Crimea, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova

I read the summer message:

And in general, it seemed to me that yaylyakh at this time had richer flowering vegetation and, accordingly, entomofauna.
.....
It was not possible to catch the Crimean ground beetle (I was looking for it not there and not then?)
Couldn't see Karakurt (out of season?)

Crimean ground beetle is found in parks. In Nikitsky botsadu-a mass type
of Karakurt in the Crimea-not banal met only on Karadag

Yayla has a cooler climate and more precipitation, so the vegetation is green.
The Crimean ground beetle is found in the entire mountain and forest zone of the Crimea, but it is not too often seen. I don't know where it is more or less. But somehow there was a case, in May in the Chernorechensk Canyon, 1 - 2 beetles per hour were caught right on the trail.
Karakurt in the Crimea is very common, but you need to look in the steppe. For example, on Tarkhankut at the end of June 2007, I observed it in the amount of 1-3 pcs/sq. m., there was nowhere to step...
But in general, IMHO, Alupka is not the best place to collect insects. Everything is built up-plowed-trampled-knocked out by hooves, and in August-not the season.

A very late express photo report about a trip to the vicinity of Krasnolesye village, Crimea, on
August 20, 2008. Completed task (Catocala fraxini) and received award (Mormo maura).
(Damage on Mormo maura presumably from bats)

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Sunday, January 25. Route: Grushevka - Sukhoi river Indol-Sycheva balka-Agarmysh – Old Crimea.
In the morning it is a little cool, but soon the sun comes out and quickly warms up to +14. Partly cloudy, calm, I go along the forest road along the Dry Indole riverbed, then, to get a better orientation, I climb the rocks on the starboard side.


View of the Sukhoi Indole river valley.


View of Sycheva Balka.


On the descent to the Indole Valley, snowdrops were found blooming.


The sun is warm on the forest road, and a few ladybirds are basking in the overwintered greenery. Nearby, many Amata nigricornis caterpillars feed on moss.


There are also spiders, a small bug, and a lichen-eating caterpillar (it looks like Cybosia mesomella).

Climbing up Sychevoy gulch I find a good spring, at the top the gulch is flattened out, here begins an almost horizontal beech-oak-hornbeam forest. The sky is gradually overcast, becoming a little cooler. I stop at a large fallen tree, trying to find some animals under the bark. Strange, but there is nothing. At this time, the sky finally tightens, it starts to rain.


Suddenly, I notice a ramshackle hut nearby. Waiting out the rain inside.


I'm starting the ascent to Agarmysh. It starts raining again, but quickly ends, and a rainbow is shining in the sky. I notice a few goose onion blooms under my feet.


View of Maly Agarmysh.


There is still some snow on the Agarmysh ridge. The sun has begun to warm up again, and a dead-eating beetle is basking on the bark.


After a little search on the moss, I find a glacier. I sit down on a thin dry trunk nearby, take a test shot, the trunk breaks, grab my hand for moss with a glacier… It is strange, but the subsequent persistent search for glaciers for some reason does not bring success.


But I find a gorgeous shield bear and a lot of cute little elephants.




In addition, a few other animals were seen during the day – several species of diptera, a couple of species of hymenoptera, cockroaches, cicadas nymphs, flea beetles and several species of spiders.

This post was edited by okoem - 26.01.2009 01: 35

apions from the genus Oxystoma visible

Can anyone name a dead eater?

Can anyone name a dead eater?

Silpha carinata

I wonder where the name Indole came from.

I wonder where the name Indole came from.

http://tourlib.net/statti_tourism/timchenko.htm
"On the north-eastern slopes of the Main Ridge of the Crimean Mountains, the Wet Indol (Su-Indol) and Dry Indol (Kourou-Indol) rivers begin. It is possible that the name "Indole" owes its origin to the ancient road to India, partly passing along the mentioned rivers (Indus-India, el-road)."

