Crimea, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova

And what do they sit on ?

Flowers of bird cherry, mountain ash, etc. (at least in our country). Also "in years". From the end of April to the beginning of June, usually.

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Yesterday, Liparus and I were in the Rogan district (east of Kharkiv).

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In addition to the fact that there are still Geocoris beetles on
krtinki ? dispar
Geocoris ? grylloides
Megalonotus ? chiragra/sabulicola
? Trapezonotus arenarius

German ~10 mm
. With Cis'ami we were not lucky this time...

I'll take a picture of the rest later. Today with Slutsk and Karolinsky we are going to go near Chuguev.

This post was edited by barry - 04/20/2010 08: 15

17.04.09 there was a need to visit the Cherkasy region, we decided to fish near Cherkasy, near the village of Dakhnovka.At 18 h. we arrived at the place - a forest with a predominance of hornbeam, a cloud ran up-rain with snow-it was cold, we could go back, but we decided to shine a little. The result is 12 types of macro banal - 3 conisters, 4 orthoses.transversa, munda, both Cerastis-leucographa quite a lot, crepuscularia and stratarius.

On the road (Kiev-Dnepropetrovsk) near the village of Yakhny(about 120 km from Kiev), here when mnemosyne years, right next to the road in 15 minutes you can catch a dozen ekz.

Today we went with Slutsk and Karolinsky to the Chuguev district (Pyatnitskoye, Velikaya Babka).

There are very few field shots, but Liparus is much more productive.

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So I took some stuff with me.
Red nutcracker under the bark
of a black-bodied oak ~10 mm on wood mushrooms
of Black-bodied Nalassus sp. (under the bark ? hazelnuts)
T-shirt ? Meloe violaceus
Pine weevils (three species)
Cis'y-types 5
Bedbugs-podkorniki near mushrooms on birch and willow (maybe different types) imago and larvae.
Bitoma crenata
Uleota planata
some other small subsurface beetles.

It's a little late, but still...
April 18, 2010
A trip to Sudak. The goal is to search for and photograph the Tomares callimachus pigeon, which was not found last time (April 3). The reason for your interest is that there are no good photos of this type in the archive. The journey started from the village of Dachnoye – I wanted to take a picture of the frog rock (Boka-Tash) before it fell off. The rock is located on the slope of a small mountain Artyshly-Burun (352 m).:


On the slopes here and there came across Crimean Asphodelina:

There were Irises in places:

Among the butterflies are the sac moth Ptilocephala plumifera, the whitefly Pontia edusa, and all three Crimean representatives of the genus Pieris, the pigeon moth Lycaena phlaeas, and Callophrys rubi. Only the last one was photographed:

There were various arthropods everywhere:

So I came to the place where I saw Tomares callimachus last year… Yes! Here's one! Yes... only a shabby one…

I met several (namely 3) males of Glaucopsyche alexis. Here is one of them:

In some places, last year's rather shabby Nymphalis polychloros and Lebythea celtis were common. In the end, there was a place where some of the freshest Callimachus flew. Here, for example:

Almost at the very end of the journey, we managed to capture (although from afar, the picture shows a solid crop of frames) an introduced inhabitant of the mountains of the Crimea-the keklik, or stone partridge:

Kekliki lived in the Crimea in the second half of the XIX century, but by the beginning of the XX-th disappeared. After the Great Patriotic War, keckliks began to be imported for breeding for the purpose of hunting. In the end, they took root.

It's a little late, but still...
April 18, 2010
A trip to Sudak. The goal is to search for and photograph the Tomares callimachus pigeon, which was not found last time (April 3). The reason for your interest is that there are no good photos of this type in the archive. The journey started from the village of Dachnoye – I wanted to take a picture of the frog rock (Boka-Tash) before it fell off. The rock is located on the slope of a small mountain Artyshly-Burun (352 m).:

Have you checked these rocks? At this time, fresh callimachs are easier to meet on the rocks, where they later fly out.

- Great!
- Why do your fingers look huge and flattened in the photo?
- In the Internet they write that its size is about the size of a jackdaw...?
"Do they hunt them there now?"
- They write that they suffer from snowy winters... - Do you have snow there?

I don't know what's wrong with my fingers. The size of the bird itself is definitely larger than a jackdaw. Even slightly larger than the grey partridge (Perdix perdix). Whether they are being hunted OFFICIALLY today, I don't know. Under the USSR, they were hunted. I know that in the 70s, shooting cards were issued for 500 cupcakes a year. Today-we need to talk to the hunters. We need to ask our Crimean ornithologists will. Since the kekliki have not been extinct in half a century, it means that winter is suitable. Birds will survive ANY winter, if there is enough food. Especially since it used to be inhabited by NATIVE kekliki, who became extinct only by the beginning of the twentieth century-these winter was generally satisfied with the devil knows how many centuries!

Have you checked these rocks? At this time, fresh callimachs are easier to meet on the rocks, where they fly out later.

I checked it, but I didn't see it. Perhaps the "upper race" really lives here, which later flies out. If we manage to arrive in May, we'll have to check it out. By the way, the reason may be something else - there was a rather noticeable wind.

