Crimea, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova

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On the night of May 30 to 31, Diletant drove to the Makarovsky district of the Kiev region - a mixed forest in the vicinity of the village of Komarovka with swamp elements.In the forest, due to the fire hazard, entry is prohibited, as indicated by signs and barriers. But we made it! The name Komarovka fully justifies itself - it's good that a person came up with repellents! But in addition to mosquitoes, there were also lepidoptera. There were an average number of butterflies. In general, a gentleman's set, but as many as four copies of Lamellocossus terebra, Korscheltellus lupulinus tonkworm and some kind of scoop unknown to me arrived. This, however, does not mean that it is rare. They also managed to scare the aborigine. At ten o'clock in the evening, he decided to take a hoe ride through the woods on his own business, and then we pulled a screen across the road... The dude was extremely discouraged. Overall, my impressions are positive.

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Igor, tonkworm-lupulinus, scoop-rectilinea

Thank you for the tip, I was a bit of a sucker with the tonkworm. And for a scoop of Hyppa rectilinea separately! I didn't see it for some reason.

Thank you for the tip, I was a bit of a sucker with the tonkworm. And for a scoop of Hyppa rectilinea separately! I didn't see it for some reason.

Because for Ukraine it is quite rare, it seems.

I thought that I wouldn't have a nutcracker in my number smaller than Drasterius bimaculatus. And today I scored 5 pcs from an apple tree. Adrastus rachifer - 3-3. 5 mm. And it was necessary to take more, because among them there was one completely black shiny, 4 mm and the shape is different. I haven't determined it yet. By the way, I also caught Drasterius on the ground under the same apple tree. I am surprised with them - two identical can not be found, if they were at least one and a half cm!

Something quiet in our area, professional entomologists pok ane write, so I'll post pictures from my little walk for now
In general, I went for a walk on the tundra and that's what came out of it..
I arrived at the place somewhere at half past six in the morning, a little late, because after 9 o'clock it was very hot, especially since recently it finally rained and everything was covered in dew and the ground was wet everywhere.
At this time, lizards, which this time was such an agromadny number that it is already scary to step - you are afraid that you will step on a lizard that has been gawking in the morning! But in a drought, lizards almost did not climb out, and if they did, then in dense thickets in the pits.
And now they are running all over the steppe.
At the same winged green and gray grasshoppers, mantises come across, there are a lot of dybok everywhere, but you can't hear the cicadas yet..
In the grass I noticed a large fly, it looks like a horsefly, obviously this is such a local tundra wildebeest: 024: The" sting " is impressive, if it bites with such a proboscis, then it's just tin
Along the way, there are tree-destroying mushrooms, tubular, and glanvoe-obviously fresh, just grown, you look and ordinary mushrooms will grow..

Well, I'm walking along our "tundra" and here on the horizon there is clearly something similar to a forest, probably taiga))))

No, this is not the taiga of course, but not a real forest, but the result of the forest cover of the steppe gulch, but, although I am not enthusiastic about the forest cover of steppe lands, but this is personally kpo to me-a masterpiece of this kind of forest cover!!!
So there has been a harmonious steppe and forest plantation of different types of trees for decades, there are oak, ash, pseudo-acacia, silver loch, skumpisya, and many other different trees. That is, not the dull rows of the same pseudo-acacia white, but what no-variety.
All this diversity exists due to the abundance of small and fairly large springs on the slopes, otherwise everything would have dried up and burned out long ago.

In general, something like this looks like in my opinion a rather successful forest cover, where steppe clearings and undisturbed forest intersperse with chaotic thickets of trees, chaotic obviously from the fact that a lot of things have already grown by self-seeding, a lot probably remains from the ghostly thickets, and yet if you look closely into the thicket in some places, you can clearly see that there is traces of tree planting in rows.
Interestingly, although this part of the forest is quite large for the south of the steppe part of the Mykolaiv region, about 3 km in length and a little less than 1 km in width, but it is impossible to get into the thicket and wander there, everything is overgrown with pseudo-acacia, scumpia and other bushes. So even if there are some mushrooms there, and they are clearly there, because there are areas planted with oaks, then these mushrooms are there in a fairly reliable protection from mushroom pickers )))

Damn, with this limit of 12 photos, two didn't fit

Nor and photos of some animals
Just got to the swarm of runner ants, everything was just littered with scurrying males, which, although with wings, do not fly(although they can!), but there were almost no queens, neither winged nor wingless. They hide on purpose or run away so early that the males can't keep up with them, it's not clear...

