Crimea, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova

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14.04.2007 21:53, RippeR

It was yesterday, and it was in the Goyans.
The day was clear.
Polixenki flew out, there was just a sea of Boloria dia, there were leptidae, daplidica, zorki, napi, rapi, podalirii, malve, tages and karkarodus alce, as well as celastrinci. I was driving in the hope of finding chloridica, duponheli, but I didn't see anything like it.. Probably in this place they have already died (there are too many cattle and garbage due to the proximity to the village

), and butterflies are too rare for us.
From the beetles, I found an interesting weevil, similar to brachycerus, but with a knee-length mustache. I found a huge female dorcadion fulvum - as much as 22 mm! There are also a lot of small ground beetles, a couple of dead eaters, small staphylinids, and a bunch of other small things. From the interesting - ground beetle Elaphrus. I don't know the name of the species - they were so green, they ran along the river bank.

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20.04.2007 11:30, Musson max

Today I returned from a 2-day business trip to the Crimea. The weather, of course, is the last thing that pleased me there. It's sunny in the morning, and it's already pouring rain in the afternoon, and even if you crack.
I was lucky to visit Feodosia once again, but because of the cold wind that continued throughout the day, I didn't see anything.
On the second day I went to the west of the Crimea, to the village of Orlovka, which is near Sevastopol. The sun was shining in the first half of the day and I was lucky to find time and spend half an hour doing my favorite thing, catching butterflies. I chose a pleasant slope with flowering grasses in the direction of Orlovka, parked my car and hurried to catch up before the sun disappeared behind the approaching thunderclouds.
So to the point. A cloud of whiteflies was flying on the slope, from which I picked up a small number of cabbage leaves, cute rutabagas and turnips, and also some kind of yolk flew, but I was never lucky enough to sing it. There were a lot of bees and huge bumblebees, one of which I immediately warmed up in the jar. Well, the culmination of all this was the capture of absolutely awesome, from the still cold wind, Podaliri, who did not even resist when I caught him. Here are the cases. I was not very happy with Crimea during these days

I will definitely post a photo when I spread it out.
I hope for the next time, and I will go to the Crimea at the end of May, I still managed to catch both boyareshnits and polixen and maybe something else interesting. Thank you for reading my outpouring.

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27.04.2007 20:19, RippeR

Today, my next trip to the place, Kapriany, was successfully completed.
It all started quite well-sunny, almost windless, not far from the beginning of the path caught an interesting, elongated bee beetle, and maybe something else..
Then we caught some interesting riders and moved on. Kakalada had a lot of lunar copres, it was just teeming with them, some of them had dozens of them, or maybe more (I didn't count). Then Shastik caught potocia eruginosa, a good specimen! There were no more Aruginos to be seen

After walking around different places, we came to the clearing site. Under the logs there were a lot of small zhuzhals, dead-eaters. Climbing higher, I found one Anagliptus, a large, black one. Then we went for a walk, see what's where. On large white flowers on the bushes sat aurats, though not much, but there was also something interesting-something like Hoplia parvula, but brown in color, with a golden-brownish coating, shiny, with 2 brown krugleshkami at the end of the elytra (formed by the lack of spraying..). I decided to get out a sheet and try out the dusting method - very successfully! The first thing I came across - pogonocherus hispidus! Then a lot of curculio, small weevils, some trubkoverts, leaf eaters, platycerus, dead eater 4-point, antaxia, etc., etc. fell down.
While I was walking around this clearing, I saw a flying black beetle and caught it with a sheet, and it turned out to be Callimus angulatus.
Of the butterflies, there was little interesting - there was 1 poderty podalirium, a little celastrin, parargium egeria.
I wanted to find some interesting dorcas, but I didn't meet a drop of these animals

, but I found a lot of other interesting things

Special thanks to all the molbiolovtsam, with the help of which I learned that you can shake off during the day, who where and when

