Crimea, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova

Well, if it is really confined to the Mole Rats, then yes, it lives and reproduces there (in the blind man's moves).

Here-this is unlikely. In the subsurface passages of the mole rat, it is empty, even if the ball is rolling. So, probably, mole rats hang out in cells at depth

"In the subsurface passages of the mole rat, it is empty, even if the ball is rolling."
Where does this information come from? Own experience?

Naturally. It's just a gallery with bare earth walls, even all the spines stripped off. There's nothing to eat there.

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"Yabby we knew, panichi, scho people robly unochi" (c). How much nonsense was rolled up during the night...
O. kindermanni lives with Nannospalax leucodon (its taxonomic relationship with N. hungaricus is unclear, but for kind. - this is one species), and the range of our mole rat ends with the border with Nikol. by region. Further east live OTHER species, and kind. They dont have. But Aph. spalacophilus is in the Don. and Luhansk. regions.
Mole rat moves are well distinguished by the presence of traffic jams, except for the freshest ones. Outliers in Rezen are at least mostly mole rats, and even kind. it's caught there. It is necessary to slowly dig up large amounts of outliers in the spring, since kind. is very unevenly distributed. For example, I found fifty mounds on the ground 2+2+1+1 beetles. It's pointless to go into the galleries.
And as for the stocks of the barrow mouse, how many mounds I dug (winter-autumn-winter) - a complete golyak.
The ground squirrel in our country and in Moldova has long been extinct, its burrows (of two types) have a characteristic structure and are not confused with anything.

Well, that's all it turned out. Diakuyu-thank you.

So it's not even a mole rat, but some kind of ... hmm... nanoslepysh (another genus), it was necessary to clarify immediately. Judging by the name, Skolkovo must still be inhabited by

There is a second copy of Cynaeus angustus! https://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/rus/cynangbl.htm I flew in last night to the light of the energy-saving lawn. Balcony, 6th floor, center of Botany residential district, Chisinau. I wonder if it's already mass-produced somewhere?

Hello everyone.
Please forgive me for my verbose, stupidly admiring reports, but it doesn't work out any other way.
And so. Yesterday, the age-old dream of the Moldovan sub-section of Molbiola to visit the Tigech forest came true. This is a unique place in many respects, the southernmost remnants of oak forests, actually Codras, which are better preserved in the central part of Moldova.
https://www.google.com/maps/@46.334637,28.3...1!1e3?hl=ru
The expectations for the trip were incredible. Using Google maps, we chose a place with a settled plot adjacent to the forest. According to the speedometer, it turned out 112 km, including 22 km of bad grader just behind Cimislia. The forest was indeed made of old oak trees, but it stood like a wall, with dense undergrowth. We didn't find any way in. In addition, the settled area was sown with wheat. The 30-meter sanitary strip (still a nature reserve) is overgrown with waist-high grass with sparse hawthorn bushes. Small elephants fell from them, but there was also an interesting find-Cryptocephalus octacosmus.
http://www.cassidae.uni.wroc.pl/European%2...0octacosmus.htm
I had one copy in my collection, but Rostov-on-Don, and here is a local one. That cheered me up a little. We decided not to waste time and go to Reseni, they were located just along the road. However, passing the opposite edge of the Tropical Forest, they fell for a thicket of flowering elderberries, on which, however, they found nothing. Generally. But on some dill-like weeds, Trichodes quadriguttatus was discovered!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichodes_quadriguttatus
This, of course, was the highlight of the program. We have a general lack of trichodes, in fact, apart from apiarius, I haven't met any others. And here is such a handsome man!! The trip took on some shape and meaning.
Ah Rezeny, how much there is in this sound... The seventh season on 3-4 times I go to this piece of abandoned cornfield, and not once was there such that I would not find something new for myself. First, the second copy was caught. Trichodes quadriguttatus, on a rosehip flower, then a couple of strange ophonuses-I haven't identified them yet. 8 mm, dark blue, rather elongated, black legs. And the last cool find is Pachybrachis tessellatus
http://www.cassidae.uni.wroc.pl/European%2...tessellatus.htm
well, in the evening, going out on the balcony to smoke at bedtime, I caught Cynaeus angustus, which I couldn't resist, I wrote in the morning. Now I will have June 7 in labels from three different locations!
Bugs don't end!
Glory to the coleopter!