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Well, after all, the forest is certainly good, but the real power and strength is here

Good evening, everyone. Today I once again went to our forests 30 km North-west of the capital. The route passed from the village of Kozhushna to Capriany. Approximately 15-20 km for everything about everything. I was accompanied by mn. uv. Chegar).
In general, I do not have a lot, but for one, short day, I am quite happy)

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Good day to all!
And so, after a short pause, I was lucky enough to go back to the forest to catch the light. It was in the Kiev region, Makarovsky district, the outskirts of the village of Gavronshchyna. The area is a meadow with mixed grasses near a deciduous forest, in km from us-a pine forest. Caught from 22: 00 to 01: 00, the weather is warm (+23), but the sky was clear and the moon, a flashlight, shone on us from the sky
In general, the age is not bad, but something special other than Pericallia matronula (Linnaeus, 1758), which has lived quite a long time (or someone with a sneaker chased it, I don't know) did not arrive.
Here's a small amount (what I know ): from what was on the screen:
Notodontidae:
Leucodonta bicoloria (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
Notodonta dromedarius (Linnaeus, 1767)
Spatalia argentina (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
Furcula bicuspis (Borkhausen, 1790)
Furcula furcula (Clerck, 1759)
Sphingidae:
Deilephila elpenor (Linnaeus, 1758)
Deilephila porcellus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Mimas tiliae (Linnaeus, 1758) (in bulk, including a cool brown female - pictured)
Smerinthus ocellata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Sphinx pinastri (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cossidae:
Cossus cossus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Zeuzera pyrina (Linnaeus, 1761)
Drepanidae:
Habrosyne pyritoides (Hufnagel, 1766)
Tethea ocularis (Linnaeus, 1767)
Thyatira batis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Erebidae:
Arctia villica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Atolmis rubricollis (Linnaeus, 1758) (in bulk)
Miltochrista miniata (Forster, 1771)
Pericallia matronula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Spilosoma lubricipeda (Linnaeus, 1758)
Spilosoma lutea (Hufnagel, 1766)
Geometridae:
Angerona prunaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Biston betularia (Linnaeus, 1758)
Bupalus piniaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Hylaea fasciaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Hypomecis roboraria (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
Thetidia smaragdaria (Fabricius, 1787)
Geometra papilionaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Lasiocampidae:
Dendrolimus pini (Linnaeus, 1758)
Odonestis pruni (Linnaeus, 1758)
Noctuidae:
Conisania luteago (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
Acronicta leporina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Deltote pygarga (Hufnagel, 1766)
Eucarta amethystina (Hübner, 1803)
Oligia latruncula (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
Deltote bankiana (Fabricius, 1775) (in bulk)
Agrotis exclamationis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Mythimna pudorina (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
Mythimna turca (Linnaeus, 1761)
Noctua interposita (Hübner, 1790)
Noctua pronuba (Linnaeus, 1758)
Macdunnoughia confusa (Stephens, 1850)
Autographa gamma (Linnaeus, 1758)

And also a lot of micra and a little more small moths and shovels.

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Thanks for your attention!

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In general, I decided today to go to the Kherson desert for mushrooms.. I went!!!
Well, in general, the idea was not so crazy, although there were two months of drought before that, but the rains passed, last year it worked, and I collected a bunch of mushrooms at this time or so..
And this time - consider that there was nothing, only a few amanite, and tree-destroying mushrooms. Surprisingly, not a single bolete mushroom, although the pale toadstool even got out alone. I saw only one man, and then 4 km from the highway, also looking for something, see "ischo one"))))

But the adventure skoko))) He went up to some thickets, and from there he wheezed and growled, and something collapsed there.. I just turned around right away and quietly without looking back. I've never seen a wild boar, and this time I didn't, but it was scary - creepy!
The second adventure happened already at the end of the hike - the batteries in the phone ran out, because I forgot to turn off the ZHPS, in principle, I managed to set the direction approximately, but nevertheless.. I came out 5 km from the place where I went, judging by the track that has been preserved, and by the omissions - I did 25 km on the sand and hills, no less than I reached
You need to take a copmas to such places and write out in advance the degrees of direction in the sun in increments of at least an hour, and ZHPS is good only when you mark a point, or check the path, but do not forget to turn it off if the battery is weak.

