here, I do not know. But alas, there was no response.
So, dear NIKSTER, do not be offended, confidence is good, but it is even better to back up with knowledge.
Regarding fagata,it is more common in the Carpathian region, while in the rest of Ukraine there are still 4 points-Chernihiv region, 2 Kiev region (Polesie) and Kostyuk found it in an old collection from Zhytomyr region .That's all that is recorded at the moment in I. Kostyuk for Ukraine, this does not mean that it does not exist somewhere else, especially in the north, but it is unlikely to talk about the usual

I wanted to attach a bassoon from the Kiev region this year( the first one was caught already in 1974, also in my collection), but the photo is not loaded

I wanted to attach a bassoon from the Kiev region this year( the first one was caught already in 1974, also in my collection), but the photo does not load

Vasily, so get yourself a flickr and attach it from there! =)

No, this is different, I just noticed that a young (as I understand it) colleague often very confidently makes his arguments, which, it seems to me, are not based either on his practical experience or on literary data, in this case-"more ordinary". So I asked you to give at least one point or say, no, there's probably something wrong here, I do not know. But alas, there was no response.
So, dear NIKSTER, do not be offended, confidence is good, but it is even better to back up with knowledge.

I'm not holding a grudge. But in this case, there was a misunderstanding. I wrote in the first message in the general case, and not for Ukraine.

It doesn't sound very convincing
If there is a remote steppe, then fagata really will not be, and if there are at least single trees or thickets of shrubs in the same steppe, then the species may well be. Although the species is more common in the forest part.

But already, Alexander, and then, Vasily, wrote specifically for Ukraine.

This means "Steppe" - a steppe zone. It is not known in Ukraine from the steppe zone.butterflies are quite well distinguished by specialists. There is no fagata in the "Wave Storm" photos.

Would you be so kind as to name at least one real point from Ukraine?

This post was edited by NIKSTER - 09.12.2017 17: 41

Yesterday in Kharkiv it was sunny and warm +6, I couldn't resist and decided to take a walk in the forest, where there is a population of Cucujus . Beetles under the bark and in the passages of Poplars, standing and drying trees.

29.XII.2016 Ukraine, KHARKOV REG.,near FILIPOVKA, UDY river. 49°56'3.92"N, 36°12'21.97"E

This post was edited by Liparus - 12/30/2017 11: 25

Part of the 2017 fees, mainly in the Kharkiv region, except for some wasps and Leucomigus candidatus.

This post was edited by Liparus - 12/30/2017 20: 48

Small report

Tremex fuscicornis
11.IX.2017 Ukraine, KHARKOV REG.,2 km SW from Rogan 49°53'33.56"N/36°27'19.10"E

We have already seen Phigalia pilosaria on Saturday. Hiding, waiting for warmth.

We have already seen Phigalia pilosaria on Saturday. Hiding, waiting for warmth.

Interesting. Where are they hiding? Can they be searched and found?

Interesting. Where are they hiding? Can they be searched and found?

Well, I said it figuratively, they hide.
Those that flew out before the snow, just sit on the trunks and wait out the minus, but a significant part of them will die. The following will come out.

a significant part of them will die.

Where does this information come from?

This post was edited by okoem - 23.03.2018 14: 50

Initially, I wrote a large one, corrected it to a significant one. But this applies specifically to the specific situation that has now developed in the region. I did not specify the cause of death, now there is a solid snow cover at low temperatures. Large butterflies sitting on trunks, when the litter is completely closed, become food for birds. These are briefly my observations and my speculations.

Today, Slavuta, Khmelnitsky region. A small evening " jog " with a headlamp around the neighborhood.
Agriopis marginaria
Alsophila aescularia
Anorthoa munda
Conistra vaccinii
Litophane furcifera
and sleeping on a twig Gonepteryx rhamni
Regretted not taking a camera, surprisingly most of the people they met posed wonderfully)

The post was edited by Gena-01.04.2018 01: 23

I've also been out in nature several times this year. The first time was in the steppe gully near the village of Burgunka on March 11. Frogs bloomed, and sometimes there were crocuses. At that time, small strips of snow in the grass were very rare. Massively crawled caterpillars of false finches, came across seven-point ladybugs, a slow-moving wasp, even some kind of microbial saw. Almost a week later, on Saturday, I was in a gully near c. Otradokamenka, there are sometimes ants, millipedes, and sand slugs under the rocks. Last weekend yesterday and the day before yesterday it was warm, but very windy. The city of N. Kakhovka is full of small flowers, but I haven't noticed a single day butterfly. In the park Viola suavis violets bloomed and smelled strongly at this time in the past years, now they also have flowers, but very little. But the crocuses in the beams are already fading. There are some photos, but I can't post them due to technical problems.

From now on, photos are uploaded via links to third-party resources.

This I know, by technical problems I meant problems with the PC.

Another walk with a flashlight. April 5, Slavuta neighborhood:
Agriopis marginaria
Biston strataria
Trichopteryx carpinata
Achlia flavicornis
Scolipteryx libatrix
Conistra rubiginea
Conistra vaccinii
Orthosia cerasi

It is not yet possible to install a lamp, so I will try out a new collection method for myself, I don't know if it will work in the summer, but in the spring this is not the worst result.

