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28.05.2007 16:07, mikee

Brief report. On Saturday, vicgrr came to catch polixena. It was already at 15-30 approximately. Barely caught 3 pieces, the butterflies did not actively fly, almost scared them out of the bushes. Well, in between, after going swimming, we caught fresh and bright Euphydryas maturna, which I rarely came across in the Moscow region. On Sunday, I was happy to finally catch J. podalirius in the northern Ryazan region (he flew to the lilac tree that was already fading) and unhappy when, after a long chase, it turned out that it was not mnemosyne that was caught, but the banal Aporia crataegi. They're too much alike in flight frown.gif
At night, the light was bad, even the crested scoops arrived only in single specimens and Sphinx pinastri, common for those places.
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28.05.2007 18:29, Nilson

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28.05.2007 18:55, Vlad Proklov


I could be wrong, of course, but isn't this P. tremula?

Ph. gnoma has one broad white stroke near the posterior angle of the forewing, while Ph. tremula has several thin ones. This one seems to have a wide one...

This post was edited by kotbegemot - 05/28/2007 18: 56
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28.05.2007 20:08, Pavel Morozov

to Bad Den: Cool Cerura erminea and Pheosia gnoma/
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02.06.2007 16:57, Aleksey Adamov

Brachinus raced in herds:
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There are two such layers, with 20 cups (0.5 l) 6-19. 05. 07. Before and after this Brachinus are isolated. Floodplain of the Dead Donets river 2-3 m from the water

This post was edited by Adamov - 02.06.2007 16: 58
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03.06.2007 15:13, Dorcadion

Today I managed to escape to catch insects.
I decided to go to the steppe region. (The place is a steppe area, with settled hills between which trees and shrubs grow, on one side, and on the other side a river with swampy banks)
The weather was clear and hot, and I was hoping to catch some interesting butterflies.
I arrived early at 9 am, nothing was flying yet, I decided to look under sticks and stones,
As it turned out not in vain! I found 4 Carabus (Pachystus) cribellatus, Carabus (Trachycarabus) sibiricus, a bunch of Carabus granulatus and Carabus regalis, several species of harpalus, ten
pieces of Poecilus fortipes, several Amara sp. Bembidion sp.
By this time it was warmer, and I went to one of the hills, everywhere in large numbers flying: Euphydryas aurinia, Boeberia parmenio, Melitaea baicalensis, Melitaea cinxia, Colias sp. (toli lugovaya, toli stepnaya, genitalia haven't looked yet). There were a lot of pigeons flying on the steep slope, I caught all sorts of different ones, I didn't determine yet,
I was lucky – I caught five rare Umpria chinensis pigeons.
Then I went to the river, and under the logs near the pond I came across: Chlaenius tristis reticulatus, Chlaenius stschukini, Elaphrus riparius, Bembidion sp.
Then I went back along the road, near the flying fathead-Syrichtus
cribrellum, and right on the road caught Cicindela nitida tricolor, among them came across one copy of Cicindela nitida optata, which is usually found in the Alpine tundra!
And about thirty different weevils – Stephanocleonus, about six species.
Finally, I went to the hill and again luck-I caught a mutated checker aurinia, with a strange color – very beautiful. I'll post a photo as soon as I can.
The hunt was a success!
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03.06.2007 17:44, Necrocephalus

Today I managed to escape to catch insects smile.gif
And it is not often possible to do this recently - the most vile time for a student has crept up unnoticed - a session...
I decided to go out for a walk in the nearest forest belt for just half an hour to clear my head. Almost immediately, I noticed a fallen American maple tree lying on the ground (I don't know how this tree is properly called, but in my area everyone calls it "American maple"), and decided to look under its bark for beetles. As a result, I became the proud owner of as many as 12 (!) Hololepta plana, which were sitting in the wet rotting sapwood under the bark. Interestingly, the literature says that this beetle is found only under the bark of poplars and aspens, but there I never came across it...
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04.06.2007 22:54, omar

That's what it's called - American maple. If it's him. In fact, under its bark and in its wood, none of the beetles live in our latitudes. Hololepta plana is found only under the bark of poplars and aspens, and I have never heard of it anywhere else. There is also no such data available in the literature. It had to be filmed, a very interesting fact.
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04.06.2007 23:33, Bad Den

That's what it's called - American maple. If it's him. In fact, under its bark and in its wood, none of the beetles live in our latitudes. Hololepta plana is found only under the bark of poplars and aspens, and I have never heard of it anywhere else. There is also no such data available in the literature. It had to be filmed, a very interesting fact.

