Crimea, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova

  

I'll try to determine
1) Bear Spiris striata Linnaeus, 1758
2) Unpaired Cervonian Lycaena dispar (Haworth, 1802)

18.05.2012, Kharkiv, Forest Park.
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And today, in the steppes, we accidentally got caught in a thunderstorm. It's creepy.
Dybok - just a lot of darkness this season.
There will probably be a lot of Karakurts too. Or maybe not, they overwinter as larvae.
But there are very few butterflies, very few, I haven't seen any whiteflies/jaundice, rarely shashechnitsy, golubyanki more or less, but also very few. There are almost no crickets, they are completely frozen out.
But there are grasshoppers and locusts.

It turned out just such a selection according to the features of wintering - those who wintered in the pupa or in the form of a larva, and even more so in the form of an imago, lost.

So let the insects think - which is better-to spend the winter in the egg, and then develop long and tedious, or quickly take wing, get a huge advantage in time and all that.. or freeze nafig )))
In short, all the" particularly tricky " this season was waiting for trouble-wintering without snow at -25..
As a result, all the particularly tricky ones - butterflies with their pupae and caterpillars, bumblebees/wasps, crickets - were slightly frozen out. Especially the butterflies were unlucky.
In general, already let us not have winter at all, and then so, then +10 a month, then -20 without snow

I was filming a bark beetle and then such a comedy played out...
Cryptolestes duplicatus, and bark beetle I don't know, both from oak.

Today, Kharkiv region, Valkovsky district, Yablunivka. The state of nature is like at the beginning of June... We are about 2 weeks ahead of schedule. Spring whistled by us, and they didn't notice...

P. malvae
P. mnemosyne
L. "sinapis"
A. crataegi
P. napi
C. "hyale"
S. pruni
L. dispar
C. decoloratus
C. osiris
C. argiolus
P. argus
P. argyrognomon
C. semiargus
P. amandus
P. thersites
P. icarus
H. lucina
N. sappho
L. camilla
E. maturna
M. trivia
M. phoebe
V. cardui
A. io
P. c-album
A. levana
L. maera
C. arcania
C. pamphilus

IMHO, for May impressive.

I don't have time to process photos chronically... Maybe I'll post something later.

Here are my five kopecks. Photo-report on the expedition to the Crimea, in the Alushta region from April 29 to May 9. The weather was good, sunny and, as the locals say, uncharacteristic for this period. It feels like June-July. The walking route started at the Angarsk Pass, then I went along the southern slope of Chatyr-Dag, went to the Crimean Nature Reserve, stopped for a couple of days a little above the mouth of the Safun-Uzen river, just past the village.Pink, put glasses and plates there, mowed pretty much, took a bath. Then, along the northern and eastern slopes, Babugan-Yayla descended to Alushta, from where he quickly escaped by trolleybus back to the Angara Pass. Then my way lay along the slope of Demerdzhi, from spring to spring, around the mountain, to the Jurla waterfall (where I also did not miss the opportunity to swim) and back, with frequent stops for fishing. On the penultimate day, I took a trolleybus along the Yalta highway to the village.Vinogradny and wandered along the southern slope of Babugan-Yayla. The next day I went down to the highway, took a trolleybus and went to Simferopol and then to Moscow, with a strong desire to return to the Crimea more than once. During the hike, I tried all possible ways to install the boiler on the fire, only some of them are shown in the photo. Health charged to the fullest, only now departed. Special thanks to Alexey Vishnyakov and Alexey Romanenko for the wonderful multifunctional tent that they gave me for my birthday, it's in the photo. In the absence of a screen and generator, I even tried to fish on her white awning, highlighting it with a headlamp. Of course, almost nothing came - a pterostichus, a dead-eater, a scooper, a moth flashed by, and a few flies, mosquitoes and a grasshopper. I almost didn't catch daytime butterflies, because they are not mine and no one from here needs them. I took only those that deliberately climbed into the net or fell victim to yellow plates and remained intact. The main focus was on eardrums and beetles. Flies scored everything and everything, but it was a pity to throw it out, suddenly someone needed it, I also took it. There were a lot of different ticks, so before wandering through the bushes and grass, I mowed them. I tested the Malez grid, which proved to be ambiguous... The catch rate strongly depends on the location, direction and time of day, and there was often nowhere to put it, people are almost everywhere and everything is visible. In all cases, yellow plates were more catchy, and mowing was even faster (sometimes even at night, as in the joke about the hedgehog and cannabis "mow, mow, do not sleep!"). However, the species composition of the grid, at first glance, is different from yellow plates and mowing. In addition, the grid is indispensable where it is impossible to mow. Photos are not very good, because the photographer is too blind and the camera is "soap box".