This post was edited by Gena-07.04.2018 09: 35

Another walk with a flashlight. April 5, Slavuta neighborhood:
Agriopis marginaria
Biston strataria
Trichopteryx carpinata
Achlia flavicornis
Scolipteryx libatrix
Conistra rubiginea
Conistra vaccinii
Orthosia cerasi

It is not yet possible to install a lamp, so I will try out a new collection method for myself, I don't know if it will work in the summer, but in the spring this is not the worst result.

To make walks more effective, you need to try food baits, in the spring sometimes they fly better than the light, especially if there is no light

I don't know if it will work in the summer,

I've been using this collection method for a long time. It works all season. Its advantage is that you can find species that practically do not fly to the light.

Finally satisfied their strong itch at the beginning of the season, went to 1-00 for 160 km to Zhytomyr region, everyone except me in the morning on the robot. A dense mixed forest in the Lugyn district. Caught on light and bait.It flew well to the light, but weakly to the bait.

Drepanidae
Achlya flavicornis

Geometridae
Chloroclysta siterata
Trichopteryx carpinata
Phigalia pilosaria
Lycia hirtaria
Biston strataria
Agriopis leucophaearia
Agriopis marginaria

Noctuidae
Brachionycha nubeculosa
Phlogophora meticulosa
Conistra vaccinii
Conistra ligula
Conistra rubiginea
Conistra erythrocephala
Lithophane socia
Lithophane furcifera
Lithophane lamda
Xylena vetusta
Eupsilia transversa
Orthosia incerta
Orthosia cerasi
Orthosia populeti
Orthosia opima
Orthosia gothica
Anorthoa munda
Cerastis rubricosa
Notodontidae
Odontosia sieversii

Have you seen any daytime butterflies yet?

Today, 07.04.18, after 09: 00, I left for the forest belt that stretches along the North Crimean Canal in the Kherson region, in the vicinity of the village of Plodovoe. There are violets in full bloom, but I didn't see any daytime butterflies at first. I met them when I got to the small irrigation canal under Plodovoye. I think it's because there are more bushes, less wind, and butterflies are more comfortable there. There, burdock and Admiral were feeding on violets. Also in the forest belt during the day on violets, it was often possible to meet feeding scoops-gammas. From other insects - ants, black ones, slow, which still collect seeds, winged individuals got out and went flying; bees, bumblebees, including small bumblebees with a red belly (I don't understand them, so I apologize if I called them wrong), xylocopa; sand slug beetles and, unexpectedly, field horses. I'm not used to seeing field horses in our area, we usually come across weeds, but we have sand. However, here is not sand, but soil, and in it both limestone and shell rock come across. Especially a lot of field horses were at noon, when I was returning back - they flew out from under the wheels of the bicycle.

But another meeting was even more unexpected. I have already started back from the irrigation canal, and then I see from afar that a butterfly is flying towards me along the road. The butterfly was light, I thought: white. Then a little closer flies - yellow. Well, I think, some kind of yellow egg, they can already fly quite well. But when it flew near me, and I saw that its flight was more even and calm, in contrast to the jaundice, and that the color, although yellow, was not jaundice, and that the wings were pointed-but it was lemongrass! I certainly did not expect to meet lemongrass in an artificial forest belt near an artificial canal! I have always met them in the gullies or swamps near the village of Solontsy, but not so close to home. Moreover, there were no other whiteflies that could fly now. In total, I met 4 species of butterflies: Vanessa cardui, Vanessa atalanta, Autographa gamma and Gonepteryx rhamni. I think it's a good place to start.

This post was edited by Wave Storm - 07.04.2018 17: 24

And today I took a bike ride around
the town of Zelva, Grodno region . Gonepteryx rhamni, Aglais io, and Aglais urticae were isolated.

Finally satisfied your intense itch for the start of the season,

we went from " shustov "to the island of Khortytsia, to the old oak grove from 19 to 23:
Plutellidae
Plutella xylostella x

Depressariinae
Agonopterix alstromeriana х
Depressaria sp. x

Tortricidae
Tortricodes alternella xxxx
Pammene giganteana x

Pterophoridae
Emmelina monodactyla x

Geometridae
Alsophila aescularia x
Apocheima hispidaria xx
Phigalia pilosaria x
Lycia hirtaria x
Biston strataria xx
Agriopis leucophaearia xx
Agriopis marginaria xx

Noctuidae
Nycteola revayana 1
Autographa gamma 1
Conistra vaccinii xx
Conistra veronica xx
Conistra erythrocephala xx
Lithophane ornitopus xx
Xylena vetusta exsoleta 1 thank you, "egorus" noticed the error.
Eupsilia transversa x
Orthosia incerta xx
Orthosia cerasi x
Orthosia cruda xxx
Orthosia gothica x
Anorthoa munda x


This post was edited by Djon-08.04.2018 16: 02

Today, Khmelnitsky region, Izyaslavsky district, the vicinity of the swamp "Cranberry field" and Lake Svyatoe. From the daily ones-rhamni, io, c-album and xanthomelas. In addition to them, Endromis versicolora, Archiearis parthenias and Trichopteryx carpinata.

Who watched endromis and pavonia during the day, the question is. What time (of day) do they fly, and is it possible for them to fly simultaneously? As I understand it, endromis flies before lunch, pavonia later in the evening, or is it not so? Today, endromis stopped flying around two o'clock in the afternoon. The only instance, as I considered pavonia, I met in this place after 16-00 (17.04.2016), and today I doubted, maybe then it was endromis.