Crimea, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova

alex 2611
There are such just from the Crimea especially for you. And not only them. Total-a lot!
Get well

Ahh! My saliva is dripping.... I really want....

Kapriany 11.07.08
Arrived to check the traps for excelences. Last time I installed 9 pieces in a line. There were 22 excelens, 2 coriaceuses, 1 lucanus cervus, 1 interesting black staff with a large head, and 2 pterostichus and 1 abax. Four stem traps with braga did not justify themselves. Only one contains cetonium aurata (ugh), and the rest don't even have that (flies and scoops). But I saw how to really install crown traps, as I went with a familiar entomologist. In general, the day went well. The collection has been updated with P. lugubris, P. aeruginosa, Akimerus schaeferi, and 1 dicerca (goldenrod). And even though the last two season came out (moustache and zlatka), they became happy, or rather I am their owner. I set up more traps for carabiners. An entomologist friend also had excelences and 1 carabus canciatus. I also caught daytime butterflies, but nothing special:
Erinnes tages – 1
Thymelicus sylvestris – 1
Pontia daplidice - 1
Colias erate-1
Thersamonia thersamon – 2
Lycaena phlaeas – 1
Aricia agestis – 6 (since the butterfly is not very frequent, you can take 2-3 copies on a hike if you don't try very hard, and then how lucky, but here standing still - judging everything is localized, so I marked the point.)
Everes. decolorata – 1
E. alcetes – 4
Plebejus argus -1
Polyommatus icarus – 9 (I thought I would get tercitas, but alas...)
So not much for the butterflies, but for the beetles, a shock day came out. New species, and even what.
P. S. Two weeks ago, while in Capriany, I became the lucky owner of Gnorimus variabilis, unfortunately only one copy.

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I was in Belarus near Vitebsk, the work did not give me the opportunity to catch, but a large number of large perelivnits caught my eye. On the way back, I stopped at 144 km of the Minsk highway to collect chanterelles, caught the bear dominula and several blackheads, probably ligei; in general, blackheads swarmed there. Can fish and jellyfish fly in those parts at all or not?

Eh, too, would love to go, but there is no one else.

[quote=Swansson,10.07.2008 21:48]

Frantik - I also recently returned from the Crimea.I was in the CURRENT Novy Svet for 21 days.
Scorpions had to be caught above the Golitsensk trail,where there are also many skolopendras
.And I caught solpugs, as well as antlers, under the lanterns in the village.

Alexander, is your last name not Generalov?

I catch everything in Tambov, now in Ilovay-Dmitrievsky... The last three days were attacked, and this is an understatement, by small black beetles... They were already in the house somehow! The butterflies are not allowed to sit on the fabric, and I am not allowed to approach... So the fishing subsided... Now I'm breeding 138 caterpillars of the bear Kaya... If anyone needs it, I can give you a couple!

What kind of beetles? I caught it the other day, it came in like a mine. a couple of hundred pterostichs, about 3 species, plus probably a hundred zabrusov and smaller zhuzhel. Do you have the same ones?
The anomaly of summer continues - the night was the most gorgeous, and the result is a ton of ground beetles that make it difficult to be near the lamp and climb into the apartment, there are almost no butterflies, but there is a crowd of green blacksmiths who devour the already few guests and arrange fights on the screen.
Last year, there were no such numbers of beetles and straight-winged beetles, but there were hawk moth...

Frantik - I also recently returned from the Crimea.I was in the CURRENT Novy Svet for 21 days.
Scorpions had to be caught above the Golitsensk trail,
where there are also many scolopendras.And I caught solpugs, as well as antlers, under the lanterns in the village.

and this is 15 UAH each time to give to climb this path? Or are there other ways?
How rare is solpuga? What is the probability of catching it if there is 1 night for hiking in the village and you don't know exactly under which light to look for?

