European part of Russia

Where do virgin females come from? Output data?

Yes, the output ones. That year, the females came to the world, laid eggs, and these are their children.

"Where the hell are you going" - how many kilometers is it? In the Teberda Nature Reserve, they definitely exist, and at the same time, D. nordmani. How much is there from Minvod?

"Learn geography" - I already quote Yakovlev with pleasure. — I don't know. I don't even know whether to go there from Nevinnomyssk or from Kislovodsk (there are no bus routes straight through the mountains) - It's a long way. This trip is like going to another planet in many ways. "Let's go to the Narzan Valley.
- And it is unlikely that they will be allowed to climb there....

"Learn geography" - I already quote Yakovlev with pleasure. — I don't know. I don't even know whether to go there from Nevinnomyssk or from Kislovodsk (there are no bus routes straight through the mountains) - It's a long way. This trip is like going to another planet in many ways. "Let's go to the Narzan Valley.
- And it is unlikely that they will be allowed to climb there....

Well, first of all, learn to read carefully, because it was only about kilometers, but not about how to overcome them. According to maps, there is a federal road between Minvody and Teberda (Verkhnyaya, Nizhnyaya, etc.). Secondly, in addition to the reserve itself, there are also its surroundings. I named the reserve simply because I know for certain that the species I'm looking for is there. You can certainly see better on the spot where there is a closer one.

PS. I do not complain about my knowledge of geography, I often encounter manifestations of geographical cretinism.

Back to the Apollo tracks. Sergey-sdi in the process of discussing the question of why I couldn't find these caterpillars in previous years, expressed an interesting idea that maybe the caterpillars feed in cloudy weather. Because I always unsuccessfully searched for them only in the bright sun, focusing on numerous literary sources. This time-cold (about +12 and overcast). What are the opinions of people who have seen Apollo caterpillars in nature?
By the way, the caterpillars are not shy at all, they sit openly, crawl on the ground around the stems of the cleaning agent. As far as I have observed, they feed often and little by little, going down to the ground after eating. Very beautiful - velvety black with bright orange spots on the sides and small blue dots on the back. The smallest caterpillars are almost entirely black. I wonder what the difference in age is with such a significant difference in size (5 times)?

In the past years, I have found caterpillars in the Nizhny Novgorod region both in clear and cloudy weather. It doesn't seem to make much difference to them (as long as they eat), I didn't meet them only in a downpour. True, quite often and regardless of the weather, caterpillars are found near the bushes of cleaning, and not on it, why they often descend and what they do there long before pupation is not clear. By the way, in one year it was possible to collect adult and older caterpillars at the same time.

20 km from Ryazan. The weather was favorable and I decided to go fishing today. A huge number of lizards and other animals.


Gonepteryx rhamni is abundant, and Pieris rapae and napi are very active, and several Pieris brassicae are found. Callophris rubi pigeons are often found. From the nymphalids Araschnia levana, Clossiana dia and Issoria lathonia, as well as a few severely battered by life Inachis io and Polygonia c-album. After that, there was a flash of something yellow and large that I couldn't see right away. I gave chase, but it was gone. After I convinced myself that it was a large lemongrass, something flashed again, but as it turned out, it flies faster and higher than I run . Against the background of the sun, I thought Papilio machaon. However, half an hour later, something declassified itself and it turned out to be Iphiclides podalirius, to my great glee .

Until Mikhail (Mikkei) returned from his Ryazan region, I report that there are a lot of swallowtails, a mass flight of mnemosyne, krestovnikovy bears, separately flying podaliriyas, at night a hollow-winged cocoonworm, a lot of pine hawkmoth, Apollons prefer not a white stonecrop, but some kind of cultivated one (at home they try to breed large white butterflies). Question to professionals: describe the characteristic places where plantain bears are found, next weekend we want to search in the Ryazan region, but we don't know the station characteristics.

Question to professionals: describe the characteristic places where plantain bears are found, next weekend we want to search in the Ryazan region, but we don't know the characteristics of the station.

At my dacha (Ramenskiy district, Donino station of the Kazan railway) flies on a meso-hygrophytic meadow with a predominance of plantain and clover.