But how much I've seen, no, walking, it's not even riding a bike, not to mention a car, I remember a phrase from the book "Kon-Tiki" - those who swim on a humming ship, do not see almost anything that can be seen if you swim on a raft
And flickering silhouettes of all sorts of animals and birds, and incredible places overgrown with incredible trees..
Today my dream came true - I finally saw a giant ktyr, or rather, giant ktyr, or even more correctly - a whole host of these ktyr!!! In one "square" there were so many of them that it was just fantastic, on the branches, on the ground and trees everywhere there were them. I even found one that flew badly for some reason, took a lot of pictures of it and dragged it home
And then I came across a site where huge pine trees grow, I've never seen such trees before! Based on the image, I roughly calculated the diameter - it turns out that a meter! And what a height, it seems that clearly more than 30 meters.
And there are still such pines, although they all have trunks that branch not far from the ground, so they didn't cut down the north tree.

Another couple of mushrooms, not fit))

And finally, the animals

He went up to some thickets, and from there he wheezed and growled, and something collapsed there.. I just turned around right away and quietly without looking back. I've never seen a wild boar, and this time I didn't, but it was scary - creepy!

That's what roe deer do here.

It's a pity, I thought it was a wild boar ))) There are a lot of roe deer in the desert, they run around in herds, but they say there are also a lot of wild boars, and there are wolves, but so far I haven't seen them.
And here is still whom would see, that kato giant ant lion, he there accurately there is, saw, but not I Ah and larva would grab for rearing.
Of course, there are a lot of craters in the sand, but lions fly there quite normally, and the craters are small.

I measured ktyr with a caliper a little more than 5 cm, this is a female. It flies very badly, one wing seems to hang down all the time, it is not clear if it hatched like this, if it was damaged, in the latter case there is hope that it is fertilized.

By the way, while she was driving in a box.. In short, I put the egg of some bird in the same box, which I found on the ground, I wanted to incubate at home.. So, the egg was broken, and ktyr with a huge belly. I'm just shocked, in terms of the box, the egg.. maybe it is certainly damaged, but in order to wet the contents, you need to have a serious appetite and complete lack of concentration)))

Good evening to all) And I still look after the same lands, the north-western forests, the central part of the country, the villages of Kozhushna and Capriany, but today I slightly changed the route, catching a new square, as it turned out, not in vain. Unfortunately, I couldn't take any pictures, I forgot my "sneaker" at home, but there are photos from previous exits. During the day, quietly, modestly, but accumulated)

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And finally, the animals

termites are a finite class, much rarer than the giant ktyri seen.

Djon, there are a lot of termites in general in those places, I constantly find them there during the mushroom season, but there are a lot of them not only in the Kherson sands, in Maryina Grove they are also just full. Under each piece of wood, but interestingly, almost always pine. Find kings and queens after the flight, that would be great

There in the sand and such little animals meet, I was in Proletarka in early June and my friends sent me tourists in all seriousness from the velo report, Right?

Here is a clear example of the power of the Kherson sun, after a good sun bath, elephants start running even in the brains of the camera !!!

Although in the area of ZHP camels there on free grazing climbed, it was like this)))

Yesterday I went for the wasp-blestnyaka Crisis comparata-which is not yet available. And today I caught 1 Parnopes grandior, a female on budyak flowers.

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I visited the steppe area today. Yesterday there was a downpour, or rather it was there where I arrived, in the area of Perestanovka, but there was almost nothing near the estuary.
However, here on the spot the ground was so wet and so strong streams descended from the slopes that even the steppe soil was washed out in some places!
In the morning, everything was covered in dew of the largest size, so that walking on the grass was more like swimming
In general, it is very cool in the steppe in the morning after the rain, the smell of herbs becomes concentrated, the air is pleasant, although then after 9 o'clock it is clearly stuffy.

Steppe life has reached its peak! Great of course, but a little sad... The length of the day is still at its maximum, but everything is about to go backwards. Although there are still 3.5 months of summer, the coolest part for me is in early March and before the summer solstice.
Almost all the grasshoppers were elated, some of them were right in front of me, and the cicadas started yelling.
In the overgrown ravines, a brood of kites has hatched, and the brood is huge!
I saw a fox, beautiful of course-very! Even at home start up
The gifts of the steppe, apricots, cherry plums, wild pears, and steppe berries are beginning to ripen. It's good that at least the drought ended on time, it would take another two or three weeks and probably the fruits would wince without ripening.




This is how a new ravine is laid in Navrnoye. Water flows down the slope in "convenient" places for it, and so on over and over again... in theory, soon there should be a ravine in this place.
The water here drains into an already quite deep ravine, which "flows" into an even more extensive washout, already in fact a beam, which already flows into the central beam.








Steppe gifts

Well, photos of animals)

Red stuff - isn't that ephedra? What does it taste like?