The first parking lot on Kutuzovsky Lake. In fact, it is a swampy puddle with frogs, like all small self-leveling lakes in Alushta, but the spring there is good. The foresters also came into the world, but they took nothing and left in peace.


Tree frog

Beech forest all around

On the way meet a peony

Something orchid-like, yathryshnik?


On the road around the Izobilnensky reservoir

Demergi view

View of Chatyr-Dag. I passed at the bottom on the right, lost my way a little, and went far to the left...

When I went around the reservoir on the path(according to the map), it suddenly led to a dead end, to the shore. There are no more paths, I didn't want to go back and make a 5-6km detour, I asked the fishermen, they were surprised, but they assumed that if you go directly through the forest, straight up the mountain(about a kilometer), then there will be a road on the plateau that will lead to Alushta. Okay! Who knows, he will understand-impenetrable low-growing oak forest, branches climb into the eyes, very prickly undergrowth of bushes with thorns, rocky scree, slope of 45 degrees, in some places had to crawl... I forgot to fold the net and used it as a stop, I broke it of course. Finally, I climbed the plateau and came out on the road. My mood improved considerably.

Beautiful vineyards, picturesque anthropogenic landscape, view of Demerdzhi. On the way there was a self-leveling lake with very warm water, which washed away the remnants of fatigue from the "ascent". While swimming, I forgot to take a picture of the lake.

Continuation will be in an hour.

After the lake, I met a magnificent flowering acacia tree, around which swarmed hundreds of xylocopp and other solitary bees.
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On the "Andryukhina polyana". The first time I set up a Malez grid.
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On the right you can see a barrel, there are three of them. This is the water supply system of Lavanda village. Behind the barrel, an open pipe with spring water. At first there was a desire to turn off the tap, but it was not there, then I relaxed.
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A beech tree eaten by someone, empty as a drum.


Here I stoked a fire, with such "splinters". Firewood is visible in the background. I tried to turn over logs and stones, but there is nothing under them, but in the rotten stumps there are a lot of carabuses and ...

large larvae of lamellate whiskers and barbels. I picked up a little and brought it home.


This is already at another campsite, at the Kerechper spring, under the pass between north and south Demerdzhi. I left my tent and went for a walk around the neighborhood before it got dark. One of the walls of South Demerji at sunset.

The next day, he became impudent and went for a full day's walk in the valley. View of the fortification of Funa with a business where you can drink beer and rent a horse for a lot of money (I was told 500 UAH).




Valley of Ghosts. On the left side, the entrance is paid, there are gates and "Ostap Bender", with the standard phrase for the Crimea " We have paid services!"(the price for the service "pass" is 20 UAH). In other places, admission is free.




At some distance from the parking lot, in the bushes, I put a net and plates. All the same, passing tourists turned around in unison at the white spot, although I with a net, from the opposite side, looked no less noticeable. You can see the jambs of the structure, insects climb up and only half gets into the jar, the rest have to be brushed away.


In one plate, I put horse meat, for taste.

Another way to install a boiler. There was little space in the parking lot, so I put up a tent under a tree. By the way, I always slept upside down, because there were no absolutely horizontal platforms, and upside down is more convenient than in any other way. The dreams were unusually vivid...


The next day I walked past the Valley of Ghosts and took more pictures. (The route is not optimal at all, but I needed a store in Radiant.)








At the foot of Demerdzhi, on the outskirts of Radiant, there is a ranch where you can rent a room for 50-100 UAH per person (as agreed), rent a horse, drink wine and beer, eat, get water(by the way, a good spring is two hundred meters away). Next to the crane, I found a pen with an ostrich.


