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28.07.2008 10:32, mikee

Kasimovsky district, Ryazan region. Half-night on Saturday and night on Sunday. During the day, there is practically nothing to catch, everything is the most common. It doesn't fly very much at night, but it's fun. Yellow-winged owl season: Catocala fulminea, Noctua fimbriata, Noctua ?pronuba (see "definition of butterflies") and some smaller ones like Noctua interposita / orbona (photo sometime later). Of the green moth-only banal Geometra papilionaria, but in wild numbers. From hawkmoth only one bedstraw, pine and small wine. Standard cocoonworms. There were no bears, except for pink lichens plus an unidentified object (see "definition of butterflies"). There are quite a few other scoops, among which there are only a few metalloids. Well, as always, sickle-flies, moths, caddis flies and other "rubbish"

Everything that is not determined in the" forehead "is sent to the "definition of butterflies". Yes, on Sunday afternoon I went to the Oka Nature Reserve for the Red Book of the Ryazan Region for kotbegemot (he is threatening to come to Moscow any minute now!). A rabid dog, as you know, does not have a detour of 7 versts. But I drove through the central part of the reserve and saw almost untouched forests. I really liked the Pra in the lower reaches, despite the rather large number of tourists (in the protected area of the reserve!). I agreed with the huntsmen easily, knowing the names of the Directorate's employees.

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30.07.2008 20:26, Fornax13

Today I returned from another ten-day outing. The place is very pleasant:extreme north-west of the region, southern border of spruce distribution. There's not a lot of material, but what a great one!
From the carabids, I was pleased with Cychrus caraboides, as well as a couple of Paradromius linearis and Lebia chlorocephala. In addition, cute forest Harpalus's.
Surprisingly many sycamenids - at least 3-4 species. There were Nevraphes, Stenichnus (not even one species), Euconnus some pleasant.
We were also pleased with the feelers - so, offhand, there were two Euplectus species and several Bythinini (there were only two of these beetles from the region).
With leiodids, too, it's not bad - 4 species of Leiodini, 4 species of anisotomes, there are a lot of agatidiums, and Liodopria serricornis poured into the window in droves.
Of the staffs, the most interesting thing: Velleius dilatatus flew in with suicidal tendencies-he decided to hide in the fire, from where he was already extracted in baked form.
Euknemide, unfortunately, was not available. It's probably too late...
There are many different cryptophagids, but I feel that this is a ppc. 3 species of mold eaters-Mycetina cruciata, Endomychus coccineus and Dapsa came in droves (I don't know what kind of species, but it looks like it's not trimaculata). So I still don't understand where the larvae develop. The beetles mowed down well from marijuana (I mean, from Ivan da marya), which was affected by some kind of stuff like powdery oatmeal or rust fungi. After that, however, I began to get caught in everything. But also on infected plants. If anyone knows anything about their biology, please share. It's interesting though

I collected a good series of Orthocerus clavicornis-a cool beetle after all!

Regularly came across Phytobaenus amabilis + one copy of some other aderida. Even something non-trivial.
Hallomenus binotatus flew well into the window.
Of the long-nosed ones, I didn't take much - Lepidonotaris petax flew to the light, but I found some Acalles. There were also cute bark beetles. Here, in fact, and all of them.
In general, even good

P.S. Dapsa is like horvathi Csiki, 1901. Already quite interesting...

P. P. S. And does anyone know what kind of dipters that have larvae in tinder boxes live in? Small ones like that, light yellow. A very peculiar way of getting around: they curl up into a spring, then abruptly unbend.. Centimeters on 5-6 fly. Piophilidae can be?

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04.08.2008 11:39, mikee

As always, Kasimovsky district of the Ryazan region. Two nights (the first from 00-00 to 2-00, the second from 11 to 2) - almost a blank screen, nothing interesting at all. Not a single ribbon girl, probably too early. During the day: Apollo flights end, only females fly. Quite a lot of myrmidons. Heavily flown checkers and mother-of-pearl beads. In short - it's not the season

Checking the oak grove for Catocala sponsa did not give a result - it's empty. Potosia lugubris also matured in a hollow tree in cocoons. On a forest lawn, a cute Euclidia glyphica and a female Striped Bear (Coscinia striata) were caught, the male of which arrived a couple of weeks ago. On the flowers of oregano, some mottled birds with large red spots feed (posted in the definition). In the yard for a bottle with the remains of beer, some zlatka showed up. Photographed and caught, but, infection, managed to escape from the box, because there was nothing to starve. In conclusion, I caught a beetle on the forest wasteland, which I did not expect to meet - Rhombonyx holosericea. I

don't know how rare he is in these parts, but this is the first time I've ever met him. It is extremely beautiful, especially in the bright sun. Sitting in the refrigerator with no hope of escaping

The day ended with a powerful thunderstorm with a very strong wind (a lot of trees were knocked down in the forest, roofs were torn off in some places)and hail up to 3 cm in diameter. I was very afraid that the car would be beaten, but it didn't matter, the big poplar tree played a protective role. In general, the weather was not bad, we swam, collected mushrooms... Meanwhile, it was raining in Moscow...