Swansson, salpugs run quite locally in the Crimea. Nikitsky at one time was generally surprised that they were there. But then I checked some works and confirmed: the current South Bank. I also noted that in one year they are up to horseradish, and in another-only a few or not at all. I went to the Crimea from the mid-80s to 1997 inclusive. 7 times - to one place - Kanakskaya balka. There this rubbish was born (but, again, without guarantees).

Orekhovo-Zuyevsky district, this week. Already identified scoops: Cerapteryx graminis, a lot of some Xestia and Caradrina morpheus, Lygephila pastinum, Moma alpium, Mythimna conigera, Polypogon tentacularia, Diachrysia stenochrysis, Diachrysia chrysitis and the second find in the last 100 years in the MO Macrochilo cribrumalis; scoops Tethea or and Ochropacha duplaris. Of the little things, it should be noted Pyralis regalis. The rest (there is or will be in a week) - in the topic "definition of butterflies"!

With Macrochilo cribrumalis, I must tell you this is not the second find. Over the past 10 years, the dacha in the O-Zuevsky district is not a frequent, but quite commonly found species. Every year, up to ten pieces fall on the lamp.

This post was edited by sdi-07/21/2008 18: 41

With Macrochilo cribrumalis, I must tell you this is not the second find. Over the past 10 years, the dacha in the O-Zuevsky district is not a frequent, but quite commonly found species. Every year, up to ten pieces fall on the lamp.

Well, as long as you don't say anything, no one else will know.
They wanted to include this species in the CC MO as extinct!

And where in the O-Zuevsky district?

I returned from a short vacation in the Crimea. I spent my vacation in the city of Alupka.
For accommodation purposes I rented a house (which actually turned out to be an artist's workshop).
Report: in the Crimea-good, warm and dry.

While on vacation, I tried to combine rest and manic fishing. It turned out badly, the maniacal entity often got out, demanding to meet its needs to catch not only insects, but also to look out for other animals on the beach (many of which I previously knew only from photographs and from Dogel's textbook).


This time I actually saw many animals for the first time, ranging from the widely known skutigera flycatcher (who met me on the first day on the territory of the toilet entrusted to her with a nervous twitch of her whiskers), to the embia found under rocks in the foothills and in Alupka itself (in the garden of the rented house), too. I tried out for myself how ground beetles-scorers defend themselves (I was not impressed, they "let the whisperer go", and slightly heat up the fingers trying to grab it). I was more impressed with how the male deer beetle defends itself (he bit his finger until it bled and didn't want to let go). For the first time I heard, and also saw, photographed and caught, a cicada (I didn't freeze it, it doesn't sing)

Actually, about fishing. The number and species composition of those caught was somewhat disappointing. Very few ground beetles were caught, almost all were caught by manual harvesting, only Calathus melanocephalus, Taphoxenus sp. and 2 pieces of Carabus gyllenhali were caught in glasses buried in different places in 16 days. Green vegetation for mowing was also not enough, everything was dry and burnt out. However, again with manual harvesting, it was possible to catch some goldfinches, barbels and Larinus weevils. I had high hopes for catching the light of a carefully broken DRL-250. Alas and ah – compared to last year's summer in the Belgorod region, the years were not very good. What is the reason for this (time or place) - I can not say. Curculio elephants (apparently from the nearest oak tree) and nutcrackers arrived en masse
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and white-fronted grasshoppers

The latter, plopping loudly anywhere, created a commotion near the screen, which almost immediately attracted the attention of terrible predators – a hedgehog and several cats. The hedgehog stomped busily through the lighted space, cutting circles, noticing a fallen grasshopper, caught up with it, pinning it down with its belly and holding it with its paws, and began to eat.