On the southern and south-eastern slopes there are a lot of grasshoppers and blackbirds, there are German wasps, racehorses, sphex, large leaf eaters, elephants, etc.Also, there is a lot of manure, but I didn't really rummage there, except for aphodia there was no one there.

On the way to Jurla Waterfall







Finally, the waterfall itself(not large, but picturesque). There are "baths" that I used to bathe in.

Waterfall surroundings









Views of the Black Sea.


The next day I went back to Luchistoe, walking deliberately slowly, stopping for a long time. He stood in a clearing above the village. At the bottom, next to the nearest house, there is a pipe with spring water. In the evening, the lower layer of clouds rose to this height and everything was covered with fog. Early in the morning I took a bus to Alushta, where I went on.


This is already on the southern slope of Babugan-Yayla, where I spent the last day. Fotal little.

Let's wrap it up. Train station in Simferopol.



Next, a photo of the catch.

This post was edited by Seneka - 05/22/2012 18: 08

Buggy forum, couldn't fix it, so I repeat!
...

After the lake, I met a magnificent flowering acacia tree, around which swarmed hundreds of xylocopp and other solitary bees.




On the "Andryukhina polyana". The first time I set up a Malez grid.

and plates


On the right you can see a barrel, there are three of them. This is the water supply system of Lavanda village. Behind the barrel, an open pipe with spring water. At first there was a desire to turn off the tap, but it was not there, then I relaxed.

Actually, the material

In the first parking lot


From glasses







From above, from glasses, from below, on a blooming acacia tree. Approximately, the upper row of xylocopp is female, the lower row is male.


On flowering bushes and everywhere in the Demerdzhi valley



South and south-east slope of Demerdzhi


The southern slope of Babugan-Yayla. Barbels and blackbirds - male and female.



Mesh, mowing, plates.




До побачення, хлопцi!

This post was edited by Seneka - 05/22/2012 21: 54

Seneka

thank you for the report! Did you take all but the erect wings? The grasshopper in the second photo is interesting...

They were eaten by the first two green ones on the way, and the last green one was crushed by my cat. There are larvae, but they are still reserved. Who in Moscow keeps beetle larvae?
There are a lot of interesting places on the southern slope of Demerdzhi.

This post was edited by Seneka - 05/22/2012 18: 24

Better than Hermon and the catches are richer. Although, if you go for a few days and with traps, who knows.. Only this is not possible The entrance to Hermon is open from 9 to 15, then-a showdown with border guards. Syria beyond the mountain.

Set up traps, you lazy bum!

Legionnaires!thank you all for the extravaganza of reports! That's great!

Actually, the material

Do p o bache nn I, chloptsy!

Here, sobsno, a jar of syrfidami I would not push in the far corner... And so-thank you! Places la romantic, it was I who collected them, being a Crimean.

Set up traps, you lazy bum!

You're definitely not lazy, you ran upstairs, checked, and told me there was nothing. Can't you make a phone call? Tell everyone else how much vodka I drank..

26.05.2012 Went with Igor (Buzman) to the Bald Mountain in Kiev. The goal of the hike is to install soil traps, of which 50 pieces in 5 series were successfully placed in different parts of the park. We decided to make a joke - half of it was filled with dark beer, and half with light beer. Experiment, damn it! We went around the neighborhood for a while.We caught Mesosa curculionoides, Saperda punctata, both in the same tree, and all sorts of small things.

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26.05.2012 Went with Igor (Buzman) to the Bald Mountain in Kiev. The goal of the hike is to install soil traps, of which 50 pieces in 5 series were successfully placed in different parts of the park. We decided to make a joke - half of it was filled with dark beer, and half with light beer. Experiment, damn it!

And what are the results of the experiment?

If I remember correctly, the chef said that in the Crimea crickets were best used for the worst beer.

The result will be available in about a week when we go to check it out.

26.05.12 yar near M. Dmitrovichi, Obukhovsky district, I. Kostyuk and V. Sergienko, 21-00 to 0-30, cold, dew fell in the evening.
Here's tochuka


A few photos from I. Kostyuk
.


Votesuch an area


selected a location for the screen



there are a lot of them-they've already settled in for the night


sunset


there are a lot of them, but...


