Crimea, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova

I'm the only one with three cats and a cat.None of them touch hamsters.Quite aggressive.

Do your cats not like hamsters? They just don't know how to cook them!

I'm the only one with three cats and a cat.None of them touch hamsters.Quite aggressive.

Who are aggressive-hamsters? It can be seen - in the 2nd picture, the hamsters are clearly plotting something unkind against the cat...

Last night I opened the season in the Vitebsk region - 60 kilometers south of Polotsk. The butterflies flew quite well, but nothing interesting came across. Orthosia incerta was the most numerous of all possible color variants. At 21.30 it was +9 0 S, when I went to bed, at 0.30 it dropped to +6 0 s.
Below are photos of the biotope and catch.

By the way, I looked at apricot trees-it's terrible. There are very few buds, a lot of dead branches

Are you cold? And so the picture is actually characteristic when apricot moniliosis is affected.

About hamsters-I had to read "out of the corner of my eye" that the animal is aggressive, displaces rats (!) .

I have a real spring in my front garden!The previous report with the hamster found its continuation.A whole gang got out today.They prowled for food.I managed to capture three people at once with a cat in the center.They don't conflict yet...

Hamsters are so cute

Are you cold? And so the picture is actually characteristic when apricot moniliosis is affected.

Well, I don't understand this, they wrote to me that some specialist on this case spoke on TV, and said that there would be no apricot this year-they were frozen. N u and there are rumors that they are frozen.

From the facts, it should be noted that it is already the 13th day and apricots are not blooming, already cherries and cherry buds are about to open, I don't remember this yet, last year there was a late flowering, but not so much! Sometimes there are doubts about whether they will bloom at all.

That's Shapik. Chernotelka-Platydema violacea. Today I collected 3 of them myself. They are also nimble-reptiles

Shapik and Uliku: What is the karabus in the photo?

Shapik and Uliku: What is the karabus in the photo?

Carabus (Megodontus) gyllenhali Fischer, 1827

Yesterday I was in the Baidar Valley. There are a lot of webbing, from beetles came the leaf beetle Timarcha tenebricosa F., from butterflies, not counting nymphalids-buckthorn pigeons and dawns.

And we were yesterday in the Kherson region in the "desert", only not in the desert part, but in the wet, where there are floodplain forests.
Of the entomological impressions, the strongest were made by single bees! I'm generally a fan of common insects, but what I saw was essentially also "commonness"- it was a whole bee metropolis!
In the middle of a tree-covered clearing stands a hill of approx. 20m in diameter and a meter and a half high, overgrown with rare trees. And this whole hill is densely packed with bee burrows. I understood that this hill was formed as a result of the life of these bees. There are so many of them that there is a buzz around the hill and the bees come and go from there so it looks like there is an apiary there. There must be tens of thousands of them living on this hill.

Otherwise, the vegetation is very weak, and previously there were total fires everywhere. Various willow trees are still blooming and even beginning to bloom. The grass hadn't risen yet, and many of them hadn't even shown up. Only rare dandelions bloom.

There were a lot of different nymphalids.

The herpetological part of this trip also turned out to be incredible, the improbability in the pictures

Sobsvenno-herpetosensation))))

What kind of animal with a torn-off baby animal in your hands?
And after meeting this monster, you decided to feed yourself to ants))?
You have beautiful frogs!

What I have in my hands - this is some kind of megachervaga of an incomprehensible kind, we found it in the water, it looks like a creeper, but not a creeper like, the size is about 25 cm in length and almost 10 mm in thickness. But the strangest thing was when I took it in my hand, the worm somehow strained and water trickled out of it, then it seemed to crack in one socket and something worm-like came out, with some appendages on the "muzzle". Juuuuttt )))

And these ants are also some unusual

By the evening of the 13th, I got to another point - on the shore of Lake Chervyady, 30 kilometers south of Polotsk. The goal is the same-to catch the light. The place is very promising in my opinion, but in the spring, it seems that the same set of species flies here as everywhere else. The air temperature at 21.00 was +10 0 C. That's when I started fishing. Almost immediately, Eriogaster lanestris arrived, followed by two more within 20 minutes. They didn't come back later. Around 22.00 the wind picked up, butterflies became less, and after 23.00 a light rain began to drizzle. I didn't want to get wet, especially since nothing interesting came and I climbed into the tent to sleep. The air temperature by this time remained the same +10. Photos of the loot are attached.

Herpetosensation, is it a melanistic water snake?

Gennady Shemberger, ne, vodyanoi - not very sensational, of course, there are not many of them, but there are whole micropopulations of melanists. This is an ordinary Very beautiful

Gennady Shemberger, ne, vodyanoi - not very sensational, of course, there are not many of them, but there are whole micropopulations of melanists. This is an ordinary Very beautiful one

It's clear.I saw black snakes on the seashore near Anapa.It must have been a water bottle.

  

And these ants are also unusual

not Formica ?

Gennady Shemberger, well, if on the seashore, then 100% water, ordinary people do not like salt water, and there are no frogs there for sure. And water snakes live normally in the sea. But the fact that they are black is still interesting, because water snakes usually have population melanism, and there are not so many places with black snakes.

Among common grass snakes, melanism seems to occur everywhere, but rarely, more often in the northern regions, and there are no clusters of melanists.


alex 2611, well, I do not understand straight up where the formica, where the serviformica, according to the type of nest so serviformica, without piles, just under the snag nest, but in appearance.. there are no such things in our steppe regions.

An ordinary earthworm from which a nematode or hairworm has emerged.
Ants-Formica 100%

 
alex 2611, well, I do not understand straight up where the formica, where the serviformica, according to the type of nest so serviformica, without piles, just under the snag nest, but in appearance.. there are no such things in our steppe regions.

some Formica cunicularia. Quite common in your area.

some Formica cunicularia. Quite common in your area.

