Crimea, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova

I caught a glimpse of an overwintered nymphalid today, most likely polychloros/xanthomelas, with less chance of io. Khmelnitsky region, Slavuta.

Today I saw two butterflies-Lycia zonaria and Plutella xylostella. And the beetle Cicindella campestris.
Conistra rubiginosa was born several times.

This post was edited by okoem - 02/21/2014 22: 32

People, wait! even last year's material is not fully straightened out

2 okoem
Vladimir, if it is not difficult to catch me a couple of Lycia zonaria, at least males will be happy to exchange for bills

Good evening to all
I went today to get water at the spring, good water by the way, delicious, I hope that it is not very poisoned. This is over the lake "eight", southern landings. But there was also a secret goal to find another Demetrias atricapillus, in addition to the pair caught in January. I didn't even think about two of them. We managed to do this, although we had to re-sow a lot of last year's grass. Built last fall such a lattice with yach. one on one see and a small tray just under ryukzachek. The unit came out useful. So, both the required atricapillus and the not superfluous Demetrias monostigma were caught in it. And as usual, from the already non-collected Drypta dentata, Tachyta nana, Calodromius spilotus, Dromius linearis. Of the staphylins, I took several Rugilus for definition. I also took Cassida nobilis, and then in the collection there is an old copy impaled on a homemade pin. All this took almost two hours, sometimes in a light rain.
And when I had already collected water and finally sifted the last piece of grass, I got a big gold medal. It was Odacantha melanura. For the first time I caught such a bug, although of course I looked at it on different sites. And suddenly, here it is. Don't give me a standing ovation.

Hello everyone and happy holidays! Mini report.
Today, we can say, opened the season.
I saw hives on the balcony.
Photo taken five minutes ago.



Rooks arrived. Ehhh, spring has come!

Just half an hour ago, I "let in" Agriopis marginaria through the window into the room.

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I was scouting on Sunday in our steppe. It's not spring yet. Cold.

At the weekend, it got warmer, I wanted to open the "butterfly" season in the first days of spring, I visited a deciduous forest.
Fungus and lichen

Ice Slide

Tricks of the beavers

Proleska

As it turned out, it was too early – overwintering whiteflies-nymphalids and spring moths are not yet visible, only small diptera fly. So I decided to look for wintering micro-lepidoptera under the lagging bark of dry trees. But there was a lot of interesting stuff:
often the wings of poorly wintered flat moths (Agonopterix, Depressaria) were found, sometimes whole, live – only a couple of times.

Mompha divisella-confusella were common-an autopsy will show who, one instance of another species (I think subbistrigella).


Several times I caught mating Phyllonorycter agilella, small infections – even with a normal camera in super-macro mode, it's small.


Another dried-up Phyllonorycter

And finally came across Ypsolopha sp.

Today, for the first time this season, I turned on the lamp and the first butterfly arrived, the only one.
as soon as it got dark, the temperature dropped to -2, but the sun shone all day - it was warm (for the last 2 weeks approximately)
(Kiev region)

and a fly more


This post was edited by vafdog - 07.03.2014 22: 18

I was on the North Crimean Canal today, saw a couple of admirals and swarms of midges.

And sow.. and we reap... but there is no limit to perfection...

06.11.2013. Kharkiv, Alekseyevka, Forest Park
http://barry.fotopage.ru/gallery/article.php?id=147

I looked at the report, an unknown piece of shit, most likely the larva of some dustwing-Coniopterygidae

Kharkov, today. Spring is coming despite all troubles...

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Spring has also come to the Kherson region! True, while wintering nymphalids are not visible, but the flowers have already bloomed.

Still met the first day-nymphalis (xanthomelas or polychloros, immediately flew away). Met Acleris sp (?kochiella), under the bark again Mompha and a couple of dry Phyllonorycter species.

Good day!
Crimea, Kerch peninsula, Shchelkino, cold wind, t near zero, 8-9. 03. 2014

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Good day everyone!
I have an addition today, Pseudoips prasinana has been released.
I found the caterpillar on 18.09.2013. Belarus Grodno region Zelvensky district 1,2 km S-W dZoloteyevo in the birch-sasnova forest planting, on this day pupated.
I spent the winter in the garage. Added to the heat on 9.02.2014. The experience was a success.