At my dacha (Ramenskiy district, Donino station of the Kazan railway), it flies on a meso-hygrophytic meadow with a predominance of plantain and clover.

How often do you have them? Did they appear this year? If you drive from Moscow to Yegoryevka, is this place before or after Donino? Left-right?

Just in case, P. plantaginis is quite common in the vicinity of the PTZ, in particular, along the Sushka River.
There is also near Dubna (Meldino station)

How often do you have them? Did they appear this year? If you drive from Moscow to Yegoryevka, is this place before or after Donino? Left-right?

I haven't seen it this year yet. In general, I very rarely catch fish there in May and June, so I saw the last one a few years ago. But the station has been preserved, so it is unlikely that the bear has gone somewhere... The place itself is in the direction of Donino railway station (3-4 kilometers to the north). Right here, the middle of the three points between the der. Aksenovo and Donino islands:
http://maps.google.ru/maps/ms?hl=ru&ie=UTF...01,0.30899&z=12

Until Mikhail (Mikkei) returned from his Ryazan region, I report that there are a lot of swallowtails, a mass flight of mnemosyne, krestovnikovy bears, separately flying podaliriyas, at night a hollow-winged cocoonworm, a lot of pine hawkmoth, Apollons prefer not a white stonecrop, but some kind of cultivated one (at home they try to breed large white butterflies). Question to professionals: describe the characteristic places where plantain bears are found, next weekend we want to search in the Ryazan region, but we don't know the characteristics of the station.

I returned, but I didn't have time to write a report or process photos.
Arrived in Gus = zhelezny late at night from Saturday to Sunday. I turned on the lamp at about one o'clock in the morning without much hope. However, some things were flying: Pterostoma palpina, Pheosia gnoma/tremula (I can't tell them apart),?Notodonta dromedarius, female Cerura vinula, 5-6 pieces of pine hawkmoth and other nocturnal scum (sickleflies, moths, camels, etc.) At 2 am it started raining and I went to bed. Saturday morning was met with rain, which lasted almost until the evening, but, however, without much extremism. I went to show my wife the birches completely eaten by May beetles, which Sergey-sdi presented in the last report, and looked for places for night fishing. I've been messing around with the generator all day - an amazing Chinese thing that either starts with half a kick or doesn't start at all... Somehow revived it. Then Victor-vicgrr arrived and we went to the forest for night fishing.
It was late afternoon, and it was fun, because the infamous generator set refused to work again. Out of position using the converter 12 - >220. Caught on a split DRL-250 and periodically tried DRV-160. Up to 11 years ago, nothing happened. Then the May beetles swooped down on the screen. At the very beginning of the twelfth, a male cocoonworm arrived, which sdi later identified by phone as Phyllodesma tremulifolium.
They took almost everything that arrived, my knowledge is only enough to determine Clostera curtula, but somewhere from half past one in the morning, a wild crowd of pine hawkmoths flooded. We finished the entertainment in the second hour of the night. Everything that is not defined at the end of two nights will be posted in the "Definition of butterflies".
The morning was greeted with sunshine and a fresh wind. Looking ahead, I note that such weather at temperatures up to 18 gr. lasted all day, while in the"village of Gadyukino" (Moscow), according to telephone messages, it was quite sour
To begin with, the hawk moth H. tityus/fucifornis was discovered, feeding on dandelions and quickly leaving. After the wind brought the freshest I. podalirius, already slightly yellowish, but while I was running after the net, it was also blown away. I checked the Apollo caterpillars that were moved to the yard a week ago. Of the four, I found two - one grew up great (see up to 6) and moved from the normal large cleaning agent to the decorative relative of the caustic cleaning agent.
Which surprised me a lot. She ate it like a combine harvester, cutting off only the topmost leaves and periodically freezing in the sun. The second caterpillar was obviously bad, and by late afternoon only the skin was left of it - either it had faded or someone had sucked it out. But, by the evening, the third caterpillar crawled out.
Things at home were finished and Victor and I went to see how the Apollo caterpillars were doing in the wild. They were found with great difficulty and in much smaller numbers than a week ago, but they grew up a lot. Looks like they'll start pupating soon. On this wasteland, Victor casually caught a couple of Tyria jacobaeae blood bears, which I had never seen before in those places. A focused search led to the capture of another one, and again by Viktor. I didn't have much luck that day... During the stagger along the pine tree plantings, they suddenly saw a podaliriya fly out, which immediately dived back. There was no chance of catching him. It is interesting that a year ago I caught a beaten podaliri on the same wasteland, that's what you can eat there, if nothing grows but pines, chokeberries and broomsticks?
In full growth, the question arose-where else to go? They chose between "look at polyxene" and " check out the supposed location of mnemosyne." We decided that we were already fed up with polyxenes and went to get mnemosyne. I noticed the place on the first of May, when I found a thicket of flowering tufts on the coastal slope of a small river. In short, the soldier's ingenuity did not disappoint and Kasimov mnemosyne, after three seasons of unsuccessful searches, was finally caught. Butterflies turned out to be at the station to fig. But mostly males. They flew only in the sun, a little covered with clouds-they fall from the grass and you can just collect them with your hands.
The Ryazan mnemosyne differs from the Moscow region mnemosyne (PTZ), it seems, by larger females with a strongly developed black pattern.
Interestingly, the females ' sphragis are translucent and pure white, while the females themselves are yellowish. One of them, when caught directly in the hands, dropped eggs, the other released an orange liquid (see spots on the wings in the photo), as do, for example, freshly hatched A. crataegi hawthorns. In general, it seems that females with sphragis almost from hatching. Nonsense, of course... All the butterflies are absolutely fresh and, due to the cool weather, sluggish. No copulating couples were seen. By the way, the station is located in a rather crowded place near the holy spring. Holy Mnemosyne
All this did not seem enough and the debauchery was completed by night fishing in the myrmidon nursery (Kurovskaya), fortunately, on the way home. The goal-Viktor really wanted to catch pavonia, I-proserpina, and at the same time avoid the traffic jam near Moscow. It was very wet and quite cool due to the high humidity (+12 g). Almost nothing arrived, except for a couple of stunted moths. The case ended with the beginning of rain at half past eleven in the morning. And closer to the house, it was already watering with all its might.
As a result, in the Kasimov district of the Ryazan region, there are stable populations of all five Papilionidae species: swallowtail, podalirium, polyxena, mnemosyne and apollo. But pavonia and tau have not yet been identified

