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In my swamp, the situation is somewhat different.
Jutta is already flying away a little. Paleno, and no fatheads to be seen.
All three types of mother-of-pearl flew out.

In my swamp, the situation is somewhat different.
Jutta is already flying away a little. Paleno, and no fatheads to be seen.
All three types of mother-of-pearl flew out.

And it seems to be quite next door are

Today I drove along five small rivers in two districts of Novgorodchina and two neighboring districts of Pskov region - everywhere there is a mass flow of mnemosyne! Numbers overwhelm all other species, even the ubiquitous zourek and rutabaga. And what mu... sorry, radish put it in the red book?!

Today I drove along five small rivers in two districts of Novgorodchina and two neighboring districts of Pskov region - everywhere there is a mass flow of mnemosyne! Numbers overwhelm all other species, even the ubiquitous zourek and rutabaga. And what mu... sorry, radish put it in the red book?!

We've been here a long time...

They took her out.

In the regional book of 2015, it remains, with the wording "A species in a dangerous state".
Perhaps this was meant.

In the regional book of 2015, it remains, with the wording "A species in a dangerous state".
Perhaps this was meant.

Parnassius mnemosyne-Mnemosyne (EN).
EN (2) - Endangered

Good day, Colleagues !
On May 26, I, Alexey Makarov (Eidalon) and Alexander Kurmaev (STIGMA) decided to go to the north-west of the Tver region for the nominee Boloria frigga. According to all known reports, this is the closest swamp to Moscow where the butterfly lives. Korobkov Alexander Grigoryevich, the former head of the Udomel forestry, helped us in this case.
We got up at 3 am. We started at 4, arrived in Seltso-Karelskoye of the Udomlich district at 9 am.

Without long intending to go to the swamp.


Walk for an hour and a half. As usual, the way "there" is fast. We went out to the swamp at 10.30. But it's empty. The temperature is already +18, but the night was cold +5. Cloudberries-aft - sea. Especially from the edge of the swamp in a tall pine forest..

The swamp itself is dry, so you can sprint after an insect. The legs practically do not fall through and do not slurp. Surprisingly, there are no bumps. Cranberries are few and cloudberries plentiful. Pine forests are quite rare and low.


As a result, we met the first Friggs closer to the center of the swamp. Caught on three quite a lot of males and only 3 females. Some males can be seen flying for a couple of days. We caught only a few fresh males of Boloria eunomia ossianus. The butterfly is noticeably smaller than the specimens from the Batkovsky swamp of the Moscow region and somewhat resembles the Polar Ural ones. For myself, I concluded that Frigga takes off 2-3 days earlier than eunomia. You can say it at the same time.


As a result, we wandered through the swamp for 3 hours. We met 3-4 Jutta females and not a single male ! I don't know where they are. They shouldn't be leaving yet.
Back left at 5 pm via Bologoe that would immediately use the high-speed M11. There are no cameras on it. Some go "pedal to the floor". We lost half an hour near Sodnechnogorsk. We got home at 10 pm.
Photos of straightened butterflies will be attached as they dry on the straightener. Frigga males were found in both light and dark shapes. One was actually a brown-gray aberrant. This is how the trip turned out.

I couldn't resist rushing back to my swamp. Impressions: cloudberry and rosemary are fading, cranberries are blooming. Something unimaginable is happening this year with horseflies - it seems that either they are swarming like bees, or I got to some of their temples. I'm still surprised they didn't take me back to their nest. You take a swing at a butterfly, and there are already 3-4 horseflies buzzing in the net.Some birds of prey had settled in the middle of the swamp. I didn't go near the nest, because they were squeaking too menacingly.
After the black diggers, there are still some surprises.
Frosya simply presses with her quantity - because of her and horseflies, it is simply impossible to concentrate. Finally, B. eunomia took off. There is still a lot of Utah, but almost all of it is transparent. Females mostly sit on wild rosemary bushes, while males hang from pine trees. The mass of C. paleno is both male and female. I found two males sitting in the winter garden. Did you drink water or something? I didn't find Frigga

