European part of Russia

I've never seen anything like it. Literally all the juices were sucked out of the tree...





Dunes

Conclusion...
Good trip!!! From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank the Head of Automobile and Material Support...





..and his steed of steel!!!



Thank you for your attention! Yours sincerely, Coleopter.

I'll update Dima's report.We left 11.06. Even on the way, we noticed an almost full moon,as a result,the catch to the light, especially beetles, was minimal.For example, last year-especially in the Don Sands, more than half of the catch was caught.Upon arrival, they began to inspect the floodplain of the Bear, and gradually the picture began to clear up.In the evening, there were soil, wine traps and of course a screen.During the day, fresh nymphalids and a lot of smaller scales flew, I think that it would be interesting for interisovans.We put 12 soil samples, but we got the freshest iestreheri and marginalis, so we had to increase the number.Moreover, when examining the paths at night and in general with a flashlight, nothing worthwhile was found.13.06. let's go to the Frolovsky district, to the Don district.We stopped in luxury places near the lake.Lena, on the one hand-sand dunes under 50 m high, and nearby, just across the road-a long and green old lake.But in the evening there was a fucking bright moon, and it got very cold-steam was coming out of my mouth.In the morning 14.06. we're going to look further.We reached the next lake - there are dunes and numerous floodplain oak forests-in general, like in a fairy tale!But 500 oaks I examined-not a single current one.In this place, everything was fed on the skinny elms.A lot of all sorts of predatory wasps flew, in the evening 4 types of crunchers flew out, in general, it was fun.On light-nor that not took,waited and zhuzhlu, and kalosom, and surprises...sadly..15.06. let's go to the beginning of the route.They began to check the traps, 30 pieces were caught in the wine ones, the freshest kr. a scoop with yellow lower wings-I asked God for forgiveness, although no one flew to the light for all the time, I was already upset!!!In the evening, a funny thing happened-Dima took toilet paper and went in the direction of landing, suddenly jumped up about a hundred meters away and was already running in my direction with round eyes and yelling-I told you-a fly in a glass-to luck!!!It turns out that a marble crunch landed on it,they really wanted to catch them.An interesting beetle, when it flies-it creaks and can be heard 200 meters away, we ran until dark,but caught a series.16.06 in the morning, we went to the beach to pay off before the road,at the same time dug the river bank, amofrons and 3 types of khlenius pleased with their abundance. Time was running out.In general, everything went very well.But it is not clear-why there were no akimeruses, stenokorusov caught only 1 pair(very little), only 1 pc of eruginosa and 1 pc of calosome sycophant, and in a soil trap??? Photos of my mattresses and straightened material will be available later.

Good time of day! I was in the Chuvash Republic from July 24 to 27. I've been fishing for three nights. The nights were cold, the air was bad, the variety was small. In the photo report app.

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Yesterday I was approximately on the border of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region and the Tarussky district of the Kaluga region,3 pieces of blue bembidions were born and taken,and there is an interesting find-a small male? a medium-sized Southern Russian tarantula.Taken alive and imprisoned.

... and a snake-viper.

Like a copperhead?

Definitely not a viper. Or a runner, or a copperhead.

Like a copperhead?

isn't it patterned?

The snake with its small size characteristically threw itself at our piece of wood,and I got the impression that this is the habit of a venomous snake,imho...

The snake with its small size characteristically threw itself at our piece of wood,and I got the impression that this is the habit of a venomous snake,imho...

Even grass snakes throw themselves if they are suddenly caught

25.05.2011
MO, vicinity of Zheleznodorozhny

Already about a meter long basked on a hummock. The soil is mostly tightly packed needles covered with a thin layer of last year's deciduous litter, the grass has not grown yet, there is nowhere to go, the nearest poker under which you can hide is just between me and the grass snake. Well, the snake decided to pretend to be a terribly venomous reptile, raised its head, hissed and periodically rushed in my direction. If you consider that I was shooting from a distance of less than a meter, then the sensations are not very pleasant, especially since I have already bitten my hand once. In my practice, all the snakes I encountered usually tried to fall into the folds of the terrain, if there was such an opportunity.
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Even grass snakes throw themselves if they are suddenly caught

25.05.2011
MO, vicinity of Zheleznodorozhny

Well, the snake decided to pretend to be a terribly venomous reptile, raised its head, hissed and periodically rushed in my direction.

