Crimea, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova

It is so pleasing when it is winter outside, and at home there are parts of summer
My first Hyles gallii came out on December 18

Did I finally get Pyrgus pupated today ?armoricanus.



And a female Colias alfacariensis came out
Doll, a few hours before the release.



The female.

Fishing report.
December 24, steppe east of Feodosia, Kamyshinsky Meadow tract.
Sunny, +11, wind about 5-6 m/s. In a fairly large (for December) quantity, the dandelion medicinal plant blooms and bears fruit. Within a few hours of the tour, we managed to find three species of scoop caterpillars (including several Xestia trifida), one mikra caterpillar, a cow, a small ground beetle, large barbel larvae in thistle stalks, a bee, bedbugs, two types of flies, as well as cicadas, spiders, haymakers, vipers and various tiny jumping and crawling insects a small change.

Dandelion officinale Taraxacum officinale




An unknown dustpan extracted from a dry thistle stalk.



Ground bug ?Taphropeltus sp. Raglius alboacuminatus det. Boris Loboda (barry)



Haymaker


?Babbling water



An attentive viewer will also see the Xestia trifida caterpillar in the pictures

This post was edited by okoem - 12/24/2009 23: 23

An attentive viewer will also see the Xestia trifida caterpillar in the pictures [/color]

Of course, we looked at the first photo at the very bottom. Did you purposefully search for Trifida or was it accidentally caught in the lens?

I had a similar case this spring. I took a picture of irises in the dark and already at home on the monitor I saw two caterpillars of scoops that accidentally fell into the frame. True, this is just Xestia c-nigrum.

Pictures:

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Did you purposefully search for Trifida or was it accidentally caught in the lens?

I noticed it when I was photographing dandelion.
As for the search, I wanted to find anything but her. Our trifida is one of the most common scoops, like a caterpillar or a butterfly.

Fishing report.
December 24, steppe east of Feodosia, Kamyshinsky Meadow tract.

Bug like Raglius alboacuminatus.

December 25, near Feodosia, Dvuyakornaya dolina.
The weather is simply magnificent - partly cloudy in the morning and evening, clear in the afternoon, wind about 4 m / s, temperature +14 in the shade; in the sun, the thermometer sometimes warmed up to +22.
Plants: Almost no flowering plants were found, only one small umbrella plant unknown to me, recently faded Linum marschallianum flax (or Linum tenuifolium?), and a couple of inflorescences of the Polygala major fruit.
Mushrooms: Oyster mushroom steppe, ryadovka gray, buttermilk and several other species unknown to me.
Slime molds: Fuligo septica - plentiful.
Animals: One specimen of butterflies. Depressaria velox. Caterpillars of Lasiommata megera, Euroctis chrysorrhoea (in nests), Cryphia raptricula, + two species of scoops. Covers of Apterona helicoidella, obsolete Canephora hirsuta and Eumelasina pliginskii. Several species of diptera, bedbugs, a couple of species of eardrums, two pieces of dragonflies Sympecma fusca (of which one specimen). flying, the second was found under a rock), ladybug (?), firefly larvae, bristle-tails, millipede, karakurt cocoons, spiders (in assortment), haymakers, land mollusks (in assortment), lizard Lacerta taurica, mushroom pickers (in assortment).

Biotopes








Depressaria velox Staudinger, 1859



Bee



A cow?



A very small animal, I forget its name...

kollembola cool)

Today I found it in my entryway...

Hypena rostralis (Linnaeus, 1761)



Unknown to me gelechiida - I do not remember that I would have met such a person before... Here it is, a New Year's gift

Today I found out in my entrance ...
Unknown to me gelechiida - I do not remember that I would have met such a person before... Here it is, a New Year's gift

Helcystogramma sp.

  Helcystogramma sp.

Well then apparently Helcystogramma triannulella.

Well then apparently Helcystogramma triannulella.

It's possible - but it's better to cook it.

December 25, near Feodosia, Dvuyakornaya dolina.

In your report, it was nice to see places that are familiar to me, even though I live 1.5 thousand km away from you.The last time I was there was in August last year.Approximately in those days when the 3rd congress of the forum was held, to the left of the army locators (white "balls" in the photo ),the slope burned,reaching almost to the military unit.At the same time, I was catching from the opposite side of the locators and watching the "smoke front"coming at me.And forumchane drunk and changed at the congress.
Here are such vital interweavings... And in June, there is a riot of insect life in your places!

Not exactly about fishing, but still here's what I managed to collect in 2009 with my own and other people's hands

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Bravo, RippeR!!! And where is your biggest trophy of last year - Rosalia alpina?

Was it just my imagination, or are there sometimes more than one instance of some kind in each box?
If it's not, then I'm not paying attention
If this is so, then I want to understand for myself why this is done, why it is impossible to represent 1 individual of each species, if the species does not have sexual dimorphism?

This post was edited by Violet Tricolor - 18.01.2010 12: 26

I didn't think so.
I used to put 1-2 beetles each, until I realized (after I was told and saw it myself) that each species has differences, there is variability. To work with some species, 1 beetle is not enough, since even fairly stable species are variable. To understand the situation with the view and how it looks, how it differs from others, in any case, you need a series.
And even more so, how to write an article or identify stable signs, and at the same time write in the article - 2 specimens from the collection were examined? 0_o
At the same time, the populations do not suffer, the beetles are not offended, so you need to use this..

Was it just my imagination, or are there sometimes more than one instance of some kind in each box?
If it's not, then I'm not paying attention
If this is so, then I want to understand for myself why this is done, why it is impossible to represent 1 individual of each species, if the species does not have sexual dimorphism?

