European part of Russia

Yes, indeed May. Bogdinsky-Baskunchaksky district, Astrakhan region.

Then it's Phyllometra culminaria
Please post this photo in the subject of moth, ennominy
http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=212056&st=100

Easy!
Thank you so much for the definition!
Otherwise, he would have died a fool...

Good afternoon!
I want to go on an insect hunt in the Akhtuba region next year.
Please tell me when it is best to go there (late spring or mid-summer, etc.)
Thank you in advance.

What kind of Akhtuba is this?
In the Volgograd region or in the Astrakhan region?

In the Astrakhan region

By the weekend, the cyclone again drove away the winter and the crumbs of snow that had fallen earlier melted. Therefore, on November 22, I once again decided to "close the season" over the past two months. Since the light day is now very short and at four o'clock in the forest at least an eye is gouged out, the choice of the place for closing the season fell on the nearest neighborhoods of Yaroslavl. The air temperature is +5, overcast, sometimes drizzling. The purpose of the raid was to "ruin" a huge hornet's nest to search for symbionts and "freeloaders" and attempt to collect Sphaeriestes bimaculatus (this species I collected several times in late autumn on pine branches inhabited by bark beetles). I will immediately make a reservation that these points of the program were not fulfilled – some animal ravaged the hornet's nest and devoured all the contents before me, and Sphaeriestes bimaculatus did not get caught, no matter how much I shook the pine branches. In the pine forest, about three dozen dead pines were stripped and a bunch of pine branches were picked out-results: Pityogenes bidentatus and Pityophthorus lichtensteinii-in branches, Pytho depressus and Phosphuga atrata under the bark, Diaperis boleti-accumulation in rotten brown-rotted dead wood. Surprisingly, there were no pups, dromias, or Corticeus blackbirds under the bark, and the number of beetles was not encouraging. From other invertebrates-podkornikami (who did not take) - a lot of spiders, winter mosquitoes, several species of riders (from 1 to 2.5 cm), caterpillars scoop, broad-winged moths... When shaking branches in piles rained spiders, cicadas, bedbugs, nogohvostki. I found a female hornet under the burnt dead wood.
Then I went to the floodplain elm to look at the hearth of a trickling sapwood. Literally immediately I came across trunks covered with a winter mushroom (Flammulina velutipes (Curt.: Fr.) Sing.), knowing that this mushroom is edible, I decided to pick up a little. As a result, I brought home three kilograms of fresh selected mushrooms, while washing which two small staphylin came out. Yes, even under the bark of an elm tree, I found a single Corticeus bicolor.
Such is the late-November fishing, from which I returned not with beetles, but with mushrooms.
Photo: hornet's nest in September; winter mushrooms; November forest; female hornet

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And here's my penny. Hyles hippophaes и Hyles zygophylli. A piece of Astrakhan heat from frozen Yaroslavl.

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And here's my penny. Hyles hippophaes и Hyles zygophylli. A piece of Astrakhan heat from frozen Yaroslavl.

Wow!!! Especially Hyles zygophylli.

And here's my penny. Hyles hippophaes и Hyles zygophylli. A piece of Astrakhan heat from frozen Yaroslavl.

And points from the Astrakhan region can not, at least in the personal account?

Yesterday, a partner organization called and asked me to come in and see who they caught (from the description - a big one with a mustache, but not a cockroach). Upon arrival, I was solemnly presented with a male Monochamus urussovi! It turned out that in November there was a repair of floors with a partial rearrangement - the builders were rude, they used untreated infected lumber...

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Winter in Saratov is abnormal.Frosts from December to.There is a lot of snow-I have a private house-every year I throw it with a shovel-I clean it-this year I have already thrown many tons.2 photos - on one snow in front of the porch, on the second snow climber on the heating pipe kemarit - - - - night butterflies by the way under the lamp hawat current so akromya mice.I light the lamp in the summer-he catches more than me-eats meat and vitamins.Cossus cossus, Smerinthus ocellatus, Laothoe populi is respected for its taste.He says it's better than whiskas.

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Hatching

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It smelled like spring!!! I also have some kind of scales got out-the memory of the forum congress

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It smelled like spring!!! I also have some kind of scales got out-the memory of the forum congress

Oh! And I kept wondering whose cocoons I had lying around? "Whose" in the sense of what kind of Saturnium:) So, you can also hope!

Yesterday in Velikiye Luki, during excavations, I found the first beetle cetonia aurata in the ground this year.

Remembering the summer:

I sit high and look far away...(Luzhsky district, Leningrad Region)


Insect feast (near the Narva river. Leningrad region)


Bronzovka vonyuchaya (Adler)


Caucasian caveman-Dolichopoda euxina Semenov (Caucasus. Bolshaya Akhshtyrskaya Cave)




This post was edited by Evgenich - 07.03.2010 16: 37

The other day I remembered that last fall I caught some moths that were kept in my bank. I suspect that one of them is Poecilocampa populi (Linnaeus, 1758). Moths?
All of them were caught on October 20, 2009 in the north of the Leningrad region. The weather was nasty, sometimes freezing, sometimes thawing... sometimes it snows a little, sometimes it rains.
Caught in the light.