I once got caught under the bark of an old linden tree.
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04.06.2007 23:39, Necrocephalus

That's what it's called - American maple. If it's him.

Yes, it seems to be Acer negundo L., I looked in the Internet...
To be honest, I was surprised myself that I caught someone under its bark. In addition to H. plana, there were Silvanus bidentatus, Litargus connexus, and some small subcutaneous staphylinids.
I know that our beetles aren't supposed to live on American maple trees...but nevertheless, the fact remains that the tree under the bark of which I caught H. plana was cut down, apparently, relatively recently, and it still had some internal reserve of strength-there were several green branches with blooming leaves at the top of the trunk, so I can say with a hundred percent guarantee that it was not a tree with a large trunk. poplar (although there are a lot of poplars growing nearby...) and not aspen, but what we call American maple.
I'll probably go out tomorrow and take a picture of this tree, but I don't have a normal camera right now, so I'll have to use my phone... or maybe I'll dry a few leaves so I can show them to the botanists later and find out exactly what kind of tree it is.
When I was poking around under the bark, I got the idea that the hololeptic type of tree is not so important as the microclimate and, perhaps, some fungi that develop under the bark in the moist sapwood - as I mentioned, there were also mushroom eaters (and quite a few). Although it is believed that they are predators, but, perhaps, fungi growing under the bark can have for subcortical inhabitants not only food value-who knows?

04.06.2007 23:49, omar

Litargus connexus is exclusively associated with fungi, it does not care about wood, as long as it is not coniferous. Maybe there were still tinder boxes growing on it? But the Hololepta plana beast is quite selective, it just won't get away with it. It is a predator and facultative mycetophage. Moreover, it is believed that fungi are more important for its larvae, and the imago easily manages one animal food.
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04.06.2007 23:56, Necrocephalus

No, I don't think I noticed any tinder boxes.
And about the hololept-some of them were so tightly isolated from the cavities under the bark in the sapwood that I even had a suspicion that they were not predating there, but were eating this sapwood. Unfortunately, I can't say anything about larvae - when I look for beetles, I pay attention only to the imago, I don't understand the preimaginal stages at all. Maybe there were larvae of H. plana...
By the way, in winter he caught L. connexus under the bark and in the cracks of pine bark-although, probably, he just climbed there for the winter.

05.06.2007 11:03, алекс 2611

I caught one Hololepta plana on a maple tree. However, I can't say whether it developed in him or not. I was just inspecting a freshly broken maple tree after a squall and found it at the broken site...
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09.06.2007 22:08, Victor Titov

On June 2, in the vicinity of his city, he caught 4 small (3.5 mm) narrow-winged fish on the leaves of the undergrowth of an ash tree. Houses identified-Agrilus convexicollis Redt.!!! In "green", its range is indicated "south, except for the southeast". And yesterday I met Elizar at lunchtime, walked with him through the green zone in the area of the floodplain of the Kotorosl River (in the center of Yaroslavl), and on the leaves of an ash tree he caught it - Agrilus convexicollis, and I awkwardly missed two of them. Today Elizar called and picked up another one in the same place. According to the data available to us, Agrilus convexicollis is not listed for the Moscow Region. Has anyone found it in the middle lane?
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14.06.2007 14:08, guest: Elizar

As for A. convexicollis, I made a definition for beetles from Yaroslavl, but this species is difficult to confuse - very characteristic signs...
By the way, after those catches that Dmitrich wrote about, not a single one was caught, although they tried... Either the weather lets us down - we have a strong wind, or bad luck. Today, Dmitrich and I indulged in a very "delicious" activity during our lunch break - we were stirring up horse manure in the center of Yaroslavl - we picked up weak - legged caloaters, some certons and globules, and then we came across a "human pile" - there were a lot of karapuzikov and caloedovs. If I determine it, I'll send you a report...
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14.06.2007 22:43, vilgeforce