So vacation is a serviformica! It's just not entirely clear who understands what by the word "formica" )) I know that the ants that I photographed are S. Lato's formica, but I don't know if they are a subgenus of formica or serviformica. And it is unlikely that this is a vacation.

So vacation is a serviformica! It's just not entirely clear who understands what by the word "formica" )) I know that the ants that I photographed are S. Lato's formica, but I don't know if they are a subgenus of formica or serviformica. And it is unlikely that this is a vacation.

(shrugging his shoulders.) If you are interested in what subgenus of the genus Formica it is, then why not take an anteater, binocular, determinant and determine? Naturally, from such a photo, I will not determine the ants to the species. I just wanted to say that I don't see anything strange or surprising in them. And by the word "formica" I mean ants of the genus formica.

This post was edited by alex 2611-15.04.2012 20: 39

(shrugging his shoulders.) If you are interested in what subgenus of the genus Formica it is, then why not take an anteater, binocular, determinant and determine? Naturally, from such a photo, I will not determine the ants to the species. I just wanted to say that I don't see anything strange or surprising in them. And by the word "formica" I mean ants of the genus formica.

According to the new taxonomy, the subgenus Serviformica seems to be already considered a genus.
And as for the definition, it was certainly possible, but somehow I didn't take the ants, just as the rain was starting, I didn't see a single viper, and I feel sorry for the ant

According to the new taxonomy, the subgenus Serviformica seems to be already considered a genus.

yes, and let them. It's still clear what I mean

The first crunches were caught the day before yesterday.

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At the weekend, I walked through the deciduous forest near the city, and briefly went to birch kolki among pine plantations.
In the deciduous forest - a yellow carpet, a lot of animals, despite the fact that a couple of days ago the forest was blue with undergrowth, and I saw only a few bumblebees from insects. Apparently, the reason for the changes was heavy precipitation on Thursday and strong warming after them. The woods are getting smaller, but there are buds of oak tulips, and in some places in sunny glades, they have already bloomed. Soon the Russian hazel grouse will also bloom. I found last year's giant raincoat - it's a pity I can't find any "fresh" ones. Fallen leaves and branches rustle from crawling lizards and snakes, and a turtle warms itself at the bridge over the stream. There are a lot of birds - finches, buntings, woodpeckers, hoopoes, starlings, coots, a couple of swans and many others. There are a lot of bedbugs (scabies, ligdinae, brownish with orange wings, green), green bronzies, nutcrackers with red elytra, elm leaf beetles fly en masse in the city again, Dorcadion holosericeum crawl on asphalt, furry bronzies fly.
Of the butterflies, there are a lot of G. rhamni of both sexes, so much I have not seen before. I noticed how the female lays eggs on the emerging leaves from the budding buds. Pieris come across, P. c-album is also very much, I.io Ectropis crepuscularia (and the background is from gray to almost black) are often found on trunks in the forest, Eriocrania sp., 1 Nomophila noctuella, 1 Costaconvexa polygrammata flew. C. argiolus appears. Various moth species fly, including Agonotreryx / Depressaria sp. and Semiocospis avelanella. Orthosia incerta drowned in a puddle. In general, there are a lot of moth remains (marginaria, last year's brumata, etc.).
In the birch forest there are a lot of Archiearias parthenias, Achlya flavicornis (on birches when shedding), a few Hypena rostralis, I.io, P. c-album, darklings on the sand in the pine forests.




























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Yesterday I took a walk along the Chernaya River, from the village of Khmelnitskoye to Inkerman (about 10 km). The side of the road passing through the vineyards is littered with downed and crushed insects, a lot of webbing, counted 21 soft-boiled protserus on a segment of less than 2 km Everywhere there is a lot of garbage and "nature lovers" (or rather, lovers of devouring-pobuhat in nature). From the butterflies of many whiteflies, polychromatic, egeria appeared...I saw two copies of polyxena, very fast one barely managed to catch. Some photos...







Polyxene biotope(I've been observing it here for several years, but I haven't found any kirkazone )


This still life comes across quite often






thickets of local prickly pear








house of ten xylocop




When he approached, someone peeked out of it, but abruptly hid.Diameter about 2 cm






Actually, the whole meager catch(repnitsa and Pavel.eyes found on the roadside)

I apologize for my geographical cretinism - is this Chufut-Kale?

Everywhere there is a lot of garbage and "nature lovers "(or rather, lovers of eating and enjoying nature).
You have, even though the water in the rivers is clear, but we have mountains of garbage in the Moscow region , and the water is all dirty. There is nothing to take a picture of, again it's time to get ready to go far away.

I apologize for my geographical cretinism - is this Chufut-Kale?

Cave City-Inkerman

  

Aah! V. cardui in copula!

I wonder what the circumstances of the discovery are?

I was walking along the field on the path, It took off), they calmly posed for me...In general, they are often found in open areas - fields, meadows...But I met the copulating ones myself for the first time...I would like to capture the admiral like that, otherwise only a single copy will flash by like lightning, and that's all...

It's a little rough. Two flowers, one bug. And also?

I apologize for my geographical cretinism - is this Chufut-Kale?

I have something on chufut-Kale...
http://barry.fotopage.ru/gallery/article.php?id=29

If you give links to a radical, then they are useless on the site itself, it still doesn't show photos.

Special for Kharkovbut:
Omsk region.
I shot it last June in the steppe at sunset.

Do you have admirals?! It is interesting then, but can they be in the south of the Krasnoyarsk Territory?