European part of Russia

I apologize for the quality of the photo (phone). In the Kasimov district of the Ryazan region, polyxenes flew. The weather was really bad, except for the first half of Saturday.

I didn't expect to arrive so early , especially since spring is slowing down.

In 1995, I caught burdock (not isolated!) in the near Moscow region (between Razdory and Zhukovka) on the 20th of April, when there was still snow in some places. Migrants, of course.

Today, my wife and daughter went to the resort village "Green City". The main goal is to take a walk in the woods with my daughter))
Location-N 56° 10 '25.54", E 44° 7 '10.22"
Well, along the way, I dreamed that it crawled and flew. A small number of trophies flew and crawled - some Harpalus, nutcrackers Prosternon tesselatum, Cardiophorus ruficollis, yes Ampedus balteatus, a pair of elephants Hylobius abietis. Well, in a rotten wood (I find it difficult to name the type of tree, maybe pine and birch) I picked up a few larvae of some bronzer. I brought it home with the substrate, and I'll try to get it out.

2 lepidopterolog
What is the theory?

There is no specific indication of the finds in the Volgograd region anywhere, and I have not seen any material from there. Do you have any other data?

Article 16.1. Clear indication of novelty is required.

The taxon is first mentioned in the second volume of Tuzov et al. without a description, it turns out that this is nomen nudum.

Yes, I have already seen it before, but as far as I know, there were no documented finds.

1. May crunches.. 2. On the paths in the park is full of crushed nemoralis,
specially, what do they crush?

1. What is the May crunch western or eastern???
2. This is due to ignorance and lack of culture!!!

Hello everybody! I post photos of mattresses from Dosang and Ilovlya.

mass migration of thistles was observed on May 10.a kilometer wide, due north. the height of summer is from half a meter to a meter.tasyachi.hundreds choked on machines

I saw a dead burdock in the trash on Chernaya Street last week.

By the way, Gennady and I saw the same ordered rows of holes on a birch tree in Kosherovo.

No one knows whose?

woodpecker

  

By the way, Gennady and I saw the same ordered rows of holes on a birch tree in Kosherovo.

No one knows whose?

Bark beetle Scolytus ratzeburgi

  
By the way, Gennady and I saw the same ordered rows of holes on a birch tree in Kosherovo.
No one knows whose?

woodpecker

And here is not a woodpecker! These are the ventilation holes of the birch sapwood (Scolytus ratzeburgi)

))))

Hmm... I was a minute behind Bad Den, and Necrocephalus was also a minute ahead of

Hmm... I was a minute behind Bad Den, and Necrocephalus was a minute ahead of me

"Pedestal" (c)

Hello everybody! I post photos of mattresses from Dosang and Ilovlya.

Ivan skakun germanika was?

With some delay, I present my part of the photo report on the expedition to Dosang from May 1 to May 8 inclusive.
A much thinner line-up of participants: Seneka & son Ilya, Mantispid (Ilya) and Tonav (Ivan), who later joined.
Since we were prepared for a fully autonomous trip, upon arrival in Dosang, it was decided to stop not in Protivochumka, but on the shore of Akhtuba, which we regretted after a few hours. The forest park on the shore, which seemed attractive in the morning, turned into a passageway during the day and night. However, we have made day and night charges from this point. The light was caught from the first night to the last.
Lighting system DRV 250W + ES 50W 6400K + UV-ES 26W, generator FUBAG TI 700 10,5 kg, operating in economy mode (50% of power). The DRV performed poorly - it often doesn't start, eats a lot, the cartridge is heavy, the spectrum and brightness are worse than those of the other two lamps combined. The insects clearly preferred energy-efficient lawns. The flight was bad, and there was not a single saturnia, ursa major, or hawk moth on the first day. On the second day, we decided to move to protivochumka. Due to ailments from bad weather, my desire to conquer the expanses of the desert on foot has sharply decreased. All the places were occupied by herpetologists, so we camped in a clearing, on the territory, and in recent days we moved to the premises.
As it turned out, we were heavily misinformed about Dosang. There were enough shops, beer in the assortment and transport in full order (minibus to Astrakhan 40 minutes). We did not find the desert immediately, but only the next day, and these were the two nearest dunes. The rest of the surrounding area is overgrown with shrubs and grass and is regularly fertilized by grazed cattle. Apparently, the remains of the desert and many desert inhabitants here will not last long.