I'll also write my own report. I went to the nearest environs of St. Petersburg - to Komarovo, to take a walk in the forest and pick up beetles. I started fishing in the city while I was walking to the departure station. In the suburbs, of course, the number of beetles is several times greater than in the city! Literally at the very station on the dog rose-Cetonia aurata and, it seems, some Nitidulidae, all hands are not zhohodit and they are difficult. On flowers - Byturidae (it seems) in the mass. Fans of diptera - generally expanse, mosquito eats in the forest - just brush it off ;-) Here is a list of species that you never know who will be interested in:
Propylaea quatuordecimpunctata L.
Synharmonia conglobata L.
Crypturgus hispidulus Thoms.
Cetonia aurata L.
Athous subfuscus Mull.
Phosphuga atrata L.
Pterostichus lepidus Leske???
Ostoma ferrugineum L.
Anthaxia quadripunctata L.
And what is most interesting - Anthocomus bipunctatus Harrer. In the" second volume " it is specified for the center, south except for the south-west of the European part. Is this something new for St. Petersburg/Leningrad region?

16.06.2007 11:46, guest: Elizar

Promised report on "heaps":
Onthophagus nuchicornis - a mass, different in size and process on the head.
Margarinotus ventralis - mass
of Saprinus planiusculus (?) - one specimen, you need to check carefully, because in the YAO the species is extremely infrequent.
Cercyon spp. - at least five species...
Cryptopleurum sp.
Sphaeridium lunatum-several
Sphaeridium sp. - small, M. B. marginatum, but it is necessary to determine...
And the goldsmiths were not caught again. But yesterday, on the rotten branches of a squat elm (Ulmus pumila), I picked a few small false elephants - Rhaphitropis marchicus. This item is infrequent!
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16.06.2007 20:41, Aleksey Adamov

Promised software report ....


Dear Elizar, do you come across any Microlestes?

17.06.2007 18:09, Bad Den

In the night from Friday to Saturday (15.06.2007) again caught from the balcony to the light. The flight was somewhat sluggish, although the weather was good. Or maybe I've already started being picky smile.gif
There were quite a few beetles (representatives of 14 families):
1. Carabidae
Harpalus (Pseudophonus) rufipes (in bulk)
Stenolophus mixtus
Agonum (Europhilus) thoreyi
Curtonotus propinquus

2. Dytiscidae (1 specimen, not yet determined, like Agabus sp.)
3. Staphilinidae (1 specimen)
4. Silphidae - 1 specimen. Nicrophorus vespillo
5. Scarabaeidae - 1 specimen. Amphimallon solstitialis
6. Elateridae - 1 specimen. Agriotes ?lineatus
7. Coccinellidae
Calvia decimguttata
Halyzia sedecimguttata
8. Cantharidae-in the mass of Cantharis pellucida (sat on the screen, and began to eat mosquitoes-ringers smile.gif)
9. Nitidulidae - ?Epuraea sp.
10. Anobiidae - Stegobium paniceum
11. Tenebrionidae - Tenebrio molitor
12. Cerambycidae - Exocentrus ?stierlini
13. Scolytidae - Scolytus sp. (?multistriatus)
14. Small beetles are not clear from what family (not yet determined).

From the butterflies flew in huge numbers some green leaf-wrappers and other " micro-scales "smile.gif(see "Definition of butterflies"), a pair of hawkmoth (linden and oculate), Cossus cossus, Zeuzera purina, scoops Agrotis exclamationis

This post was edited by Bad Den - 06/23/2007 21: 28
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18.06.2007 1:03, mikee

June 16-17. Ryazan region (Kasimov). Gentlemen, who are aiming to catch P. apollo this year, do not be late, the year began on June 17. On the 16th, in sunny weather, there were no butterflies, on the 17th, despite the cloudy weather, the Apollons flew! I caught 3 pieces, saw 6 in total. Frankly, I stopped by to look just in case and here... Last year, the search started at the very beginning of July (the first capture was on July 4). The image shows a general view of the station section.
Apatura ilia flew out en masse, A. iris did not meet any :-( At the same time, I also caught a very battered I. podalirius. Fresh gold coins fly: virgauerae,dispar, tityrus, hippothoe, a lot of pigeons-some fresh, some very shabby. Jaundice, for some reason, is not enough. Individual myrmidone and crocea, although the last 4 days ago flew in bulk. And not a single hyale. The first mother-of-pearl beads also appeared: ino and some others (I didn't catch them, see the photo). Finish years of Aporia crataegi. In general, a lot of things have shifted and mixed up this year... We didn't manage to fish at night, although the weather was very favorable: it was overcast and warm. For beetles - I didn't catch them on purpose, I was surprised to find a large female swimmer bordered in the middle of the day on a remote forest road (the nearest reservoir is 10 km away). I put a couple of barbels in the "Definition of beetles" section.
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18.06.2007 10:19, алекс 2611

And what's most interesting is Anthocomus bipunctatus Harrer. In the" second volume " it is specified for the center, south except for the south-west of the European part. Is this something new for St. Petersburg/Leningrad region?


