Crimea, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova

Here is such a beauty caught right in the center of the city. Aegosoma scabricornis Moldova. Chisinau. 24,06,2015, 47 mm

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Pick up the phone, huntsman!!!!!

Sanya, take them all!!!!

Hello! We have a cool weather in the Kherson region and a lot of rain. The last rain fell all last night morning. Then it ended and in the afternoon I decided to go to the vicinity of N. Kakhovka, to see if there are caterpillars of milkweed hawkmoth. Unfortunately, the caterpillars were not found, but there were some other interesting things.

I went first on my usual route, through the pines, kuchuguri.
Everything is green.

The most common butterflies are Pontia edusa, Polyommatus bellargus, Aricia agestis, and Autographa gamma...








Then I crossed the road and hit the quarry. It was more interesting here.



In the same place as in 2013, I met Scopula decorata (2-3 pcs.) among three aspens.:


Dnipro thyme is in full bloom:



Caterpillars of the bloody bear (2 pcs.):



Wormwood scoop:





???


Lythrya purpuraria


Polyommatus icarus




Drasteria cailino


I don't recognize this pigeon. Isn't Argus the Plebeian beautiful?


The ubiquitous Pontia edusa


Noctua interposita?

Polyommatus icarus is not him, but idas. The first photo also shows idas.
Argus, yes.

update
Gray butterfly-apparently seen species of Tephrina murinaria.

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Hello! We have a cool weather in the Kherson region and a lot of rain.

Well, finally! For the sake of such an event, you can even post a photo)
You have a lot of rain, but we have tame scolias

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Lythrya purpuraria

L.cruentaria

  
Gray butterfly-apparently seen species of Tephrina murinaria.

No-this is Digrammia rippertaria, they are the same byvayut

Here for example, all of Aleshkovskiye peski

04.07.2015. Kharkiv region, Shevchenko district, Otradnoye district

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After a rainy week in the south of Ukraine, from Monday to Thursday, there were 4 days of heat with temperatures reaching 37 degrees Celsius. But today (10.07.15) in the morning it was a little cooler and it was on this day that I visited the plavnevy forest near the village of Solontsy in the Kherson region.

And I went through one section like this:



To be more precise, in the places that I went around today, the forest itself is not so much. But there is a lot of blooming greenery. Sandy-steppe areas are adjacent to meadow and swamp vegetation. Of the trees, willows and lochs predominate, while poplars and willows are less common.

You can walk for a very long time, because there is something to see/shoot/catch (who likes what more). I really liked it there. I met a couple of new butterflies

The most widespread butterfly species is Maniola jurtina (Cow's Eye). Even turnip, rutabaga and rapeseed whiteflies are resting in comparison with its abundance (by the way, rapeseed whiteflies seemed to me quite large there). Of the thickheads, Erynnis tages is the most common. I saw a couple of admirals in the mud, one swallowtail.

That's one of the first butterflies I was happy to meet - it's Galatea! In the vicinity of the city of N. Kakhovka, galatea often flew outside the city along the forest and steppe strip, but this was the beginning of the zero years, and now I don't even know what is there. Last year I saw her in Odessa, and now I've met her again in the Kherson region. In total, I met 3 galatea, but they did not sit on the flowers at all and quickly disappeared somewhere, so I could not photograph them.








This may be "bonal" for someone, but for me a new look is Cupido alcetas. I've never seen one like it before. The female characteristically pressed the tip of her abdomen to the plant, apparently laying eggs









The marble crunch crunched in the grass on the ground, which caught my attention.


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Moving on.

It's kind of hot, but not too hot either. Not a cloud in the sky.

The most popular and common scoops flying out of the grass are scales.




Of the draughtsmen, there were only trivias.








Meanwhile, the sky is covered with clouds. They promised a cyclone, this time from the west, according to the forecast.



To the left, through the thickets, you can see the lake a little.





I quicken my pace, turn off somewhere, and finally appear near the ditch, on the opposite bank of which there are cottages. And I have a clearing nearby. And in the clearing - a couple of lemongrass!



I don't understand when they should have a diapause there....



