European part of Russia

I caught the first non-wintering mace butterfly this year. Male Celastrina argiolus was caught in the Ivanovo region, 10 km south of Ivanovo.
To be honest, I was a little surprised, I thought that I would meet some white women before everyone else. I haven't even seen them yet.
A couple of photos from the scene of the capture of golubyanka. Such "autumn" landscapes on April 26.

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Hi everybody. I am publishing my first report in this topic. Today I walked through the city park for the purpose of photo hunting at least for some butterflies, although most of all I wanted to take pictures of Zorka. At the entrance to the park, I immediately noticed polyxena, who at first disappeared from sight, but then I found her.



Moving on. I see a lot of thickets of flowering celandine, but there are no butterflies on it, they probably don't like celandine.



After a long run for dawns, I finally managed to take a few series of photos, but so far they are not very clear.



Then I went to a clearing under a power line. I found a lot of polyxene.



The most interesting thing is that I saw one polyxena attack another and they fell together in the grass. I still don't understand: this is how they mate or fight. Here's what I managed to capture here:



Polyxene egg:



Then I went to the Kakhov reservoir. Many such winged insects were found on the flowering bush:



Overall, I'm happy with the trip.
Interestingly , a year ago (more precisely, 23.04.2011) there were no polixenes at all, but there were swallowtails. And today-not a single swallowtail.

April 27-28, Medynsky district, Kaluga regionI finished work at 13-30,the family gathered and went.Walk in the woods, and in the evening catch the light.The target is female endromis.Everything flies in the snow,whiteflies and pigeons have appeared.Caught in years of dung beetle, gravedigger, a lot of springbirds of 2 types, mournbirds fly, but not for the collection, the color of the wings is not the same-faded over time, on the edge of the endromis fly freely, females differ in size and flight.I went with my daughter, went to the old skidding road, Dad look at what little beetles I have in the net???I look-and these are ticks!!!!20 pieces!!!!I looked closely-ticks are sitting everywhere at the ends of the grass,I looked at about 15 pieces, it's dark on it....I've never seen anything like it.Along the road was full of moose droppings, since winter,apparently we were the first to go on this road, did not go any further, carefully returned back, my mother listened to us, made a full check of everything and prepared for night fishing.I lit the lamps at 21-30,the first female flopped at 22-00, the daytime temperature was 24C, at 21-30 12C, at 24-00 5C.While the lamps were burning, I ran along the roads with a lantern, there were a lot of granulatuses, 1 cancatus, 1 in my opinion menetriyoshi,and finally I got large and brightly colored nemoralis 4 pcs.A water lover,6 females of endromis,half fat,half cowhide, flew to the light, died in 24-10 years at a temperature of 4C.For Viktor-right in the city glasses-a constant lookout.And I think-glasses for zhuzhla, really catch, but nemoralis?--it's like catching a trophy catfish on the Volga river with hundreds of hooks, it will be caught,but there is no high and adrenaline.!!

I finished work at 13-30,the family gathered and went.Walk in the woods, and in the evening catch the light.The target is female endromis.... on the edge of the forest endromis fly freely, females differ in size and flight.

Did I understand correctly – in the afternoon, endromises fly along the edge of the forest, and females too?

This post was edited by A. J. Elez - 28.04.2012 07: 26

Not well, endromis also flies in the afternoon (of course, not in the evening). I haven't seen any females in flight during the day, but they have to throw off their eggs - so they fly.

This post was edited by Macroglossum - 04/28/2012 09: 23

For A. Y. Elez, males flew along the edges, 3-6 meters from the ground, females flew between birches,and flew into the forest in the wind, 10-15m from the ground.From 15-30 until nightfall, the females repeatedly flew in different directions.The first female sat down in a tree not far from where the screen was installed and simply fell from the tree onto the screen.I saw groups of females on birch branches at a height of 10-15 meters from the ground.

For A. Y. Elez, males flew along the edges, 3-6 meters from the ground, females flew between birches,and flew into the forest in the wind, 10-15m from the ground.From 15-30 until nightfall, the females repeatedly flew in different directions.The first female sat down in a tree not far from where the screen was installed and simply fell from the tree onto the screen.I saw groups of females on birch branches at a height of 10-15 meters from the ground.

Could they have been confused at this distance, could they have been groups of males gathered around a female? I don't see why the females need to get together." The one that fell on the screen does not cause any questions. But on a flight at such a high altitude, especially closer to dusk, you can get mixed up. Or did you definitely see the females?

Saratov region, Engels district, Engels village. Lesnoy, 28.04.12
Small trip to the forest. Lots of insects!!! Photos of the collected material will be available later.



I once did not know that during a citywide clean-up, even in the forest is cleaned!!!



Lixus sp.





Pygopleurus vulpes (F., 1781) is a common spring species


Interesting bumblebees


Olenka



An interesting plant. If anyone can write the title , I will be very grateful.




How nice it is in the forest!


And these are the famous xyloglyphs-mysterious inscriptions on the trunks of trees, left by brothers in mind.


I hope the cleaners will reach this dump as well. Moreover, there is a point nearby where I catch tsitsindel every year.


On the opposite side - the village of Lesnoy

Saratov region, Engels district, Engels village. Lesnoy, 28.04.12
Small trip to the forest. Lots of insects!!! Photos of the collected material will be available later.

