Crimea, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova

So I didn't understand, did no one else see the first daytime butterflies?
It can't be, but what about all sorts of nymphalids and lemongrass?

Lemongrass, cornflower, peacock's eye, some nymphalis, libita celtis, and even one whitefly were spotted in the vicinity of Budapest.

Wow! Now I have roughly calculated that the SET for Budapest has reached +100C ! This is when counting down from March 10. Cool

So I didn't understand, did no one else see the first daytime butterflies?
It can't be, but what about all sorts of nymphalids and lemongrass?

In Chernihiv region I saw c-album and lemongrass.

This post was edited by Vis-20.03.2012 22: 24

The weather is weird this spring. It was suddenly warm, very warm.

A couple of days ago the wind was strong

The photo reflects both strong wind and heat )) Although, the sign can be kicked without the wind, well, at least in the form of a protest to world consumption and global globalization
And girls in such odiyanii sometimes and at-20C go (well, or stand)
At the moment, even at +20, almost everyone is wearing fur coats and hats. Prudent.

Oh, and we have lemongrass plants, but they are there where we are not!

In general, it is now +10, and no one is flying into the light, usually it is already full of all sorts of moths and shovels, the north has not thawed yet)))

Sevastopol, Maksimova dacha. The Bulavous ones are a bit slow. I saw one copy of the anguloptera, a dozen polychloroses, and that was it. Peacock's eye and urticaria, so common in Polesie, are the limit of dreams here... I would like to see it at least once ... Yes, even a battered admiral flew by...that's all.nympalis polychloros
sonny volunteered to help with the unpacking)

Peacock's eye and urticaria, so common in Polesie, are the limit of dreams here... I'd like to see it for once...

Urticaria is common on some yayls, and in some years it is even very numerous; on Chiginitra I once observed thousands of caterpillars feeding... But with the peacock's eye there are always problems...

To see urticaria and a day peacock's eye in the Crimea-the limit of dreams? "well, it's all there. We also have one friend who claimed that we do not have a peacock's eye, well, there is no one here and that's all. What surprised me, not just surprised me, was that it was all the same to say that there is no tarantula here, well, or a water snake. And yet, it seems, I went on sorties, but did not see them, although they are not measured here, especially hives.

But in general, Israel is good, Crimea is also good, but it is not bad here either

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On March 20, one of my friends found a copy of xanthomelas.

[quote=Hierophis,22.03.2012 01:08]

Hello everybody! The theme is just great, I flipped through it several times, all the reports are super. I hardly catch insects myself, but I think I'll take more pictures of them.

I also do not catch, in the sense of collecting, I also only take pictures, only perhaps for keeping the house, well, or for food, although in the latter case I do not often feed domestic animals with insects from nature.

Peacock eyes day we have numerous in areas where there is a landing. In principle, its occurrence is certainly not as high as that of the same polyxena, for example, but this can be explained not only by the low number, peacock eyes do not sit still, unlike prolixena, you can meet it in spring on dirt roads under plantings, that's probably all, they rarely fly to flowers.

And in the plavni, and in general on the southern side of the Dnieper, there is a lot to eat! For example, I saw the pathos there, we don't have one, there is only pandora. In general, there is some kind of "northern" place, there is even real sphagnum, peat bogs, deciduous forests, so there is a decent contrast with the "ordinary" south

Today I took a rather successful walk behind Archiearis parthenias, at least that's what I thought in the field, and already at home I found notha among them, but in the photo it seems only the first view.

Oh, my God! Today so many pleasant surprises were waiting for me in nature
Staphylin the magnificent, the first snake.. and glvnoe-lair of latrodextus, neobynoe, like a tent with an impressive system of trapping threads and a nest suspended from above! Very uncharacteristic. Well, another dream came true-to find a horse that just got out of the hole!!! You can put it on your hand and take pictures of it as much as you want, until it warms up and flies away

In general-who has the opportunity, it is better to admire the natural beauty tomorrow, and then it seems like almost a virgin of a small week in such a winter Is sad