The flight was bad, but two copies arrived.quite rare scoops-Lacanobia blenna
and a couple of proserpine - the rest is either banal or ordinary

Cossidae
Parahypopta caestrum

Sphingidae
Sphinx pinastri
Proserpinus proserpina

Geometridae
Scopula ornata
Scopula rubiginata

Costaconvexa polygrammata
Cosmorhoe ocellata
Thera obeliscata

Lomaspilis marginata
Heliomata glarearia
Macaria alternata
Chiasmia clathrata
Isturgia arenacearia
Peribatodes rhomboidaria
Ascotis selenaria
Siona lineata

Notodontidae
Drymonia dodonaea
Pterostoma palpina

Erebidae
Rivula sericealis

Leucoma salicis

Spilarctia lutea
Spilosoma lubricipeda
Diaphora mendica
Diacrisia sannio

Noctuidae
Diachrysia stenochrysis

Cucullia umbratica

Calophasia lunula

Caradrina morpheus
Hoplodrina ambigua
Charanyca trigrammica
Actinotia polyodon
Apamea crenata
Apamea sordens

Anarta trifolii
Lacanobia w-latinum
Lacanobia oleracea
Lacanobia blenna
Mythimna pallens
Mythimna albipuncta

Agrotis segetum
Agrotis exclamationis
Xestia c-nigrum

here is blena


This post was edited by svm2 - 28.05.2012 14: 07

Well, I gave birth to a report about our trip to the Crimea on May 1-13, 2012. Participants: Yakov Kovalenko, Alexey Tsylin, my wife and I (
we went to Tarkhankut Peninsula with Andrey Ulyanitsky aka ulik and Vyacheslav Shaporinsky aka Shapik).
Due to the leapfrog with the cancellation and postponement of flights (which cost us a couple of million nerve cells), we arrived in the Crimea separately-Alexey arrived
on April 30 and spent the night in Sevastopol, Yasha arrived there on May 1 early in the morning, and Anya and I flew to Simferopol in the late afternoon.
The meeting place was designated as the Mekenzievy Gory station near Sevastopol – in the village of the same name, we were to live compactly in the dacha
of a fellow student of mine and my wife (on the map, the point is marked as "Elana's dacha").
After meeting and settling in, we began to work out our plans for the next 2 weeks in detail. In general terms, it was clear that:
you need to visit Chufut Kale;
catch a couple of days on Tarkhankut;
visit the Vorontsov Palace with a cultural program.
Naturally, you need to bury a lot of glasses (by the way, the "digger" proved to be an excellent device for all money, as they say), try to catch the Carabus scabrosus tauricus and place the Maleza trap (I didn't drag it from home for nothing!)





The next morning, we started exploring the area and fishing.


It was quite dry (there was no rain during our entire stay in the Crimea) and it
felt like it was too early, spring was late. There were quite a lot of centipedes under the rocks, and Timarcha sp. and Blaps sp. crawled in the garden of the dacha. But in general, the variety
of beetles was small ("the result of turning stones did not correspond to their number").


In the process of exploring the surrounding area, we went to the village of Lyubimovka,
from where we walked along the coast to Sevastopol. Here on the beach" Uchkuyevka " Alexey caught the first specimen of Carabus scabrosus tauricus.
On May 3, we left for Chufut Kale. From Bakhchisarai 10 minutes by minibus and the road to the remains of this settlement begins. They passed a couple of churches,
a monastery, and a Muslim cemetery. Fattened pigs lay peacefully at the side of the road,


polyxenes fluttered in one area, but our greatest
delight was caused by a huge pile of manure, which was constantly approached by various beetles, including Emus hirtus.


In Chufut Kale
itself, Calosoma inquisitor fell from the trees, and an interesting Laemostenus was found under a rock in one of the caves. On the felled juniper branches, we tried for a long time and almost unsuccessfully
to catch some goldfish from the Antaxia river – the big-eyed creatures noticed our creeping figures and quickly flew away. But, still managed to catch
a few pieces. On the way back, we almost missed the train – some movie about Afghan Mujahideen was being shot in Chufut Kale, and the guards didn
't want to let us pass through the set (which took up the entire main street and was also the only way). Also, on the way
back, there was a funny incident – we stopped at the church spring, drank water and cooled our heads. Then Alexey noticed a Morimus funereus barbel crawling along the road
, with the sole of a tourist's shoe hovering over it, intending to crush it. With a shout of "Stop!" Alexey snatched the sawyere
out from under his feet at the last moment. To which the guide of this group remarked: "Oh, so this is a pest-the Crimean ground beetle!"