If these are photos of the collected material, then I am delighted

If these are photos of the collected material , then I am delighted

Stas, I'm afraid I didn't live up to your expectations
The fees were quite modest


But I got these "goodies":



This post was edited by Mantispid - 28.04.2012 18: 05

By the way, I saw today a couple (male and female) Anthocharis cardamines, a very beautiful butterfly)

[quote=Cerambyx,25.04.2012 13:13] In mid-April, unlike in the previous spring, we decided to drive not to the south of the Lower Volga, but on the contrary-to the north, to the border with the Saratov region, and look for something that has not yet been found in the Volgograd region. First of all, Endromis versicolora, which theoretically could be found. And finally, to catch the imago of thorn Saturnia (so far it was only possible to deduce). The Guselsko-Teterevyatsky ridge in the Zhirnovsky district was chosen as the base.

During the day, Tentyria nomas, two or three Harpalus species crawled along the paths en masse, and Tropinota flew en masse (I don't write hirta, because it looks like we don't have hirta at all). The Meloe tuccius T-shirt was discovered for the first time in the region.
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Let me clarify that the photo does not show Meloe (Coelomeloe) tuccius Rossi, but another species - M. (Meloegonius) rufiventris (Germar, 1832) (= coriarius Brandt & Erichs.)
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And what is the Tropinota there?

May 29, Bryansk region, Mylinka station.
It's a hot day and the insects are very active. Dawns fly, clouds of raspberries, buckthorn pigeons, mottled wings. I met a swallowtail, already beaten.
Tau were pleased, so many, but most of them were battered. I managed to catch five fresh ones. Quite a lot of these black caterpillars, aren't they mnemosyne?

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Quite a lot of these black caterpillars, aren't they mnemosyne?

There must be them. I wonder under what circumstances they were found? So you walked on the sand?

There must be them. I wonder under what circumstances they were found? So you walked on the sand?

On the paths came across, restless such... probably looking for a place to pupate.

Yesterday I went to the Gavrilov-Yama district together with our butterfly farmer Max to explore the valley of the Lakhosti and Kotorosli rivers at the Lakhosti confluence. Already in the morning, the weather began to deteriorate, a strong north wind was blowing, and it was rapidly getting colder if at 8 00 it was +13, then by 18 00 it was +8... As soon as we arrived at the place, a heavy rain was added to the wind, but "we had..." (meaning "fuel for the cloud dispersal station"). Therefore, after having a snack and adjusting the weather (as it turned out later, it was only enough to adjust the health of the weather until 16 o'clock), we began an intensive collection of insects along the banks of overflowing rivers. It was not clear where the water was flowing, but judging by the garbage, the water fell a little (10-15 cm) from the maximum level. Insects (mainly beetles) were inactive due to the cold and wind. Most of them were collected from under the bark of trees standing near the water and in dead wood. there was everything: ladybirds, leaf-eaters, tarsiers... There were practically no butterflies (a few depressariids and springbirds).
As a result, I collected more than 60 species of beetles: many small ground beetles and staphylins, various ladybirds, willow leaf beetles and weevils (mowing), the rest of the families are 13 species each. The material has not yet been analyzed, so the species composition is not given. Mostly ordinary species, from interesting ones: Nicrophorus humator (on the corpse of a cat) and a ladybug-presumably Coccinella distincta. Unfortunately, it was not possible to enter the forest - it is swampy, the water is knee-deep and higher. Realizing that the weather could not be adjusted, they called transport and went home...

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And what is it blooming in the last picture? I don't understand in any way

And what is it blooming in the last picture? I don't understand it at all

It looks like wolf's bast or common wolfberry.

And what is it blooming in the last picture? I don't understand it at all

Wolf's bast, grows on the edge of the forest on the mane, behind it is just visible chernolshannik flooded with water to nowhere...

I look at the Moscow-Moscow region reports, and I understand that the Kostroma region is somehow depressing. For the second year since early spring, there is no such abundance that is presented in the reports of Muscovites. Caught on April 27 on a split drl 250, one female endromis, a sea of scoops, and even small scoops of type 4 and the same number of moths. Lanestris, I think there will be no more, the biotope is a peat swamp with manes overgrown with birch, pine, alder, willow, near a mixed forest area, very sharply cold, compared to the city. Sad as it is, absolutely.

May 1,Orel, Botany Park.
Of course, there is nothing interesting, I just wanted to take a picture.
Egeria and mottledwings met in the park.
Other objects were found on the shore of the lake-horses mezhnyaki,
thirst-quenching swallowtail and rutabagas.

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On the first weekend of May (April 29-May 1) I went back to nature, to my familiar places (Shuisky district, the village of Krasnoarmeyskoye).
On the first day, April 29, I had business in the city, so I didn't arrive in the village until late in the evening. During the day, of course, it was not possible to go anywhere. I don't think I missed much from this, because the day was frankly so-so: although warm, but cloudy, rainy, and in the evening a strong wind blew. A thunderstorm thundered in the distance, but it never reached the village. The wind, however, soon weakened greatly and did not interfere much with fishing in the light. On the night of April 29-30, it was overcast, with occasional light rain. His age was average: not very bad, but not too good either. The usual spring species flew: scoops (Orthosia incerta, gothica, populeti, gracilis, cerasi, cruda, miniosa, Anorthoa munda, Panolis flammea, Cerastis rubricosa, leucographa, Eupsilia transversa, Conistra vaccinii, rubiginea, Xylena vetusta, Brachionycha nubeculosa), moths (Biston stratarius, Lycia hirtaria, pomonaria, Apocheima pilosaria Agriopis marginaria, Cleora cinctaria, Trichopteryx polycommata, Trichopteryx carpinata and one Aethalura punctulata), as well as from other families Achlya flavicornis and Endromis versicolora. Many of the scoops and moths that arrived were already stale: worn, and often completely stripped. Only Agonopterix sp.was found among the micro-lepidoptera.









