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21.04.2010 17:35, Stas Shinkarenko

At the weekend, we traveled in the north of the Volgograd region along the Medveditsa River to the border with the Saratov region. Due to bad weather and a frenzied pace, I didn't really manage to catch it, but for the first time in my life I saw a lumbago, this plant is infrequent in our country, even listed in the local CC.

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04.05.2010 10:37, Dmitry Vlasov

The field season started somehow incomprehensibly. It seems that the whole of April is warm, and there are practically no beetles in the city. I couldn't get out into the woods after April 11, and Anthrenus and Dmitrich were talking about the absence of many of the spring beetles that were common in previous years. Despite the rain that poured down on April 30 and all night on May 1, I still got out to the nearest neighborhoods, well known for many years of "hiking". After a couple of hours of overturning dead trees, breaking stumps, and peeling bark, thoughts of the strangeness of this spring became even more intrusive. For example: bark beetles – Ips typographus, Pityogenes chalcographus, and Polygraphus subopacus-are also found wintering under the bark, although they should already be flying, especially the first one. There are no Ampedus nutcrackers under the bark – they are still sitting in their cradles... Phosphuga atrata is still wintering under the bark, and Phratora leaf beetles – there are no leaves on the willows yet. I found a single Glischrochilus (Librodor) hortensis on the sap – bearing birches, but I didn't find any other species from this subgenus (imported)-did they freeze out? And in the past years, at this time, I collected dozens of G. (L.) grandis (=latefasciatus), less than G.(L.) quadrisignatus. But surprisingly-under the bark of the spruce, along with wintering bark beetles, pupae of barbels from the genus Tetropium and even an under-painted beetle and Molorchus minor, ready to fly and almost gnawed through the bark. It can be seen that the phenology and abundance of many species were affected by winter, which at first did not come at all, and then it became very cold, and the ground without snow was deeply frozen. The only consolation is that there are many times fewer ixodic ticks this year!

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05.05.2010 22:58, mikee

I report very briefly and without photos for the period from April 30 to May 5. I went to Kasimov on the evening of the 30th, stopped in the myrmidon nursery (Kurovskaya), caught from 22 to 24. Of the most interesting - one male and one female Versicolora endromis. Two nights from the 1st to the 2nd and from the 2nd to the 3rd I fished in Gus-Zhelezny in the forest from 21: 30 to 00: 30. I found the intersection of two gas pipeline paths (up to 50 meters wide) and a forest road. Silkworms-males flew just a cloud, after 15 pieces just stopped taking them. But the female arrived only on the second night, and at the very beginning, at dusk. Both nights were marked by the arrival of one female E. pavonia. The second female was kept in the forest all day on May 3, hoping for her virginity and the arrival of males. Right now!

Towards midnight, Cerura ssp. - vinula and erminea arrived quite plentifully. The next two nights I caught right at the dacha (the house is full of friends, not up to trips). As it turned out, endromises fly in the village as well. From the 3rd to the 4th, about 10 males arrived, from the 4th to the 5th-a female (at dusk) and a couple of males. In general, the difference from a deep forest is only quantitative. But in the mass - water lovers. It was funny to watch when you throw them into the pond, they immediately swim to the shore in the direction of the lamp, and then go dry. But Phyllodesma tremulifolium, which sdi boasted to me, never arrived. Last year I was there, but much later and in a different forest. Selenia tetralunaria, which is very diverse in color, and Carmelite tufts flew abundantly. About the other scoops and moths, I'll just mention that there were a lot

of them.I didn't find A. tau, I went to the oak-birch-linden forest, but I didn't see any males during the day. Either it's too early, or in my places this butterfly simply does not exist.
Water-lovers and May beetles plentifully flew from the beetles, single-edged floaters and dead-eaters, some kind of medium-sized black and slender ground beetle crawled, a female lunar copra flew in.
In general, the winter in the north of the Ryazan region turned out to be quite Siberian. The ground was frozen to 2 meters, the ice in the lakes to 1.5 meters (in my pond there was just a piece of ice without water). As a result, the bird cherry blossomed in some places only yesterday. Numerous types of willow are blooming. From herbaceous plants, the mother-and-stepmother blooms, violets and all sorts of near-water flowers such as goose onions and spleens bloom. I found the chessboard grouse again. Dandelions are just making their way. I.e., in a good way, there is simply nothing to eat for feeding nocturnals yet, so the capture of proserpine kazax is surprising...
Partenias still fly during the day, io, urticae, xantomelas are in the mass, there are very few lemongrasses, whiteflies have flown, but zorek is not yet there. Buckthorn dove, raspberry dove, and thick-headed malvae are isolated. Due to the hot weather (during the day until 30, at night-15-16), I went to Oka to see polixene. They're not here yet, and Kirkazon isn't even out yet. But in a week, probably, they can already fly. I already saw a swallowtail yesterday.

