European part of Russia

09.10.2020 17:56, AGG

We decided to take a walk around Tambov today. There were no special hopes, the more pleasant the result was. Everything was burned out in the sun, and given that almost all summer there was no rain, nothing else was expected. The temperature is about +20, the sun was noticeably hot. Day butterflies: Pieris napi, Colias hyale, Polyommatus icarus, Coenonympha pamphilus, Issoria lathonia, Vanessa atalanta, Polygonia c-album. Mowed down a few leaf blocks and cows.

Cafe "Two apple trees" - always fresh cider for admirals and anglwings. The clientele, although drunk, is very cheerful and nervous.


There are a lot of exuvians of some cows on the birch tree, I collected a larva and a couple of pupae. Let's see who comes out.



I visited the cherished clearing of 30*10 meters in size. Last month, I mowed down the elephant flea Pseudorchestes circumvistulatus and the Bruchidius marginalis seed from the tansy, and last year I mowed down the leaf beetle Chrysolina eurina from the same clearing and tansy. Part of the clearing was burned out in the sun, the second part was burned by someone. A single green tansy bush remained in the shade of the trees. A swing of the net on it brought me another female Chrysolina eurina!!! The third Tambov specimen of this species. And when? October 9th!!!


At the end of the road, we were waiting for a dry land with several willow bushes growing on it. It was actively eaten by newborn Chrysomela tremula (the elytra of most beetles are still soft). I took a small series of this infrequent beetle.


This is the end of the season. Now straighten - straighten - straighten

ps Thanks to Ilya U, I managed to find out that I missed a dead male Diurnea lipsiella

pps installed something


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09.10.2020 20:06, Andrei Dolgikh

Continuation of last night's report. Licking my lips on the Moscow Ptilophora plumigera, I decided to shine after work on the cherished glade. On one side - a field, on the other-an oak-maple-lime-birch-aspen forest, with a dense undergrowth of hazel. While waiting for darkness, I took a walk to the cherished oak tree, where the ropes that were once very fragrant bait were laid out for a month. So much time lie in the sun, under the rains and winds, and still noticeably podvanivayut. Well, where without them-a bunch of ubiquitous hornets! Around 19 o'clock it got dark and life began to boil on the ropes:

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09.10.2020 20:43, Andrei Dolgikh

On the screen was already a completely different composition of the population. Dozens of Poecilocampa populi males !!! And, approximately, from half-past eight went and not so frequent females.
Well, the result of night gatherings in the photo. The top 2 rows - from the ropes, the rest - from the screen.
Interestingly, with a fairly warm night of +14C, complete calm and cloudy clouds, not a single speck!!! Generally N-I-O-D-N-O-Y !!!
Ptilophora plumigera, unfortunately, did not draw Well, we will look further.

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09.10.2020 21:20, ИНО

13.10.2020 20:02, Andrei Dolgikh

19.10.2020 7:52, AGG

22.11.2020 21:19, Wild Yuri

Springtime... I couldn't post the photos in time, because they didn't join the site for a long time, and then I went far away for a long time.


Here in this area of the Lipetsk region, on the border with Tambov, we went to catch moths on May 3 of this year.


Our team, from left to right: Vladimir Egupov, Vadim Zaritsky, Jan Urbanus and Ilya Kostrikin, behind the scenes-I: Yuri Berezhnoy (under the lit pseudonym-Bahaev). Everyone is Lipetsk, everyone except Jan is a lepidopterist, and he likes beetles.


The moon was shining...


The lamp was shining...


But there wasn't much flying at her because of the moon and the cold.


Zaritsky stared at the blank screen like a Mephistopheles.


Ilya was a little more active...


Jan had better luck, because sometimes he caught some beetles.


I put on a performance with Covid in mind.


Yeah, bad luck...


In the morning we took a walk through the forest...


We found the longest clearing where we will catch next time.

So what came from the butterflies: Orthosia gothica, Orthosia inserta, Pannolis flammea, Semioscopis steinkelneriana, Lycia hyrtaria, Biston strataria, Paradarsia consonaria, Ectropis crepuscularia (Kostrikin's list), plus a few banal species.

This post was edited by Wild Yuri - 11/23/2020 00: 56

26.11.2020 22:01, I.roK.ez

26.03.2021 19:51, Andrei Dolgikh

26.03.2021 20:01, Andrei Dolgikh

Oh, it doesn't look like all is lost...