On the second day, April 30, I took a walking tour along the route Krasnoarmeyskoye village-Sergeevo village-Kleshchevka village. The day turned out to be a bad one mainly because of the bad weather: it was cold, a strong wind was blowing, and in the middle of the day it began to rain altogether. The main goal of the current visit to the village - the capture of Callophrys rubi and Celastrina argiolus pigeons-remained unfulfilled on this day. All they managed to catch were two half-killed females, Archiearis parthenias and Archiearis notha. The only luck on this day I think was finding a female Endromis versicolora sitting on a birch branch.
























The night of April 30-May 1 was unsuccessful. It was clear, the weather was cold and windy. All the same species of scoops and moth flew as on the previous night, but in smaller numbers. No Endromises arrived.



On the afternoon of the third day, May 1, I thought for a long time about the bad weather of the previous day: should I go out somewhere, or should I return to Ivanovo immediately in the morning? However, after standing in the yard, assessing the weather, I still decided to go out into the field. And, as it turned out, not in vain. The weather was much better than on the previous day: warm, the wind was blowing, but not so strong and warmer, the sun often peeked out. I decided to take a walk in the direction of the village of Polki, walked through the forest along the bank of a small forest river Granddaughter to the place of its confluence with the river Teza. There were a lot more butterflies than on the previous day. There were butterflies that lived out their time and overwintered, including mourning birds, and there were also butterflies that did not winter this year. First, the spring pigeons Celastrina argiolus flew en masse, 15 males and five females were collected. And interestingly, some of the males were already worn, as if they had been flying for quite some time. Secondly, the Callophrys rubi raspberries flew, five males and one female were collected, all the freshest specimens. And third, on a forest road, I met the variegated moth Araschnia levana, but failed to catch it. In addition, he caught one specimen of the moth Paradarisa consonaria and Aethalura punctulata. In general, the main goal of the trip - the capture of spring pigeons Celastrina argiolus and Callophrys rubi - was fulfilled.

A list of everything seen/caught.
Pieridae
1) Gonepteryx rhamni (4, mass production);
Nymphalidae
2) Nymphalis antiopa (single);
3)Nymphalis xanthomelas (single);
4) Polygonia c-album (single);
5) Araschnia levana (single);
Lycaenidae
6) Celastrina argiolus (20, common);
7) Callophrys rubi (6, common);
Drepanidae: Thyatirinae
8) Achlya flavicornis (4, often);
Geometridae
9)) Archiearis parthenias (2, common);
10) Archiearis notha (2, rare);
11) Trichopteryx polycommata (1, rare);
12) Trichopteryx carpinata (single);
13) Biston stratarius (common);
14) Lycia hirtaria (single);
14) Lycia pomonaria (1);
15) Phigalia pilosaria (1);
16) Agriopis marginaria (isolated);
17) Paradarisa consonaria (1);
18) Cleora cinctaria (7, mass);
19) Aethalura punctulata (2);
Endromidae
20)Endromis versicolora (5);
Noctuidae
21) Orthosia incerta (9, often);
22) Orthosia gracilis (1);
23) Orthosia populeti (14, often);
24) Orthosia miniosa (single);
25) Orthosia cerasi (2);
26) Orthosia cruda (3);
27))Orthosia gothica (4);
28)Anorthoa munda (1);
29))Panolis flammea (1);
30) Conistra vaccinii (common);
31) Conistra rubiginea (rare);
32) Lithophane socia (rare);
33) Eupsilia transversa (common);
34) Cerastis rubricosa (common);
35) Cerastis Cerastis leucographa (3);
36))Brachionycha nubeculosa (3);
37)Scoliopteryx libatrix (1);
38)Xylena vetusta (единично).

The Moscow frost took out all the nerves and patience naglushnyak.Today, Sergukha and I are going to break into the lower Volga, without a special super-goal, just to catch it-by collecting it in a lookout and at night in the light.We will go until 10.05 inclusive, if there is no war.What and approximately where to catch are familiarized with information.Upon arrival, there will probably be a report about the hardships and joys.Sergukha is responsible for the photo session.

Location: Saratov region, Tatishchevsky district, 2.2 km In Kologrivovka village, O. P. 799 km
Date: May 6, 2012
Coordinates: 51°43 '15.17" From 45°23 '14.49" In
Participants: I. Zabaluev, N. Rodnev


After getting off the train, we went along the railway



Carcharodus flocciferus (Zeiler, 1847) I. A. Yudakov det.



Live animals



Thickets of wormwood "God's tree" and cool leaf eaters on it.


Willow tree. There were a lot of fleas on it.


Red Locomotive



A small lake. On the shore - a lot of ground beetles and staffs.



As well as a group of sailboats


It's a funny place. There were minnows that went to spawn like salmon




Just landscapes


Caragana. She was wearing zernovki, sitons, spangles




Another beautiful place


On the other side of the railway there was a small river and a very good water meadow.


General view of the collected material






Individual precincts

Location: Saratov region, Tatishchevsky district, 2.2 km In Kologrivovka village, O. P. 799 km
Date: May 6, 2012
Coordinates: 51°43 '15.17" From 45°23 '14.49" In
Participants: I. Zabaluev, N. Rodnev

Thickets of wormwood "God's tree" and cool leaf eaters on it.

Chrysolina graminis (Linnaeus, 1758)

We went today (8.V. 12) to the Krasnoarmeysky district, okr. o. p. 55 km (~6 km from the village of Panitskaya).


Along the railway


The first beetle



Lixus shits on a thorn


... I wish I had matches)



There were bagousies here


Small river


Green meadow. There were the most beetles here.