Well, the "green determinant" in the sense of the distribution of species is of course garbage.
I checked for " beetles of Sweden "(the database is quite complete) - it is not found in Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Russian Karelia. Maybe it's really a new bug for the region?
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18.06.2007 12:06, vilgeforce

Well, the "green determinant" in the sense of the distribution of species is of course garbage.
I checked for " beetles of Sweden "(the database is quite complete) - it is not found in Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Russian Karelia. Maybe it's really a new bug for the region?


As luck would have it, there is no digital soap, the scanner has not started up yet - do not specify the definition : - (
In the Internet "beetles of Sweden" on which you looked, no, by chance? And then on the Zinovsky site, information on distribution is only for a few families : - (

18.06.2007 18:52, алекс 2611

As luck would have it, there is no digital soap, the scanner has not started up yet - do not specify the definition : - (
In the Internet "beetles of Sweden" on which you looked, no, by chance? And then on the Zinovsky site, information on distribution is only available for a few families : - (


I don't remember the address... If you are interested, I can reset it to e-mail, there are only megabytes.

21.06.2007 13:12, guest: Elizar

2 Adamov Microlestes, s as luck would have it, no...

23.06.2007 15:17, lerth

Among other insects, I noticed an unusual abundance in various shelters of some riders from the Ichneumonidae family-literally under each piece of bark, under each fallen tree, they sat in groups of about 5-10 pieces (sometimes more).


It would be interesting to see these ichneumonids. Overwinter only some progenitors

24.06.2007 21:05, Victor Titov

Good news! I've never seen one frown.gif

Saperda (Compsidia) populnea was caught in the Kostroma region (near Volgorechensk), and this year I caught it on a willow tree (?!) in the vicinity of my Rostov Veliky. It's strange that you didn't come across it, is it really so rare in the Moscow region? Although, in the Yaroslavl region, I also met for the first time this year...
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25.06.2007 8:14, omar

Yes, like no, not rare. But for some reason, I rarely come across banal beautiful barbels, and modest rare ones are more common. confused.gif
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26.06.2007 22:24, vespabellicosus

On June 24, together with several of our entomologists, he raided the Tsivilsky district of Chuvashia, about 35 km south of Cheboksary. We walked about 7 km - first meadows, then a field pond. While my colleagues were catching butterflies and bats, I explored the pond. As a result, I caught 3 specimens - male and 2 females of the blue dragonfly Orthetrum cancellatum - I have not yet met this species in Chuvashia. This is the 24th species of dragonfly from Chuvashia in my collection ( out of 40 described by Oliger in Materials on the Dragonfly Fauna of the Chuvash ASSR, 1967). Observed a male beauty Calopteryx sp. , but unfortunately, it was not possible to catch or photograph it. Here is a small report.
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01.07.2007 19:12, Pavel Morozov

June 30 caught in the area of the Red Lighthouse (Vladimir region).
Naturally, we went for Apollo.
Closer to the Red Lighthouse itself, there are very few of them on the narrow-gauge railway - pine trees have been planted there, which have grown a lot.
To the south - along the tracts - butterflies fly in considerable numbers. Half of the males are already battered, the females have already appeared.
In addition, Plebejus idas, Melitaea didyma, M. phoebe, M. aurelia, and Coscinia striata were also present. Huge amount of Leptura virens.
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02.07.2007 16:07, mikee

June 30 caught in the area of the Red Lighthouse (Vladimir region).
Naturally, we went for Apollo.
Closer to the Red Lighthouse itself, there are very few of them on the narrow-gauge railway - pine trees have been planted there, which have grown a lot.
To the south - along the tracts - butterflies fly in considerable numbers. Half of the males are already battered, the females have already appeared.
In addition, Plebejus idas, Melitaea didyma, M. phoebe, M. aurelia, and Coscinia striata were also present. A huge amount of Leptura virens.

