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What kind of animal? I can't understand

What kind of animal? I can't understand it

I have an assumption that the calf.

No, no calf: that's it . For a shaggy calf, it hurts: just like a bison

What kind of animal? I can't understand it

Dog of the black Terrier breed or maybe a Giant schnauzer

I have an assumption that the calf.

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Someone in the know can you tell me if the floating beetles are still active?

In the pond near Kasimov (Ryazan region), two types of swimmers (fringed and some small and striped) are quite active, despite even the crust of morning ice.

What kind of animal? I can't understand it

Standing over Hugh was a hideous monster , a huge, black beast, similar in appearance to a dog, but taller and larger than any dog that mortal man had ever seen. And this monster tore Hugh Baskerville's throat out before their eyes, and turned its bloody muzzle toward them, its eyes blazing.

It's a little early... On New Year's Eve, the season is supposed to be closed.

This is in London and Kharkiv =)

  Standing over Hugh was a hideous monster , a huge, black beast, similar in appearance to a dog, but taller and larger than any dog that mortal man had ever seen. And this monster tore Hugh Baskerville's throat out before their eyes, and turned its bloody muzzle toward them, its eyes blazing.

By the way, why Hugo? It seems to be Hugo Baskerville

By the way, why Hugo? He's supposed to be Hugo Baskerville

Duke and Dr. Watson, not Watson. Old translation. In those ancient times, proper names in Russian were voiced by people for whom the main foreign language was not English, but German.

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I was here today .. ahem, in the steppes of Southern Ukraine, the daytime temperature was approx. +10C, quite warm, but also dry, though thoroughly. There is frost under the rocks and in some places on the ground, small reservoirs are covered with ice approx. 3 mm thick, springs in ravines with frozen clods of water, this is all after the previous permafrost on snowless land in chetv. and Friday to -12C in the morning. From the living creatures I found the larva of a beetle, a small cricket, a bunch of small spiders running on the warm ground and small mosquitoes flying. But this is just the beginning! There is a week of rel. heat ahead, and next weekend it may be, if you dream a lot, and we will grab all +20C, then it will be hot
Interseno will take a look at who was able to survive such a November, it used to happen that even some of the yolks flew in December, diptera, dragonflies, not to mention winter scoops and moths. The latter will definitely be, or rather already exist.

So in the near future, you can paraphrase a phrase from the famous cartoon - "a telegram came from above, there was only one line in it -" There will be no winter! Period!")))))

[/b]Carcharot
Ukraine, Crimea
04.11.2011 12: 15

Can I tell you more about Eumenes tripunctatus? How many specimens have you seen, and what
biotopes?

The question is about a specific, freshly caught specimen, in the topic " Definition
of hymenoptera...", but in terms of style and content, my amateur answer
turned out to be closer to this topic.
And I have a link there and sorry if this is wrong.

Immediately link to the CCU
http://nature.land.kiev.ua/RB_2009_t/index.htm#232.htm

A rare species.
So, biotopes – Eumenes tripunctatus, in the south of the Zaporozhye region - sandbanks,
in this part of the coast of the Sea of Azov. With psammophytic vegetation corresponding to these braids.
Geographically: Biryuchy – Kirillovka-Stepanovka Pervaya.




A couple of photos of biotopes here, in " Reports...", on seg. p. 150 post. No. 7455
Additionally, a few more photos from this place.








The capture was on the Stepanovskaya Spit. I've only seen one copy.
In flight. He "hovered" literally in front of my eyes. I had time to react,
because the net was in my hands. In general, os and so on., that day, I caught only
a couple of hours.

"Googling", I found some wonderful photos of tripunctatus from nature,
on the page of Valeria.
http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/jiakomolery/view/418864/?page=0

Here, for reference, is one photo from her album.




In the accompanying post, Valeria writes that she observed several specimens and that the pictures
were taken on the spit of Peresyp.

They are the same biotope. There is no doubt that tripunctatus lives on the Fedotov Spit and on
Biryuchye (by the way, this is already the Kherson region).…








Well, the distribution of tripunctatus, so to speak, east of Stepanovka, where the
clay, steep bank begins – is unclear.




Possibly intermittent range. A point in the CCU, near the Obitochnaya spit.
Other points to look for…

Like everything.

Thank you so much for such a detailed answer! Of course, it is available on Biryuchy, and a series of fees is even known from there. Only here it is very far away. Kirillovka is probably easier to get to? Have you ever stayed there or lived in tents?
Actually, my goal is not to catch them, but to find a place where there are a lot of them to try to look for a nest. I think there must be a lot of them out there, and you caught one male as it was just the beginning of their seasonal summer.