This post was edited by okoem - 26.01.2009 16: 54

The Lviv rains in a couple of days licked off all the snow, and I couldn't help but take advantage of it.
+2-4C, First trip in 2009 Lviv region, Mykolaiv district, Opolya hills
Carabus (Procrustes) coriaceus rugifer Kraatz 1 шт.
Carabus (Megodontus) violaceus violaceus Linnaeus, 1758 transition from subspecies andrzejuscii 10 pcs.
Carabus (Platycarabus) irregularis montandoni Buysson, 1882 19шт. Main goal,
Carabus (Eucarabus) arcensis arcensis 5шт.
Carabus (Carpatophilus) linnaei Panzer, 1812 3 pcs.
I came home barely dragging my feet, half-bent with stiff hands, but happy.

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In January, at +2, you can find several dozen ground beetles... Amazing! Were they sitting somewhere under the bark? I want it that way too!!

Thank you all for accepting the previous photo report.
I read entomological forums for a long time, but
I didn't have the opportunity to share my materials and some knowledge. Now I have
the opportunity and additional knowledge that I received thanks to the support and advice
from a regular Okoem member. I would like to express a special Big Thank you to him for this.

And a short spring photo report on the results of fishing and a trip to Prisivashye, Kuyuk-Tuk Island in early May 2008.
(Three nighttime photos are not mine, they were uploaded for viewing after approval. These images are taken in 2008, and there is an annoying error in the camera settings by date).

1. Fishing point




2. Holding a sacred scarab




3. Failed...




4. Approximately in two layers




5. Empusa Sp.




6. Saturnia puri




7. Triphysa phryne




8. Zegris eupheme




9. Phyllognathus silenus (found dead and withered)




10. Spring...


P.S. Okoem, rpanin, Andreas-admiration for your dedication!!!

Thank you, Egorus!
Cool report!
Our people also went to Siwash, but they didn't even see Phryne or Zegris..
We caught the light. but apparently the place was not the same, only a few banals flew in.
Also a phylognathus!
Super!

We caught the light. but apparently the place was not the same, only a few banals flew in.

But here some fireballs are flying, there's nothing special...

but how many ognevok!

4. Approximately in two layers

With half a thousand butterflies and not a single scoop! Megaoblom

This post was edited by barko - 27.01.2009 15: 03

and we had a few scoops and all painfully banal.. It's better to look at such a sight..

Thank you All for your discussions.
Yes, the shovel was small, just a few units, but the mood did not worsen. The scoop
was taken by one of the participants of the trip. I even found one for the first time in the
Kherson region - I can't be more precise. According to scoops, the biggest success is
Mormo Maura, which was caught in the Crimea (see page 43 of this forum).
I was happy with the daily fees. The target was Zegris and Phryne. He ran after
Zegris like a horse at a race. Very fast butterfly and in flight quite difficult to distinguish
among a large number of other species of whiteflies . I also got
a male ginandromorph Phryne - an excellent pair to the female ginandromorph from Okoem (See
the forum about ginandromorphs).
I wasn't bored. Everyone was satisfied.

- MDA....- The spectacle is enchanting! - I've only ever seen Selene rhinos in my life - in mid-October on the Aegean coast in Greece, Argos/Napflio, mating under the streetlight of the strip bar where I spent the night (there was nowhere to live).
- the male was insensible and fell apart on the spare parts during soaking, and the female is very well preserved. - A eupheme in our Stavropol territory is considered very rare (everything is plowed and knocked out by sheep); - their 2nd local population of my fellow countrymen knows only Tikhonov, but hides. "Sorry for the spam," but I couldn't resist commenting...

Yesterday, not far from home, I discovered such a miracle (Apochima flabellaria). I didn't catch it, so I just did a photo shoot. The first butterfly of the season!


This post was edited by okoem - 07.06.2013 22: 56

this is a net!!!1

we had +14 yesterday, the sun came out, there were a couple of bedbugs, all sorts of bee flies.

Zaviduuyuyu!!! Lucky you! No, I'll definitely have to wait until April...

this is a net!!!1

we had +14 yesterday, the sun came out, there were a couple of bedbugs, all sorts of bee flies.