During the stagger along the pine tree plantings, they suddenly saw a podaliriya fly out, which immediately dived back. There was no chance of catching him. It is interesting that a year ago I caught a beaten podaliri on the same wasteland, that's what you can eat there, if nothing grows but pines, chokeberries and broomsticks?

Podaliriya caterpillars often feed on mountain ash.

In general, it seems that females with sphragis almost from hatching. Nonsense, of course...

But not far from the truth. It is not customary for representatives of the genus to delay this matter. At least in P. apollo, I have repeatedly observed the "activity" of the male when the female has just hatched from the pupa and is still spreading her wings.

And I looked at the abscesses.

Question to professionals: describe the characteristic places where plantain bears are found, next weekend we want to search in the Ryazan region, but we don't know the characteristics of the station.

The question is clearly not for me, but I will allow myself to intervene. Wherever it doesn't live (by station type). And why in the same stations in other places it is not found – it is difficult to say. In the area of the Prioksko-Terrasny Nature Reserve, it flies very abundantly in other years, both in a clearing in the driest ochitkov dry forest, and in a clearing in a moist mixed forest, it is found even in an oligotrophic swamp (in my opinion, last summer a photo of a swamp individual, and just hatched and drying out on the trunk of a pine tree in the depths of a peat bog, I posted it here).