From chervonets here only Lycaena phlaeas.


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In the last photo Lycaena phlaeas.

I'm moving on.







The next clearing - and then suddenly the fat-headed Morpheus appears - another new species for me! She has a very bright appearance. Just one, and it flew away quickly.



There's also another lemongrass.



With the definition of this thick head is difficult.



Schinia scutosa





I took a picture of another altset





When I left, it was already beginning to rain.




Then I went not to the nearest stop, but to the one that is further away, and got caught in the rain, but there was a cool breeze.

I'm very happy with this place, and I think I'll go to a more wooded part next time.

P. S. While walking along the road to the bus stop, I saw a lot of dead butterflies and some other creatures on the side of the road: rapeseed whiteflies, yazykana, admiral, a lot of oxen's eyes and the remains of their wings, checkers (both trivium and didymus), yolks, lemongrass, toad, scolia. I feel sorry for them. Next to the road is another forest, and they are all shot down.

P. PS And on the wall of the bus stop photographed (really bad, because the phone) someone's pupa:



This post was edited by Wave Storm - 10.07.2015 22: 10

Well wow ) I've never seen a fathead like that there, and it's a very interesting beetle. But in this weather I would not dare to go

With the definition of this thick head is difficult.

Female Thymelicus lineola.

Pupa-whitefly (probably Pieris sp.)

Well wow ) I've never seen a fathead like that before,

Yes, Morpheus is cool for the South. Even in our country, this is a very local view. We need to find out if it is even known from these parts.

Well wow ) I've never seen a fathead like that there, and it's a very interesting beetle. But I wouldn't risk going in this weather

Well, just as I was leaving, there was a little rumbling on the right bank and lightning began to flash.

It didn't reach N. Kakhovka.

And what kind of beetle?

This post was edited by Wave Storm - 10.07.2015 22: 27

It is in those places , I think, that many people live who live in the wettest northern regions

This one here http://molbiol.ru/forums/uploads/post-795808-1436554132.jpg

although I also took a picture of some strange beetle in the desert.

Yes, Morpheus is cool for the South. Even in our country, this is a very local view. I'd like to find out if it's even known from these parts.

Unfortunately, I'm not very good at beetles, except that I somehow distinguish our khrushchs and racehorses (and other well-known ones).
There were several of them, throwing themselves at each other.





This post was edited by Wave Storm - 10.07.2015 22: 34

Well, it's not surprising there is peat there))) Just the fact that the sharp-faced frog lives there already says a lot) There and a gray toad was found, and I think many more people were not found there, but everything is there)

Well, it's not surprising there is peat there)))

Not a single peat is alive peatland yolk...

Here I did not understand at all, I read that caterpillars develop on blueberries or blueberries, but what, there are blueberries somewhere or blueberries?? Well, generally)

Here I did not understand at all, I read that caterpillars develop on blueberries or blueberries, but what, there are blueberries somewhere or blueberries?? Well, generally)

Yes, whether there are blueberries or blueberries is a big question. Maybe it was there once. When nature was in a better state.

Wave Storm, but nature has nothing to do with it ) It is always in excellent condition, and will definitely outlive us
If it was there, it probably is )

And in general, if there is SUCH a thing in the middle of summer, then there is everything))

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There were several of them, throwing themselves at each other.

Hoplia parvula.

Well wow ) I've never seen a fathead like that there...

This is really cool! Zhenya Karolinsky barely dug up from us in the Kharkiv region. already in the Krasnokutsky district. And for the south-this is in general...

This is really cool! Zhenya Karolinsky barely dug up from us in the Kharkiv region. already in the Krasnokutsky district. And for the south-this is in general...

We dug it up together, by the way, remember? (And Yura Skrylnik, as it turned out later, dug it up in the same place a few years earlier.) The museum has a copy of the 90s with the label "Kharkiv, ring road" (very accurate indication... )

Probably a view along the Dnieper valley (locally?) it goes to the mouth. There are no climatic restrictions here-if I'm not mistaken, then the species is known, for example, from flat Dagestan (also in the river delta).