Hurray! Ophonuses identified-Ophonus (Hesperophonus) cribricollis (Dejean, 1829)

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It would be nice to post photo reports, perhaps on other sites, and here-links.
Beetles will not end if you master new techniques, biotopes, substrates, etc
."Feel" the forests with soil traps - you will see a lot of new and interesting things!
C. octacosmus mows well in all kinds of wet meadows, and not only that, I took it in Moldova as well.

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As for photo reports, many people do this here. I tried taking photos on my mobile phone, but the result is worse than the bottom one. Need a macro lens for Canon EOS 500D. The native one has a bad resolution.
As for new techniques and biotopes, we are trying our best. For example, this technique works well: when you approach the edge of the forest, you need to bow slightly and say: "Hello, Grandfather forest" In Durlesti, Kondritsa, Capriany, Lozovo and other places in the central part of Moldova, it works. But in Tigech it didn't help. So you didn't find the right words. But we try, we try...

Go to the topic "cameras" in the section "equipment and materials" there is a detailed description of how to make a good macro lens "from shit and sticks". But you can simply attach a high-quality macro attachment to the existing one - the autofocus will remain.

And at least just click on the biotopes with Canon? Or large insects? The quality is not super, but still!
As for "we try" - your group is very superficial in its work. For now, at least.

I agree, superficially. But we are amateurs in the most beautiful sense of the word. Mi and the children with you are taking, a 9-year-old girl went to Tigech with us. And some take wives, too! For an in-depth search, you need first of all time, and the last trip - 7 hours, of which 4 hours were spent on the road - is the first and probably the last of this season. In Lozovo, a couple of trips per season - 6 hours minus 3 hours on the road, Capriany-5 hours minus 2 hours, Rezeny - 4 hours minus an hour. This is our geography. Going somewhere north in the foothills of the Carpathians is still an impossible dream. These are my family circumstances.
So let's drink to the fact that our desires coincide with our capabilities!

I took it today for the first time in my life near Odessa on the inflorescence of tartarus. This is his year!

Congratulations!
But I'm already moving forward in the sense of cleride. Last Sunday, Tilloidea unifasciata was caught in Codra near Capriyan. It went through my lists - the only copy from Turkey, but the Turk was demoted to Opilo taeniatus (also a new species for me!), and the unifasciata in the collection is now real.
We also set up traps in Capriany, a dozen soil traps and one with braga for aruginosa. Tomorrow we're going to shoot
Eh, rainyara livanul!

The Opilo genus is only from Turkey? Didn't take it here? I haven't collected it in over 20 years...
Today I am, as strange as it sounds, again (for the second day in a row!) added a new motley to the collection. I'm sitting on the seashore (okr. Odessa), I catch otkhodnyak after diving, and here on the litter with dashes and flights it seems like a wasp, and how it crawls - either a beetle, or a bug, but it was difficult to diagnose, the sun also bumbles. I decided - if it's not clear what - it's better to take it alive! And at home I began to be impressed - this is a motley bird with shortened elytra, I hardly found something similar, but it lives very far from us.

In Moldova, I caught two types of Opilo-Opilo pallidus (singly, by shaking off various trees) and Opilo mollis - a single specimen. from under the bark of a dead hornbeam, in autumn.With the clerids, we are very bad, apart from the ubiquitous apiarius, there are only two types of necrobia. That's all. Ah, I'm lying. Another kind of clerus and tanasimus. That's all. Uh, I'm lying again - Trichodes quadriguttatus and Tilloidea unifasciata were also caught this year. But still, it's not enough for me!!!

If it is not enough, then a) the necrobium is not 2, but 3!; b) you often have here this a friend; c) still rare, but it occurs here this friend.

And of course in Moldova there are Korynetes caeruleus.

Well, there! There is something to strive for!
By the way, there is another interesting family in this superfamily - Malachiidae. Somehow to it in general any attention on a forum. There is no branch in "Images". I remember someone dismissive saying about malashki - I'm not interested in iol... they don't deserve any interest in themselves. And I'm very interested, they are quite different and cool. About a week ago, two Celidus humeralis specimens got stuck on my balcony at once http://www.hmyzfoto.cz/mal/hum.jpg And today (today!) Ebaeus flavicornis arrived https://www.biolib.cz/en/image/id32156/ Now there are 15 species of Malachiidae in the collection. This is serious, comrades!

Good evening to all! 8. 07. empusa fasciata was born. Donetsk region, Shakhtyorsk. Ooteka showed up this morning. For me, this is the first find in our region. It's a pity that the photos are not attached.