Kirillovka is a large resort center, with all the necessary amenities ... easy to reach. There's always a place to stay. To Biryuchy by minibus to the former village.Stepok
(now it is also Kirillovka) and then along the spit by car for money or on foot. Since Biryuchy is a National Park, it is fenced off from the people by a fence…
You can get there (almost officially) by paying for a two-hour car tour in the presence of a jaeger-round trip… You can walk along the beach. But the border guards and rangers will not let you walk there for a long time.
We always drive independently-car-tents. If you decide to go to our region, write in a personal account, we will discuss all the details, we will comprehensively help and assist.

Igor, this year our botanists and colleagues from other cities went there once (to the National Park), but they could not even officially get there, because the Professional Deer Hunter was hunting there, so there may be such tricks. By the way, Sasha showed me kosher beetles yesterday.

This post was edited by Pirx - 03.12.2011 10: 27

Yes, indeed... We somehow agreed to visit... But the People's deputies had a campaign week. Many "agitated" on Biryuchy...
So we spent the night under the fence... but from the side of the National Park

, as there Proffesor hunted deer

"Thank you to the residents of Donbass for President p-ras"(c)
They did everything themselves - "with these fingers" (c)

Today's catch is furry bedbugs found in the sand on the beach in the Feodosia region.

And we have all the surrounding area turned into a valley of a thousand smokes! Continuous fires, and this is even despite the fact that the drought is long and at the end of autumn many plants did not grow, otherwise it would have been terrible at all!
I went today for bark, driftwood and moss, the temperature was approx. +15C, clear, but the sun at noon, and the light from it, look in the steppes and fields now so that it looks like the beginning of a solar eclipse. There are a lot of mice and small spiders running around, but there is no one there, I haven't seen a single butterfly, and even mosquitoes and flies don't fly. All the ditches, ditches and canals are dry, and many trees are standing with leaves - this is a violation of leaf fall, probably due to a severe drought in autumn.

Well, we now have a disaster of a more climatic nature, I don't remember this yet. In the fall, we certainly do not have the peak precipitation, but nevertheless. In general, I have seen a tendency to desertification in recent years, and the last time I collected mushrooms in our country was in 2007. Now it's raining so hard that the mushrooms just don't have time to grow - it's going to rain like buckets, the rivers are flowing.. and then the next one in three weeks. And by autumn, it stopped raining at all.

Today's catch is furry bedbugs found in the sand on the beach in the Feodosia region.

Volodya, can I tell you more, are there any hints of some plants? I can't even tell from the nymphs what it is. Something shchitnik-like.

Volodya, can I tell you more, are there any hints of some plants? I can't even tell from the nymphs what it is. Something shchitnik-like.

They searched for Stibaropus henkei and raked the sand around the grate. Nearby were some small grain, mullein peristorazdelny, astragalus Dneprovsky and cornflower Odessa. Found: several species of different small beetles, several species of some small beetles, including those in the photo (they are about 3-4 mm) and the remains of one Stibaropus henkei-so we definitely have it

This post was edited by okoem - 04.12.2011 23: 54

Chu, what an interesting contraption
http://kharkov.naturalist.su/gallery/index...p?category=2532

We have plenty of such plants along the banks, so we must have them.

They searched for Stibaropus henkei and raked the sand around the grate. Nearby were some small grain, mullein peristorazdelny, astragalus Dneprovsky and cornflower Odessa. Found: several species of different small beetles, several species of some small beetles, including those in the photo (they are about 3-4 mm) and the remains of one Stibaropus henkei-so we definitely have it

Well, if found, then there is, not from Africa WELL, it was brought to Feodosia. In the" Fauna of Ukraine " Puchkov indicates for the Crimea-Olenevka, Donuzlav, Evpatoria, Feodosia, Kerch, Novootradnoye (places where they were definitely found). The northernmost one is located in the Voronezh Region. Its larvae, judging by the description, are also yellowish, shiny, without punctuation, the bristles are only on the edge of the breasts and abdomen, so this is not them.

Chu, what an interesting contraption
http://kharkov.naturalist.su/gallery/index...p?category=2532

We have plenty of such plants along the banks, so we must have them.

Ta da-without knowing and in a head will not enter that it is necessary to dig sand. By the way, Arthur once told me that he once found it on the bank of the Bezlyudovsky reservoir near Kharkov, and we were there - but the top layer of sand has already been removed by the "virtues", there is no longer any grate in sight. But I still have a faint hope... Lasiacantha gracilis I still found this fall (I was looking for three years), and in the Crimea Copium brevicorne is a good find...