The cats were desperate. One, the most impudent, defiantly shat in the soil trap, and then buried the whole thing (after burying the second newly placed glass, I left him alone). This, however, did not end his mischief – one night, deciding to diversify his diet of grasshoppers, he caught the only Cerambyx cerdo that came to light (and I got it, respectively). The beetle was repulsed, but at the same time it lost 2 legs and received bitten wounds of the elytra. Hunting for a cat with a poker that turned up at hand, furious screams and other obscene noise effects did not give any result – the cats moved to pre-prepared positions and from there made sallies to the screen. True, only for grasshoppers.
During an excursion to the Chatyr Daga caves (Marble and Emine-Bair-Khosar), I caught one Morimus verecundus. And in general, it seemed to me that yayla at this time has richer flowering vegetation and, accordingly, entomofauna. Unfortunately, I didn't have a net with me, but when I manually collected it under a stone, I caught some Notiophilus, on complex flowers-Cryptocephalus (similar to sericeus) and 2 copies of something resembling Dascillus.

Without telling anyone what insidious purpose I was here for, I made my way to Nikitsky botsad. I wanted to fish on the flowering vegetation there, but it was the same as in Alupka, i.e. practically nothing. The ubiquitous Oxythyrea funesta, for example.

But I looked at the collection of insects of the Crimea (if necessary, I will post photos of all the boxes), and the garden of exotic butterflies, where along with exotics flew not at all exotic lemongrass and pandora

By the way, the presence of a garden of exotic butterflies explained one strange vision. Going down in search of a palm alley, I came across a ravine, along the bottom of which a stream flowed, and on one of the slopes there was a huge fallen pine (vetroval). While climbing this pine tree to see if there was anything interesting under its bark, I suddenly noticed a butterfly rising from the bottom of the ravine. She flapped her wings slowly enough to see the background and their shape – something bright orange, reminiscent of Dryas julia or Dione sp. of the Heliconidae. I already thought that I was overheated or that I had inhaled some pollen, but I didn't – then I came across this garden and everything more or less fell into place (in the garden, however, there were no such butterflies, but there were unclosed windows with holes in the mosquito net)
Well, under the stones, as usual, joked


What failed.
Couldn't catch the Crimean ground beetle (did you look for it not there and not then?)
Couldn't see Karakurt (out of season?)
Couldn't find leaf beetle Cecchiniola platyscelidina (what if?)

Here is such a vacation turned out

And a few more photos

I read that there is no Karakurt on the southern coast of Crimea.

Cecchiniola platyscelidina great luck sometimes "in a friend" does not help.
Crimean ground beetle is found in parks. In Nikitsky botsadu-a mass type
of Karakurt in the Crimea-not banal met only on Karadag

I saw Karakurt in the north of Sevastopol. Crimean ground beetle caught in the same place and would not say that it is banal, for 3 weeks the current is 1 copy. Although it can only be mass-produced on the South Coast...

I also went to Yalta a few years ago. I was there in the first half of August. Nothing cremo Carabus gyllenhali caught. In Abkhazia, I caught a Caucasian ground beetle in a mountain beech-oak forest. So maybe you should look for the Crimean one in the forest?

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Dan, bravo! Great report! Post more photos of embiyas, if available

to Bad Den
щелкун Melanotus fusciceps.

Dan, bravo! Great report! Post more photos of embiyas, if you have any

Unfortunately, there are no photos of embias - they are small and brisk, my soap dish does not take them. Only in alcohol 1 copy...

to Bad Den
Poor would be the cat who so proudly potsapal, if he got under the hot hand. He couldn't even eat the dustpan.

to Bad Den
Poor would be the cat who so proudly potsapal, if he got under the hot hand. He couldn't even eat the dustpan.

They are in scales, they need to be cleaned

And what would the local cats say, from which fat cerdo is selected and not eaten, nothing

Here is a friend brought from Ukraine. All except Khrushchev from Kirovohrad region, Znamenka, kon. July-beginning August, khrushchis from Berdyansk ser. July's.

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Here is a friend brought from Ukraine. All except Khrushchev from Kirovohrad region, Znamenka, kon. July-beginning August, khrushchis from Berdyansk ser. July's.

The male deer in the lower right corner is awesome!