April 24, 2010
Today, for the first time this season, I thought about " where to go?". The previous outings were somehow more definite. A delay in the departure time of the "desired views" began and I had to choose. After much hesitation, I still went to the area of the villages of Frontovoe and Verkhnesadovoe (approximately in the middle between Sevastopol and Bakhchisarai):

When I got off the train I almost immediately met the beautiful Zerynthia polyxena:

The first fatheads – Pyrgus malvae, Carcharodus alceae, Erynnis tages-were running around like madmen. Occasionally they sat down, which I always used:

Periodically examining the stones for the presence of pouch covers, I still found this (the length of the cover is 15 mm):

Managed to remove last year's Inachis io:

I've been to this area many times (about 15 times in total), but this is the first time I've seen this species here. On one of the slopes managed to catch a yellowfin:

I took it to a nearby vacant lot, photographed it, and returned it to its original location. There aren't many of them here. This is my third encounter with this lizard. The nymphalids Vanessa atalanta, Issoria lathonia, Polygonia c-alba, Nympalis polychloros, Lycaena phlaeas and Glaucopsyche alexis, and Pieris sp. (all three Crimean species), Pontia edusa, Leptidea sinapis, Colias hyale. To my surprise, I didn't see any Callophrys rubi and Pseudophilotes vicrama, which are usually plentiful here at this time. Everything is blooming, fragrant... and the insects, having lost their heads, can't think of anything else but to mate…

I didn't catch much – I caught a few fresh fatheads and that's all. That's almost the whole catch:

For those who do not know: the grass in the box is needed so that the butterflies are fresh until the evening, otherwise they will have to be soaked at home, and so they will be as if they have just been caught.

This post was edited by palvasru4ko - 25.04.2010 01: 13

It's strange how the spam filter works. I wanted to insert a picture in the previous message , but it didn't work. Next time, no problem...

This post was edited by barry - 25.04.2010 11: 58

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23.04.2010 Zhytomyr region, Malinsky district, Lyubovichi village. Mixed forest, sometimes dominated by birch. Caught the light from 21.00 to 23.30. DRV 250, UV 26 Watts.Years are very bad - not a single moth, a couple of scoops, immediately after turning on the lamps for 40 minutes, 4 males of Odontosia carmelita flew in. After 22.00, nothing arrived at all.
25.04. 2010. - I decided to go to the same place again to catch a female carmelite. Years are a little better, two males arrived again , the female did not arrive-maybe the females do not fly well into the light?

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Yesterday, Onthophagus coenobita (2 males with a horn) was caught in the manure, are they probably rare?
http://www.colpolon.biol.uni.wroc.pl/ontho...20coenobita.htm

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Yesterday, Onthophagus coenobita (2 males with a horn) was caught in the manure, are they probably rare?
http://www.colpolon.biol.uni.wroc.pl/ontho...20coenobita.htm

Arthur, why did you post a photo from a Polish website? It would be better to have their own, those that were dug out of the manure ...

Periodically examining the stones for the presence of pouch covers, I still found this (the length of the cover is 15 mm):

Epichnopterix crimaeana (Kozhantshikov, 1956)

Yesterday, Onthophagus coenobita (2 males with a horn) was caught in the manure, are they probably rare?
http://www.colpolon.biol.uni.wroc.pl/ontho...20coenobita.htm

And why not post a photo of the caught ontophagus? And how can you be sure that this is coenobita? Are the horns similar?

Today we went to the chalk in Izyumsky district (south-east of Kharkiv region). I, Slutsk, Karolinsky. The weather is moderately warm, partly cloudy, and windy.

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Carinatodorcadion carinatum
Dorcadion equestre
Dorcadion holosericeum
Dorcadion cinerarium
? Holochelus aequinoctialis
Rhynchites bacchus
Tatianaerhynchites aequatus
? Neocoenorrhinus pauxillus
? Psalidium maxillosum
? Cantharis obscura
? Metacantharis clypeata
? Selatosomus gravidus
and one more thing...

the second meloya proscarabeus. And then on the website of nature Khar. region is not signed)

Here are some more Rhynchites bacchus, and I'll take care of the rest tomorrow.

Today we went to the chalk in Izyumsky district (south-east of Kharkiv region). I, Slutsk, Karolinsky. The weather is moderately warm, partly cloudy, and windy.

moth at the bottom left - Isturgia murinaria

Yesterday we went out to the forest park for kebabs, I managed to take a photo in between, I didn't even think that so many would come across.