/ Ryazan region, Korablinsky district, Yumashevo village, 29.05.09-31.05.09/

First, about the weather and the differences in nature with the MO. For several weeks now, the day is 30 degrees in the shade, rain during this time-once, short-term shallow. The dandelion has completely faded, the lilac is still blooming, but already at sunset. There are no flowers in the fields/meadows, only lupines begin to bloom.
Upon arrival, I immediately caught a shander fathead (Carcharodus flocciferus) near the house, then another one, and then it turned out that they fly everywhere, the main thing is to look at them, small and fast to horror. On the second day, I also caught tages (Erynnis tages), even more nondescript than the sandra, thick-headed.
While catching fatheads, male Mnemosyne (PARNASSIUS MNEMOSYNE) flew by regularly once every half an hour, already quite beaten. And in general, Mnemosyne flies everywhere there, but rarely males. I did not find a normal station, and on the one that I found, there were only a few females, I took only one, let them breed.
Then I went to a rare forest, and it turned out that there was nothing special to catch: there was nothing outstanding except for the butterflies already described.
I started searching for the station of polyxena, after looking at how it should look in Gus at Mikhail's, I found a car in time, and a carriage of kirkazon, already half a meter long and blooming with might and main. Polyxenes flew understandably ragged, I took a better pair, but only as representatives of the new station, next year I will replace them with normal ones.
Swallowtails are everywhere, and they are small and much more stripped than polyxenes, I haven't even seen a single one that is more or less normal. Podaliriev did not see at all that against the background of Mikhail's calls, that they were flying in herds a hundred kilometers to the northeast, it was not fun. I even went to good forests in the Sapozhkovsky district, but the total for Podaliriyam is equal to 0 remained.
At night, in general, melancholy, nothing new, just banals. Only the thinworms Korscheltellus lupulina were pleased, but only the males rushed to the lamp as soon as it got dark, like flies on honey. Interestingly, on the first night I did not put a stab DRL-250, but on the second stab. There were no thin shells on the first night, all on the second. From cocoonworms only raspberry, from hawkmoth – poplar, linden, small and medium wine, eye-shaped, bedstraw and as much as one pine. One word melancholy. For an approximate list of what I either saw or took and determined, see at the end, there are almost no photos, I took them with my phone, I didn't have the strength to decompose them immediately on styrofoam, why I took them is unclear, but it's a pity to throw them away. I will have fun in the winter with soaking.
Yes, on the way back I stopped at the myrmidon nursery – myrmidons fly with dawns, but I didn't find any blood bears, maybe it's too early.