And there were a lot of tsevtorynkhs here





Landscapes.




A stream starts from the springs. There were Georissus and various staffs



Lamia textor. Quite an unexpected find in such a biotope.




Ass with balls

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May 6, near Volgograd.

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Summer, however!

Kukulia turned out great!

Dosang Report 2012 (29.04-06.05)
This year, even before the trip to the south of Russia, it was clear that the Saturnia spini were flying away, but there were still "ticks" that I wanted to put: normal piri, female Geb and desert, dwarf hawkmoth and sea buckthorn. Almost everything planned was implemented. The exception was the desert females, but we didn't do anything to catch them – we didn't stop at the place where we caught males, we went to bed early, and so on. Now in order. First stop on the Ilovlya River. In the mass of midges and mosquitoes, plus 15 hours behind the wheel, in general caught somewhere up to 12 and went to bed. Almost nothing interesting flew – tremulifolia (even a female), anceps in quantity, female tritophus, male Hebe, well, scoops with moths. In the morning on Ilovla fished a little day, from an unusual pile of flying zegrisov, erat, plus caught a flying female Hebe.
On the evening of April 30, we arrived in Dosang, where the weather was warm and calm. We were a little late with the camp and dinner, as a result, we switched to the screen somewhere at half past 11 pm. Around the lamp was a cloud of different butterflies, until they came to their senses exactly at 23.00 a hurricane-force wind blew, demolished the screen and butterflies. I just had to remember that I was going to take it off for myself. The next two nights were not only cool (plus 8 at 24.00), but also accompanied by wind with a speed of about 25 m / s. In the next two nights, the wind subsided and the temperature began to grow, on the last night from 4 to 5 May, the night temperature reached plus 13 degrees. This had a noticeable effect on the summer – if in the previous two nights exactly 4 villikas came, then in the last one they flew in a mass; plus 3 sea-buckthorn hawkmoth flew, katokalina went.
Last night, on the way back to Moscow, I still wanted to take desert and pygmy hawkmoth, so we caught them near Ilovlya, inside gullies with chalk deposits. Located. In the evening, we fished for jacobi, fed the midges and mosquitoes, and settled down at the screen. The whole trip was very much hindered by a huge lantern in the sky-fishing in the full moon is the most disgusting thing. The moon was particularly large that night. It hung directly over the hill and illuminated all the beams. There was also a fairly decent wind blowing all night. At dusk, endromis and proserpine arrived; onion sharpeners and a standard set of hawkmoth. Mishka read an article about dwarfs, that they fly at dusk, so there was no special hope when the first one came at the beginning of the first night and then a total of 19 pieces came with an interval of 5 minutes, it was May 5. Along the way, the Jacobis came. In the morning, they were still fishing for checkers in the beam. In general, we went normally, although the weather was not very lucky and there were not many butterflies, I shot almost everything that was on the screen. Almost the entire plan was implemented.
There is nothing much to say about beetles, a lot of skorobeevs, who were told not to take them, crunchers, riders, a couple of types of barbels on a thorn in the desert, a horse on the sand and a second horse at night in the light, beauties in the light, and so on. Other details and full-scale photos of Mishka.
Yes, we also went fishing, if you can call it fishing. In general, without straining, the 40-liter tank was mostly filled with a roach.
HAPPY VICTORY DAY TO ALL!

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past holidays in Staraya Ryazan, Ryazan region, dacha on the bank of the Oka River.

I successfully caught the DRV-250 for two days: on May 5 and 8. 6 and 7 the weather at night was disgusting, strong wind, butterflies were blown away from the screen
A lot of interesting things arrived. First, new views for me:

Drymonia ruficornis
Peridea anceps
Acasis viretata
Phibalapteryx virgata-many
Plagodis dolabraria - very many
Selenia lunularia - few males
Watsonalla binaria - 3 different-sex specimens.
Epatolmis caesarea - 1 pc. May 8

Now what I photographed from the usual views.
Cleora cinctaria
Epirrhoe alternata
Hypoxystis pluviaria
Lobophora halterata
Lomographa bimaculata
Lycia hirtaria
Macaria notata
Pseudopanthera macularia
Selenia tetralunaria
Xanthorhoe biriviata
and three other unidentified species of Jupitecia

Acronicta auricoma
Acronicta psi либо tridens
Acronicta rumicis
Anorthoa munda
Autographa gamma
Colocasia coryli
Egira conspicillaris
Hypena rostralis
Lacanobia w-latinum
Orthosia ?cerasi
Orthosia incerta
Panolis flammea - already heavily flown
Orthosia gothica - also old ladies

Clostera anastomosis
Clostera curtula
Notodonta dromedarius
Notodonta torva
Notodonta tritophus
Notodonta ziczac
Pterostoma palpina

Hyles gallii
Drepana falcataria
Earias clorana
Phragmatobia fuliginosa

from micra-Ethmia bipunctella and something else undefined, but a little.

during the day, a fairly standard set of whiteflies and nymphalids flew: napi, rhamni, levana, io, lathonia, many swallowtails, Pyrgus malvae

Zerynthia polyxena fluttered right on the plot and under it, closer to the shore, some even laid eggs on the kirkazon - so life goes on!