Was today in the steppes of Taganrog, TFU, south of the Mykolaiv region )) I went to collect seeds for ants, and catch animals like woodlice, and to this I also brought the larva of the predator, I will feed it
True, everything turned out not very well, the expected +20C did not take place, it was somewhere +15C, and a fresh wind, and the sun hid behind a veil of clouds, it was clear in the morning, but I was waiting for the maximum T to be-dovyzhidalsya
Unfortunately, besides me, many crickets also got into trouble... and they froze near the entrance to the burrows. In general, the gardens are certainly gloomy - everything is dry, there is no grass that is familiar for this time of year, there are almost no birds, and many trees have dried unbroken leaves. There was no activity at all, I'm already silent about reptiles - even mosquitoes did not fly. Under the stones, too, it was often completely lifeless, only where there was previously water, woodlice, millipedes similar to them, staphylinae, larvae of some beetles, various bedbugs, and occasionally crickets were sitting under the stones.
A series of cold snaps in November killed all seasonal insects, drove the rest deep underground along with the drought, and the current warming did not please many people, and it happened that locusts sang and butterflies flew at such a time.
Often there are falls, although not large ones mostly.
Mice really run, one was caught, but unfortunately pinned down , she ran away later, but limping.

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and to this eschei larva predator dragged, I will feed

In my opinion, it's not worth it, the banal Rhynocoris iracundus, it's better to look for something more poetic.

And I'm not interested in exotic animals at all, I think all this in most cases is just a fashion for curiosities, and pathos, like "and I have a super rare, expensive spider". It is much more interesting to grow our local insects and other animals.
We have everyone for this - who likes the size - we have large insects, who likes special behavior-there are also those who like venom - please-there is also venom, who just likes to observe the development and growth, the difference in behavior-all the more, and there are always standards for comparison.

Thank you for the photo of the cricket!! It's definitely a field cricket, I have identical ears! They really do climb out of their homes from time to time, sometimes jumping so much that you can clearly hear their forehead bumps against the wall of the terrarium. My nomes are especially lucky, they will not die from the cold in any case=). Is there a live or frozen cricket in the photo?

It seems to me that the dead judging by the mustache, usually they keep them in the direction of sound (danger).

DanMar, you're welcome, I wanted to take a special picture of taokgo, but of course it's alive, and it would be great if I found a live one, I would take it to the terrarium, but alas, unfortunately the cricket is dead, frozen.
In general, it was not very successful due to the fact that it was overcast - I think that there would have been sun and silence - there would have been a lot of wildlife. And the mink tarantulas have already been closed, which is strange, although they may be before tomorrow's rain, which may be very strong.

By the way, yes, crickets can probably take root, the main thing is that they can dig minks.. True, they eat a lot, but they can hide in holes very quickly. And the different size of the crickets found may be caused by different stages of larval development. But they don't eat much now. My verifications by the way are so fat =). The first two photos are one larva, the rest are different.

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By the way, the crickets that come out to bask in February and March are so fat! It seems that they do not fall into suspended animation all winter, but eat something!)))

And in the terrarium I have not field, but another cricket, the one that is smaller-ate plants, and in a barbaric way-at the root gnawed the stem, as a result of which everything fell to the ground... and it was not eaten, but the stem of another plant was gnawed, and so on.

Wow! I have a similar situation, only not with crickets, but with grasshoppers, and not with stems, but with foliage! For example, I planted white-fronds on an acacia tree, so they began to bite off the leaves from the wrong side, and the leaves fell to the ground. And this happened only at the larval stage, for a week four predimago "gnawed" the entire plant. But in the future, cannibalism from them was not observed at all, and they did not catch anything for lunch, only ate greens. Apparently vegetarians have become =). Therefore, I believe that grasshoppers should be trained to predation from childhood.

Maybe it's good already?
and you don't have to worry. If it is in Butovo, why shouldn't it be in Kharkiv?

I really didn't know. I know that Kiev definitely has it. As for Butovo, the metro, or rather, something monorail-like, is in the so-called new Butovo. In the part where I live, the metro will only be available in 2100.
I apologize for the flood and deviation from the topic.

I went to the river today, I wanted to catch shrimp and Dutch crabs for aquariums, but it turned out that going to the north bank of our 2 km wide river with a fresh south wind is not a very good idea in terms of catching someone on the shallows, nevertheless, fishermen caught fish there.
Parallel to the visit to the coast, I decided to drive along the top of the cliff, cycling there turned out to be a bit scary - the ground is wet from the recent rain, there are hills, pits, scree and mounds everywhere), the grass is all covered with dew, and the height of the cliff is up to 20m (There were no insects, but there were huge fires - everything burned out this fall.
Of the insects, I saw only a fly, and small mosquitoes in the evening, when the wind had already died down.

But in general, it was nice to ride - the temperature was approx. +12C near the water, it was even a little hot, and from what it is in December-it's twice as pleasant

Surf noise

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Eh... with your Zimbabweans... we also have our own Zimbabwe...

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