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02.05.2007 1:32, RippeR

30.04.07. Sarato-Meresheny, 16 degrees Celsius, wind, partly cloudy..
we found 1 dorkash fulvum, there were a few kravchegs, a few ocipus and small zhuzhals.
Butterflies flew: arachnia levana, Neptis sappho, 1 colias chiala, 1 erata (male), 3 glaucopsiha alexis, 1 everes argiades (beautiful female - a lot of blue), 1 everes decoloratus (male), many hamearis lucinus, many tages, little zorek, a little boloria dia
In the forest there were many geotrups sterkorosus, and also (which I saw for the first time in such numbers, although I thought it would be good to catch 10) - geotrupes vernalis! I caught a lot of people who need to exchange - let me know right away - I'll put it off for you, otherwise I'll exchange everything and then it won't happen..

03.05.2007 19:02, RippeR

today from Rasen.
It sucked.. mostly one small thing - among them Acrocinus longimanus, Glenea sp, Dynastes gideon, etc.

In general, all the usual butterflies: more interesting - sappho, Hamearis lucina, caught 5 females Zorek, a couple of them zhirnenkie such..
In that place last year there were a lot of dorcadions: a lot of tauricum, a lot of cinerariums, enough fulvums, and in the 3rd semester

I immediately found 1 fulvum, about 7 taurs, and others were not visible.. A strange year, though.. I also rummaged through a bunch of you-know-what, but I didn't find any traces of geotrups

But on the logs I filled up 1 callimus angulatus and 2 pyrrhidiums, then I found another 1 on the tree. Interestingly, I found 1 Cerambix scopoli on flowers, which, I think, is very early for him.. Although.. it's already May. There are 2 phytoecia pustulata on the plants.
I checked the traps - there was 1 carabus (I didn't understand who it was yet, but something like excelens or kmpestris (I noticed small holes)), 1 black nikroforus (which is like Germanicus, only small) and Laemostenus (Pristonychus) terricola (I wonder if it's rare, and even interesting?)
Well, I don't even want to mention the Bubas bison nonsense

I put more traps for barbels - I wanted to put 4, the azt mixture was only enough for 3, and there was only enough time for 2.. As always

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07.05.2007 22:48, RippeR

on light, night 4-5, Serata-Meresheny:
Biston betularius - 1 piece
something gray like Boarmia repandata-1 piece (smaller type)
Calliteara pudibunda - ~8-10
Neognopharmia stevenaria-looks like it.. 1 large piece
of Selenia lunularia - in my opinion it is, 1 large piece
of Ligdia adustata-hike on that.. a couple or maybe her.. Lyncometra ocellata (although rather 1 option)
in my opinion a couple of Ochropleura plecta
still some couple of types of shovels..
Pheosia tremula or Pheosia dictaeoides - 1 piece
Pygaera curtula - 1 piece
Notodonta ziczac - 1 piece
Cilix glaucata - 2 pieces

there were also interesting pyadenichki pure light gray color, without anything else, small.. Well, and some other nasty stuff, it's a pity that I don't understand all this

By the way, the melolonts flew to the light and even 1 female copra deigned to appear!
Not much, yes..

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12.05.2007 21:36, RippeR

Today was a good day for fishing.. Now only a piece of the catch (no time), and then I'll finish it.
In general, I caught a lot of 3 types of hoplias. 1-philanthus (approx. 12 pieces) 2-the hoplia that I caught in Caprians (like phyllanthus, only with greenish dustings (there are 2 spots behind the elytra where there is no dusting)) (3 pcs) and 3-trivialis (4 pieces).
So I wanted to know specifically about trivialis. Is it a rare species, and how rare is it???? Just try to find out how much to keep for yourself

Hoplias flew near flowers (1 strange, 3 phyllanthus and 1 trivialis) and near hawthorn, the rest of the piles were at one strange tree with white flowers, there were hundreds of them, only my net did not allow me to get so high.. I had to jump a lot, throw sticks, wait for someone to fly lower.. Still, I coped with the task, how much came out.. Maybe I'll catch some tomorrow, too

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Coming soon fotki

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