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12.05.2010 7:33, Sergey Didenko

Report on a trip to the Volgograd region, ferry near the village of Trekhostrovskaya, Donskoy Nature Park, Evlampievsky station; departure 06.05 at night, returned in the morning 10.05. Viktor, Mikhail and I.

The purpose of the trip was to search for Saturnia spini and catch hebe. The first success happened at the entrance to the intended fishing spot. At the Lukoil gas station, when turning from the M6 to Viltov, 5 GEBs were found. While waiting for the ferry across the Don at the Trekhostrovskaya station, polixenes were caught, which, as it turned out later, were almost the most banal butterflies, flying everywhere, although we could not find kirkazon. After crossing the Don River with the help of the navigator, we moved to the area where the Big Blue River flows into the Don. Afra and Phryne's blackies were flying along the road, the latter locally, the former everywhere. Still in the mass were mignonette whiteflies (eduzas) and beaten swallowtails. The almost complete absence of people drew attention to themselves, from the traces of activity-only traces of the work of black diggers in the form of cartridges and dug holes. We stopped next to such tracks on the first night. Caught at night in the area of Evlampievsky, where there was a dairy farm, flowering orchards, thorn bushes nearby. The night hadn't lived up to her expectations in terms of scales, but the beetle was flying with a bang. The first two mattresses are mostly collected there, at night. From the butterflies at night, you can note a lot (hundreds)of ilmov's legtails, several cuckoos and the desert bear, found in the morning. It is worth noting that during the journey we were exhausted and caught only until one o'clock in the morning. In the morning we went a little fishing, the fishing did not cause any interest, you throw a fishing rod-bite-perch, on average 100 grams. We caught podaliri, the draughtsman didima.
On the way to Big Blue, we remembered one place with thickets of thorns, beams, fruit trees, so on the second night we moved there. Along the road, bright mother-of-pearl birds, probably euphrosynes, flew in one of the gullies, and thick-headed tagesas and malvais scurried almost everywhere. While waiting for the night, they collected beetles, of which kravchiki were most often found, there were black dorcas, striped ones, and those with a cross. The second night began with a strong thunderstorm, stress relief, as a result of which the lamps (split and non-split DRL-250) were turned on closer to 22.00. It flew better than on the first night, but there was less variety in the scoops, although two Minucia lunaris ribbons arrived. Also on this night, they took cocoonworms tremulifolium, 5 desert, a dozen cuckoos, and hawk moth flies of the Vinny, poplar, bedstraw, and euphorbia ranges. Another feature-there were very few moths everywhere.
We decided to spend the last night next to a gas station where there were Hebes, yeah, now. No Hebes came to us - I don't know what the reason was, the wind, the rain, the direction of the light of our lamp, but the Hebes didn't come. But there were two tremulifoliums and zero peridea anceps. At half past twelve, they were removed. We stopped at a gas station (there was only one Geb there, too) and drove towards Moscow, stopping at gas stations along the way and looking for Geb. At the Lukoil gas station again, 27 km after the first one, there was just a carpet of these GEBs, although we checked several more gas stations, but found nothing on them. This is probably the main thing that I remember from the trip.
The list of things that flew with the straightened money will be published later.

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12.05.2010 9:56, Stas Shinkarenko

May 9, Volgograd region, Mikhailovsky district, floodplain of the Medveditsa River. In the mass of lucine and polyxene. I found a Hebe bear laying eggs, tried on the proka, and it flew away, but I still photographed the clutch. For the first time in these places I found Calosoma inquisitor, which should be common here, but difficult to find because of the dense undergrowth in the floodplain forest.
There will be another report from Mikhaylovka a little later.

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12.05.2010 11:53, mikee

We have plenty of polyxena, but imho, it's still too early to look for kirkazon: in early-mid-June, it will grow and it's easy to find caterpillars on it. And with Geba, too, it is not clear, where last year she flew well, this year there was not one, and in places where I did not find her, this year there are quite a lot; it seems that the sands are the same everywhere.

To be honest, in the Ryazan region, polyxena begins to fly almost simultaneously with the appearance of kirkazon sprouts. And the distribution of hebe-festa seemed to be widespread, since no visible serious differences were found in the biotopes. But why only at gas stations and only at Lukoil ones? Moreover, we caught a kilometer from one of them and nothing

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13.05.2010 8:56, Stas Shinkarenko

8-10 May, the outskirts of the city of Mikhaylovka, Volgograd region. In the garden, I collected 3 types of banal dorcash: carinatum, equestre, holosericeum, D. cinerarium ran on primers. I found T-shirts.variegatus and M. proscarabaeus. In the spring, a lot of my favorite places were on fire, but there were still some dorcas and T-shirts that were probably left after the fire. Rhynchites giganteus was found on wild pears. There was a lot of Pyrrhidium sanguineum on the oak logs.
And to top it off, on a pear leaf, I found a rather rare Platycerus caraboides, which managed to escape during the photo shoot

At night it flew disgusting, mostly May crunches and a few banal scoops. The reason for the bad summer, I think, was a very strong wind.

This post was edited by wise snake - 13.05.2010 08: 57

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