Dosang Report 2012 (29.04-06.05)
This year, even before the trip to the south of Russia, it was clear that the Saturnia spini were flying away, but there were still "ticks" that I wanted to put: normal piri, female Geb and desert, dwarf hawkmoth and sea buckthorn. Almost everything planned was implemented. The exception was the desert females, but we didn't do anything to catch them – we didn't stop at the place where we caught males, we went to bed early, and so on. Now in order. First stop on the Ilovlya River. In the mass of midges and mosquitoes, plus 15 hours behind the wheel, in general caught somewhere up to 12 and went to bed. Almost nothing interesting flew – tremulifolia (even a female), anceps in quantity, female tritophus, male Hebe, well, scoops with moths. In the morning on Ilovla fished a little day, from an unusual pile of flying zegrisov, erat, plus caught a flying female Hebe.
On the evening of April 30, we arrived in Dosang, where the weather was warm and calm. We were a little late with the camp and dinner, as a result, we switched to the screen somewhere at half past 11 pm. Around the lamp was a cloud of different butterflies, until they came to their senses exactly at 23.00 a hurricane-force wind blew, demolished the screen and butterflies. I just had to remember that I was going to take it off for myself. The next two nights were not only cool (plus 8 at 24.00), but also accompanied by wind with a speed of about 25 m / s. In the next two nights, the wind subsided and the temperature began to grow, on the last night from 4 to 5 May, the night temperature reached plus 13 degrees. This had a noticeable effect on the summer – if in the previous two nights exactly 4 villikas came, then in the last one they flew in a mass; plus 3 sea-buckthorn hawkmoth flew, katokalina went.
Last night, on the way back to Moscow, I still wanted to take desert and pygmy hawkmoth, so we caught them near Ilovlya, inside gullies with chalk deposits. Located. In the evening, we fished for jacobi, fed the midges and mosquitoes, and settled down at the screen. The whole trip was very much hindered by a huge lantern in the sky-fishing in the full moon is the most disgusting thing. The moon was particularly large that night. It hung directly over the hill and illuminated all the beams. There was also a fairly decent wind blowing all night. At dusk, endromis and proserpine arrived; onion sharpeners and a standard set of hawkmoth. Mishka read an article about dwarfs, that they fly at dusk, so there was no special hope when the first one came at the beginning of the first night and then a total of 19 pieces came with an interval of 5 minutes, it was May 5. Along the way, the Jacobis came. In the morning, they were still fishing for checkers in the beam. In general, we went normally, although the weather was not very lucky and there were not many butterflies, I shot almost everything that was on the screen. Almost the entire plan was implemented.
There is nothing much to say about beetles, a lot of skorobeevs, who were told not to take them, crunchers, riders, a couple of types of barbels on a thorn in the desert, a horse on the sand and a second horse at night in the light, beauties in the light, and so on. Other details and full-scale photos of Mishka.
Yes, we also went fishing, if you can call it fishing. In general, without straining, the 40-liter tank was mostly filled with a roach.
HAPPY VICTORY DAY TO ALL!

Just sketches:
1. we were extremely surprised by the simultaneous summer festiva and villica in Dosang, and most of the villages are flown. Near Volgograd, there is a festiva, but villica is not yet;
2. as in the year before last, a massive invasion of male festiva was observed at the Lukoil gas station near Vityutnev, since Archedinsky Sands are nearby. But on the way back, these butterflies abruptly disappeared, so if in Dosang they flew with all their might, then near Volgograd the next night none of them arrived and there were no corpses at the gas station either.
3. in Dosang, S. pyri lives in large numbers, and, apparently, eats not fruit trees, but small-leaved elm (elm) in the forest belt. Males find the female immediately after leaving the cocoon, and even during the day. At first, broken and already empty females fly to the light, then fresh females, and after 01:00 males begin to arrive. Since the butterflies are heavy and weakened by laying eggs, and the nights were cold, they do not so much arrive as crawl. The forest belt is literally moving...
4. the life cycle of the female S. pyri fits into one day: hatched-mated(3-4 hours) - laid eggs (5-6 hours after mating) - everything, you can die. But the female still flies after laying eggs for some reason... By the way, the eggs were brought, in the amount of about 100 pieces, and what to do with them now?
5. in Dosang, both ordinary and long-eared hedgehogs came to visit. Among the snakes, we met a common snake (including a melanist) and a water snake, as well as a steppe viper. The latter, it seems, is not uncommon in the steppe. On Ilovla I chased some small snake on the chalk, but I didn't have time to really see it, it went into the rocks.
6. we were surprised by the capture of Zorka-zegris on Ilovla. It's a bit too northerly. It was also in Dosang, but it was already badly flown.
7. they tried to understand what kind of yolks fly in the steppe near Dosang. Unfortunately, almost all of them were already badly broken. They still didn't understand. especially after I caught the orange one... Erata was definitely there, but Hale / alfakariensis-the devil knows, we need to straighten them out.
8. fish in Akhtuba was caught so-so because of the sharp rise of water, strong wind and small size. Actually, it wasn't a problem to catch a small one, but it was necessary to rest on a large one, which somehow I didn't want to do especially after sleepless nights.
9. as Sergey already wrote, the nights for fishing were disgusting because of the cold, wind and the approaching full moon.
10. years under Dosang went every night on the same schedule: milkweed and other feeding hawkmoth (what they, imago, eat there, I don't know)- broken piri females-fresh piri females-dippers-willies-dippers-hera-piri males. Then you can safely go to bed. All this was interspersed with small katokalins, a few scoops and moths. Sometimes male and female urtica bears arrived. Depending on the temperature, the number of forks changed, and the rest were still stuck in a jamb. On the last night, freshly hatched sea-buckthorn hawkmoth came (silver loch grows there). Unlike last year (the same days of May), there was not a single linear (H. livornica) hawk moth, apparently, last year there was a mass flight.
11. A. festiva was caught out of sporting interest, because in previous years they had already eaten enough. They tried to catch the females in the light, but failed. They searched for females during the day, but found them only on Ilovla, although in Dosang the males perled dur. Among the males, they searched for color aberrations, they wanted to catch them with completely black and completely white upper wings - they managed only in a rough approximation. We looked for variations of the pattern: with a dot in the center of the upper wing or with a curl. In general, we had fun
12. night in the steppe on Ilovla pleased, of course, hawk moth-gorgons. They fly very low above the ground, fall on the bottom sheet, and spin around like upside-down flies. Funny. They really wanted them, but they doubted it. that they will fly in early May. Quite a lot of Jacobi bears came to the light (they were also caught during the day). I was surprised by the arrival of a fresh male endromis, given the report of colleagues who caught them in those places on April 14...
13. Yes, they caught all the time on two generators, a split DRL-250 (Osram) at the top and a non-split DRL-250 (Philipps) above the screen. The Romyald-a design didn't survive the wind test
13. From Volgograd, I went to a dacha near Kasimov (Ryazan region), there was only one decent night. The forest is very humid and it was problematic to get on the usual gas pipeline, so I caught it right in the yard. A lot of common scoops, a few moth flies, a standard set of seasonal tufts, lunar copra, water-loving beetles, a male endromis, a pair of S. pavonia (one was taken for small size) and one male cocoonworm-tremulifolia. In the afternoon, a full set of diaries, but served and not yet flown (lilac did not bloom).
14. On May 9, on my way home, I wanted to pick up A. tau at the PTZ, but I didn't have time for it and went to the myrmidon nursery (Nerskaya), where I successfully caught 8 males in an hour.
16. Finally, a list of species composition of SPHINGIDAE and
Sphingidae caught:
Deilephila elpenor (isolated in Dosang)
Deilephila porcellus (in Dosang only the suellus form, in Ilovla-both forms)
Hyles euphorbiae (in the mass, one specimen resembles H. zygophylli in color, if I'm not mistaken, we looked at the French book with Sergey)
Hyles gallii (isolated)
Hyles hippophaes (3 pieces in Dosang)
Proserpinus proserpina (1 on Ilovla)
Laothoe populi (singular in Dosang, subspecies?)
Smerinthus ocellatus (1 VERY shabby in Dosang, 1 female in Ilovla)
Sphinx pinastri (1 in Ilovla)
Sphingonaepiopsis gorgoniades (19 on Ilovla)

