Crimea, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova

cute elephant

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

slonko is generally cool. I haven't seen any of these

Today I went for a walk to the garbage wasteland near my house. Here are the results.

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

The elephant seems to be really endemic Nastus. very good beetles, I did not come across yet

Today I went for a walk to the garbage wasteland near my house. Here are the results.

Hypera postica elephant type

Today I went for a walk to the garbage wasteland near my house. Here are the results.

Vladimir, the fly - just like a year ago - is a male Cheilosia grossa (Diptera, Syrphidae). This is a spring view and last year you shot the earliest copy in all collections. This species has been flying since March (23. III. 1980 - earliest specimen). was). I don't remember the date of last year's ex-ra.

Vladimir, the fly - just like a year ago - is a male Cheilosia grossa (Diptera, Syrphidae). This is a spring view and last year you shot the earliest copy in all collections. This species has been flying since March (23. III. 1980 - earliest specimen). was). I don't remember the date of last year's exam.

Thanks! But in my opinion, these two flies are different. They are differently colored, one has a red belly, the chest is black, the second has the opposite, and another has eyes together, the second is divided.
(Last year-March 16.)

this is usually the case with males - they have larger eyes. But I'm in the flies-zero

This post was edited by omar - 02/25/2010 20: 26

Coastal coastal cliffs to the east of Feodosia and the adjacent steppe. Warm, sunny, quiet, the sea is noisy-grace! But there are practically no animals. Well, at least I got some sun...

Kollembola warms your back in the sun



Skakunchik



Rod-shaped Neides sp.



Pupa, it looks like Glaucopsyche alexis - in this case, a new species for this locale and even for a somewhat remote neighborhood.



It looks like some kind of overgrown leatherworm.



Well, a very small elephant, 1.5...2 mm
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this is usually the case with males - they have larger eyes. But I'm in the flies-zero

That's right-males have their eyes "together", females have "separate" eyes....

Yes, it is most likely Cheilosia grossa (Fallen 1817). Female (2009) and male (2010). If it were a different region, I would hesitate to identify it from the photo, but I know the Crimean sirfid fauna well - only grossa has such a look...

Today was a very special day for me. Three events coincided – good weather, I don't have to go to school, and I don't have to go to work. This is my first time doing this this year! I arrived at the train station, got on the Simferopol-Alushta trolleybus at 6: 50' and dozed off for an hour... The hike started from the Angarsk Pass (8: 00’). The goal is to "storm" Chatyrdag from the eastern slope. Snowdrops are growing everywhere

Almost immediately I came across a flock (20 pieces) of loud and restless jays (Garrulus glandarius). Crimean jays are classified as an endemic subspecies-G. g. iphigenia.

Usually I go on the trail, but today I decided to go up "straight ahead". From time to time there were paths along the way, and on the side of one of them I noticed a tree with strange markings:

Almost every ravine has a different stream volume, all of which drain into the Angara River, which then flows into the Salgir River.

The climb was quite long due to the steep slope covered with snow. Sometimes I had to crawl on all fours. At about 11 o'clock I reached the upper plateau of Chatyrdag.

I was very surprised when Aglais urticae flew out from under my feet! It's a pity, but I didn't manage to take a picture of her… A northern visitor, Buteo lagopus, circled overhead:

It is also called a shaggy-legged Buzzard. The wingspan of this bird is approximately 130 cm. Her homeland is Tundra. There zimnyak is the first enemy of lemmings. In the middle latitudes, it is found on flight and wintering grounds. As I descend to the lower plateau among the dry grass of last year I notice a spider:

Most of the anthills are still not showing signs of life, but one of them still decided to stop wintering – less than a dozen ants were crawling on its surface. Here is one of them:

Everywhere there are lots of loners and glades of some flowers. If I'm not mistaken, this is Crimean Saffron (Crocus tauricus). If anything, please correct it. Thank you in advance!