Camp on the bank of the Akhtuba river. Across the river and to the left, a village.






On the territory of protivochumki

Testing the net for strength. The couplings of the telescopic Chinese handle are reinforced with metal clamps and electrical tape. Sachek survived the trip, but already in Moscow the nut flew out. In general, how not to strengthen, these are disposable pens.


The first dune

Installation of glasses on the first dune. The black dots around it are sheep dung.




There are as many hoopoes as we have sparrows. Unfortunately, I couldn't get a good shot on the soap dish.


Second dune

Sands of Eternity


Big-eared roundhead. Caught on a trail in the sand.


An unusual pattern on the back caught our attention. Unhappy woman! This is her destiny!



During the night, the first Saturnia piri was caught on the protivochumka, which was demonstrated to the visiting SDI, Mikee and vicgrr. The next day, the guys left with a good catch, and I was presented with a beautiful copy of Hyles levorniaca, which I later caught only two pieces. Thank you so much!

The next day, it was decided to put the screen in the area of the second dune, at the highest point.


Steppe viper, not uncommon in these areas.

Long-awaited sunset

Fire Spell waiting for summer




There were so many beetles that we were tired of collecting them one at a time and just poured the mass from open cans and from the sheets into the stain.

Bugs got tangled in my hair and crawled up my neck, and Ilya shared his impressions of the taste of beetles.



Returning to the base

The next day we decided to fish near the village. We chose the highest point near the village near the cemetery, between the highway and the railway. It was windy and cold. I waited for Saturn until 3 am, and then decided to go to bed. There were two levornikas, a wine hawk moth, and many female bears. The photo shows another modification of my transformer screen .



On the outskirts of the village, they found a cow carcass and collected beetles from it. Ilya, in principle, was not against turning it over and dragging it closer to the protivochumka to study it more thoroughly, but something stopped us.


On the penultimate day, after the rain and wind, I decided to catch no matter what, however, there was nothing new, and almost nothing happened.

Before leaving, we helped herpetologists catch young roundheads on the dunes for a terrarium.


from right to left Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan

The state of Protivochumki, its territory and the surrounding area leaves a depressing post-apocalyptic impression, as if you have simultaneously visited the planet Kin Dza Dza and the game Stalker.















KU!

Return home via Volgograd. On May 9, we visited Mamayev Kurgan. It was very rainy and cold.






News from the front. Mda... I always turn out, somehow not modern...

We sit down on the cars and go home.
And yet the expedition took place and the material was collected!
This is followed by a photo report on mattresses

This post was edited by Seneka - 19.05.2011 16: 45

The interface for entering photos is extremely buggy. I lost a huge amount of time fixing beetles in this service in order to restore the correct frame order and get around program errors.

Admin! It's terribly inconvenient to use!














Upper rows. Darklings were collected not in the light, but caught on dunes at night with a flashlight. Ground beetles are caught under cow cakes.
Lower rows. Alenki flew on yellow plates. Dung beetles are also on plates, but with the manure that got there. Chernotelki collected on glasses. Everything is roughly at the same point.
White-dusted crunchies flew into the light everywhere, clogged glasses and got caught in the sand. It was difficult to preserve their pristine whiteness. Even carefully caught, pricked with ammonia and wrapped in individual packaging, eventually rubbed (five pieces in the third row), not to mention those that have been in the stain(first rows) or glass (middle rows after processing with gasoline). Conclusion, we need to treat them even more carefully, as with pigeons.