HESPERIIDAE
1. Erynnis tages (Linnaeus, 1758)
2. Carcharodus flocciferus (Zeiler, 1847)
3. Pyrgus malvae (Linnaeus, 1758)
4. §іarterocephalus palaemon (Pallas, 1771)
5. Carterocephalus silvicola (Meigen, 1828)
PAPILIONIDAE
6. PARNASSIUS MNEMOSYNE Linnaeus, 1758
7. PAPILIO MACHAON Linnaeus, 1758
8. Zerynthia polyxena ([Denis & SchiffermЁ№ller], 1775)
LYCAENIDAE
9. Callophrys rubi (Linnaeus, 1758)
10. Lycaena phlaeas (Linnaeus, 1761)
11. Cupido argiades (Pallas, 1771)
12. Celastrina argiolus (Linnaeus, 1758)
PIERIDAE
13. Colias hyale (Linnaeus, 1758)
14. Gonepteryx rhamni (Linnaeus, 1758)
15. Pieris brassicae (Linnaeus, 1758)
16. Pieris napi (Linnaeus, 1758)
17. Pieris rapae (Linnaeus, 1758)
SATYRIDAE
18. Coenonympha pamphilus (Linnaeus, 1758)
NYMPHALIDAE
19. Polygonia c-album (Linnaeus, 1758)
20. Inachis io (Linnaeus, 1758)
21. Aglais urticae (Linnaeus, 1758)
22. Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)
23. Araschnia levana (Linnaeus, 1758)
24. Boloria selene (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
25. Boloria dia (Linnaeus, 1767)
26. Issoria lathonia (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Arctiidae
1. Eilema sororcula (Hufnagel, 1766)
2. Spilosoma lubricipedum (Linnaeus, 1758)
3. Spilosoma lutea (Hufnagel, 1766)
Drepanidae
4. Drepana falcataria, (Linnaeus, 1758)
5. Thyatira batis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Hepialidae
6. Korscheltellus lupulina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Lasiocampidae
7. Macrothylacia rubi (Linnaeus, 1758)
Notodontidae
8. Notodonta dromedarius (Linnaeus, 1767)
9. Notodonta ziczac (Linnaeus, 1758)
10. Pheosia gnoma (Fabricius, 1766)
11. Pterostoma palpina (Clerck, 1759)
12. Gluphisia crenata (Esper, 1785)
13. Cerura vinula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Sphingidae
14. Deilephila elpenor (Linnaeus, 1758)
15. Deilephila porcellus (Linnaeus, 1758)
16. Hyles gallii (Rottemburg, 1775)
17. Laothoe populi (Linnaeus, 1758)
18. Mimas tiliae, (Linnaeus, 1758)
19. Smerinthus ocellatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
20. Sphinx pinastri Linnaeus, 1758
Geometridae
21. Biston betularia (Linnaeus, 1758)
22. Chiasmia clathrata (Linnaeus, 1758)
23. Cleora cinctaria (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
24. Ematurga atomaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
25. Lomaspilis opis (Butler, 1878)
26. Macaria notata (Linnaeus, 1758)
27. Siona lineata (Scopoli, 1763)
28. Chlorissa viridata/cloraria (Linnaeus, 1758)
29. Aplocera plagiata (Linnaeus, 1758)
30. Catarhoe rubidata (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
31. Cosmorhoe ocellata (Linnaeus, 1758)
32. Epirrhoe alternata (Muller, 1764)
33. Epirrhoe rivata (Hubner, 1813)
34. Epirrhoe tristata (Linnaeus, 1758)
35. Euchoeca nebulata (Scopoli, 1763)
36. Eupithecia centaureata (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
37. Xanthorhoe designata (Hufnagel, 1767)
38. Xanthorhoe spadicearia (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
39. Cyclophora albipunctata (Hufnagel, 1767)
40. Scopula rubiginata (Hufnagel, 1767)
41. Scopula immorata (Linnaeus, 1758)
42. Timandra comae A. Schmidt, 1931
43. Ascotis selenaria ([Denis & SchiffermЁ№ller], 1775)
44. Opisthograptis luteolata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Noctuidae
45. Tyta luctuosa (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
46. Acronicta aceris (Linnaeus, 1758)
47. Acronicta auricoma (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
48. Acronicta leporina (Linnaeus, 1758)
49. Acronicta megacephala (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
50. Acronicta rumicis (Linnaeus, 1758)
51. Callistege mi (Clerck, 1759)
52. Euclidia glyphica (Linnaeus, 1758)
53. Cucullia umbratica (Linnaeus, 1758)
54. Deltote bankiana (Fabricius, 1775)
55. Egira conspicillaris (Linnaeus, 1758)
56. Hada plebeja (Linnaeus, 1761)
57. Hecatera bicolorata (Hufnagel, 1766)
58. Lacanobia contigua (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
59. Lacanobia oleracea (Linnaeus, 1758)
60. Lacanobia suasa (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
61. Lacanobia thalassina (Hufnagel, 1766)
62. Orthosia gracilis (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
63. Pyrrhia umbra (Hufnagel, 1766)
64. Hypena proboscidalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
65. Agrotis exclamationis (Linnaeus, 1758)
66. Ochropleura plecta (Linnaeus, 1761)
67. Xestia c-nigrum (Linnaeus, 1758)
68. Calophasia lunula (Hufnagel, 1766)
69. Colocasia coryli (Linnaeus, 1758)
70. Abrostola tripartita (Hufnagel, 1766)
71. Autographa gamma (Linnaeus, 1758)
72. Diachrysia stenochrysis (Warren, 1913)
73. Macdunnoughia confusa (Stephens, 1850)
74. Plusia putnami Grote, 1873
75. Actinotia polyodon (Clerck, 1759)
76. Apamea sordens (Hufnagel, 1766)
77. Pseudeustrotia candidula (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
78. Trachea atriplicis (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Well, since no one reports on fishing, then I will supplement my report with photos with dried-up grandmothers.

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Well, since no one reports on fishing, then I will supplement my report with photos with dried-up grandmothers.

They're drying pretty fast."..

You need to know the method, four days and everything is ready! True, the crimson cocoonworm female and large hawk moth are not quite ready yet...