Well, at least we have warmed up... Total -8, yesterday twentysomething all day was....

   Well, at least we have warmed up... Only -8, yesterday was a twenty-day party all day....

We have a warming situation in Kharkiv +5 - +7 S, but they promise a cold snap to minus two, if the weather continues warm for a couple more drops, then I plan to go to the FOREST and look for some ordinary granulatus Carabuses.

yesterday 14, today 10, and tomorrow it is not clear how much.. Or even worse, maybe February will be warm, and in April frosts will hit..
but we will expect the best! It is better to let August be cold than April and May-when the most juice and basic plans!

and we've had -30 for almost a week now!
no insects

strange.. we usually have something crawling in -30

strange.. we usually have something crawling around in -30

Ripper moldavanicus?

Ripper moldavanicus?

f. coldresistantly

12.02.2009 We left,me and Barry to look for beetles in the forest.We drove for an hour by minibus,or rather by bus, then we went back by minibus...Spharischen karabusov not caught...
see..



Boris you can send photos here from your photoaparat

Even next to the snow on the bedding ran one small bug that is not on the mattress (I did not notice it in the stain, only then at one o'clock in the morning I looked in the trash can, in the cotton wool from under the stains).This beetle was active, similar to a swimmer in the shape of the body with a size of 6-8 mm.
I'm going to post you a photo of him.

Have you prepared a cat for the summer?

I'll sort it out and process it... I'll try to post it in the near future. The bug is small, though wet and small, it's hard to understand who.

PS. What's the cat for here?..

I will add a photo-story by Liparus (Artur Shekhovtsov in the world) about a trip to Berminvody (Kharkiv region) on 12.02.2009.

When Arthur called me the night before about a trip to the woods, and even somewhere out of town like in the country - I was even taken aback. Of course, I was sure that nothing could happen in the forest in winter (from the point of view of a "normal" person), and I myself would never go out into the forest at such a time to open a macro-photo season. Last spring, for example, I decided to go to the first photo session only in the last days of March. But then I remembered that it was with him that we went out into the forest at the end of October and we managed to find a dozen beetles then... I had no choice but to trust the insight and energy of this tireless young researcher...
By the way, it should be noted that this is exactly the person who literally dragged me by the hand to the Kharkiv Entomological Society. I also doubted whether I should go there at all, because I'm just a makrushnik, I'm just interested in shooting, I have nothing to do with entomology, because there are supposed to be all sorts of scientists, specialists in their field... "- Come on, everyone is accepted there! And makrushnikov too! Are you interested in insects? Let's go!" He had a hard time persuading me... So I went... And literally on the first day, such legendary people as Gramma V. N., Vovk D. V., Shatrovsky A. G. fell on me "in one bottle". I even talked to them casually, as with ordinary people somewhere on the street... Then I still had little idea who they were. But then I realized and rethought, I experienced a pleasant shock. And I still remember - And if it wasn't for Arthur... So let the country know its little heroes!

I apologize for the lyrical digression, now a little closer to the point... While the large-scale photos are ready, I'll throw a macro a little later in the second batch...
In Berminvody there is a sanatorium near a healing spring. The water in the spring is probably saturated with iron salts, so even the bottom of the stream is all red, covered with"rust"...


The first log we "stuck" to was right next to the spring. There were a few riders and a buzzer.
Next to the sanatorium is a frozen lake.

We headed down the right bank. At first there was a small birch forest, but no fallen trees were visible...

Then, somewhere in the middle of the lake, an oak forest began, and here we already managed to notice both fallen trunks and rotten stumps...



In general, the work started... Arthur worked as a "logger" and collector, I barely had time to shoot everything that came across... It was here that a trio of toddlers came across.



Another bug loomed on the horizon...

Beyond the lake, we later moved to another forest (also mostly oak), where we found a few buzzards and something else... There were also tracks (? some kind of bear), crawled on last year's leaves, for the winter we can say massively, saw 10-15 pieces...