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Can you help me with Ceratophyus?

Can you help me with Ceratophyus?

Males are not enough and they are different. I also wanted to deal with them myself. Maybe later? Write in PM, if that.

About the breaking nets. You buy nuts under the screw of the hoop, several pieces, solder them together with brass, sharpen them so that you can drive a net into the tube with a tightness, roll them, and,...... I have not broken for the third year.

At the end of the week, I was able to break away from work a little (what can I do - work_days) and I want to share my impressions of the trip on May 14-15 to the village. Red Key in Bashkiria. Everyone goes crazy as they like best. All people-like people, catch insects And a friend, obsessed with the idea of acquiring a "hunchbacked" Zaporozhets, decided to follow him 700 km away, and even somehow bring him from there to Kazan. Naturally, I was happy to keep him company, as were two other friends. The places there are the foothills of the Urals, the beauty for our unusual eyes is indescribable, in the photo it is not at all the same. For the sake of my desire to catch the light, they abandoned quite decent rooms with showers in a village hotel in favor of much less adapted to life, but at one of the numerous recreation centers in the area. Alas, the night was so cold. that only two ortho-illusions arrived. But the view of the illuminated canvas unfolded under the windows of the recreation center building with a strange type near it pretty much puzzled the vacationers, who watched our strange actions with interest from the windows. The next morning, a few employees of the base tried to find out from me and my friends what I was doing there, and almost convinced themselves that it had something to do with photographing. But then a friend confided in them that we were just Satanists from Kazan, celebrating their black Mass in their village, and asked them not to tell anyone about it. Judging by their reaction, children in that village will not be allowed out of the house for a long time after 9. But by lunchtime the weather cleared up and we managed to get out on a plateau overgrown with mixed forests, where, to my delight, tau flew. Pretty nabegavshis for them, caught the same 4 pieces. I was a little surprised to catch two female cardamines, despite the fact that no male was visible. I also caught a male ausonia that had just emerged from its pupa and two as yet undetermined moths. Although there were no other butterflies to be seen at all, I was extremely satisfied.
I apologize for the paucity of entomological photos directly, but I couldn't resist showing the wonderful neighborhood of the local police station with a herb shop, as well as a pointer to a wonderful locality. In general, Bashkiria was pleased with the abundance of funny names, some of which can not be shown to the general public, so as not to negate attempts to appear a cultured person.

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Moths of Hypoxystis pluviaria and Petrophora chlorosata

I was in the Astrakhan region: the village of Selitrennoye, the village of Hosheutovo on May 4-19.

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Brachinus'ov caught a lot? Yab exchanged for something/bought for something

List of captured blackbirds:

Diaphanidus ferrugineus
Anatolica impressa (mass.)
Psammocryptus minutus (mass.)
Microdera convexa (mass.)
Microdera deserta (mass.)
Tentyria nomas (mass.)
Lachnogya squamosa
Cyphogenia lucifuga (mass.)
Platyope leucogramma (mass.)
Platyesia sericata (mass.)
Pimelia subglobosa (mass.)
Pimelia capito (mass.)
Tagona macrophthalma
Prosodes obtusa
Blaps pruinosa
Blaps parvicollis (mass.)
Blaps lethifera (mass.)
Scleropatrum seidlitzi (mass.)
Gonocephalum pygmaeum (mass.)
Gonocephalum rusticum (mass.)
Gonocephalum granulatum pusillum (mass.)
Opatrum sabulosum (mass.)
Melanimon tibialis (mass.)
Crypticus quisquilius (mass.)
Palorus depressus
Diaclina testudinea (mass)
? Ectromopsis tantillus (mass)

There aren't many Brachinuses, so I'll keep them for now.