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The other day I remembered that last fall I caught some moths that were kept in my bank. I suspect that one of them is Poecilocampa populi (Linnaeus, 1758). Moths?

Moths-Erannis defoliaria, Epirrita autumnata, Operophtera brumata

So we have now opened the season, if I may say so
On the advice of ssacad, dry branches of trees were sawn in late autumn: goat willow, linden, oak. Almost all winter they lay in canvas bags on the loggia, and closer to February they were moved to the apartment and periodically sprayed. And today, when checking the bags, 4 Agrilus zlatki (on a goat willow) and 3 wasps/bees were found (By the way, does anyone know what kind of animals they are? The lower one, I think, is a Crabronidae wasp?) from the branches of an oak tree. There is no one in Lipa yet.

Congratulations to the Russians on the start of the season!!!

Congratulations to the Russians on the start of the season!!!

Well, not all of them yet (in the m. O. of Snow on the most nebaluysya). Thanks!!!

... ... ...
And today, when checking the bags, they were found ... and 3 wasps/bees (by the way, does anyone know what kind of animals they are? The lower one, I think, is a Crabronidae wasp?) from the branches of an oak tree. There is no one in lipa yet.
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All - from sem. Sphecidae.

And today, when checking the bags, 4 Agrilus zlatki (on a goat willow) and 3 wasps/bees were found (By the way, does anyone know what kind of animals they are? The lower one, I think, is a Crabronidae wasp?) from the branches of an oak tree. There is no one in Lipa yet.

Two upper wasps of the genus Pemphredon. Probably.

I opened the season today. Interesting facts: male? Meloe variegatus and a few Carabus bessarabicus. Colorful bunches, goose onions and two-flowered tulips are blooming in full bloom.

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are there any other angles of the T-shirt?

I opened the season today.

Happy opening of the photo season! I am waiting for your additions to the gallery with ground beetles

02.04.10-04.04.10 d. Yumashevo, Korablinsky district, Ryazan region.

The temperature on both days is up to +13 in the afternoon, at night from +6 at 21.00 to +3 at 2.00, by dawn it goes to minus. Wind for two days from strong to very strong, south-easterly.
The flood of rivers led to the fact that fishing could be forgotten immediately. Even in the net to the village fish was very bad. The ducks have already arrived, the geese haven't arrived yet, just a couple of scouts. On the first night, the wind was very strong, the screen was blown away, and you can see the butterflies too. Except for two scoops of Eupsilia transversa, there was nothing. In the second one, it flew a little better, here is a list of what I saw from macro scales in two days.

1. Nymphalis xanthomelas
2. Inachis io
3. Aglais urticae
4. Gonepteryx rhamni

1. Archiearis parthenias

2. Conistra vaccinii
3. Eupsilia transversa
4. Lithophane furcifera
5. Xylena vetusta

6. Achlya flavicornis

That's the whole list I, of course, did not count on such a mediocre age. Perhaps this is due to the lag of spring in the south of the Ryazan region compared to the Moscow Region. It sounds strange, but it's a fact. I attach the photos, along with a photo of a weevil that has climbed up to me on a fishing rod cover lying in the grass.



Already in Moscow, Sunday night to Monday:

1. Archiearis parthenias
2. Phigalia pilosaria

3. Conistra vaccinii
4. Eupsilia transversa
5. Orthosia gothica
6. Orthosia incerta
7. Brachionycha nubeculosa

02.04.10-04.04.10 d. Yumashevo, Korablinsky district, Ryazan region.

Wind for two days from strong to very strong, south-easterly.

Apparently, the wind is the whole point

I also opened the season this Saturday.Ivanovo region, Shuisky district, Krasnoarmeyskoye village, 03-04. 04. 2010.

The day was warm and sunny,with a fairly strong but warm (south-easterly) wind.In general, the weather was favorable.There were a lot of butterflies,but alas, they were all from the usual, well-known species-Aglais urticae, Nymphalis xanthomelas (the first was very much, the second-just a lot), Gonepteryx rhamni (this one I met only one.Something little of them this spring, apparently, overwintered badly).Archiearis parthenias were found in a huge number of different sawyers.No Inachis io,Polygonia C-album,or Nymphalis antiopa were found,which surprised me,because these species should also be found in large numbers at this time.