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18.08.2008 17:22, mikee

Finally, I found the time to unsubscribe... As always, Ryazan region, Kasimovsky district I ran away from work because of the wild heat and left Moscow on Thursday evening

, but the night from Thursday to Friday turned out to be a failure, although it was very warm, but with a full Moon. Nothing interesting arrived. I drove through the night forest, but, unlike other years/months/days, nothing flew in the headlights at all!
Friday for fishing was missed due to all sorts of household chores and just rest (mushrooms, fishing, guests, etc.). Saturday night also did not please with anything special, although 5 pieces of fresh Hyles gallii arrived, the second generation, or something?
On Saturday I went to Dubrava for Catocala sponsa. They finally flew, completely fresh, a week ago they were not there at all. Interestingly, C. fraxini also flew with them at the same time. In general, in the oak grove, I simultaneously found 4 types of catocals on the same oaks at once: sponsa, fraxini, nupta and some other. I sent this one to the topic "definition of butterflies", and all the few specimens were already quite flown, i.e. they were hatched at least a week ago, although I specifically searched for sponsa, but found nothing... Of the daytime ones, the most noticeable are the numerous admirals this year and some small fresh mother-of-pearl fish like dia / titania (I didn't catch them). In general, for 34 gr. heat catching butterflies is still an occupation... You go and hang around the numerous oaks so that the catocals fly off, because it is quite difficult to see them on the bark. Then, however, the eye was filled, remembering last year's experience

of Last year's abundance (2-3 copies on every third oak tree) sponsa is not observed this year, so an attempt was made to" mechanize " the collection and hung several rags soaked in honey jam at night, and at the same time, a couple of plastic bottles with a mixture of beer and vinegar. The effect is awesome: the next day all the baits were densely covered with a wild number of hefty hornets, whose colonies in that oak grove are many. And not a single ribbon or bronze

, although Potosia lugubris and Protaetia metallica were found on the trunks. In general, on Sunday I continued fishing by hand, but I already tried to prick sitting butterflies directly with a syringe. This is possible only if the day before the butterfly has not yet scared, but still, unproductive. But it is desirable, because in the net butterflies are almost 100% bald. This, by the way, does not apply to fraxini and nupta, but sponsa and the second, alas... In general, butterflies are more common in the depths of the forest than along the edge, and on less illuminated trunks. If the trunk is partially blocked by a low bush, then the chances of the presence of butterflies increase. They sit at a height of no more than 1.5 meters, mostly 1 meter from the ground. And strictly on the side opposite to the Sun at the moment. As the sun shifts, the butterflies crawl over.
Sunday night was marked by a lunar eclipse, but it was still an average year until I removed the window from the DRL-250. After that, it became much more fun, and after all, all summer there was no difference between what was crushed and what was not... The same H. galli and one H. euphorbiae flew everywhere, and it turned out that the bears were not over yet: Phragmatobia fuliginosa and Coscinia cribraria. Scoops-metallovidki of all varieties, yellow-winged scoops, beautiful Cucullia argentea. From pyadenits managed to identify only drokovaya. Finally, fraxini arrived, followed by an unidentified battered catocala, either electa or pacta (see definition of butterflies). A huge floating beetle also arrived...
that's all, in fact. In total, I hope we caught 5 types of tapeworms, although perhaps our community will also correct me

with an interesting observation at the end. Hornets amicably block their nests in the hollows of oak trees with walls of chewed sawdust. In some cases, only the flight hole is left up to 3 cm in diameter. I wonder if they are protecting themselves from the heat in this way, or are they preparing for cataclysms after the heat?

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29.08.2008 21:44, Victor Titov