I bear witness: like a cobra does right now.
And if you catch it: so in general emits extremely smelly gas and tries to bite



17.04.2014 Moscow region, Balashikha district, okr. der. Poltevo.
Which is a few km away from the Train station.

... and a snake-viper.

Dim, this really isn't a viper. Viper snakes are easily recognized by their pupils: they are vertically slit-shaped (almost like a cat). This is someone from the snake-like: the pupils are round (in the second photo it is noticeable well). I showed you the vipers in the Pools on May 2. Here is the report: http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtop...dpost&p=1482561 Snakes must be able to distinguish: in our difficult life can be useful

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Like a copperhead?

Definitely not a viper. Or a runner, or a copperhead.

isn't it patterned?

And it seems to me that it's not both, and not the other, and not the third one, but only the" Water " one.: Natrix tessellata Laurenti, 1768
There must be a reservoir nearby.
All...... stop offtop

This is the Elaphe patterned skid dione

And I work according to the principle: I went and reported back

I will continue off top. In the second photo, where there is a snake, its pupils are like a cat's. Is it poisonous???

I will continue off top. In the second photo, where there is a snake, its pupils are like a cat's. Is it poisonous???

Well, yes, some kind of viper. In Wikipedia the head, together with the eye, is well shown.

I will continue off top. In the second photo, where there is a snake, its pupils are like a cat's. Is it poisonous???

This is a rare red morph of the Nikolsky viper

Yesterday I walked around the outskirts of Yaroslavl. The goal is to look for beetles, see if mushrooms have started to grow after sushi...
Bottom line: mushrooms have climbed, beetles are banal...The most unexpected find: an active May beetle!!! I am sitting, cutting birch trees near the swamp, and I hear the rustle of old leaves, I look around-the male Melolontha hippocastani is crawling importantly....

Well, the season ends in the floodplains, yesterday I was with my family on the river.Oka, in the Tarussky district of the Kaluga region, only a few beetle specimens fell into traps during the week,almost nothing was caught under the garbage and under surveillance-several cichruses and 3 bembidions, and just a week ago it was necessary to choose - what is necessary-what is not necessary, 3-4 species of different whiteflies flew, and some freshest pigeons by the dozen over dried swamps and puddles.The abundance of wasps is amazing this year,there have never been so many before.

25.08.14

I went to Storozhevka (Saratovsky district).
There is nothing more depressing in the world than the steppe at the end of August

In the place where there was water until recently, whole thickets of salt marsh aster (Tripolium pannonicum) suddenly grew. In the root neck of the aster, I picked up a lot of larvae of the last age, pupae, under-mature and strengthened imagos of the weevil Baris spitzyi Hochhuth, 1847 (http://www.zin.ru/ANIMALIA/COLEOPTERA/RUS/barspiza.htm). Goal completed!
I threw all this stuff into a plastic container. I hope that at least some of the pupae will produce beetles.

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4. IX. 2014
I went to Storozhevka again.
I didn't take a camera, so I need a written report)

Sifted sod taken from the steppe from under various plants (mainly wormwood, cereals and kermek). There are quite a lot of animals - all sorts of small ground beetles, spiders, leg-tails and others, but there are few beetles. Got two staffs-Bledius sp. (hefty) and small Astenus sp. (obviously something good), some small Heteroceridae, a couple of Cyclodinus sp. bystryanok, super small Scymnus sp., cool little ?Corticarina sp. (I didn't find them in Polish iconography - my head, pronotum and underparts are bright yellow, while the elytra are bluish-gray). There are a lot of Sibinia beckeri under kermek, and there is also a non-banal harpalus. Well, in the salt marsh aster, I picked up all the stages of Baris spitzyi again, and soaked the thickest larvae in alcohol, because I don't have to eat so much)))

Yesterday I walked around the outskirts of Yaroslavl. The goal is to look for beetles, see if mushrooms have started to grow after sushi...
Bottom line: mushrooms have climbed, beetles are banal...The most unexpected find: an active May beetle!!! I'm sitting cutting birch trees in a swamp, and I hear the rustle of old leaves, and I look around-a male Melolontha hippocastani is importantly crawling....

And not shabby. Brake!!!

And not shabby. Brake!!!

Or maybe vice versa-super-fast...