Good people!
Galovo, hydrological reserve, 15 ha, 1982, Ukraine, Malinsky district, Lyubovichi forestry, block 39. Sedge-sphagnum bog is a regulator of the level of subsurface water and the water regime of small rivers in the Irshi river basin. Wetland birds nest here.
Can you help me locate block 39? Who's ever been there? Can someone throw a map of the forest area? Щиро дякую.

Good day to all!
Today I decided to take a bike ride to the forest park, a kilometer and a half from the house.
In spring, the heat is +10, although the wind is from the north, cold.
Archiearis parthenias flew out, I saw 40 pieces, a couple of hives.






Last summer there were blooming glades, where there was a large population of pigeons Polyommatus coridon,
Polyommatus daphnis, Cyaniris semiargus, etc. And in the fall, the local forestry enterprise dug everything up, planted a forest (pine, larch) and hung up the Arboretum plokat.




Some wildlife...






Under the bark of a fallen willow.



Shershnevaya high-rise building.

So, since I collected sednya woodlice, then you can post it here)))
I was already in a different place and farther away, but today it was worse than yesterday, the wind changed and was very strong, as a result, on the hilltops and the plain there was such a thing, well, it's just in general, small grains of sand flew, branches, even a small stone was thrown by the wind
Interseno, what was going on there in the winter when the wind blew up to 30 m / s at T ok-15C in icy rain, you probably get there - immediately death
Not for nothing is there a song about a freezing coachman ...
Silence was only in VERY deep ravines, it was almost as warm as in summer, all sorts of animals flew and crawled there, and only kravchiki crawled on top, although they probably sometimes flew, but not of their own free will )))))
Crocuses are already all over, frogs are at maximum flowering, gymnosperms are blooming, adonis are just climbing out in the mass, spring ones are not visible at all, and the rinder has not yet come out, although this is already good for such a period. According to some intelligence reports and our own observations, apricot generative buds are 100% intact, and in general, there are no signs of freezing, although there were encroachments.

I continued my experiment with trying to get a good tan, which is cool of course, but the effect is sooo weak, despite the fact that I tan well and quickly. The height of the sun is now about 41 degrees at noon, so it turns out that this, to put it mildly, is not very enough for tanning, there is something in two days, but it is barely visible. So sooooo dubious stories about tanning in winter in the Crimea, when the sun is generally about 20 degrees. at noon rises)))

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCMbcPrRSVM&feature=youtu.be














This post was edited by Hierophis - 03/15/2014 23: 17

Yes to Spring!, NO to war!!!

8.03.2014-Fastovsky district, Kiev region. The first sunny days of the arrival of Spring.





This post was edited by vafdog - 03/16/2014 12: 47

8.03.2014-Fastovsky district, Kiev region. The first sunny days of the arrival of Spring.

Is this the number of Harmonia axyridis you have???

Is this the number of Harmonia axyridis you have???

In the sense of? not enough?
Under one bark I found a group of dead, under the other - the living (pine)

9.03.2014-district of Fastov, Kiev region, Unava district (Gai)










See you soon!

Great, the range of photos is super. Victor, what do you take pictures of?

Great, the range of photos is super. Victor, what do you take pictures of?

I started this season with a Nikon D5100, and then everything is a mobile phone..
jupiter 37A, like a TV box, and Helius 44-2 screwed to it in an inverted form, like a macro.
I'm still learning to take pictures, my first cameratat, thank you for liking the pictures.

And I especially liked the photo with a bunch of Harmonia axyrydis, as well as with butterflies anguloptera and polychrome. I want to meet them myself this year. In winter, I found all sorts of ladybirds under our bark, including Harmonia axyrydis, although they were all dead (well, sort of dead. The bark did not fit well to the dry tree, the temperature was somewhere around -15 gr.).

This post was edited by Wave Storm - 03/18/2014 17: 14

quickly however the topic name was edited

quickly however the topic name was edited

I also noticed this yesterday. In accordance with the resolution of the party and the government...

In accordance with the resolution of the party and the government...

Friends, do not politicize the forum. It was not enough to have a discussion about historical justice and international law here. By and large, the topic should have been called this from the very beginning - at least, based on the specifics of the natural conditions of the Crimea.

So Crimea is Russia already
Well, then Ukraine should also be removed from the name, and after Friday we start posting reports in "European countries")))

Friends, do not politicize the forum. It was not enough to have a discussion about historical justice and international law here. By and large, the topic should have been called this from the very beginning - at least, based on the specifics of the natural conditions of the Crimea.