ARCTIIDAE:
Arctia festiva (en masse, 2 females)
Epicallia villica (mass produced)
Phragmatobia fuliginosa (isolated)
Spilosoma urticae (isolated, males and females)
Tyria jacobaeae (a lot on Ilovla)
Diaphora mendica (1 female in Ilovla)


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В праздничные дни (7 - 9 мая) снова ездил в деревню (Шуйский район, деревня Красноармейское). Выезжать из Иваново в этот раз решил утром на поезде. Уже стоя на перроне вокзала в ожидании поезда, заметил пролетающего мимо меня самца Aglia tau. Погода была очень теплая и солнечная, так что я предполагал весьма перспективные и продуктивные в плане ловли выходные. И мои ожидания в целом оправдались. Днем бабочек было очень много. Добираясь из Иваново в Шую на поезде и затем из Шуи в Сергеево на автобусе, замечал пролетающих мимо транспорта, в котором я в данный момент находился, всевозможных белянок:Gonepteryx rhamni, Pieris sp. и Anthocharis cardamines, а также нимфалид Nymphalis xanthomelas, Nymphalis antiopa и других. Во время пешей прогулки из поселка Сергеево в Красноармейское удалось подробно рассмотреть, какие виды Pieris sp.летали и соответственно какие из них я видел из окна транспорта. Это были Pieris napi и Pieris rapae. Кроме того, в массе были Anthocharis cardamines и уже на подходе к Красноармейскому встретил одну Pontia edusa.

В первый день, 7 мая, я добрался до деревни в середине дня, в 13:30 и, перекусив на скорую руку, сделал первый в эти выходные выход в поле. В мои планы входило обследование заброшенного с/х поля сзади деревни Красноармейское, затем я планировал перебраться на противоположный берег мелкой лесной речки Внучки, пройти вдоль берега в сторону соседней деревни Польки по так называемой в наших краях "нижней" дороге, после чего по краю леса дойти до небольшого верхового болота в стороне деревни Польки и обследовать его на предмет Callophrys rubi. В принципе, практически все планы были реализованы, за исключением посещения болота, эту часть похода я считаю частично не выполненной. Но обо всем по порядку. В поле за деревней Красноармейское летало огромное количество белянок, но в основном это были Pieris napi, которых мне удалось словить небольшую серию, Pieris rapae и Anthocharis cardamines в этом месте мне удалось поймать только лишь по одному экземпляру. Но все изменилось, как только я приблизился к берегу Внучки. Основной породой дерева, растущей вдоль берега Внучки, была ольха, на самом речном берегу цвели какие то крупные желтые цветы. И хотя белянки в этом месте практически не встречались, но зато это было настоящее царство пядениц: во множестве они перелетали с одного ствола дерева на другое, или же садились на землю. Здесь мне удалось заметить виды Lomographa bimaculata, Paradarisa consonaria , Aethalura punctulata, Ectropis crepuscularia, Cleora cinctaria, виды родов Xanthorhoe и Epirrhoe и некоторые другие. Пройдя долину Внучки, я вышел на "нижнюю" дорогу и направился по ней до выхода из леса. На нижней дороге встречались голубянки Celastrina argiolus, по большей части уже потертые. Долетывали свой век перезимовавшие бабочки: Nymphalis antiopa, Nymphalis xanthomelas, Р. c-album, Gonepteryx rhamni. Встречались также пяденицы, но их было меньше, чем на берегу Внучки, и виды все те же. По "нижней" дороге я дошел до выхода из леса и пошел по окраине леса в сторону небольшого торфяника. В отличие от поля за Красноармейским, здесь были обычны Anthocharis cardamines, которых мне удалось поймать пять экземпляров самцов и три самки. По краю леса добрался до болота, но походить по нему мне толком не удалось. Callophrys rubi были в большом количестве, но поймать успел только троих (двух самок и самца), после чего из за сильной грозы пришлось срочно возвращаться домой. Но в целом результатом выхода все равно остался доволен. Правда, немного омрачило результаты выхода очень большое количество клещей в лесу. Их я по приходу домой снял со штанов больше, чем поймал бабочек в ходе прогулки. Двоих, увы, пришлось вытаскивать уже из тела.
































