Crimea, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova

Stenolophus - 4.5 mm? It's not enough...

Well, if 4.5 mm is not enough, of course. I just didn't see where it was written.

.. very small beetles (seem to be near ants)
http://www.kerbtier.de/cgi-bin/index.cgi

I understand that you have seen beetles of the Anthicidae family. In Russian, they are called bystryanki.

This post was edited by AlexEvs - 04.04.2009 18: 51

I understand that you have seen beetles of the Anthicidae family. In Russian, they are called bystryanki.

No!!!!!two beetles from the Scydmaenidae family ,and two more from the fam. Palps (Pselaphidae)

Send a photo to the studio!

to Liparus
I fully support Fornax, let's take photos! Interesting beetles are found under the bark of a pear tree in the vicinity of the village. Pokotilovka.

Send a photo to the studio!

photo at the top two last

to Liparus
I fully support Fornax, let's take photos! Interesting beetles are found under the bark of a pear tree in the vicinity of the village. Pokotilovka.

Well, maybe I exaggerated, but why write all the details!You still don't know such a village and such a wild pear

photo at the top two last

Are you sure this is exactly what's in the pictures?
If the male scidmenus hellwigi is still quite characteristic (with its head), then with batrizodes - a pipe, even if there is material...

This post was edited by Fornax13-04.04.2009 20: 46

Are you sure this is exactly what's in the pictures?
If the male scidmenus hellwigi is still quite characteristic (with its head), then with batrizodes - a pipe, even if there is material...

as for the top one, my head is the same...100% unsure...in the future I will ask you to take a picture of Barry

A trip with Liparus to Pokotilovka (south of Kharkiv).


Endomychus coccineus



Vest


Glischrochilus quadriguttatus





Some subjects of an incomprehensible genus-tribe...



Lemongrass is the first in this season and the second in the third season of filming. I managed to take only two shots, but I didn't reach the point of shooting up to the plane of the wing - just a shadow would have fallen...


A new bug that I haven't seen before, up to 5 mm (? earth shield)...


What an April without reddens...


The shovel was tormented for at least half an hour, then it will fly over (it's good at least nearby, it was a little malacholic), then it will climb under the leaves...

Chernotelka cool...was
Platydema violacea is similar.

Chernotelka cool...was
Platydema violacea is similar.

Which one is higher than Aphodius? Liparus snatched the one that was running right out from under my nose. I left this one here...

Well yeah..

A trip with Liparus to Pokotilovka (south of Kharkiv)...
Some subjects of an incomprehensible genus-tribe...

Gee, barry, these subjects are the larvae of the Microdon babbling flies, the strangest and most mysterious of all! Put it right in the alcohol and immediately Irina Lezhenina (Liparus knows her for sure, judging by a number of posts) in the HEO! Recently, twins have been found in this genus, which are well defined only by larvae. You never know what, maybe a new look for the former USSR...
By the way, the larvae of this genus were originally described as land mollusks. Doesn't it look like it? They all live in anthills.

By the way, barry-pictures - just takes a shiver! Super!

Gee, barry, these subjects are the larvae of the Microdon babbling flies, the strangest and most mysterious of all! Put it right in the alcohol and immediately Irina Lezhenina (Liparus knows her for sure, judging by a number of posts) in the HEO! Recently, twins have been found in this genus, which are well defined only by larvae. You never know what, maybe a new look for the former USSR...
By the way, the larvae of this genus were originally described as land mollusks. Doesn't it look like it? They all live in anthills.

Of course, I know Irina Pavlovna, and we communicate more or less regularly. It is a pity that she did not enlighten me in this direction, of course I would have taken...
For a long time they puzzled over what it could be... They were under the bark of an oak tree, and there seemed to be ants too. My first thought was that there were some kind of mushrooms. But all of them are almost the same size, and we met 2-3 clusters of 5 pieces ... That is, in theory, the difference in the caps of a mushroom colony should be at this amount... But then it turned out that these subjects are not attached to the trunk, but simply lie on it, mushrooms by themselves without roots, without attachment - another oddity... Shellfish? - some are not particularly slimy and "wet"... The larvae are someone's-it doesn't look like much either, like there are no legs, no head, no body segmentation, they don't move, they don't contract. In general, I had an idea yesterday-that this is something vegetable, such as mushroom... or segments of seeds or fruits of some kind...
We just left them on the trunk, we only came across one, I remember about where it is, maybe they'll put it under the bark - they can crawl at least? Or maybe they'll dry out in the sun... I don't know when we'll get out, or if we'll get there...

To Barry: And Mike-Meloe proscarabaeus.

Of course, I know Irina Pavlovna, and we communicate more or less regularly. It is a pity that she did not enlighten me in this direction, of course I would have taken it...