"The hunters didn't care"


On May 5, in the evening, we moved to Tarkhankut from Sevastopol, and Vyacheslav Shaporinsky joined us in Yevpatoria. The tents were set up in approximately 12 kV CER s.
Olenevka and May 6 were completely devoted to training camps in the vicinity of the camp. Again, " the result of turning over the stones did not correspond to their number."
Quite a lot of Carabus hungaricus were caught in the line of traps set in a small depression, and in a parallel line, but slightly higher and where the soil was
drier, not a single carabus came.

Strategic reserves


Getting ready for night fishing


May 8 and 9 were spent in Alupka. Initially, we planned to turn around in one day, but we arrived in Alupka at 15 o'clock and did not have time to return back.
After a walk around the Vorontsov Palace, we stirred up the litter in the bottom of the stream flowing in the park, as a result, we caught some 2 interesting Nebria sp., and in the stream I
found an interesting coleoptera larva, that's what only-so far a mystery.


Since it was decided to stay overnight in Alupka, the next day
we planned to climb Ai-Petri to help out there. Well, once we saw a series of signs "Tasting room 900 m", "... 400 m", "... 300 m", "...
100 m", we decided that this was a sign from above and went to taste the wines of Massandra.




In the morning, we took the cable car up to Ai-Petri. The views, while climbing, are gorgeous, despite the fog. The territory adjacent to the cable
car station is densely built up with cafes, which, according to the owner of one of the establishments, there are as many as 47 pieces. The competition is terrible, customers are lured to
cafes from everywhere, touts stand on the trails and invite them to visit their cafe, promising discounts, cannon shots in honor of visitors, etc. At the entrance to the
territory, they either warn or fight with competitors:


All this "Las Vegas" is located on the territory of the Yalta mountain and forest Reserve, but it is fenced. Despite the protected regime, tourists walk freely
and throw garbage, and mountains of plastic bags, bottles, etc. accumulate in especially convenient terrain depressions.


As it turned out, turning over rocks to search for beetles under them is fraught. With this atypical behavior, we attracted the attention of a local gamekeeper, who
at first was satisfied with our answer that we were looking for beetles, but then demanded to put all the stones in their original position, because
the microclimate that had developed for thousands of years would be disturbed and nothing would ever live under this stone again. We agreed with his arguments and swore that everything
would be reversed. The devil prompted me to ask for what reasons they do not clean up garbage, whether it interferes with the microclimate. The huntsman was offended and promised
to call the task force to draw up a report on us, because without the consent of the administration, you can't walk around the reserve – after all, the reserve.
However, Yasha convinced him that perhaps the reserve should have a slightly different access mode for visitors and it is certainly not recommended to throw garbage
anywhere. Grandfather relented and did not call the group, advised to engage in such a strange occupation out of sight of all honest people and left. The stones,
however, we tried to put in the same place in the same position, and when we came back, we saw the same gamekeeper again collecting garbage in a large
plastic bag.
The next day, on May 10, Yakov was leaving, and as luck would have it, something shifted in the weather on that day – it somehow warmed up imperceptibly, and a normal flight began.


Yakov sadly packed his things and we slowly filled out the stains, assuring him that we would also take his share.
On the same day, in connection with the upcoming quick departure, we went to shoot traps in the vicinity of Sevastopol, at the turn to the village of Khmelnitsky (it was there
that ulik saw many protseruses in the vineyards on the paths.) Naturally, not a single procerus fell into the trap, but there were a lot of interesting little things. Procerus
came across a little later – when we were standing at the bus stop and waiting for the return bus. The female proudly crawled out onto the sidewalk a few meters in front of us, where she was
caught.
The next few days before departure were devoted to removing the set traps, and farewell bathing. Going down through the Uchkuyevka Park to the beach, Anya turned
over a stone and found the third and last protserus (of course, not a single one fell into the traps).
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By the way, the modified Malez trap (the so-called SLAM type) proved to be quite good-there were quite a few eardrums and flies, but a fairly diverse set
of beetles. However, you need to carefully choose the installation location – I hung it under a cherry plum tree and as a result, a tincture of ovaries was obtained in the lower jar.
We had a plane early in the morning on May 13, but there were no suitable electric trains and Vyacheslav Shaporinsky agreed to shelter us for the night, for which we thank him very much

Here is a trip that came out, in general terms.