Вечер 7 мая был теплый, пасмурный, временами накрапывал небольшой дождь.
В общем, очень перспективная погода для ловли на свет. Ловить я начал в 21:35 и поначалу летело как то не очень, единичными экземплярами. Зато майских жуков прилетела целая куча. Массовый прилет бабочек начался только лишь после 22:30. Из интересного следует отметить очень хорошего качества самку Saturnia pavonia (прилетела в 23:10), Endromis versicolora достаточно хорошего качества, хохлаток Cerura vinula, Stauropus fagi, Odontosia carmelita и Clostera curtula. Большая часть совок, прилетевшая этой ночью, представляли собой уже прилично потертых и побитых Orthosia разных видов, Panolis flammea, Anorthoa munda, Cerastis обоих видов, Lithophane разных видов, Conistra vaccinii, rubiginea. Исключение составляли металловидки Autographa gamma, хоть и перезимовавшие, но вполне приличного качества, а также один свежайший экземпляр капюшонницы Cucullia umbratica. Также было достаточно много пядениц, из которых следует выделить свежайших Lomographa bimaculata, Paradarisa consonaria, Ectropis crepuscularia, Aethalura punctulata, Hypoxystis pluviaria, Acasis viretata, Lobophora halterata, каких то Xanthorhoe sp., Anticlea derivata и Rheumaptera cervinalis. Из микро были собраны два экземпляра какого то вида семейства Pyralidae.






Во второй день, 8 мая, было очень тепло, можно сказать, даже жарко, и солнечно. Я решил посвятить этот день ловле самцов рыжей павлиноглазки Aglia tau, для чего отправился в свое заветное место ,где каждый год они летают в достаточно большом количестве. Место это представляет собой небольшой пологий склон на окраине леса между деревней Польки и поселком Клочково. Особенность этого места в том, что самцы Aglia tau там летают не где то в лесу по буреломам, а на открытой местности, и их очень удобно ловить. Aglia tau в этот день было много, но все они были какие то потертые. В общей сложности поймал шесть экземпляров, но поскольку экземпляры разной степени потертости у меня уже были, для коллекции решил оставить лишь два свежайших.

Во второй половине дня 8 мая заметил, что у меня закончились продукты, и решил прогуляться за ними в Сергеево, пополнить, так сказать, запасы. Ловить бабочек не планировал, но сачок, по своему обыкновению, все равно взял. В деревне я вообще редко расстаюсь с энтомологическим сачком, даже за водой и в магазин хожу с ним. Не раз и не два эта привычка меня очень выручала. Так случилось и в этот день. Итак, иду я по дороге в направлении поселка Сергеево, и где то между Красноармейским и Сергеевым на грязи рядом с лужей издалека вижу что то желтое. Присматриваюсь...и не верю своим глазам. Махаон!!! Естественно, экземпляр был немедленно собран. Позже, уже на подходе к Сергееву и в самом Сергееве, поймал еще два чистейших, люксовых экземпляра. Необычность происходящего состоит в том, что махаоны в этом году полетели сильно раньше своего обычного срока вылета. В прошлом году первого я увидел только лишь 21 мая.





Вечером ко мне приехал ОлегСССР, и дальше на свет мы ловили уже вместе. В целом эта ночь получилась чуть хуже предыдущей. Было холоднее и более ветрено, чем вечером 7 мая, и это сказалось на лете. Бабочек было меньше как по видам, так и по экземплярам. Летело все то же самое, что и в предыдущую ночь, но следует отметить, что прилетели две самки Endromis versicolora (прошлой ночью летели самцы), из хохлаток по сравнению с прошлой ночью не прилетели Odontosia carmelita, но зато прилетела одна Peridea anceps. Так же, как и прошлая ночь, эта также была ознаменована прилетом хорошей самки Saturnia pavonia.



Третий день, 9 мая, получился очень неудачным. Во первых, было холодно, во вторых, ветренно, а в третьих, иногда шел дождь, временами сильный. Мы с Олегом немного прогулялись по полю сзади деревни до окраины леса и обратно. Из чешуекрылых были замечены только лишь две пяденицы Lythria cruentaria.