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I couldn't resist and decided to visit Moleka's property - the swamp near d-today.Naschi. I walked along the power lines, walked through the open swamp and returned to the highway through the pine forest. The first feeling - the same horseflies in incredible quantities!!! B. eunomia scurry among the pine trees - very decent quality, and the females are quite fresh. B. frigga is also occasionally found there, but it is already very, very old, which is amazing - there is practically no frosi, although it is not measured under the Forest one. In the open, it's empty. Sometimes Yuta females fly by. Well, in the photo-samples of what is now flying under the Pimples.
And yes, a question for experts: why, under the Pimples, without meeting a single cloudberry bush, I still found frigga, and under the Forest, where cloudberries are a carpet, it has not yet been found?

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I went back to my swamp. From the burning ripples in the eyes! Absolutely not shy, almost climb into the net themselves. Coenonympha hero appeared - so far they are not numerous. Frosya and Yuta arrive. 40 years of Angerona prunaria.
Gentlemen of the North-Westerners, please beaconite when you spot the tail. Last year, they were massively sitting on the inflorescences of kupyr, but this year, I haven't seen them yet, although kupyr is already in full bloom.

  
Gentlemen of the North-Westerners, please beaconite when you spot the tail.

On June 2-3, I caught S. pruni near the PTZ, near Serpukhov in MO.Many males are already broken, but you can also catch fresh ones.

I went back to my swamp. From the burning ripples in the eyes! Absolutely not shy, almost climb into the net themselves. Coenonympha hero appeared - so far they are not numerous. Frosya and Yuta arrive. 40 years of Angerona prunaria.
Gentlemen of the North-Westerners, please beaconite when you spot the tail. Last year, they were massively sitting on the inflorescences of kupyr, but this year, I haven't seen them yet, although kupyr is already in full bloom.

Andrey, please get me the paleno culture! I'll charge you some cookies!

And how long will the C. palaeno summer period last?
Offhand.

Have a nice day, while the impressions are still fresh, I will describe my adventures over the past twenty-four hours. I dabble in breeding, if anyone doesn't know. And I have a certain Wish-list. As of yesterday, there were Loathoe amurensis (for me, so it's in honor of the boy with a slingshot that once pierced my heart) and Scolitantides orion, an animal that is generally banal, but we will bend it in the afternoon. As you know, the shortest road is the one you know, so I went to catch animals, where I caught them 10 years ago. The first point is Nikonovo, the mecca of Penza entomology. For many years I was on duty there with a net under the lanterns, until civilization came and the DRL was replaced with LEDs. And everything was fine, but... now I have a car-a stylish hatchback of the twelfth model released at the very beginning of this millennium, so I have to drive it, damn it... It has long been proven that to catch a butterfly - it is not necessary to climb the highest mountain, and that in relation to the Penza region - in the most chepyzhnik. I think I can even guess that hawks can fly, and they don't care what kind of hummock the sheet hangs on, but the SPIRIT of SUSANIN lives in me and lives well, so I went to the place where the road ends. He sat down in the sand up to his bumper without any trouble. It was getting dark. This is where the basics of Zen Buddhism came in handy. Deciding that the morning of the evening does not understand, I started the generator and lit up. Needless to say, amurensis didn't arrive? The whole standard set of hawkmoth arrived, except for aspen, but fortune does not cut ends, she beckoned me with a carrot on a string in the form of a female Poplar hawkmoth, Well, on fishing and crucian carp-baba, but not with empty cages and there is something to strive for.
While the entomofauna was settling on the sheet, I tried using a jack, rocks, and a well-known mother to curb the friction force, and the third time it worked. It would seem to lie down, sleep - Nafiga? Go to Sosnovoborsk for orions! A mad dog you know (see map).
Having reached the cherished clearing, which my classmate and associate of Oleg P... Vitya Chernyshov showed me (grandmercy to him and health), I decided to take a nap, having disassembled half of the cabin in advance in order to achieve at least some horizontality. Don't try it again. It took me an hour and a half to catch mosquitoes, which, despite the scrupulous genocide, continued to arrive from the technological openings of my Batman mobile. I wanted to sleep, or at least die. And here he is - Morpheus, I feel the warmth of his embrace... " Dick! Barbell, " as one commenter put it. Alarm clock! I borrowed my wife's phone to use the navigator, and it has an alarm clock set for 5: 45!!! It was a fiasco, citizens! I admitted that the dream wasn't my thing, and I followed the crocs, but of course I didn't find anything, and I scooped up Orions on the way back to the car, which is how it happens. In total, one point of the trip was completed, which means that everything was not in vain.
On the way back, the taxi took two Tatar women to Penza for 500 rubles, which somewhat softened the bitterness of the morning. To be honest, the most memorable part of the trip was the huge furry flies...The photo will be released later.