The sun that appears periodically doesn't show up for a long time. It was getting chilly. After walking along the lower plateau for some distance, I take a picture of the snow-covered upper plateau of Chatyrdag.

At about 14 o'clock I reached the "Eagle Gorge", having wandered along which I went down to the village of Perevalnoye (approx.16:30'), from where I took a trolleybus to Simferopol. In the Eagle Gorge, I met the ubiquitous snowdrops, a cute leaf beetle Timarcha sp., and some kind of fly:

Last shot for today-mistletoe fruit:


This post was edited by palvasru4ko - 02/27/2010 21: 33

The hike started from the Angarsk Pass (8: 00’). The goal is to "storm" Chatyrdag from the eastern slope.
Everywhere there are large numbers of loners and glades of some flowers

Why is it that you, Pasha, are drawn back to winter (to yayla)? It's up to you, of course, but I'd drive a little further, to the South Coast, where the nymphalids are already flying in full swing.
Flowers - Crimean crocus.

Why is it that you, Pasha, are drawn back to winter (to yayla)?   It's up to you, of course, but I'd drive a little further, to the South Coast, where the nymphalids are already flying in full swing.
Flowers - Crimean crocus.

Thanks! I've already fixed it (I looked at the plants of Crimea website). Yayla is such a strange tradition for me... Chatyrdag is the first mountain in my life. I start hiking with her every year. I also celebrated my 18th birthday there... The beginning of expeditions from Chatyrdag has another goal-I check how "healthy" I am in terms of endurance over the winter

Why is it that you, Pasha, are drawn back to winter (to yayla)?   It's up to you, of course, but I'd drive a little further, to the South Coast, where the nymphalids are already flying in full swing.
Flowers - Crimean crocus.

That yes... Now it is more "productive" to go to the bottom.

There's still a snowball lying around, but I still managed to make my first outing. True, I did not go for insects - to climb around the cave.
But I also managed to dig up something.
I saw a couple of cute riders at the entrance, but I didn't know where to put them, so I left them.
At the exit, I found skosar, it seems nothing interesting.
But from the interesting - cool false scorpions, large and beautiful. Probably something cave-like, since I caught 3, and not near the entrance, but somewhere closer to the middle of the passage (the total length of the passed (crawled), I think, is from 1 to 3 km..).

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Unfortunately, now in Russia, as I was told by the pros, there are no specialists in false scorpions. A few years ago, I caught 1 copy. in the depths of the Caucasian cave, I gave it to one of our leading specialists in the field of speleoentomology - still not determined, for this very reason.

This post was edited by Evgenich - 03/15/2010 14: 41

Oh, it's a pity (
And foreign specialists?

March 15, steppe Crimea, Kholmogorka tract (east of Feodosia).
Sunny, light wind, +8...+10. Quite cool for mid-March.
Blooming: vesnyanka, veronika, kostenets, goose onion.
There are not too many animals: blackbirds, small ground beetles, elephants, caterpillars of Cryphia raptricula, Xestia trifida, Aporophyla ?canescens, Napuca ochrearia, ?Lasiommata megera, some kind of bagworm.
And also-flies, bedbugs, spiders, haymakers, ticks, woodlice, millipedes...


Opatrum sabulosum



Vesnyanka



Napuca ochrearia



Pellenes sp.



Baggy, I would like to know the type...? Psychidea alba



Haymaker ?Phalangium punctipes



?Lasiommata megera



Very small elephants



?Cicindela sp. Bigeye Notiophilus sp.. A very small bug.


This post was edited by okoem - 03/16/2010 10: 09

Notiophilus buzzed
Seaton's left elephant
these two are not yet known.

March 15, steppe Crimea, Kholmogorka tract (east of Feodosia). ...
Bag lady, I'd like to know the view...

Most likely Psychidea alba. Definition of E. Rutyan.