Good day to all time of day.
On March 24, Vis and I looked at the weather (it was clear), at the temperature (+10 in the afternoon) and thought about whether we should open the 2012 season near Kiev by night fishing. We gathered and went to a pre-planned winter destination: Kiev region; Makarovsky district; the outskirts of the village of Gavronshchyna. I really liked the place with its extensive birch grove and pine forest. We arrived at the site and began to assemble the structure modified in the winter. The Achlya flavicornis flying briskly over our heads helped us with this. I want to note that at the beginning of fishing (18:30), the temperature dropped to +8, and we finished fishing at 23: 30 with 0 degrees on the thermometer. What I would like to note: the most numerous species was still Achlya flavicornis, which we only took 15 copies for two (well, they are very variable in the pattern - we couldn't resist, but not a single butterfly is the same), and at the end of fishing, there were two or three dozen butterflies already in a cold coma Among the moths on the screen two males of Lycia hirtaria and one male of Phigalia pilosaria arrived. Very pleased with the scoop Brachionycha nubeculosa, which is located on a dry blade of grass 2 meters from the screen. We also collected 6 examples of Lithophane furcifera and 2 more species of scoops (now they are being straightened out, after that we will determine). To summarize - THE SEASON IS OPEN!
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Design: side view with DRL 250 and LUF 15 W lamp


Design: side view with DRL 125 and LUF 15 W lamp.


Side view: left - DRL 250 and LUF 15 W, right-DRL 125 and LUF 15 W








Thanks for attention.

This post was edited by Musson max - 26.03.2012 16: 02

Oh, damn: beauty! And we have snow lying and +1 now on the thermometer. And this is in the city: it will be impossible to get into the forest at all, and Muscovy will have a holiday. I would rather have already.

Good day to all time of day! Caught in the entryway today:
Orthosia cerasi


Hypena rostralis

In general, the north wind blew, and it became cold in Sevastopol, insects hid

On Sunday, I took my youngest daughter to my mother-in-law in Shchelkino(Kerch peninsula).At the same time, I took a walk in the district of S.Shortbread.Through the pine forest I came to the shore of the Tatar Bay.I met three species of black-bodied beetles, and four species of small ground beetles under the rocks.A few solitary bees.There are a couple of shovels on the pine trunks.That's probably all.Ice floes in the Sea of Azov are a fun sight!In the evening, a strong cold wind rose.A storm warning has been issued this morning.

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Oh horror, ice in the sea

The storm warning is timely - right after the storm
It seems that this coming Saturday should be fun-wind 4 feathers for sowing. world Cup championship

I met three species of black-bodied beetles, and four species of small ground beetles under the rocks. A few solitary bees.There are a couple of shovels on the pine trunks. That's probably all.

... and the caterpillar Ethmia candidella (Alpheraky, 1908)
And what kind of scoops, I wonder?

  
... and the caterpillar Ethmia candidella (Alpheraky, 1908)
And what kind of scoops, I wonder?

Volodya, the scoop couldn't be photographed.They were too fast.The net wasn't there.

March 31, 2012, near Feodosia, Biyuk-Yanyshar ridge. The temperature is about +10 ... +12, partly cloudy, wind from 4-5 to 20 m/s
in some places. The first Tomares callimachus, as well as Digitivalva christophi fly, one Cerastis rubricosa and one Ptilocephala plumifera were found, and only the caterpillars of Arctia festiva were found. There are dorcadions, quite a lot of carabuses. In addition, black-bodied beetles and other beetles, bees, wasps, ants, flies, bedbugs, spiders, and a completely naked man who cheerfully walked along the path through the top of the mountain...


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Narrow-leaved crocus



Eresus cinnaberinus



female Dolerus ciliatus



Pchelka maja



The fly ate the fly



Ochenbystryj zhuchok Lebia trimaculata



Muha tahina



Carabus bessarabicus



Pchelka maja



Carabus bessarabicus



Carabus bessarabicus eats the caterpillar of the woodworm Dyspessa ulula (or a similar species).



Carabus sp.


This post was edited by Bad Den-13.04.2013 20: 25

March 31, 2012, near Feodosia, Biyuk-Yanyshar ridge. The temperature is about +10 ... +12, partly cloudy, wind from 4-5 to 20 m/s in some places.
Ochenbystryj zhuchok

Vladimir, this is Lebia (Lebia) trimaculata (Villers, 1789).
Interesting ground beetle.

Yes, after such a report from Romyald, I want even more spring and at least some variety
Finally, from 29.03. to 02.04 hatched all who wintered in the refrigerator from mid-January to March 15, except for one swallowtail, still "sleeping".

9 out of 9 polyxene and one swallowtail (hopefully one for now)

Small photo report:

Yes, after such a report from Romyald, I want even more spring and at least some variety
Finally, from 29.03. to 02.04 hatched all who wintered in the refrigerator from mid-January to March 15, except for one swallowtail, still "sleeping".