We, i.e. forumchane-Yaroslavl residents Elizar, Dmitrich and Anthrenus have long planned to dock and get out somewhere for a couple of days to fish. But only by the end of the season (from August 22 to August 24) we managed to get to the biostation (Yaroslavl region, Uglich district) by agreement with the management of the university, we were even provided with a house to stay in. Anthrenus intended to continue studying the fauna of the surrounding area and the state of rare bird populations, Elizar, a were asked to investigate the center of drying pine trees on the territory of the biological station, Dmitrich (that is, I) provided "legal cover". There were a lot of plans: to set traps with vinegar in the forest and on the river bank (it was planned to collect Nebria livida; Carabus glabratus; Cychrus caraboides; Patrobus assimilis; P. septentrionis, etc.); to catch the bays of the river with vegetation (to look for Dytiscus latissimus); to fish for split DRL; Elizar was going to look for bark beetles from the genus Lymantor ....
After getting to the biostation, settling in and having a snack, we became diggers – we began to set traps (about 90 in total, 40 of them in the forest). Already the manual collection was encouraging: several Patrobus assimilis and one P. septentrionis were caught on the shore under the garbage-discharges. Anthrenus predicted traps clogged with them. After poking the whole area with glasses, we reached the curtain of dying pines. Elizar authoritatively stated that the cause of death – zlatki on the trunks and vertex bark beetle in the crown. By the way, before that, the top bark beetle had never been recorded at the biological station. In the evening, we prepared to catch the light-on a stab DRL-250, turned it on as soon as it got dark. Despite the rather cold night, the flight was not bad: Catocala fulminea flew (more than a dozen, and this is in the third decade of August!), Catocala fraxini (a couple), some small red-winged tapeworm, hawthorn cocoonworms scored the cloth, various late-summer scoops (in which we are like pigs in oranges), every little thing. Aphodius rufipes, Nicrophorus investigator, and Cychramus luteus flew in from the beetles. I took some small interesting aphodius off the screen (I haven't determined it yet). Racing without protective glasses at the pricked DRL, as predicted by Anthrenus, did not go in vain: the next morning I was tormented by "sand" in my eyes, and the skin from my face peeled off until the end of this week.
The next morning we went to check the traps, and everyone was disappointed: on the shore almost all the traps are empty, in the forest it is better, but only banals: Calathus micropterus, Epaphius secalis, Carabus hortensis... When it warmed up, Anthrenus and Elizar bravely climbed into the river with nets: to look for the mythical Dytiscus latissimus (Anthrenus, who in the summer got into a trap that stood on the bank of this river, got a larva, from which he brought out a male swimmer of the widest, and we thought that there should be more beetles). After spending half an hour in the water, they realized that this idea had failed miserably, and out of desperation they caught rainbows (they turned out to be banal D. dentata) and vertyachek. After warming up and preparing lunch, we decided to go "mow" in the dry weather. Elizar, while cooking dinner over a campfire, unsuccessfully searched for buckthorn inhabited by Lymantor coryli (buckthorn stalks were more than enough to prepare both dinner and breakfast). On sukhodolakh I distinguished myself: I mowed down a couple of Paradromius linearis, the rest didn't have anything interesting. We only saw a couple of Aredolpona rubra females (we didn't take them). During Elizar's wanderings, Wu managed to find buckthorn with Lymantor coryli, bird cherry with Lymantor aceris, and a Christmas tree inhabited by Polygraphus subopacus, which he picked out with apparent pleasure all evening. In the evening, the DRL was turned on again, but the years were worse, apparently it was still cold, but the same views flew. Interestingly, Catocala fraxini, practically did not fly to the lamp, rushed around in the forest among the illuminated birch trunks and often left the light. The nutcracker Dalopius marginatus arrived, where it came from in the third decade of August, it is not clear, and Dytiscus circumcinctus flew out of the forest.
In the morning, under a drizzling rain, we went to shoot traps, we should have already been going to Yaroslavl. The catch was a little more plentiful: near the river there were several Patrobus assimilis, Elaphrus angusticollis; in the forest, in addition to the banals, a couple of small Leistus terminatus, one Cychrus caraboides, Elizar, some small and interesting weevil caught, and that was all. On the way to the highway, we saw Trichius fasciatus, Oxythyrea funesta and collected several zions on a black mullein.

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After disembarking from the bus. Anthrenus follows the flight of the harrier with its eyes.

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Hopes for the capture of Nebria livida were not fulfilled...

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Anthrenus-terminator.

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When they saw the hunters, all the Dytiscus latissimus formed up in a wedge and swam away to the far cordon...

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22.09.2008 7:57, Sergey Didenko

Report on a trip this weekend (19-21.09) to Korablinsky district of the Ryazan region. During the day, the standard set of nymphalids, chiales jaundice and banal whiteflies flew. True, on Saturday in the middle of the day I saw a moth flying in the village, a cocoonworm in flight, the color seemed brown, the size is approximately like a crimson male cocoonworm. A gust of wind blew it out of range, so I don't know what it is. As an option or a silkworm salad or flying clover cocoonworm, other options do not come to mind. Here is a list of butterflies that have flown into the world:
Geometridae
1. Ennomos autumnaria
2. Epione repandaria
3. Epirrita autumnata
Noctuidae
1. Catocala fraxini
2. Catocala nupta
3. Diloba caeruleocephala
4. Mythimna ferrago
5. Agrotis ipsilon
6. Agrotis segetum
7. Xestia c-nigrum
8. Macdunnoughia confusa
9. Autographa gamma
10. Allophyes oxyacanthae
11. Agrochola circellaris
12. Cirrhia icteritia
13. Xanthia togata
14. Gortyna flavago
15. Eupsilia transversa
16. Hydraecia micacea
17. Nonagria typhae
Lasiocampidae
1. Trichiura crataegi
As you can see from the list, there is nothing outstanding, I didn't even take a picture. I'd rather add phone photos of nature.

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