List of points - here

This post was edited by Bad Den-07.04.2018 17: 35

After a walk around the Vorontsov Palace, we stirred up the litter in the bottom of the stream flowing in the park, as a result, we caught some 2 interesting Nebria sp., and in the stream I
found an interesting coleoptera larva, that's what only-so far a mystery.

Denis, these are the larvae of the Scirtidae. Possible - Elodes.

Well, I gave birth to a report about our trip to the Crimea on May 1-13, 2012.

Denis, will there be any photos of mattresses?

Denis, will there be any photos of mattresses?

Will be
I think I'll have time to post it tonight.

Behind schedule - photos of mattresses

Behind schedule - photos of mattresses

Denis, is the percerus black, or is the lighting not very good?

Denis, is the percerus black, or is the lighting not very good?

One had a black color when captured, and the second one was purple on prsp.

Behind schedule - photos of mattresses

another mattress with micra is currently being processed by Denis

Behind schedule - photos of mattresses

Wasp Blestyanka if from Tarkhankut , then-Chrysis dichroa, if not, then perhaps even C. pseudodichroa

another mattress with micra is currently being processed by Denis

Evening walk

And a morning walk

Hierophis, in the first photo where a tiny cricket, or rather its larva is like a trumpeter. There's also decticus verrucivorus and the double-spotted leap in your photos. By the way, about verrucivorus can be albifrons, even some phaneropterinae...

DanMar, here's ka kraz that big decticus-this is exactly where the larva was photographed, which according to your albifrons, only the larvae did not grow for 1.5 cm yet, so it was not a decticus larva!
And decticus is more likely verrucivorus, I haven't looked at the abdomen yet, in adults, you can distinguish between the cerci and the last segment.

And the little cricket - I thought it was something so amazing, it's so unusual

And yet, I must say that the sun is very much biting already! Today it rained in the morning and the temperature was about +20, it was easy to walk, although the dew was strong, and in the afternoon it was like no higher than +26, but as soon as the sun peeked out from behind the clouds-zhzhzhest)))))
You already need to be on the spot at 6 o'clock maximum, and by 11 you are already home.

But in the Crimea, judging by the weather reports, it's cool, cool

On June 2, we were with Arthur in the area of Gineevka (Zmiyevskaya district, Kharkiv region). From Kharkiv, it's 1: 20 by train.
The weather was already overcast in the morning, the temperature was around +20, then it even seemed to start falling, in general it was a little cold. After lunch, a light rain began to fall, at first a little bit in individual drops, and then in general it started to charge fine continuously, in general, after one o'clock in the afternoon there were no prospects and I had to go home...
















...

This post was edited by barry - 03.06.2012 20: 59

Gineevka (continued)

Barry, wow, you're cold!
On that day, you had up to +18 in the morning with a sharp collapse to +15.

Gineevka (continued)
Some of the beetles (as usual) had to be finished at home, I even persuaded Arthur to stop by my house to help, and we live far from each other, about an hour away, so this is a feat, for which I thank him very much.
When they drove up to me, Arthur remembered that there is a rowan log nearby (or rather, in theory, it should still be lying, you never know what-maybe someone has already stolen it). We once found Dircaea australis and Orchesia undulata on it. We decided to go... I even allowed myself to make an optimistic forecast - that there should be about five Dircaea australis there, although the species is not so frequent, last time we found a couple and I then somehow went - I also found two... Arthur even tried to promote me that like 20 grand I want... but it was already too fantastic for such a species, I did not succumb to provocations...
In general, we got there... the log is still in place... They searched it... Just five Dircaea australis and a couple of dozen Orchesia undulata.