Night fishing was much richer and more productive.The evening from Saturday to Sunday turned out to be quite cold and windy,I was afraid that nothing would arrive.But my fears were unfounded.I caught in the time interval from 20: 30 to 23: 30, and during this time 22 butterflies arrived (not counting micras)-one moth,5 scoops (Drepanidae:Thyatirinae) and 16 scoops.It was most active during the time interval 21: 30-22: 00,at this time it flew so that I barely had time to process it.For more details, here:

Geometridae:
1)Apocheima pilosaria(1)

Drepanidae:Thyatirinae
2)Achlya flavicornis(5)

Noctuidae
3)Brachionycha nubeculosa(5)
4)Conistra vaccinii(2)
5)Lithophane consocia(1)
6)Eupsilia transversa(3)
7)Orthosia incerta(5)

I also took a few copies of the micro:

Depressariidae:
8)Agonopterix ?heracliana (10)
9) Agonopterix arenella(1)
10-14) four unknown to me species of the genus Depressaria-took a copy from the species, but no more arrived
15)Semioscopis oculella(2)
16)Semioscopis avellanella(1)

Tortricidae
17) a specimen from some unknown species, and it looks like it's from the genus Acleris

So the season can be considered open!!!

I need some advice.I'm going to go to the village again next weekend.This time I'm going to catch the light not on the territory of the dacha plot, as it was before, but somewhere in the field or on the outskirts of the forest,for which I will take a generator with me.In this regard, I have the following questions.What is the best place to be located so that it can fly well-a field, the edge of a forest, etc., if the edge of a forest is what (in my area there is a birch grove, a pine forest,a small oak grove, a forest with a large predominance of aspen, a lot of simply mixed forests).Scoops Conistra ligula,C. rubiginea, Xylena exsoleta,X. vetusta, Orthosia opima,O. populeti,O. miniosa,O. cerasi,O. cruda, Anorthoa munda, Egira conspicillaris, Cerastis leucographa;moth motes Biston stratarius, Lycia hirtaria,L. zonaria,L. pomonaria, Agriopis marginaria, Apocheima hispidaria.If so, which biotopes should they be found in?
In general, this is my first trip to the field with a generator, so a lot of things are new and unfamiliar to me.I really hope for your help.

This post was edited by TEMPUS-05.04.2010 17: 04

02.04.10-04.04.10 d. Yumashevo, Korablinsky district, Ryazan region.
The flood of rivers led to the fact that fishing could be forgotten immediately.

I've just opened the fishing season http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtop...t=200&p=1035163

Volgograd, Balka Otrada, 12.04.10. The last week turned out to be cold, spring, compared to previous years, is lagging behind. I wonder whose pupa I dug out of a hole in the sand.

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Mukha, kazhis

Volgograd, Balka Otrada, 12.04.10. The last week turned out to be cold, spring, compared to previous years, is lagging behind.

Please tell me (I'm sorry - I forgot my name) - And what kind of flower is so interesting in your first photo - very similar to our evergreen-Caucasian Colchicum speciosum, which blooms here in October?

It had been warm in Yaroslavl for a week, and I still couldn't get out into the woods and open the field season. Finally, the main and global activities at work were completed, and on Sunday, April 11, I went to the surrounding forests with a clear conscience. The main goal was to survey the population of Apalus bimaculatus, as the snow had fallen about a week ago, and the first abscesses should have already appeared.
While I was walking towards the forest along the developed swamp with quarries, I managed to rejoice at the awareness of Yaroslavl residents – there were no traces of spring fires (as it turned out later, I was happy in vain). On the mane, where the abscesses live, there were no bees or beetles yet, and the ground may not have warmed up yet (okay, we'll stop by on the way back). On the forest edges, "scales" were playing with might and main - a full spring set was observed, including the "red book" - xantomelas. But there were practically no beetles-neither under the bark, nor on the ground, nor on the birch sap… After wandering around in the forest, I went back and went to the mane again, there was a lone male Apalus running around, but the bees never showed up. Immediately I smelled burning and saw solid smoke over the swamp – some bastards lit the reeds after all!!! I had to make a detour and go around the pal, because along the path the flame reached up to a meter…

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Last night with Max Klepikov (The Yaroslavl Butterfly man) we were catching a light in the center of Yaroslavl, in the museum where we both now work. We got permission from the management. they took it from Anthrenus, and a stab DRL. They turned on as it got dark, but only after 22, the first single scoops appeared. But on the AWL it flew badly, because the screen was small and the whitewashed belfry was well lit (the area of the "screen" is 20x30 meters). Therefore, we moved to catch there... And in the morning we walked around and collected the most interesting things from the wall...
As a result, from the "owls" - a mass of Orthosia incerta (most of them were not taken...), one Eupsilia transversa and some other (Max couldn't name it right away), crested carmelita and a bunch of depressariids (Agonapteryx sp., Depressaria sp., Semioscopis sp.)/ From beetles flew (crawled?) three pretenders and all, but even in the afternoon from the belfry collected Hylurgops palliatus, Tomicus piniperda, Anthonomus pomorum and other small things..
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to Elizar: Crested, rather than carmelita, but siversi

The night of April 16-17. The outskirts of Yaroslavl, the Lower Settlement.
3 females and 2 males of E. versicolora, 7 pieces of Epirranthis diversata, 23 pieces of Odontosia sieversi. Still a bunch of scoops to take apart and determine no time later.

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