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26.03.2021 20:29, Andrei Dolgikh

A search of the fir trunks did not lead to anything. But at least we took a walk in the woods...
At dusk, I turned on my light system. The sky is overcast, +5 in the yard.... the first canister of an anti-virus vaccine arrived. Well... and that's it! At eight-thirty in the evening, the clouds abruptly dispersed and the moon crept out into half the sky. That was the end of it.

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26.03.2021 20:36, Andrei Dolgikh

Today we went for a walk in the woods again. The snow has significantly decreased. Around the trees, in sunny places, the soil thawed... regelaria was not found again. Sadness. But in the forest we took a walk!

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26.03.2021 20:53, Andrei Dolgikh

Oh-oh-oh-there are a lot of "leaky" Christmas trees in the forest. There is a place for woodpeckers to poklupatsya!

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26.03.2021 20:59, Andrei Dolgikh

And finally, we met such a "friend"on the road:

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27.03.2021 19:55, Andrei Dolgikh

31.03.2021 20:36, Carpocoris sp

06.06.2021 22:18, Tivanik

I met a population of mnemosyne in the suburbs of St. Petersburg. It is listed in the Red Book of St. Petersburg as an extinct species in the region. The last time a single specimen was recorded was in the 1970s.

14.06.2021 9:37, Andrey Bezborodkin

15.06.2021 15:34, Tivanik

29.10.2021 12:39, AGG

Dytiscus dimidiatus. SPb. the season continues
https://vk.com/wall434544303_28

29.10.2021 23:56, Dmitry Vlasov

30.10.2021 14:57, AGG

15.03.2022 13:42, Tivanik

I met the first spring butterfly in St. Petersburg today



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30.03.2022 9:25, AGG

17.04.2022 0:07, Wild Yuri

Spring has come to our forest! Feast after a winter's sleep!

18.04.2022 9:28, AGG

26.04.2022 14:07, Андреас

An aunt from the Belgorod region last year recorded a free-fluttering Papilio lowi in flower beds!
And that fatheads suck blood from frogs (just kidding) )) - this has not yet been seen. - it was also taken there.

The post was edited by Andreas - 26.04.2022 14: 12

27.04.2022 16:16, AVA

07.05.2022 8:03, Sergey Didenko

We went to the Don, to the Kalach district. We went for a ride on the steppe, chalk gullies, etc. They tried to shine at night, but most of the nights were subzero. The main task - to take a break from the city and people, to go fishing a little, was completed

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07.05.2022 18:25, Андреас

07.05.2022 19:39, Sergey Didenko

07.05.2022 20:56, Андреас

10.06.2022 21:58, Andrei Dolgikh

Someone is quite sad with the reports on the European part of the Russian Federation. I'll update the theme a little.
I dropped by my favorite swamp this afternoon. There were fresh microgams and cordigers. B. euphrosyne flew out. And so.... nothing special. You can't catch up with the shovel — they run around like crazy. But I still took a couple of non-standard features.

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28.06.2022 14:22, Andrei Dolgikh

People, where did everyone go? What kind of calm is this?
I'll dilute this vacuum. Finally, with the arrival of the heat and we have something flew. Please excuse me in advance for the quality of the images - I really have what I have. Who is in the topic, he will see everything anyway.

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08.07.2022 23:26, Andrei Dolgikh

Some July beauties

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11.07.2022 20:32, Agent Verr

Good day to all! I've been sitting on the site for a long time, I finally decided to register and share with you my recent collection of satirides, otherwise, it's really a lull. Butterflies are now flying out a lot in the long-awaited heat, especially happy pigeons. Surprisingly, I haven't seen any hives this year.

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12.07.2022 19:39, Andrei Dolgikh

12.07.2022 23:20, Agent Verr

13.07.2022 0:44, Andrei Dolgikh

20.07.2022 21:57, Andrei Dolgikh

Absolutely not hot for the top of summer. Almost daily rains. The species diversity of diurnal lepidoptera tends, if not to zero, then quite close to that. But the number of rutabagas is simply off the scale - hundreds of them accumulate on all more or less wet areas of primers. It even became interesting, what did all this horde feed on?! We have a long history of problems with wild cruciferous plants.

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