And exactly fasciata? Not pennicornis?

In the Luhansk region pennicornis, we have on the sands, as far as I remember, differences in the outgrowths on the basins of the legs.

A nice find for the DPR in addition to my gyerodule! The photo should be uploaded to a third-party hosting service, and here - a link.

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hugoUN, I sent you an email to the soap via the forum last night, but I have vague doubts about its passage. Now I'll try to duplicate it in my personal account, but I'm not sure that it will work either. Recently, molbiolovskie services work crookedly.

And so on. Hello everyone
We went on Sunday to an interesting place in Codry, which we accidentally found a week ago. Then, returning from the clearing to the highway, we missed the necessary turn of the forest road and came out to the village itself, Kapriyany. They were already walking to the car through a deep gorge with a decent ravine at the bottom. There is a different microclimate, less lime trees, more old oaks and hornbeams. There are a lot of dead-standing trees among them, and that's when I wanted to go back to this gorge and calmly peel the bark from the dead trunks. No rush anywhere, no wild runs to the clearings. This place looks something like this.
https://ibb.co/McJ1L6t
https://ibb.co/q0HSRJh
https://ibb.co/rQRJmDz
The place is almost fabulous, and the finds were expected to be fabulous. Somewhere in the back of my mind
From under the bark, mostly hornbeams, along with the dust, all sorts of small things, mainly anobiids, fell out. I'll talk about them later, but in the meantime, I'll talk about new species for me. Rhyncolus reflexus from the cossonins was the first to come across (as it turned out at home) http://cassidae.uni.wroc.pl/Colpolon/rhync...%20reflexus.htm. You can't mistake it for anything else, because of the lobes at the ends of the elytra. The second is also kossonin-Hexarthrum capitulum https://www.galerie-insecte.org/galerie/esp...m&esp=capitulum. This one was carried along the bark by an ant, alive and well. I had to shake both of them into the jar, and then I let the ant go. The ant, cursing, went for a new prey. Cossoninae is an interesting group, and over the past few years my number has grown from two to 9-10. And I want to find more.
Just a couple of colidiids, Synchita humeralis, were caught in a rotten trunk. https://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/rus/synhu2km.htm In general, all my favorite little things were in my hands, but there was no "nail" of the program. And he usually comes at the end of a sortie. And almost at the edge of the forest, under the bark of a completely rotten cherry log, a male Obrium cantharinum was found. I have 3 pieces of cantharium in my collection, but from the Kaluga region, from Maxim Malukhin. In Moldova, this species is not found. And then I found it, although it was already dry, I think it couldn't chew through the bark and get out. But it turned out to be strong - I dropped it twice, and without consequences. Here it is before loosening and straightening.
https://ibb.co/cgy1tRD
Just beyond the edge of the forest, a huge rural dump began. Immediately, the peasants were unloading garbage from a karutsa drawn by two snow-white nags. Our unexpected meeting did not confuse anyone. Not them, not us. I should have taken a picture of them, but it didn't occur to me then.
On umbrellas, however, another new species was caught for me - Anthonomus rectirostris https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ant...irostris_up.jpg. A large animal, and the pattern on the elytra is clear and beautiful.
Anobiids. Several species of different genera were caught, including Anobium punctatum https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ano...8692210695).png Finally, I found the real punctatum. What I had listed under this name in the collection was not anobiums at all, but two different species of a different genus. I suspect that this is Priobium, we just need to figure out which ones. It is only possible to truly identify beetles, especially difficult groups, if new material is constantly coming in. This happens all the time: you catch it, define it, then catch another one, and redefine the first one. Etc.
Good luck to all!
Bugs don't end up