Today I wandered in the vicinity of Nizhnyaya Kutuzovka (Crimea, north of Alushta). Very warm, light wind. The land looked like this:
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I found four mantis swellings on one branch at once:


A little flora:


A bit of arachnology:
Aelurillus v-insignitus –

Steatoda paykulliana


Almond blossoms…


There weren't many butterflies. Only Nymphalis polychloros (many), Vanessa atalanta (1 individual), Aglais urticae (1 individual), and Lebythea celtis (1 individual) were found. The butterflies enjoyed the warmth so much that they didn't allow themselves to be photographed. Somehow managed to make a single frame with Nymphalis polychloros:

Of the "non-butterflies", some Xylocopa sp., 2 hares and various birds are still found – Large tits (Parus major), Jays (Garrulus glandarius), Blackbirds (Turdus merula), Finches (Fringilla coelebs). Oh, too weak...

So spring has come to the Zaporozhye region. The first warm day.
We decided to go to the Molochnaya River (below Melitopol), light up for a couple of hours.
Entomozhizni is not yet visible. t 9-7 There was a danger that the butterflies would not fly.
They flew. And four species flew in. Not enough, but the opening
of the 2010 season took place, which I wish everyone.

But from the interesting - cool false scorpions, large and beautiful. Probably something cave-like, since I caught 3, and not near the entrance, but somewhere closer to the middle of the passage (the total length of the passed (crawled), I think, is from 1 to 3 km..).

False scorpions are brutal (although small), I caught one species under the aspen bark,and the other under the rowan bark (there were 6-7 individuals of which more than half were larvae)...

There are relatively few photos of false scorpions on the Internet,so they are one of the less popular groups ?and / or less attractive?Are they generally rare, or do we not see them because of their size?

On the weekend, the weather was excellent +19-21
On Saturday, I went to pick up the bark - I picked up a little stuff. But, it seems, I didn't collect anything particularly interesting.
On Sunday, at first we went with Shastik to pick the bark too, but there was not enough bark and the results were not good. Later, we came to a road in the middle of the forest. There was a little stream at the edge of the road, and I caught a lot of pretenders, probably furs, some elephants, and a few other small things. Flew c-album, Cypress, saw about 3 gray moth, but they escaped. And, of course, we were most pleased with the t-shirts - we met a couple of proskarabeus and a few decorus.
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Testing of the new Shustov screen on Khortytsia Island. 21.03.2010

it started well. The first 20 minutes of fishing.

Fishing lasted 2 hours: 3 types of scoops: battered Eupsilia transversa, with 10 multicolored Orthosia cruda

Lithophane ornitopus

6 types of moth, including


1 Depressariinae species

1 species Tortricidae

Friends, please catch someone a couple of Lithophane ornitopus for me, if you can!

There was also a couple in the box, although not quite high-quality, but I had them until last year I did not catch new ones

yes I would not have refused yet

I can go to the pine forest tomorrow,under the bark of the pine tree I want to anvire the black-bodied Uloma culinaris (Linnaeus, 1758) and / or Uloma rufa (Piller et Mitterpacher, 1783) (I don't have this species in my collection),who knows? how do they differ,under the bark of pine trees both types are found?

And if anyone wants a black heifer Platydema violaceum (Fabricius, 1790), I can go to the oak forest and try to catch it, so that I can exchange later.
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yesterday in the cave

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26.03.10. Near Bukryn (Mironovsky district) 140 km south-east of Kiev season opening. It so happened that we went only together with Gerasimov.
Upon arrival at 15-00, we walked through the open area, although it is warm +13, but windy and there are not even ordinary lemongrass trees. Gerasimov took two beetles bark beetle and weevil and flew A ?parthenias, but not slovilas.
We settled down under a canopy on the edge of a ravine due to the wind.
The miracle of Chinese technology did not pull 2 DRL250, although the second one turned on after the first one entered the mode( you need to try putting the capacity in parallel), it was good that there were 2 generators.
From 18-00 to 21-00 (+10 at the beginning +7 at the end, cloudless, bright moon)

That's what came to me

1-A.pilosaria
2-A.leucophaearia

3-C. vaccinii-about 18-30 years ago, a mass exodus of 50 specimens began abruptly
4-C. rubiginosa
5-C. rubiginea
6-C. erythrocephala
7-E. transversa
8-O. incerta
9-O. cerasi
10-O. gothica
11-O. populeti
12-A. munda
13-L. ornitopus

11,12 flew to me 13-Gerasimov

In addition, a colleague took another 3 types of leafmakers and some other two micros.