Big greetings to Irina Pavlovna ! Microdon larvae are really only related to tree ants. Your story suggested that these are either pupae (puparia) or larvae of the last instar that have crawled out for pupation. They're not sprinters, but they can crawl. By the way, they are predators, they have sharp stilettos of the oral apparatus sticking out from under the front edge (the head is in the opposite place from the breathing tubes on the ass). Previously, it was believed that they are cadaverous and saprophages, but more and more data indicate that they still predate on the brood of goosebumps. It is a pity that it was not possible to collect - it was possible to try to withdraw. Microdon imago with a pinned-up puparium, and even with ants, is an infrequent thing in collections, although the flies themselves are quite common in places (with careful fishing or mowing, you can take several specimens from the spot). They live in nests of Formica and Lasius. Years are unusually short for babblers - about two weeks. Month of May.

Chernotelka cool...was
Platydema violacea is similar.

there were two of them, one alive!I threw it out too
I didn't know that it was cool (one is dead, and the second with dents on the elytra) thank God there are two normal ones on the dies from last year...according to my observations, they ate porcini mushrooms under the oak bark (I saw 6 pieces on a fallen piece of wood overgrown with mushrooms)

This post was edited by Liparus-04/05/2009 21: 19

Cool pictures you get...generally tinplate

there were two of them, one alive!I threw it out too          
I didn't know that it was cool (one is dead, and the second with dents on the elytra) thank God there are two normal ones on the dies from last year...according to my observations, they ate porcini mushrooms under the oak bark (I saw 6 pieces on a fallen piece of wood overgrown with mushrooms)

Well, for the center of ETR is more than cool. It doesn't reach us at all, only P in the St. region. dejeanii lives.

This post was edited by Fornax13-06.04.2009 00: 50

Barry, what do you shoot with? Here without a macrolens like not done?

Barry, what do you shoot with? Here without a macrolens like not done?

Yes, a couple of macro converters are Marumi Achomat Macro (+5) and Raynox DCR - 250 (~+7.5). Trifle in the last few days I try through the inverted Helios 44-2 (red-bodied tick and the like).
Tests are available on my website:
http://barry.fotopage.ru/test/index.htm
Flash diffuser:
http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/barrylbm/view/35346?page=0
Very rarely, under the mood, I shoot it from a tripod (in the last batch, the last scoop is on the side, the previous one on the barrel is with a flash). Natural light and colors certainly can't be replaced, but everyone mostly runs around, and there's a lot more time and noise with a tripod, and you can't fit everywhere... and Liparus next to the trunk of an axe hammers-all head over heels scattered in all directions. In general, you need to work quickly...

Yes, a couple of macro converters are Marumi Achomat Macro (+5) and Raynox DCR - 250 (~+7.5). Trifle in the last few days I try through the inverted Helios 44-2 (red-bodied tick and the like).
Tests are available on my website:
http://barry.fotopage.ru/test/index.htm
Flash diffuser:
http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/barrylbm/view/35346?page=0
Very rarely, under the mood, I shoot it from a tripod (in the last batch, the last scoop is on the side, the previous one on the barrel is with a flash). Natural light and colors certainly can't be replaced, but everyone mostly runs around, and there's a lot more time and noise with a tripod, and you can't fit everywhere... and Liparus next to the trunk of an axe hammers-all head over heels scattered in all directions. In general, you need to work quickly...

I have a PowerShot A610.
I wanted to ask, how is the macro converter attached to the lens ? And in what well-known Ukrainian network can you buy it ? And if you can, tell us more about the technology. I think that this will be interesting for many people.
Preferably in the subject of Insect Images -- receiving, processing, etc.
http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=264902
Thank you in advance.

This post was edited by rpanin - 06.04.2009 17: 20

I wandered with my daughter through the forest near Gomel, talked about wintering insects
and explored the oak forest. Under the bark of dry oaks there were a lot of rather large ground beetles (in previous years I did not see anything like this in those places).
Unfortunately, I am far from beetles.... Probably something very rare...

Not like that, by any chance?
http://barry.fotopage.ru/gallery/show_imag...11907&catalog=1

Today, on April 7
, there were four of us in Kharkiv at about +20:I, Barry, Kharkovbut and Alexander Ilyich (I don't know under what nickname he is on the site) we went on a mini expedition
In general, we went to a mixed forest

Caught about 15 species of beetles, of which one staphylin Ocupus sp. (the second one also ran away from me after the next Barry photo shoot), a couple of weevils from the genus Polyudrus and many other cool things.

From spiders caught kakgoto spider mimicking a red ant (it will be necessary in the future to debug the photo )
I saw a small tsykadku, looked closely and before my eyes it turned into a predatory bug (the body shape and color are incredibly similar to the tsykada) and he also jumped
and I picked up a couple of false scorpions (under the bark of mountain ash)

From butterflies flew:pavltiniy eye, male lemongrass, anglewort and spring moth (birch) that I managed to catch with a net of Alexander Ilyich and give it to him for home shooting.