9 out of 9 polyxene and one swallowtail (hopefully one for now)

In addition to Max's report, since polyxene was collected from a single point. I bred 4 out of 6 (2 males, 2 females). And a little bit of swallowtail. Unfortunately, I couldn't take a photo of the blooming swallowtail, because the camera was dead.

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Today at 6 o'clock in the morning I left on the Yalta highway to s.Perevalnoye.I decided to take a walk along the riverbed.Dogwood bushes.I haven't been there yet this season.I came out at the Red Caves turnoff.I was unpleasantly surprised by the frozen puddles.I turned over the stones and was extremely disappointed.I didn't even find Stafov.Gradually, the sun became hotter.I climbed higher and only here began to come across animals.There's plenty of manure from cattle,but it's empty.There are no aphodiums or copra.There are no holes either.Result:five species of ground beetles, three species of staphylinae, and two small babies.A small one is caught in an anthill.Yes, a couple of Dorcas.That's the whole catch.I buried the glasses and turned back.On the way to the bus stop, I saw anglewort and what looks like polychrome flying by.I took a picture of the fan wing on my bag.At 11 o'clock I was already in Simferopol.

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Today at 6 o'clock in the morning I left on the Yalta highway to s.Perevalnoye.I decided to take a walk along the riverbed.Dogwood bushes.I haven't been there yet this season.I came out at the Red Caves turnoff.I was unpleasantly surprised by the frozen puddles.I turned over the stones and was extremely disappointed.I didn't even find Stafov.Gradually, the sun became hotter.I climbed higher and only here began to come across animals.There's plenty of manure from cattle,but it's empty.There are no aphodiums or copra.There are no holes either.Result:five species of ground beetles, three species of staphylinae, and two small babies.A small one is caught in an anthill.Yes, a couple of Dorcas.That's the whole catch.I buried the glasses and turned back.On the way to the bus stop, I saw anglewort and what looks like polychrome flying by.I took a picture of the fan wing on my bag.At 11 o'clock I was already in Simferopol.

It's a pity that Dorcadion is not enough, but it should already be.

It's a pity that Dorcadion is not enough, but it should already be.

These two were sleeping frozen under a rock

The two of them were sleeping frozen under a rock

And what is the temperature at night and during the day?

Well, here comes our summer
Today I have seen insects in the steppe - in addition to kravchiki and ordinary black-heifers, I have already seen black-heifers with a higher phenological status, more "warm", and steppe xylocopa.
But there is no special activity of insects, adonis are not yet blooming en masse, and in general, the plants have not yet fully understood that winter is already over, you can not see the fluffy heads of rindera, asparagus shoots, brandushki and crocuses are still blooming, and even new ones are blooming.

Of the interesting events, I will also note what I saw on the southern slopes of flying rapeseed whiteflies!
While I was sunbathing in the sun, I noticed that ants were crawling on the ground and grass blades, such as I had never seen before! The size of a millimeter!!! They are black and very agile. It's a pity, the batteries ran out, and I couldn't take a picture of them, although, with such a size, it would have been difficult)

But of course I was especially pleased with the runners, they were everywhere, they still overwintered Huge runners adorn the walk, and when you go and suddenly notice that the runner is not far away, then the rhythm of the steps is lost with admiration

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Today, Kharkiv region. It looks like spring has come. The overwintering males have pricked up their noses, and some of them have already started up... well, they eat what the foxes have sent...

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Wow, rare lemongrass butterfly

It's all amazing. We have knee-deep snow even in the city.

Wow, a rare lemongrass butterfly

What, seriously?

Of course, I've only ever seen it once, and all my friends once, too, one even caught it for the local collection at uni, poor lemongrass )

Of course, I've only ever seen it once, and all my friends once, too, one even caught it for the local collection at uni, poor lemongrass )

Well, Tady velkam in Moscow, we have it like dirt (this is an understatement).

Well, Tady velkam in Moscow, we have it like dirt (this is an understatement).

Ekhe khe, no, you'd better come to us!

Of course, I've only ever seen her once, and so have everyone I know once,

Plant a tree, raise a son, see a lemongrass...

... see lemongrass...

Jokes aside, I saw and photographed lemongrass plants in copula for the first time today. Life was a success.

Plant a tree, raise a son, see a lemongrass...

And we have them as usual....

And we have all the snow filled up on glukho! Even flies don't fly.