It seems nothing new, but if you consider that I only flew 11 and 6 for the second time in a long period of fishing, and good specimens, then the opening of the season was not successful.

Here is the area, in the distance the Dnieper



Here on the edge of the ravine are located



Here's what happened



and what was dealt with


This post was edited by svm2 - 03/28/2010 14: 58

The day before yesterday in the field.
Dorkashi got out - a lot of cinerarium and pussilum, a few tauricum and one unfortunate fulvum )
were mostly elephants-hyperki and sitonki, 3 types of cassidy, Letruses got out, though still soft, well, and all sorts of other nonsense.

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Today in sev.on the outskirts of the city,Barry and I were wandering in a dense forest, it was relatively warm,but compared to yesterday, winter is real.
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4 beetles from sem. Cerylonidae
4 Carabus granulatus
and a lot of dead eaters Phosphuga atrata (Linnaeus, 1758)
+lots of snow in your boots

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26.03.10. Near Bukryn (Mironovsky district) 140 km south-east of Kiev season opening. It so happened that we went only together with Gerasimov.
Upon arrival at 15-00, we walked through the open area, although it is warm +13, but windy and there are not even ordinary lemongrass trees. Gerasimov took two beetles bark beetle and weevil and flew A ?parthenias, but not slovilas.
We settled down under a canopy on the edge of a ravine due to the wind.
The miracle of Chinese technology did not pull 2 DRL250, although the second one turned on after the first one entered the mode( you need to try putting the capacity in parallel), it was good that there were 2 generators.
From 18-00 to 21-00 (+10 at the beginning +7 at the end, cloudless, bright moon)

That's what came to me

1-A.pilosaria
2-A.leucophaearia

3-C. vaccinii-about 18-30 years ago, a mass exodus of 50 specimens began abruptly
4-C. rubiginosa
5-C. rubiginea
6-C. erythrocephala
7-E. transversa
8-O. incerta
9-O. cerasi
10-O. gothica
11-O. populeti
12-A. munda
13-L. ornitopus

11,12 flew to me 13-Gerasimov

In addition, a colleague took another 3 types of leafmakers and some other two micros.

It seems nothing new, but if you consider that I only flew 11 and 6 for the second time in a long period of fishing, and good specimens, then the opening of the season was not successful.

Here's what happened

And where is the ornithopus in the photo, or did it not get on the photo?

Ornithopus got not to me, but to a colleague, in the photo my butterflies that he selected.

On Sunday, March 29, Liparus and I went out into nature for the first time this year, in the northern part of Kharkiv (a forest park near Pyatikhatok). Deciduous forest (mostly oak).
There is still snow mainly in the lowlands and on the northern slopes, and on the southern ones the first flowers are already breaking through.



The weather was mostly overcast, slightly positive.
It was better on Saturday, warm and sunny, but then Liparus just had protection, with which we can congratulate him.
If I'm confusing you correctly, I'm a plant protection specialist... But, as far as I could see in a couple of years of our joint cooperation, of all the methods of insect control, he successfully mastered only the ancient Neanderthal method-manual gathering... Otherwise, I personally did not observe.

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Outside, there are practically no animals, except for rare ants and red-bodied animals, and we haven't seen any bobocs. Everything was mined under the bark.











This post was edited by barry - 03/29/2010 11: 40

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This post was edited by barry - 03/29/2010 11: 47

It's nice to remember. Thank you. I used to pick at it once, too. I even have the first beetle in my collection. Phosphuga atrata. They are also black.