On the "hunt" we spent about 3 hours. The road back lay along the right bank of the lake, along a ploughed field...

Of course, it was hard to switch the camera between two modes all the time (macro and regular large - scale shooting), I don't just twist the wheel, macro makes great demands and settings. Of course, I preferred macro photography, the constant switching made me a little nervous, you'll forget to return something later... In principle, Arthur also took his camera and also managed to click something, but the batteries there were decently hooked... In general, next time you need to remember to arm yourself with two cameras, so as not to wander back and forth.
To be continued... I'll process another macro and post it...

Boris well, my face in the photos came out as if I hadn't really eaten the cookies I bought at the kiosk...black eyes.
And as for the hand pulled out, this is certainly an exaggeration, although on the other hand, thanks to Molbior.ru That's how we met.There are so many people in Kharkiv who are interested in entomology,so we would probably run into each other somewhere.
Thank you for your photos and comments...it is necessary that you take a picture of that active winter bug,I still do not know how to glue it on the die (you need to take a picture of the reverse side).

This post was edited by Liparus - 02/13/2009 19: 28

For barry:
- The tracks were most likely not bears, - but some kind of false mottled Syntomis sp.
- I remember somehow being lucky with the Olympus SP-350 camera (soap dish), which had a very cool "My Mode" function on the disk, - where you could program 4 different shooting modes for various purposes "macro conditions".
- Naturally, with an elementary translation-turning the disk to "A" mode and back, nothing went wrong.
- And on the DSLR, of course, - hemorrhoids! "I understand perfectly...

For barry:
- The caterpillars were most likely not bears, but some kind of false mottled moth Syntomis sp.

It will be - soon I will put a macro...

- I remember once being lucky with an Olympus SP-350 camera (soap dish), which had a very cool "My Mode" function on the disk , where you could program 4 different shooting modes for certain "macro conditions".
- Naturally, with an elementary translation-turning the disk to "A" mode and back, nothing went wrong.
- And on the DSLR, of course, - hemorrhoids! "I understand perfectly...

Yes, I basically have a soap dish (Canon PowerShot A640) from which I try to pull everything that is possible. I use the CHDK firmware. There, RAW is enabled. Shooting with flash - I use a certain perversion from the CHDK to get a soft adjustment of the flash in semi-automatic modes (this is not available in the factory version). Again, the white balance needs to be adjusted due to the flash... i.e. a lot of actions are required to move from one to the other.

Again, the white balance needs to be adjusted due to the flash... i.e. a lot of actions are required to move from one to the other.

I remember your little squares of flowers...collectors probably don't have enough patience for this to not only shoot,but also set up,and in addition to this, catch everything with a net.
Karapuzik super and staphylin cool http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=133597&st=5400

Berminvody 12.02.2009 (continued).

1. Zhuzhelitsa in her winter "apartment".

2.

3.

4.

5.

6. The Hololepta plana toddler.

7.

8.

9.

10. Some cockroach.

11. Naezniki came across most often. By the way, just in "Hymenoptera" on a definition like this lies now (from kut)...

12.

13. The only available staphylin.

14. Two-point ladybug.

15.

16.

17. Something super-small. I can't imagine...

18. Zuzhelitsa affected by a fungus...

19. Some kind of ground beetle like Rhyparochromus phoeniceus...

20. Dolycoris baccarum. The picture was taken only from below, when I turned it over - it fell off the trunk, but on the fly I managed to notice that the color of the back does not seem to contradict the berry shield, and judging by the stubble and striped mustache, it can hardly be anyone else.

21.

22.

23.

24.A plant for processing dust... Not a single unnecessary detail.

25.


This post was edited by barry - 02/13/2009 20: 58

Barry, Liparus: delicious as told, thank you!

I went out into the field last Tuesday, it was a very sunny day after a snowfall, in the shade of -2; since I'm not particularly interested in beetles, I didn't look for them, but small diptera flew in the sun-warmed areas.

under number 17 nogohvostka