A lot of flies and bees,cool bee photographed Barry, unfortunately after the second frame it flew away

I wandered with my daughter through the forest near Gomel, talked about wintering insects
and explored the oak forest. Under the bark of dry oaks there were a lot of rather large ground beetles (in previous years I did not see anything like this in those places).
Unfortunately, I am far from beetles.... Probably something very rare...

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.... Probably something very rare...

Yes no banal Karabus granulatus but the first frame is cool-a whole grupa

Today, on April 7
, there were four of us in Kharkiv at about +20:I, Barry, Kharkovbut and Alexander Ilyich (I don't know under what nickname he is on the site) we went on a mini expedition
In general, we went to a mixed forest

Something from today's trip...

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Power in Volgograd!!! It's June, not April!!!1
...
And why do Valery's granulates give off a helene color? 0_O I haven't seen anything like this before..

Yes Volgograd immensely pleases... They would have shared the barbels with us...

As for carbuses-I think I recently read in "green" that cancellatus and granulatus can be with a greenish or bluish tint. Just do not think anything bad, I certainly do not understand anything about them, they just often come across and I decided to look at what they write about them for interest... Although it may be just such processing of photos.

  
As for carbuses-I think I recently read in "green" that cancellatus and granulatus can be with a greenish or bluish tint. Just do not think anything bad, I certainly do not understand anything about them, they just often come across and I decided to look at what they write about them for interest... Although it may be just such processing of photos.

Half is really green-tinged. The second half is a bronze shade. Blue - none.

Finally managed to leave 6 and 8 near Kiev, near Vita Pochtovaya, deciduous forest (N50°18,918’, E030°24,373’), from 20-00 to 22-00, DRV lamps 250, clear, temperature 6-+11,8-+6,
The first day of the year is very good, the second is weaker.
Result-
Wintered areas

more than 20 copies.
transversa
C. vaccinii

singly(1-2 copies)
C. ligula
C. rubiginea
L. socia
L. ornitopus (like a widespread butterfly, but I caught it for the first time-I can't see where I caught it)
S.libatrix

Spring
10-20 specimens
O. cruda
O. cerasi
C. leucographa

up to 10 copies
O. incerta
O. gothica
A. munda

E. crepuscularia
A. aescularia
A. leucophaearia
A. hispidaria
L. pomonaria(one specimen, except for the Crimea, the last recorded find in this region was in 1914)

types of 6 micro

Addition to the latest report on April 7
, there were locust ants and some larvae under an aspen log. I thought that the larvae were sirfid flies, so I suggested that barry take a picture of
him here.
what is it?

Liparus is aphids and ants are Lasius flavus

Liparus, this is aphids, and ants-Lasius flavus

Are you sure it's aphids? I think aphids are much different from these,or is it some kind of aphid?

Are you sure it's aphids? I think aphids are much different from these,or is it some kind of aphid?

Aphids, aphids... By the way, sirphid larvae have no legs. However, as well as at other flies. Maggots.

Kiev area, near Kruglyk, 12.04.09 (N50°19 '02’, E030°25' 46’), from 20-00 to 22-00, cloudy +12. Mixed forest with a predominance of deciduous trees.
Good flight, moth flew. Lamps 2 DRV 250 and attributed meters to 70 UVL 8 watts, which is interesting pyadenitsy 7,10,14 flew only on it, scoops did not fly on it.
Here is the result

1-Ligdia adustata
2-Selenia dentaria
3-S. tetralunaria
4-Apocheima hispidaria
5-A.pilosaria
6-Agriopis leucophaearia
7-A. marginaria
8-Ectropis crepuscularia
9-Xanthorhoe biriviata
10-Anticlea derivatа
11-Chloroclysta siterata
12-Gymnoscelis rufifasciata
13-Trichopteryx carpinata
14-Acasis viretata

15-Polyploca ridens

16-E.transversa
17-C.vaccinii
18-L.ornitopus
19-O.cruda
20-O.gothica
21-O.cerasi
22-A.munda
23-P.flammea
24-C.leucographa
25-N.revayana

There are ten micro types, this one in a large number

Gymnoscelis rufifasciata


This post was edited by svm2 - 13.04.2009 11: 14

Went out yesterday in the woods near the house. All from under the bark...
Carabus granulatus. Did someone order green?

Ampedus sp. In the dust of an oak tree.

Some kind of staphylin from a rotten tree stump.

I had to drive for half an hour, until I finally drove it to the leaf. At least a little bit of dust, but at least so..

Rhagium inquisitor. I was sitting under the bark of a pine tree. He behaved quite quietly, willingly posed. I spent more than an hour with it...

Went out yesterday in the woods near the house. All from under the bark...
Carabus granulatus. Did someone order green?

- So et, - not "green" - bronze! - also cool, - but someone (I don't remember who) - put out directly emerald-blue!!!
- We have them on KMV all brown with a slightly greenish or ruby sheen.
- I don't understand even... - Raghia has ticks between the breast and elytra, - or are there scales like that?

This post was edited by Andreas - 04/15/2009 11: 00