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And how long will the C. palaeno summer period last?
Offhand.

Judging by the weather, by the end of the week, most of them will be already broken. Last year, some individuals were caught until mid-July.

Andrey, please get me the paleno culture! I'll charge you some cookies!

Cookies are certainly tempting, but where can you get its culture? Not eggs with caterpillars to look for?!

here's what I'll write to you in PM=)

We also spent the weekend usefully and went to our favorite Vasilyevsky cordon, which is located in the Dobrovskiy district of the Lipetsk region. The place is simply unique in its floral and biotopic composition. Staritsy, oak grove, pine forest, mixed grass meadow, xerophytic stations. As Ilya said - " from the desert to the taiga in one bottle."
Arrived quite late, pm glasses did not even put, and in general with the bug on this trip was quite deaf. Of course, I mowed down various small things, but the genital analysis of this good will take a lot of time and effort.
Everything blooms and smells. Fields of smolki and Sogopagia, highlander with a peduncle in a meter....
On each grass blade sits 3-5 Anisoplia segetum and a bunch of cockroaches.
One of the targets was Odezia atrata, but there was only one and not me

Day. Cinxia, athalia / britomartis, selena, first brentis; very early, small, but mostly trivial. 3 types of haylofts. Under the shade of the Lasiommata maera oak forest. 3 types of chervonets, 2 types of caudates, and 4 types of other "cabbage rolls". Weight of Siona lineate and Diacrisia sannio (males only), also 1 piece of Rhyparia purpurata, and for the first time in the Lipetsk region !!! Hyphoraia aulica!!! (3 women-one went to divorce, and 1 male). Doletki mnemosyne and swallowtail. Hawthorn trees.

We visited the Scolitantides orion lair. Butterflies were flying away, and there were a lot of eggs and geese on the cleaning floors.

Night. Hawkmoth: ocular, linden, pine, medium and small wine. Proserpine is absent from 5 species of crested whales, 2 species of Spilosoma, Eilema sororcula, Cybosia mesomella, Calliteara pudibunda. A lot of different scoops, among which I would like to mention Elaphria venustula, 2 types of b/w Hadena, with" ..drins " and apamea still need to be sorted out. Especially pleased with 7 pieces of Meganola strigula-I never caught it A bunch of all sorts of moth, a lot of Eupithecia, but then "cook and cook". New to me Electrophaes corylata
Adopted: Arctia caja, Cucullia verbasci and Catocala electa.
Great ride! Respect to all participants and see you soon!