This post was edited on sdi-03.06.2009 16: 18

You need to know the method, four days and everything is ready! True, the crimson cocoonworm female and large hawk moth are not quite ready yet...

Do you dry it in sulfuric acid vapors? Or over alcohol? Tell me, because all the straightening machines are busy."..

Rostov region, district of the village. Merzhanovo, 6. VI. 2009
We went yesterday to visit our dacha plot and at the same time pick up livestock. Along the roadsides, roses and rosehips bloom in abundance. We mostly used their flowers to collect them.
The flower spider was the first to greet us, glaring angrily at the surrounding reality


Another spider caught a mosquito and happily sat with it in an embrace on a leaf


On a nearby bush a couple of leaf eaters were making love to each other glistening in the sun


At this time, zabrus was chewing some kind of colossus on the side of the road


... and a shaggy bronze woman had holes in the rosehip petals


Pollen eaters were doing their favorite thing
Podonta daghestanica


As I understand it, Omophlus sp.


We found a small wooded area along the pui and decided to dig through it. It turned out that in the litter runs a lot of woodlice Armadillidium vulgare (those that curl up into a ball)

I was planning to finally go six-legged and coleopteran hunting this past weekend. But, the work made its own adjustments, and "on Saturday, almost crying," I had to go to Vyksa. I didn't have much time, so I only managed to pick up a little on the way back. And even then, I took more photos, trying out a new camera. So, Vachsky district, about 40 km from Navashino on the Vyksa-Nizhny Novgorod highway.

May crushers have only just begun to crawl out of the ground and are sitting on the cypress tree.


Barbels


Tell me her name


Some pigeon girl was very willing to pose for me


And this one, during the flight, I first took for an overgrown mottled bird

Some pigeon girl was very willing to pose for me

Lycaena tityrus.

My five kopecks... The last weekend, as always, is Saturday.region, Gus-Zhelezny. The weather, unlike in Moscow, is not bad During the day, it is not interesting to catch, because it is the transition season from spring to summer species. They filed a complaint and spent a week hiding somewhere completely, apparently because the black fruit on which they were feeding had faded. And on the previous weekend, they flew merrily and abundantly. At the same time, it turned out that in the pine forest nursery podaliriyas breed on occasionally occurring wild apple trees (females laid eggs). During the same past week, Tyria jacobaeae completely flew away, on Saturday I found only one dying female. Various checkers fly abundantly, although it has not yet reached mathurna. Large ringed(?)caterpillars walk everywhere. cocoonworm.


I also met such a pretty caterpillar, though I don't know whose one


Myrmidon is not plentiful this year (1st generation), let's see what happens next. In the Prioksky meadows, on a blooming smolevka, I saw a couple of hawkmoth, either euphorbiaceae, or bedstraw, you can hardly tell them apart on the fly. The last copies of polyxena fly. At the same time, it was confirmed that it, polyxena, lives in coastal meadows everywhere, where there are oaks, linden trees and kirkazon. I.e., hawthorns, a lot of chervonets and pigeons flew almost everywhere, but nothing interesting. Fly V. cardui, met and a completely fresh copy of Aglais urticae.
May beetles continue to rampage. After devouring birches, willows, aspens and oaks, they spread to wild rose, and the most rabid ones reached horse sorrel...

The night from Friday to Saturday was bright and moonlit, which is probably why the flight was very bad. But from Saturday to Sunday - better. Surprisingly, there are very few hawkmoths (D. porcellus, L. populi, M. tiliae), except for the pine trees S. pinastri.
There were no others at all, although vicgrr caught S. ocellatus within 2 kilometers. A hefty female (2 cm) of some geotrup dung flew in, but there were no lunar copra at all, which had flown plentifully the previous weekend. Closer to 12 o'clock in the morning, bears also flew - the coveted villica and the associated lubricipedum/urticae/lutea. Only one Phragmatobia fuliginosa arrived, from which the screen was not visible at the same time last year. The harpies were also quite numerous. Cossus cossus also flew in, but it disappeared into the bushes. Some incomprehensible year, unfortunately, In general, a modest result in the photo. Please help me determine the numbers 2,4,5 in the top row. For verification, I will be glad to see the definitions for harpies, as well as for individual photos.