May 22, Oryol neighborhood, Balka Shopping Center".
The steppe slopes are silvered with feather grass, blue with sage...
Olenki sit on the inflorescences of the head, the asparagus is full of leaf-eaters,
still crawling T-shirts (one with such avidity gnawed the stem of anemone,
probably very tasty!), fly harriers...
Many swallowtails, many pigeons flew out: Icarus, Thersites, aryces, Argiades.
caught a male Osiris. Fly Ausonia, sennitsa pamphilos, dia.
There are a lot of yolks, alfakariensis and hiale, but for some reason myrmidon is not one!
The elephants didn't want to be photographed, so they fell down.. I waited for one,
but the pigeon tersit was just "tame".

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Last weekend I went with my wife and vicgrr to the Ryazan region, Gus-Zhelezny. On the way, we checked the population of Cicindela sylvatica in the Orekhovo-Zuyevsky district of the Moscow region. Fortunately, everything is OK with her - the fires spared bitotop. After reaching the Goose, we checked the" cups " that vicgrr put 2 weeks ago. The first cup contained a most interesting find - Carabus stscheglowi Mnnh., 1827. As far as I know, this is the closest point to Moscow and the Moscow Region. For 11 cups, there were 3 "Goldfinches". The beetles were very fresh, fell no more than 2 days ago. But an even more pleasant find was Callidium (Callodostola) aeneum (DeG., 1775). In the evening, fresh Proserpines flew into the light. In the morning, we checked the Polyxena station - 90% were completely "killed" (flown). But Mnemosyne has just begun to come out. I also managed to take some pictures of her.

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I will add that last night, before leaving, we fished for a couple of hours for light in a clearing.
An almost fresh female pavonia, a male crimson cocoonworm, and an ocular hawk moth arrived. Among the crested flowers-ermine, tritophus, zigzag, Clostera pigra, dromedary, carmelite.

Hello everyone! Periodic trips, with Igor Vasilenko for night fishing in the Kostroma region, create the impression that something is wrong. The composition and number of butterflies impresses with the scarcity, And sometimes just the single number of incoming insects. Please tell me if the red peacock flies to the light, what are the terms of summer for the small peacock? Thank you in advance.

In Tau, only females fly to the light, but they do not arrive often. Pavonia is still flying. I caught one pretty fresh one this weekend. Now there are already a lot of hawkmoths that should fly - linden, oculate, pine, wine, crested more than 10 species - so catch them, they should come. I don't know what you catch, but the most catchy one is a split DRL, try it.

In Tau, only females fly to the light, but they do not arrive often.

I do not agree In my opinion, on the contrary, males fly quite normally, but you will catch a female in the light of horseradish

I don't agree In my opinion, on the contrary, males fly quite normally, but you can't catch a female in the light of horseradish

I've never caught a male before. If they do arrive, it is by chance, on a warm night, nearby.

I also decided to open the season in the south, and not just anywhere, but also in Dosang!
True, I was there only 1 day on May 13, with the weather was not lucky - it was cloudy and windy, and in the evening I had to leave, because the weather in the end turned bad. At night, I arrived in Astrakhan, while walking across the new bridge over the Volga, I picked up water lovers and floaters who flew into the light of lanterns on the asphalt.
The next day I went to Volgograd and Mikhaylovka. Mikhaylovka was pleased with the abundance of Dorcadions, which I had never caught before. Then I went to the Tellerman Forest near the Khopersky Nature Reserve. There I expected to catch Carabus estreicheri and Carabus stscheglowi, but alas, except for the crushed C. stscheglowi and 3x C. cancellatus, I did not find anything.
Finally, I went to the Streletsky Nature Reserve in the Kursk region, where I caught a male deer.
Don't judge the quality of your photos, they were taken with a mobile phone.
Before Dosang, I visited Volgograd, where I met and met wise snake . Many thanks to him for his hospitality and for pointing out the places where the beetles gather.

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Here is a photo of the mattresses.
1,2,3-dosang
4-Astrakhan
5,6-Volgograd
7-Mikhaylovka
8-Khoper
9-Kursk
10-yug MO

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