Список увиденного/пойманного:
Papilionidae
1)Papilio machaon (3):
Pieridae
2)Leptidea sinapis (2,единично);
3)Pieris napi (13, массово);
4)Pieris rapae (1);
5)Pontia edusa (единично);
6)Anthocharis cardamines (8, часто);
7)Gonepteryx rhamni (1, часто);
Lycaenidae
8)Celastrina argiolus (массово);
9)Callophrys rubi (3, часто);
Nymphalidae
10)Araschnia levana (единично);
11)Nymphalis antiopa (единично);
12)Nymphalis xanthomelas (единично);
13)Poligonia c-album (нередко);
Drepanidae:Drepaninae
14)Falcaria lacertinaria (1);
Geometridae
15)Archiearis parthenias (единично);
16)Lythria cruentaria (единично);
17)Xanthorhoe sp. (часто);
18)Epirrhoe sp. (часто);
19)Anticlea derivata (1, единично);
20)Rheumaptera cervinalis (2);
21)Lobophora halterata (нередко);
22)Acasis viretata (1, единично);
23)Trichopteryx carpinata (единично);
24)Lomographa bimaculata (3,часто);
25)Cleora cinctaria (часто);
26)Paradarisa consonaria (единично);
27)Aethalura punctulata (единично);
28)Ectropis crepuscularia (единично);
29)Biston stratarius (единично);
30)Lycia hirtaria (единично);
31)Hypoxystis pluviaria (2);
32)Selenia tetralunaria (1);
33-34) два разных вида рода Eupithecia;
Endromidae
35)Endromis versicolora (4);
Saturniidae
36)Saturnia pavonia (2);
37)Aglia tau (2, часто);
Notodontidae
38)Peridea anceps (1);
39)Odontosia carmelita (7);
40)Clostera curtula (2);
41)Cerura vinula (10, часто);
42)Stauropus fagi (5);
Noctuidae
43)Autographa gamma (2, массово);
44)Cucullia umbratica (2);
45)Brachionycha nubeculosa (единично);
46)Conistra vaccinii (нередко);
47)Conistra rubiginea (единично);
48)Lithophane socia (нередко);
49)Eupsilia transversa (единично);
50)Panolis flammea (единично)
51)Orthosia incerta (1,массово);
52)Orthosia gracilis (единично);
53)Orthosia populeti (единично);
54)Orthosia cerasi (единично);
55)Orthosia cruda (нередко);
56)Orthosia gothica (часто);
57)Anorthoa munda(единично);
58)Cerastis rubricosa (нередко);
59)Cerastis leucographa (1, единично);
Arctiidae:Lithosiinae
60)Eilema sororculа (1);
Nolidae
61)Nola confusalis (1);
62)Nycteola ?degenerana (3).

Сообщение было отредактировано TEMPUS - 11.05.2012 21:24

Добрый день форумчане. хочу представить вам отчет о поездке во Псковскую область на время майских праздников.

По приезду стояла тихая пасмурная погода, примерно +18с. Прошелся в бор, на полях насекомых не было. Однако в лесу бабочки хоть и редко, но летали. Прежде всего было много пядениц Cleora cinctaria, заметил одну голубянку Celastrina argiolus, прямо на подходе к лесу вспугнул какую-то большую темную бабочку, которая оказалась Nymphalis antiopa! Но увы она быстро набрала высоту и полетела над верхушками сосен куда-то вдаль... Прошелся еще по подлеску, удалось найти свежую Polygonia c-album. и на обратном пути, на том же месте удась заметить притаившуюся на сухой траве траурницу, тут-то она и была поймана.







не мог дождаться когда-таки наконец стемнеет и включить дрл.


лампу включил еще в сумерках, и первые 45 минут прилетели только пару пядениц. но после этого временного порога полетело очень сильно. погода была теплая, +13, пасмурно, иногда накрапывал дождь. прошлой весной я ловил на экономку, и этой ночью я почувствовал мягко говоря существенную разницу.
в общем летело много разных совок и пядениц, очень обрадовал прилет самки Endromis versicolora, впервые поймал этот вид. Ниже на фото улов за эту ночь.





1 мая в течении всего дня в небе наблюдалась pollen corona - рефракция солнечных лучей на массе пыльцы парящей в атмосфере.








2 мая прокатился в ближайший крупный сосновый бор. погода солнечная и теплая. на грунтовых дорогах нашел скакуна полевого, и в массе скакуна межняка.


улов по бабочкам из леса. было много пядениц и голубянок, помал даже Archiearis parthenias, думал они уже отлетали. Впервые поймал Callophris rubi. Во множестве летали Antocharis cardamines, и другие банальные бабочки из белянок и нимфалид.

Ночной лов 3 мая. Погода была неважная, светила луна, да и температура была низкая. В массе полетели хохлатки Cerura vinula, до 10-15шт за лов. стартовал лет Odontosia carmelita.

в полночь совершенно внезапно вокруг лампы начала кружить какая-то гигантская ( по сравнению с соками и пяденицами) бабочка. думал прилетел еще один эндромис. Подбегаю к экрану, а там сидит свежая самка Saturnia pavonia! до этого момента о поимке этой бабочки я мог только мечтать







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Ночной лов 5 мая. летело много новых совок и пядениц. начался лет Clostera curtula и Phyllodesma ilicifolia.




















7 Мая на свет прилетела еще одна, вторая самка павонии. решил на нее пориманимать самцов, зашил в садов. в первый день погода была прохладная и пасмурная, самка провисела на улице бесполезно. на следующий день было тепло и солнечно, я думал теперь-то ситуация изменится. но за весь день никто так и не прилетел. самка была абсолютно свежая. к вечеру она начал летать в садке, вся оббилась, и отложила около 80 яиц. судя по всему она уже оплодотворенная. посмотрим вылупятся ли гусеницы из этих яиц.


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Ну и собственно фото улова.






Всем спасибо за внимание.

  

...улов по бабочкам из леса. было много пядениц и голубянок, помал даже Archiearis parthenias, думал они уже отлетали...

На фото есть пяденица Acasis viretata - неплохой вид для области.