Exactly. Four posts today, and more than one report. This is the fifth one.

21.03.2014. Kharkiv, butterfly exhibition.

http://barry.fotopage.ru/gallery/article.php?id=150

21.03.2014. Kharkiv, butterfly exhibition.

http://barry.fotopage.ru/gallery/article.php?id=150

It looks familiar. In Kherson, I was at such an exhibition (in January 2013).

Today in N. Kakhovka is a sunny, calm, warm day. Violets bloom in the park, various hymenoptera, whitefly butterflies, admirals and angloptera fly.

Hello everyone. Short, dry, informative
Yesterday, Chisinau, southern forest plantations, Lake Eight, 19 degrees Celsius, south-easterly wind, sometimes gusty.
The grass is turning green, the sun is shining, and I spent two hours replanting last year's weeds mixed with grass and leaves. The first and most important surprise - Chlaenius tristis (Schaller, 1783), met him for the first time, did not even immediately believe him. This is the fifth species of chlenius personally encountered in Moldova (plus vestitus, nigricornis, nitidulus, spoliatus). There are nine more to find. In the same last year's garbage, two new species of b. cows were discovered for me - Coccidula scutellata and Tytthaspis sedecimpunctata. Small creatures, but still very pleasant. Three coccidulas were decently spread out yesterday, they will go to one die. And titaspis were not given, if I fought with them for more than an hour, to the point of back pain. Two ruined, the rest will have to be glued with their legs tucked up. There are also two or three types of amar, badisters, dromius, I didn't take any of them. Staphylins, like everywhere else, are small, many and different. I took three, which turned out to be Zyras limbatus. Also new. And a few more interesting snappers, so far we haven't been able to identify them, something like Agriotes obscurus. I'll lift them up to the corners, then I'll sit over them.
In addition, among the numerous Bembidion biguttatum reeds, a single B. tetracolum was found, and this was the first time. In general, bambi is interesting to identify, first from the pictures, and this topic is well developed on the web, and no matter how similar they are, you can still notice the differences. Elytra pattern, pronotum shape, leg color... Again, the eye and artistic flair. Then we turn to green and state with satisfaction. Probably, it's not professional, but it's great, you search and search, and finally you understand - this is it!!
There were a few other interesting finds, some overly blue harpalus zabroides, some small pterostichus that doesn't look like mine. And Galeruca rufa with slightly deformed elytra, like a tailcoat. Etc. Well, that's it.
I just want to add it. The most interesting and unexpected surprises happen in early spring and late autumn. In the sense of beetles.

Today in N. Kakhovka is a sunny, calm, warm day. Violets bloom in the park, various hymenoptera, whitefly butterflies, admirals and angloptera fly.

What a calm and sunny day))) In the park, of course, cool, but next weekend the hike of the whole thing is not a single rannetsveta will not remain at such a pace in the steppe As in general at this time you can go to the parks

On weekends, the weather is summer in the afternoon, many xanthomelas, angletwings and male lemongrass fly, Archiearias parthenias fly in the pine forest with birch trees, Rhyacionia duplana leafwings are not uncommon. Agriopis marginaria (a lot), Apocheima pilosaria, Biston strataria, Alsophila aescularia, Hypena rostralis, Lithophane ornitophus, Conistra vaccinii, Conistra erythrocepaha, Cerastis rubricosa, Orthosia incerta, Orthosia cruda, Achlya flavicornis arrived on Saturday.

Sergey-D
Well, how much birch sap? Or was it just my imagination?

This post was edited by arud - 24.03.2014 23: 00

Mini-report. On the night of March 23-24, we decided to open the season. We went with Musson Max to Chernihiv region, Srebnyansky district, the village of Gurbentsy. The weather was excellent, although it turned colder at night. All the time we tried to find the moon, but it was hidden somewhere, so we didn't see it, although the sky was clear. The sun shone from 18.30 to 23.00 Flew dry, however, as for March, so maybe nothing. A gentleman's set arrived - several moths (Biston strataria, Lycia hirtaria), Achlya flavicornis, Orthosia incerta. In general, I caught four butterflies , and Maxim already six! Of the beetles, we were persistently attacked by several Dytiscus marginalis. I came across, however, an interesting dustpan for this area Dasypolia templi. Polychrome plants, lemongrass plants ,storks fly during the day, tanks and other vehicles drive along the roads. Spring!

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