We dug it up together, by the way, remember? (And Yura Skrylnik, as it turned out later, dug it up in the same place a few years earlier.) The museum has a copy of the 90s with the label "Kharkiv, ring road" (very accurate indication... )

Probably a view along the Dnieper valley (locally?) it goes to the mouth. There are no climatic restrictions here-if I'm not mistaken, then the species is known, for example, from flat Dagestan (also in the river delta).

Yes... I also brought one. But if it hadn't been for your tip-off... I agree that historically it is somehow known, but we barely "cling" to it somewhere on the northern outskirts of the region - and here is Kherson... still, it's more fun than we have.

Here on the ecosystem, too, they write that it lives at the mouth of the Dnieper, so in theory it can live in other more northern plavnevy forests, if they still exist of course )

Distribution in Eastern Europe. It is distributed in the forest belt from the Baltic States and southern Finland to the Southern Urals. In the Baltic States, the species is local, in Poland and Belarus it occurs in most of the territory. It is known from southern Slovakia, western Hungary and Romania. In the forest-steppe zone of Ukraine and Russia, it is recorded in the forest valleys of large rivers. There is an isolated population at the mouth of the Dnieper River (steppe zone of Ukraine). Along the Don and Volga valleys, the range of the species reaches the North Caucasus. It is found in the Western Caucasus and the Sochi region.

and alcet is also cool, I still haven't found it

I haven't posted it for a long time (long business trip).
Krasny Oskol village, Kharkiv region
Day 10.07, night 10-11. 07 diode lamp powered by Deo Lanos battery.
Kharkovbut accept it

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Here is such a beauty caught right in the center of the city. Aegosoma scabricornis Moldova. Chisinau. 24,06,2015, 47 mm

About 30 minutes ago, I took a picture of the same animal on the wall of a house in the locality.Zatoka,Odessa region!!!Razmerchik, though smaller, and the wing is damaged.

I was distracted from the topic of lepidoptera - an interesting little thing that flies to the light. I didn't pay attention to cicadas before - especially a lot of beautiful ones, ocd. Severodonetsk.
10.07.2015







26.06.2015 Mantispa

Yesterday, 18.07.15, I was walking near the forest belt on the steppe strip outside the town of N. Kakhovka, Kherson region. I loved this place very much as a child, because there were such butterflies that I did not see in the city: yolks, checkers, cow's eye, galatea, hyponephele lupina too, mottled birds, small bears...

The forest belt is mostly acacia, sometimes there are wild apricots, oak.

I expected to meet ox-eye, galatea, and wolf marigold, but none of them. In general, in the forest belt of these wolf and wolf-eyed marigolds earlier (in the late 90s-early 2000s) was in bulk. But now the grass under the trees is all dried up. This is despite the fact that I saw both bullock's eye and Galatea 8 days ago in another arena of the Lower Dnieper sands - Tsyurupinskaya.

From other butterflies. Pigeons Celastrina argiolus sat on acacia trees in the forest belt. Lots of cute bindweed scoops. I knew from the draughtsmen that there were didyms and trivias here, and now I know that there are phoebes here as well. Not included in the frame-field pearls, pandora pearls in the forest belt, trivia checkers, pamphilus sennits, gamma scoop.














Ragweed scoop


Regular dustpan-Helicoverpa armigera


Not a very common shovel-Heliothis viriplaca.






I went back through the sands, where everything is green now:




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And another photo of the area. Steppe strip near the forest belt.










From left to right: a forest belt, a dusty road, a steppe strip, an irrigation canal, and then a field.



This post was edited by Wave Storm - 07/19/2015 21: 50

Hooray !!)) That's just amazing that there are no marigolds, we have a lot of galatas everywhere and all sorts of oxen's eyes, in some plantings and beams it's scary to go straight into the canopy of trees-everywhere marigolds fly

Hooray !!)) It's just amazing that there are no marigolds, we have a lot of galatas everywhere and all sorts of oxen's eyes, in some plantings and beams it's scary to go straight into the canopy of trees-marigolds fly everywhere

Yes, here I also see that there were a lot of oxen's eyes in Solontsy, but only a few galatians. But in the forest belt, the grass is all dried up.