It was cold 80 km south of the 30th, so I only found a couple of Apollons sitting on a gorse. I caught a female, now I won't ask what a "less hairy belly" smile.gifis, especially since there was already a sphragis. On the 1st, it was noticeably warmer and sunnier, and the Apollons were flying with all their might. But mostly males. All are fresh, although they were also fresh 2 weeks ago. In the night from 29 to 30, only Sphinx pinastri, completely banal for those places, flew to the light from hawkmoth, for some reason. Plus the only fresh male Arctia caja.
And now a question for the professionals. On July 1, I discovered P. apollo in a very unexpected place. A narrow strip of forest between the Oka and the water meadow. From the place where the second year of fishing, the distance is more than 30 km in a straight line through a couple of highways, fields, woods and water lakes. There's a village on the other side of the river. And a completely different biotope... At the same time, there were 3 butterflies in the field of view at most. Ochitok did not find, and there is no place for it to grow there. So, can this be considered a station, not the only instance was, after all? It is clear that we need to check at least next year.
Yes, the swallowtails flew. Mostly males, fresh and dark yellow, but they are too small this year. Checkers fly in a variety of ways. The pathos flew. In general, a lot of things fly. Everything is overgrown with Kirkazon and the caterpillars of polyxena are already in their last age, so next year there will be butterflies again smile.gif

This post was edited by mikee-02.07.2007 17: 40
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02.07.2007 17:34, Pavel Morozov

By the way, I saw the first crowd this year as early as June 16 in the Zvenigorod district.
In as!

02.07.2007 17:36, Pavel Morozov

to mikee: Did you get any polixene caterpillars?

02.07.2007 17:45, mikee

to mikee: Did you get any polixene caterpillars?

I don't take them. I only go to the dacha on weekends, and even then not every day. Where can I find them kirkazon in Moscow? This kirkazon, by the way, grows amusingly: at the same time you can see full-sized fruits on some plants and only still flowering plants in the neighborhood. I'm trying to figure out whether it seems to me or not that caterpillars are found only on barren plants. Unfortunately, there are significantly more kirkazon than caterpillars :-( And there is no time to look seriously, because the process is quite painstaking, because each leaf must be turned over (they sit mainly on the reverse side of the leaf).

02.07.2007 18:32, Pavel Morozov

Uh
, I would also look for them under the roots.

02.07.2007 21:19, mikee

Uh
, I'd look for them under the roots, too.

Hmm, I'll take a picture of that kirkazon growing up next time... What roots are there!
If under the trees, then everything is intertwined with grass and wild rose. And in the open places under the plants - scorched earth, both from the sun and from the fall, which the local population regularly has fun with. The caterpillars sit on the reverse side of the leaves, while the leaves are opposite and drooping, i.e. they cover each other. The caterpillars of the first instars are brown and very similar to the dried flowers of kirkazon. They only turn orange closer to pupation. They are active, in the sense of crawling and eating leaves, in the morning, before the onset of extreme heat (I didn't observe it in the rain, it's not interesting to drive a car through meadows in this weather). To be honest, I have not seen the caterpillars go down the plant below the first leaf.

03.07.2007 18:02, Pavel Morozov

to mikee: I put it figuratively. That I don't know Kirkazon?
I meant that if I wanted to find some caterpillars, I would go through everything and pick them up. tongue.gif

03.07.2007 22:41, mikee

to mikee: I put it figuratively. That I don't know Kirkazon?
What I meant was that if I wanted to find some caterpillars, I would go through everything and pick them up. tongue.gif

So personally, I am interested in the question of availability in principle, and not the quantitysmile.gif, but about "I would dig through everything", so I will still take a photo of the area so that the amount of work is clear... tongue.gifAnd at the same time you can look for a cleanout, since it is at the polyxene station that I have a new station for myself(?) Apollonov was discovered last weekend. Some kind of game...

This post was edited by mikee-03.07.2007 22: 44

04.07.2007 10:36, Romik

And at the same time, you can also look for a cleanout, since it is at the polyxene station that I found a new station for myself(?) Apollonov was discovered last weekend. Some kind of game...

If you find female appolo now, then maybe you can try to get their eggs ? Very very necessary...

04.07.2007 13:32, mikee

If you find female appolo now, then maybe you can try to get their eggs ? Very very necessary...

My sorrow is light... Alas, for the second year I have been observing the Apollo station, but I can't find Sedum Telephium / purpureum / album in reasonable quantities : - (There are only individual plants, the number of which is clearly not sufficient for the development of caterpillars. Although, of course, the caterpillars may have a different opinion on this matter. In general, if I find it, I'll collect it.

04.07.2007 15:14, RippeR

so you can make them give up their eggs smile.gif

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