Everything blooms and smells





Unfortunately, it was not possible to film the coitus of weevils, a hard-to-reach place and a culture shock




This post was edited by AGG-05.06.2018 12: 35

thank you

continued...
orion caterpillars only pretend to be sluggish, nimble creatures when the sun hits them. not a single normal frame



trivia. in the evening, they gathered the sleepers on smolka, why run and even in the wind


wind, mosquitoes and horseflies did not give any chance to shoot




This post was edited by AGG-05.06.2018 13: 19

Yesterday, I walked a like-minded person through mnemosyns in the vicinity of the city. Mnemosyne is already running out, all torn. The furious wind did not allow the butterflies to rise from the grass, and the frightened one was carried far away in xxxx.
Mnemosyne, hawthorn, 1 piece of rutabaga, a lot of cinxia, killed palaemones and tagesas, a lot of Siona lineata. I took a couple of Satyrium pruni females. Polixena husks are still hiding, but there are a lot of nibbles. tavolga began to develop new territories, which gives hope for a good catch of stenokorusov and bronzovok fiber
I caught 2 species of beetles of my dreams: Orsodacne cerasi (Linnaeus, 1758) - I already lost faith in its existence on the territory of the Tambov region and here it is! and melandridka Dircaea quadriguttata, but still need to look just for the first time I collect it myself
and took on the upbringing, as it turned out now (thanks to vidjl for the definition) Xylena vetusta


abode of the Mononychus


landscape


This post was edited by AGG-05.06.2018 13: 49

Irises aren't blooming here yet. Ahead of us for a week live)))

they are fading, they were blooming a couple of weeks ago. and how many types of irises do you have? we should have, according to the literature, 6.I only saw a killer whale-yellow. sibirikus I saw only in the Ryazan region, in the Volgograd region I saw a small incomprehensible, Berezhnoy this year we have such dug up-a sly fox but not the fact that such, tk I saw them on limestones, and he found on the sand. in short the botanical question is always open

This post was edited by AGG-05.06.2018 14: 13

I have no idea how many species, but I know that there are yellow ones in the swamp near the house, so from the obvious signs I identified it as Iris pseudacorus. I didn't read anything, I didn't search for information.

I have no idea how many species, but I know that there are yellow ones in the swamp near the house, so from the obvious signs I identified it as Iris pseudacorus. I didn't read anything, I didn't search for information.

I recommend "Determinant of vascular plants of the Tambov region", removed from the Shipunov library
I will send @ - mail on request, to all interested parties

This post was edited by AGG-05.06.2018 22: 06

The day before yesterday, I also saw yellow irises blooming in the swamp. And now we have the second day - June! During the day, the temperature dropped to +8 and there was hail.

The day before yesterday, I also saw yellow irises blooming in the swamp. And now we have the second day - June! During the day, the temperature dropped to +8 and there was hail.

In May, we spent almost three weeks getting warm.

Daytime +11C!!! Only this one flies

This post was edited by major65-06.06.2018 23: 15

On June 3, the sun shone in the vicinity of the village of Strakhovo, Zaoksky district of the Tula region (close to the Moscow Region).
Of interest - in the mass flew Melanthia procellata.

This post was edited by PhilGri - 07.06.2018 02: 00

On June 3, the sun shone in the vicinity of the village of Strakhovo, Zaoksky district of the Tula region (close to the Moscow Region).
Of interest - in the mass flew Melanthia procellata.

Then ask in the botanical part of the forum about some large and not too northern station of clematis straight, maybe in the MO you will find it, and if you are very lucky, then some finished moth will break off!

Then ask in the botanical part of the forum about some large and not too northern station of clematis straight, maybe in the MO you will find it, and if you are very lucky, then some finished moth will break off!

In the Yaroslavl region, a striped moth eats lumbago - that is, it should be searched for in Alpatievo.

Has anyone's Katokalki already flown?

well, if you kick the caterpillar well, it will fly a little wait at least a month

So it was a glitch - yesterday it seemed that Fulminia had escaped from the screen.

couldn't it have been a Minucia lunaris flyby?

couldn't it have been a Minucia lunaris flyby?

Maybe I didn't have time to really see it