Ilya Y, yes, ephedra, delicious I used to be afraid to eat, but in fact - just incredibly delicious, the taste is sweet, very fragrant, "velvety" and quite "heavy", with a long aftertaste, something similar to lime honey.
This year, the berries were very ugly, you can try to make jam

Part of the fees collected from the highlands of Montenegro.
Mount Gutyn-Tomnatyk and its surroundings.
Carabus (Chrysocarabus) auronitens escheri n. laevipennis Seidlitz, 1891
Carabus (Chrysocarabus) auronitens escheri ab. opacus Haury, 1878
Carabus (Platycarabus) fabricii malachiticus C.G. Thomson, 1875
Nebria (Alpeus) reitteri Rybinski 1902
Nebria (Alpaeus) fuscipes Fuss 1850
Leistus (Leistus) baenningeri Roubal, 1926
Trechus (Trechus) fontinalis Rybinski, 1901 rare
Trechus (Trechus) latus Putzeys, 1847
Trechus carpaticus Rybinski, 1902,
Patrobus quadricollis L. Miller, 1868
Patrobus styriacus Chaudoir, 1871
Deltomerus (Deltomerus) carpathicus L. Miller, 1868
Duvalius (Hungarotrechus) subterraneus subterraneus Miller, 1868
И многое другое.

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30.06.2013г. The nearest locality is D. Voronichi, Zelvensky district, Grodno region.
A short walk along the railway track, at the same time believed the traps.
In the traps:
Noctuidae
Apamea sublustris
Charanyca ferruginea
Dypterygia scabriuscula
Mythimna turca
Noctua pronuba
Xestia triangulum
Trachea atriplicis
Moma alpium
From Thursday to Friday was Catocala promissa 2 copies..
Drepanidae
Habrosyne pyritoides
Ochropacha duplaris
Thyatira batis
What flew:
Hesperiidae
Thymelicus lineola
Ochlodes sylvanus
Lycaenidae
Lycaena alciphron
Lycaena virgaureae
Celastrina argiolus
Satyrium sp.
Nymphalidae
Apatura ilia
Argynnis paphia
Limenitis camilla
Melitaea athalia
Melitaea didyma
Aglais io
Aglais urticae
Araschnia levana
Nymphalis xanthomelas
Polygonia c-album
Vanessa atalanta
Vanessa cardui
Aphantopus hyperantus
Coenonympha arcania
Lopinga achine
Maniola jurtina
Pieridae
Gonepteryx rhamni
Leptidea sp. I assume that sinapis
Pieris brassicae
Pieris napi
Zygaenidae
Zygaena sp.







If anyone can help with the definition of Satyrium, it would be just great. I understand that it does not sit very well in the frame and yet..... Well, below the motley.

Here's what I took from the traps this morning.

01.07.2013-finally I had the opportunity to get out to the beam, to the center. part.
If in Kherson, Nikolaev and Odessa in June there were heavy rains, then in our country they were weak, and a lot of things dried up.
However, yesterday morning there was a nice rainy cool weather, and after the rain I immediately went hiking.

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On another copy of this plant...


... several caterpillars were found, in my opinion Phoebe's checkers:


Closer to the east of the gulch, where the water ends, in the hearth on a small uchastochke were met by the draughtsmen themselves:

didyma:



trivia:



phoebe:

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and all-small, second generation. Only zinc is missing.

In the same place:





It was beginning to rain and rattle somewhere far away, and I slowly left.

  

If anyone can help with the definition of Satyrium, it would be just great.

ilicis

Good day to all, gentlemen.
Today, a meeting of all Chisinau poachers took place.We went as a friendly team to the south-west, to the village of Serata-Meresheni. the forest was badly dented by the past rains and the atmosphere was indistinguishable from a steamer, but at least something was recruited
The command staff consisted of the highly respected Chegar, RippeR, Igori Biol, and yours truly)

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06.07.2013, Korsunka village, Kherson region.
The area is located on three islands, and is a mixture of sandy steppe, wet meadows and wetland vegetation. The first island is mostly sandy, but I stayed longer on the second, where it is wet. Of the daytime butterflies, everything is as usual, I saw turnip, edusa, didyma draughtsmen, trivia and one Phoebe (and of the same size as the spring generation), burdock, flaeas and tersamon chervonets and some other pigeons, in my opinion bellargus. In the thickets of reeds, birds make such sounds that it seems as if they are talking on a walkie-talkie and barking.

There is no lack of moisture here. Everything is more or less green.

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This post was edited by Wave Storm - 07.07.2013 19: 44