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08.04.2014 21:49, Hierophis

Well, what can I say here...
THE SWIFTS HAVE ARRIVED!!!!

And that says it all )
No, well, in general, I don't remember such a fast and dynamic development in the spring! Already flying just flocks of swallowtails, zores, pigeons, in general, there are a lot of butterflies, and the most different ones, just woke up andreny and fly over the roads like bees during the fly-around, I didn't even understand at first what this flickering is.
Today it was so hot that a liter of water was not enough for 15 km of the way, and it was so good that I didn't go for a long time, and the water from the springs there is very hard, and even with a cold-frogs live in every spring))
Since the teren has not yet bloomed and there are no flowering trees in general except for apricots, a lot of different hymenoptera gather near apricot trees, especially those that are far from the village, such as I have not seen before. Then when everything blooms, there are usually no Taikh concentrations, although maybe this season there are just a lot of them due to a good wintering season.
Bear caterpillars crawling everywhere are amazing! I even took pictures of her crawling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gd1TpUdpOU

In general, I wonder who has a sextant, look - the sun rises exactly at the right angle at noon, I think it's higher than necessary

Oh, and yet, every time in the gray steppe you find and see something new, and this time, among other things, it's also a mushroom of fantastic structure and appearance, it's just something with something, black, with some morel-like hymenophore, and thick hyphae of mycelium, creepy)

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11.04.2014 22:30, Wave Storm

11.04.2014, Kherson region, Burgunskaya balka.

Yes, spring has already fully come into its own! This year there was no such cold snap as in the past, the heat quickly came and so this week all the steppe early spring butterflies are collected. However, some cold weather is expected over the weekend. And today was quite warm, but very windy starting in the morning. Especially the wind was noticeable when I was walking back along the side of the road: when I was climbing out of the beam, I had to go at a forward slope. There, on the side of the road, a swallowtail hid in the grass.

Insects in the morning, while it was cloudy and cool, were not visible. Only kakya-that sovochka disappeared in the distance. Yes, and Lythria purpuraria.

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Local attraction of Balka: Yekaterininsky trakt Bridge. It was built on the occasion of the arrival of Catherine II in Kherson.

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Under the arches you can safely pass. Or take a break:

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As in many of our gullies, shell rock and limestone come to the surface here. Well, pine trees, where without them. True, there is vegetation under them.

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19.04.2014 1:05, Чегар

Wow, I went to get some cigarettes.
Distance 200 m. running time of 20 m. The result is a pack of Red ѯ White (reds) and three new species for me: a magnificent specimen of Cassida murraea Linnaeus, 1767, very bright and large, 8 mm. No less bright is Hypera arator (Linnaeus, 1758), the pattern is so clear that I did not immediately recognize it in the photo. Quite unexpectedly, the male Onthophagus kindermanni (Harold, 1877) is 13 mm. Everything is fresh in spring, in general, the city has exploded with greenery after several cold rainy days. Well, all at once, not counting a dozen of the most banal species, Dorcadion holosericeum was found today, for some reason only females, sometimes Gonocephalum rusticum displaces O. sabulosum, Gonioctena fornicata periodically occurs, it looks like this leaf beetle is tied to lime trees, usually sits under them. And also in the assortment of various small ground beetles, leaf beetles, weevils. In short, there are simply no words.

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19.04.2014 21:32, Hierophis

Today I wanted to go too, but in fact, nothing happened, in that place there was a real Formula 1, with a lot of people, tents,racing cars and even with accidents and probably victims, because ambulances were coming..
Well, to whom what, to whom animals, to whom races ...
It is very interesting to observe the" problems " of many people, tkskzt, with thermoregulation, on the street under +30C, while many go in what they went in early March.. As a result, the usual picture along the race tracks was of people sitting.. naked.. and near them lies a whole warehouse of knitwear season autumn-winter )))
And most of them are sitting so obviously in vain, some of them will probably be lying down tomorrow, and it's good if they're not in the hospital..

So I didn't get into the depth of the beam, but nevertheless managed to take a picture of an incredibly beautiful murmur, clearly with a slope in the direction of the os)

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20.04.2014 0:39, Igorvet

Happy New Year to all of you! Yesterday we went with Petya (Diletant) and Volodya (Opas) to my favorite Makarovsky district of the Kiev region. Deciduous forest between the villages of Borovka and Komarovka. The screen was placed near a swampy meadow. The year was quite active, despite the large moon. Many moth species, mainly Lycia hirtaria and Biston strataria. Mostly males. Endromis versicolora, single females. The scoop is very small, a couple of Anorthoa munda and some other scoop. Help me identify it in the last photo. Males of Odontosia carmelita flew, but there were no females. Of the beetles, one aquarius and one zibister flew in. The weather was excellent. Considering that Carmelita was one of the goals of the trip, we can say that the plan was fulfilled.

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