Yesterday I went to the direction of g Tarusa, Kaluga region, to catch chubs,at the same time to see an abandoned quarry.Arriving at the quarry, I found that some freaks were silencing fish in it 10 days ago,and a lot of already rotten fish was lying on the shore-walleye, pike, bream, etc.Some fish were lying on dry places for some reason,I began to look through them and turn them over.Under one I came across such a staphylinische,then I turned over a lot, almost all of them on the shore-not a single one.I switched to rocks and garbage-I got these earwigs.I've never seen such animals before.Well, in the catch-up-blue bembishi, green did not determine who??,and yellow pecilus or amara, a single specimen.This is from the catch for August in the same places. [attachmentid()=208505][attachm
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And what are these dies? Made of styrofoam?? Not fragile? Factory view... And what to stick to them?
Sorry if it's offtopic, but this is the first time I've seen it.

Dies from Peter, Lepstore, ordinary quality, cardboard, and MJ Czech, PVA glue, do not fall off yet,just glare,like everything white..

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Dies from Pavel, Lepstore, ordinary quality, cardboard, and MJ Czech, glue PVA, do not fall off yet, just glare, like everything white..

I looked at the magnification, indeed, this is the surface texture, the grain is not visible, but in the small picture it seemed that the foam

Maxim M: The photo shows a scuffed or wet staphylin Creophilus maxillosus L. Common on carrion.

Dim, well, definitely not wet,and not completely shabby, thick hair glistens on his covers..

Perhaps the shadows from the pins are so laid down that it seems dark, but for the definition of the view, I'm sure.

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Today I visited the second biotope -3.5 km of rotten fish-along the coast.I found a couple of these staphylins under one of the fish, and only on dry sand, it's interesting-the male is digging a hole,but the female is waiting-until he finishes construction.So the male is piebald, and the female is more black and 2 times larger in size!!!

Yesterday I went to the direction of g Tarusa, Kaluga region, to catch chubs,at the same time to see an abandoned quarry...I switched to rocks and garbage-I got these earwigs.I've never seen such animals before.

Labidura riparia-Coastal earwig

I've already identified it,but there are no others like it.

September 13, southern outskirts of Oryol.

Small trip to the Rybnitsa river. Very warm day, lots of insects. Jaundice hiale
flew out fresh, the third generation. But they were all very small, and there was one very small one, about the size of an Amanda pigeon. Female birch marshmallows fly around dachas.
There are surprisingly many praying mantises. Usually, we have single ones found in late summer, but here you could see several at once. They fly from bush to bush. One plump female agreed to pose.

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Yesterday I went to shoot traps in the floodplain of the Oka River, Tarusa district.Leystus,amara, broscus, harpalus, and zabrus also run and fall into soil traps.We got caught in the crowns with rotten fish-a cloud of staffs and dead eaters.We were pleased with 3 pcs of kr. and fresh humator, for some reason it is not often caught in my country.The traps are designed so that the beetles do not get dirty on carrion,but fall into salty vinegar and stink,these are the first tests of the design.

Yesterday I went to shoot traps in the floodplain of the Oka River, Tarusa district.Leystus,amara, broscus, harpalus, and zabrus also run and fall into soil traps.

Exactly zabrus?

these are the first tests of the design.

Drawings and photos to the studio, or rather to the section "Collecting insects from excrement and corpses".

Here is the actual photo of the report.Apro traps with rotten meat-everything is simple-in a 5l bottle I make a window in the middle, a substrate in a PE bag, make a couple of holes to get out of the kumar, I put it under the cork and twist it.I pour vinegar and the bag hangs over the retainer and stinks.I hang on for example a tree, etc......

where is zabrus? Sphecids-Mellinus arvensis. Undiscovered catch - always interesting, well shot! Thanks)

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Kostya, in the top row the third-zabrus tenebriodes-female, and many animals were caught so-put 4 walleye 2 kg each, rotten, in a dry place, near the water's edge and put 4 soil ones with vinegar,and broskus, wasps, earwigs and a small thing got there, although there were others nearby. the traps were empty, without walleye, they were all interested in maggots that ate fish,and last Wednesday I saw dozens of South Russian tarantulas there at night,there is a whole colony of them,also ran along the shore and ate fly larvae, I want to note-in a week the insects ate and processed several hundred kilograms of rotten fish-there are only bones from all other types of fish and skins from walleye!

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