Hello everyone again!
No trip, no expedition, and so-smoke breaks on the balcony. But rushing all sorts of nonsense on the energy-saving lawn, and among the nonsense and chegonit interesting comes across. Last night's very unexpected finds - a pair of Diabrotica virgifera https://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/rus/diabvirg.htm This is my first time fishing with us, and I only have one ex from Romania. Actually, this is a quarantine type. I don't know how common they are in Moldova, but in the institution where I take certificates for my exchange packages, there is a poster that colorfully describes the beetle as an enemy of corn. Maybe it's time to sound the alarm somehow already!?
And the other day Bembidion showed up ? varium. Nothing special, but the material by definition varium / obliquum gradually accumulates. Maybe one day I'll figure it out.
Notoxus trifasciatus came into the world over the weekend https://baza.biomap.pl/en/taxon/species-not...hotos_tx/tlau/y By the way, N. monocerus is a regular guest. By the way, a female Steropes obscurans came from aticides - it was put up for identification. From close to them, aderids, represented by one species, Aderus populneus, fly a lot https://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/rus/adepopud.htm 2 mm. Krupnyak.
This morning a pleasant surprise - Opanthribus tessellastu https://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/rus/parteskm.htm The second copy is in the collection, but I wasn't completely sure about the first one, and the pair is a small series. You can already make something up.
I don't write about banals, well, they are! And these are photos from the last few days, or rather nights. All sorts of things. For illustrative purposes.

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Yesterday I went to the sands in the city to check the caterpillars of swallowtail and milkweed hawkmoth. I found only one small swallowtail caterpillar. In 2013, I found 7 pieces in the same places. And 3 milkweed hawkmoth. In the case of the milkweed hawk moth, caterpillars were often found on the sands. I saw the swallowtail imago only in the spring of this year. In 2013, adult swallowtails were often caught at the end of August. I was in Stepnoy gully more than a week ago. I didn't find any swallowtail caterpillars on the stallion either, only Ascotis selenaria caterpillars were often found.

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I was in the steppe today. With rosehip and hawthorn trouble. Most of the bushes in the gully have no leaves at all and no fruit. Or the rosehip only has green twigs sticking out from above. Near the beam, near the plantings, the situation is better, but still dry bushes come across.

From the butterflies fly Pontius edusa, torn pigeons Icarus, yellow southern. No saffron yolks.

But on the way back, right on the side of the road, I found two cute caterpillars of some cucullia (most similar in appearance to tanaceti). I'll be breeding butterflies.

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But on the way back, right on the side of the road, I found two cute caterpillars of some cucullia (most similar in appearance to tanaceti). I'll be breeding butterflies.

It's a little late. And what were you sitting on? or were they crawling on the ground?

Just right for tanaceti, I think. In Crimea, they are mostly closer to autumn and in autumn-August, September, October, until the beginning of November.

Just right for tanaceti, I think. In Crimea, they are mostly closer to autumn and in autumn-August, September, October, until the beginning of November.

This is probably true, but my personal experience is limited to June and August.

It is better to provide a photo (all photos of the house are taken).

It's a little late. And what were you sitting on? or were they crawling on the ground?

We were sitting on these plants:





But these plants are not eaten. And they eat odorous (in principle, even pleasant) wormwood (in our city on the sands comes across).





One caterpillar is already buried somewhere.

I'd rather provide a photo.

Thank you, no questions asked, tanaceti.

Hello everyone
My exchanges have been going well over the past few years. And in each parcel there are beetles with a geographical label "Chisinau, southern forest plantations". Somewhat vague and mysterious. But it is clear that this is the southern edge of the city, namely the Botany microdistrict. In Chisinau, they are known as "Lake Eight", but the name is unofficial. Actually, the landings are the wild and best part of the Botanical Garden of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Moldova, which is located just behind the highway to the Airport. A cult place for me, since childhood-the nearest "forest" to the house, if you wait for a troll, then get half an hour, if on foot, then exactly 30 minutes. How many were caught here! Over the decades, of course, it has been overgrown, it is actively conquered by the American maple, no one lives in its thickets and almost nothing grows. But there are still a lot of cool places. A small photo report about today's walk on " yuzhn. forest plantations", just so that when you look at the label, at least some images appear. The weather is nice, sunny, quiet. No beetles were harmed during the preparation of the report.

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I am a fighter for the rights of beetles.
Glory to the Coleopter!
Glory to the leaf eaters!
I've packed you some mattresses, and I'll get sanitized. certificates, not a trace. I will send it to you.

There aren't enough reports here lately. I'll post some photos.

19.04.20, Kherson region, b. west of Berislav

Oh, and the drought was in March and April. At the same time, the second half of April was not hot in terms of temperature. We just had a strict quarantine, in which I rode my bike more than once to all sorts of places.

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Wow, a zombie caterpillar!

Wow, a zombie caterpillar!

It seems that there is no limit on the number of images. If the fucking filter works, you can delete one photo and then continue editing the message. To prevent it from working, it is better to attach all images to the text.

I don't know that it worked, I've been uploading everything to a third-party resource lately.