That's all, then the report is only after returning from Altai after the 26th.

PS. I forgot to mention the encounter with an insect that was extremely similar in size and appearance to an ordinary honey bee, but at the same time dragging a sawfly larva. Unfortunately, it was not possible to catch or photograph it, it was not ready. Experts, are there any predators or parasites of caterpillars among bees, or among wasps-riders similar to bees?

This post was edited by mikee-09.06.2009 00: 09

In the top row: 2.- Dasychira pudibunda L. male, (on the right in the photo on the canvas he is the same); 4. - Peridea anceps Goeze male; 5. - Hoplitis milhauseri F. male (not a bad look!)

By harpy top row: 1.- Dicranura vinula L. male, 3. - same as female; bottom row: 4. - Dicranura erminea Esp. male, on the canvas at the bottom right, she is also.

You took Anceps and Milhouser one apiece, didn't you?"

Yes, Harpyia milhauseri-kru-u-uto!

The caterpillar, by the way, is not ringed, but milkweed.

You took Anceps and Milhouser one apiece, didn't you?"

You'd think they were flying in flocks Say thank you for taking this nondescript gray biomass at all, mindful of your perverse tastes
For example, the red-tailed woolpaw is much more attractive to me, although it does not have a red tail.

This post was edited by mikee-09.06.2009 10: 09

The caterpillar, by the way, is not ringed, but milkweed.

Are you sure?" In my yard, where the picture was taken, they eat everything from cereals to bindweed and dandelions. sdi, by the way, saw them in their infancy, when they were still in the nest. And it's only been a month.
What about the white caterpillar?

Exactly euphorbia. In comparison, they differ very well.
For example, the ringed caterpillar:


Do you have any photos of the younger age (in nests) of caterpillars of this species?
White I don't know who.

white mottled caterpillar, maybe Zygaena loti, though, - H. Z.

Exactly euphorbia. In comparison, they differ very well.
For example, the ringed caterpillar:


Do you have any photos of the younger age (in nests) of caterpillars of this species?
"I don't know who.

No, unfortunately, because who knew they would be needed. But all is not lost, because the butterflies will soon fly and leave eggs around the screen again, so there is a chance that next year...

And here I was fishing almost in the same place as mikee. Help determine #1 and #3 on the top left, pliz.

Pictures:

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1-Angerona prunaria
3-some kind of cowl

And here I was fishing almost in the same place as mikee. Help determine #1 and #3 on the top left, pliz.

Ah, that's where all the villica flew! #3, it seems, is also Harpyia milhauseri, for which everyone here suffers

And here I was fishing almost in the same place as mikee. Help determine #1 and #3 on the top left, pliz.

3 Cucullia umbratica

See mikee! Sorry off topic. Do you stick the pin so low (on the border with the abdomen) on purpose, with some meaning, or is this a feature of the handwriting?

This post was edited by Aaata-09.06.2009 17: 18

  See mikee! Sorry off topic. Do you stick the pin so low (on the border with the abdomen) on purpose, with some meaning, or is this a feature of the handwriting?

Yes, I also wanted to mention it!
I suspect that with such an impalement, it is terribly difficult to break off the belly for cooking, without steaming and impaling the butterfly again...

This post was edited by kotbegemot-09.06.2009 17: 20

Ah, that's where all the villica's gone!

6 numbers one copy. sat on a pole late at night under a street lamp (Voronezh region, Liskinsky district, Divnogorye village).
By the way, the MO had a good year of this species in my memory in 1995.

  See mikee! Sorry off topic. Do you stick the pin so low (on the border with the abdomen) on purpose, with some meaning, or is this a feature of the handwriting?

This is just a temporary tattoo to secure the butterfly in a shipping box. The fact is that at night, in unsanitary and poorly lit conditions, it is difficult to stick a pin in the cephalothorax correctly, but then you have to re-stick it when straightening. in this case, there may often be two holes. Personally, my opinion is that if the pin is temporarily stuck below the cephalothorax, then it is easier to remove it later and there is less loss for the appearance. I do not impose this on anyone and I am not ready to seriously argue about the correctness of this approach.