I almost burned the shovel, it was just sitting in the crack of one of the branches...
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Uleiota planata sat on someone's clothes ...
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Ischnodemus sabuleti
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? Larva of Penthimia nigra
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There was a decent amount of Curculio glandium, and I got about ten of them on the rising umbrella trees.
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Aradus depressus flew away, I don't know where they came from, but they regularly turned out to be on someone's clothes ...
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Female Aneurus laevis. Yesterday I thought that I had already found two dead people under the bark, no signs of life were felt. And today I put it on the bark on the window, I wanted to take a few more shots - it crawled, apparently warmed up in the sun...
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Ukraine, Khmelnitsky region, near the village of Demshin, 3.05.2010

Pyrgus malvae
Erynnis tages
Papilio machaon
Iphiclides podalirius
Pieris napi
Anthocharis cardamines
Colias hyale
Leptidea sinapis
Callophrys rubi
Everes argiades
Everes decoloratus
Celastrina argiolus
Pseudophilotes vicrama
Neptis sappho
Inachis io
Clossiana dia
Pararge aegeria

05.05.2010. I went to catch the light. Zhytomyr region. Malinsky district, OKR village Lyubovichi. Mixed forest, near a small swamp. Caught from 21.00 to 24.00. DRV-500, UV-25.
A lot of tufts, three males of Phyllodesma ilicifolium arrived - we have a rare one, I didn't catch it before . 07.05. and 08.05 I went to the same places to catch cocoonworms - but they didn't fly anymore.
09.05.2010. I went to my village - Chernihiv region, Bobrovitsky district, Ozeryany village. At night, he turned on the light in the yard-DRV-250. From the interesting - again, as a year ago on May 9, the male Saturnia pyri arrived.

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Briefly. On May 1, we went with Pirx to the outskirts of Donetsk (Yasinovatsky district, near the village of Vasilyevka, bayrachny forest). There were a lot of things.

May 2. Together with Alexander Martynov and our guest from Odessa Vasily Dyadichko, we got out to wander through the steppes and bayraks of the Donetsk Ridge.

There weren't many insects, but the snakes were nice.







Terrible and Terrible ANTHRACITE GRANDFATHER!

Briefly. On May 1, we went with Pirx to the outskirts of Donetsk (Yasinovatsky district, near the village of Vasilyevka, bayrachny forest). There were a lot of things.

... except for babblers

May 3. Together with Vasily Dyadichko, we went to wander around the steppe in the vicinity of the Starobeshevsky reservoir. We were pleased with the huge number of chanterelle crushes, dorcadions in the mass (all our 5 species) and a 1.5-meter yellow-bellied runner on apricot.














That's all for now. Went to the Crimea!

Northern roc. Kharkiv, early May. Already a lot of things, so I selected the most interesting things that came across since the beginning of May...

False
scorpion Ischnodemus sabuleti
Curculio glandium
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Aradus depressus
Aneurus laevis
Mesosa nebulosa
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Legnotus limbosus
Rhagium sycophanta
Schizotus pectinicornis
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Tingis crispata
some kind of
naeznik Rhacognathus punctatus (first time caught)
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Rhynocoris annulatus
Himacerus (?) dauricus (I think)
some moths are flying
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? Karapuzik, like there is no ...
Ceraleptus lividus (infrequent guest, the second that I came across)
Schoenitemnus minutus (on an oak tree, Liparus collected about a dozen)
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Sciocoris microphthalmus (in general, the genus is not so rare, but it's hard to determine them-this is the first one I have)
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This post was edited by barry - 05/11/2010 13: 00

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? Little baby, I don't think so...

Scaphidium quadrimaculatum Olivier, 1790

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? Little baby, I don't think so...

No, it's not a little baby - it's Scaphidium quadrimaculatum At the
same time as Basil "clicked"

This post was edited by Dmitrich - 05/11/2010 13: 14

This is not a baby bird, but a shuttle: Scaphidium quadrimaculatum Olivier, 1790

Yes, I also look - it seems that the head is not cylindrical... and the sawyere doesn't look like a toddler's, and he runs-be healthy, the little kids are waddling on their bellies.

Yes, I also look - it seems that the head is not cylindrical... and the sawyere doesn't look like a toddler's, and he runs-be healthy, the little kids are waddling on their bellies.

Of course: it's closer to the STAPHYLINOIDEA (STAPHYLINOIDEA), so it "flies" so by the way: we have one species (no options).

This post was edited by vasiliy-feoktistov - 05/11/2010 13: 34

By the way: we have one view (no options).

And there are only 2 species of this genus in Russia: Scaphidium amurense still (in the Far East, of course)

Of course: it's closer to the staffs (STAPHYLINOIDEA), so it flies like this

Yes... once again, the staphylins put me on both shoulder blades, I would never have thought. On the eurofauna Scaphidium - > Staphylinidae: Subfamily Scaphidiinae. Or is it a separate family now?

Here's another one that got me thinking:
Anthobium ?atrocephalum

And there are only 2 species of this genus in Russia: Scaphidium amurense (in the Far East, of course)

Well, DV, and I meant HDI. I would like to have more of them here

Yes... once again, the staphylins put me on both shoulder blades, I would never have thought. On the eurofauna Scaphidium - > Staphylinidae: Subfamily Scaphidiinae. Or is it a separate family now?

Here's another one that got me thinking:

Separate family: Family Scaphidiidae
Unfortunately, I can't say anything about the beetle (I don't know it).

Here's another one that got me thinking:
Anthobium ?atrocephalum

Well, Omaliinae is generally a dark forest for me