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[quote=rpanin, 06.08.2008 16: 27] Here is a friend brought from Ukraine. All except Khrushchev from Kirovohrad region, Znamenka, kon. July-beginning August, khrushchis from Berdyansk ser. July's.
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Polyphylla alba (Pallas)

Right!

yesterday, Nupta and Elokata flew into the entrance.
I have the first sponsa, nupta and fulminea (from mid-June), but the last one does not fly long, and the other 2 until September. Promissa and elocata join them in mid - July, and fraxini joins them in early August. At the end of July-August, puerpera/orientalis flies in the city, there is no one to cook.

there is some good news about karabus hungarikus. An ECZ caught in Moldova by one of the interns was found. For reference-this beetle was not caught in our country for about 100 years and it was considered extinct.

there is some good news about karabus hungarikus. An ECZ caught in Moldova by one of the interns was found. For reference, this beetle has not been caught in our country for about 100 years and it was considered extinct.

What subspecies do you have? We have mingens in the south of the Rostov region and in Rostov itself, and in the north of the region there was one find of scythus

AlexEvs:
I mean mingens.. Although I will also put it in the definition of carbuses, you never know what I think

to RippeR:
OK, we'll wait)
But something also seems to me that you should have mingens there

Let's go. The goal is to spend two nights in different places
on 15.06 near the village of Bukryn , (N49°57,223’, E031°18,106’), until 02-00 and in the morning a little, full moon, heat, DRV 250 lamp.
There are few interesting things,many old battered butterflies L. populi, Sh. pinastri, D. porcellus, E. quadripunctata, W. binaria in the mass, in addition to C. elocata, C. tanaceti, P. stolida, many X. xanthographa, 6 species of nolids-N. cucullatella, aerugula, M. strigula, E. vernana, B. bicolorana, N. asiatica, S. argentina, N. janthe/janthina, like finally caught C. quercimontaria and still took a couple of fresh Eupithecia sp.
I had to destroy about two dozen of them, and one of them ate M. alternata right on the sheet.
Two praying mantises came to hunt
at 16.08 and continued on their way. We stopped in a deciduous forest near the village of M. Staroselye, Smelyansky district, Cherkasy region (N49°17,035’, E031°40,191’), from 20-30 to 04-30, quiet and cloudless, full moon, 2 DRV 250 lamps.
It was a good hunt
Massively flying moth With margaritata probably out of a hundred you could take-beautiful, in addition to a large number of W. binaria, H. probosidalis, C. annularia, X. rhomboidea, A. l-nigrum, S. argentina, E. quadripunctata
From tapeworms-C. nupta
And most importantly, that I still have it wasn't-several copies. Eugnorista depuncta & Drymonia obliterata
In addition, there were a lot of common moths
and a few beetles were collected –barbels, carabids, black-bodied beetles, plates, some long nutcrackers, etc. - but a colleague took this, I am weak in them, and he said that it will be determined later

This post was edited by svm2 - 08/21/2008 13: 19

For warm
-up Lviv region, Yavorivsky district, Reserve "Roztochye": ur Fill (swampy meadow) 20. IV-3. VI. 08
Carabus (Carabus) menetriesi 3 (3 A- ) Something this season was very weak.
Blethisa multipunctata 1

Stradch village (clearing) 17.V-3.VI. 08
Barbels, marble brozovki in wine and beer traps
c.Vereshchitsa 31. V, 08 Sandy shore of Omophron limbatum forest lake

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By the way, how interesting is menetriesi for collectors? Something he was put in different Red Books, and he scored all the traps in half for me this summer with granulatus

By the way, how interesting is menetriesi for collectors? Something he was listed in various Red Books, and this summer he scored all the traps in half with granulatus

In Europe, it is rare, or very rare.

And in Russia?

it's considered rare, but where it's there, it's there...

Not often in central Russia. The trouble is that where it is, many people can not distinguish it from granulatus. So, Fedorenko, for example, did not distinguish. This explains the fact that in the list of ground beetles of the Moscow region, the species is given one copy each.