Well, actually, in a serious collection (even an amateur one), views are mounted and presented as a series if possible. There are many reasons for this - individual variability, collecting instances of the same species from different locations, and more and more... But I don't think it's appropriate to discuss this issue here. If you have a desire - then you are here http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtop...50&#entry994202

Was it just my imagination, or are there sometimes more than one instance of some kind in each box?
If it's not, then I'm not paying attention
If this is so, then I want to understand for myself why this is done, why it is impossible to represent 1 individual of each species, if the species does not have sexual dimorphism?

Several copies may be in the collection for different reasons (different points, "series" , etc.). And in the end, just "in reserve". I now regret that I absolutely do not have an exchange fund (on the forum recently and therefore did not take care at the time). I will make up for my regrets (when the season starts)
I have another question for Andrey: I see Oberea pupillata Gyllenhal, 1817
there. It's just that I found it in the mass once in 1996 and in one place-I never came across it again.

by order - the main trophies of the year

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Oh, there are no words!!! I convulsed with delight!!!

I have another question for Andrey: I see Oberea pupillata Gyllenhal, 1817
there. It's just that I found it in the mass once in 1996 and in one place-I never came across it again.

In the Yaroslavl region, I personally know three locations where it was reliably collected (two of them by me personally) Oberea pupillata. By the way, according to my observations, it is easier to find it in settlements on honeysuckle, from the end of May (in the "warm" year) and in June, and it comes across quite massively, if there is any. Elizar and I collected it on honeysuckle in the center of Yaroslavl, in my native Rostov...

This post was edited by Dmitrich - 18.01.2010 13: 17

vasiliy-feoktistov:
I have never caught pupillat here. There are a couple from the Moscow region from Archypus and a couple from the Yaroslavl region from Vlasov, for which I thank them very much!

In the Yaroslavl region, I personally know three locations where it was reliably collected (two of them by me personally) Oberea pupillata. By the way, according to my observations, it is easier to find it in settlements on honeysuckle, from the end of May (in the "warm" year) and in June, and it comes across quite massively, if there is any. Elizar and I collected it on honeysuckle in the center of Yaroslavl, in my native Rostov...

Thanks! There is a honeysuckle landing there (along the railway platform). I was waiting for an electric train, and along the way I picked it up. I'll go there this year and take a look (already purposefully).

Ripper, high-quality, beautiful, healthy, with a soul.Zdorovskaya collection-bugs class.
Rhozalia alpina in Lagodekhi (Georgia) quite a lot-I'm not a bug hunter-was there in 1987.At first, the first specimen was found-a crushed female on a tourist trail-tourists in the USSR were taken for a walk near the city.The kid was still-I met there with the residents of St. Petersburg-an expedition from ZIN for moths.They caught the light-I hung out with them at night.They were engaged in Microlepidoptera-I snatched a big one from under the lamp.But krupnyaka almost nebylo-brazhnikov suellus then caught the first time.

there are more alpinas in the Caucasus - the mountain beetle.. But we have always had a rare alpina-I know only a few catches, and maybe just a couple... and since the 80's, not a single reliable find.

Not exactly about fishing, but still here's what I managed to collect in 2009 with my own and other people's hands

and where is babochge?

come on they are

oh. not up to the butterflies yet.. the pins haven't reached me yet. so I didn't do much straightening.. and goluyanok part posted)

But we have always had a rare alpina-I know only a few catches, and maybe just a couple... and since the 80's, not a single reliable find.

A small clarification: now there is a reliable find, and it is yours-2009! Congratulations again!

Special thanks for alpina!

Ripper: And how was Rosalie alpina collected (method)???

For Ripper: By the way, Andrey, restore (by editing) the photos in the report on Rosalia's catch from 01.07.09.
(page 65, for easier search.)

This post was edited by Egorus-22.01.2010 00: 37

Of course, there are photos. Why restore it? Have they been removed? I think it doesn't make much sense to restore it - rarely anyone looks into the distance, but if there is an interest in some photos, then no problem )

They (photos) were not removed. Just during that period, Molbiol failed, and then moved.
Today, everything has stabilized. Sometimes you need to review the old in order to
plan a new one. So give me half an hour...

I noticed it in my apartment today...

Chrysoesthia sexguttella (Thunberg, 1794)

Like the reports of Polish colleagues about fishing in the Crimea.
Auto-translated link to Russian - krymskie robale 2009

February 21, 2010, neighborhood of Feodosia, Tepe-Oba.
I decided to take a walk, check how Lycia zonaria is doing , look for Cryphia raptricula caterpillars, and also conduct sea trials of the macro lens I recently purchased.
The weather for the second half of February is quite cold: +11, overcast, wind about 7 m / s-there are few animals.
Adults were found: Lycia zonaria, Plutella xylostella, Emmelina monodactyla.
Caterpillars: Cryphia raptricula, Cryphia muralis, Cryphia ?algae, Aporophyla sp., Amata nigricornis.
In addition: flies, spiders, ticks, haymakers, cicadas, small staphylins, small strange beetle, horsemen, wingless female sawfly Dolerus ciliatus, ants, mollusks, hare, fox.


Nepomnju nazvanie



Lycia zonaria



Plutella xylostella



Emmelina monodactyla



Micro-population of the folded snowdrop-it seems that this is the first find of the species for the city of Tepe-Oba!



Biotope. In the foreground - this is what happens to the steppe with excessive grazing.



Ballus depressus



A very small bug unknown to me



Cryphia muralis



Cryphia raptricula



Cryphia ?algae



Some mushrooms...

Unknown to me is a very small beetle
Leiodidae. Godyaschiy bug, yes.

I noticed such a small (10 mm) bug today right near my house, on the asphalt...