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20.09.2014 11:05, CosMosk

20.09.2014 12:38, Maksim M.

20.09.2014 16:43, Mantispid

Kumysnaya Polyana, 20. IX. 2014

Closing (?) the 2014 season. He picked under the bark, turned over tree trunks, and sifted through the litter. From the interesting - came across Stenus (Parastenus) ludyi Fauvel, 1886, which is already pasted. There are also an unusually large number of small furry animals in the forest

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22.09.2014 17:12, Andrey Ponomarev

On Sunday, I returned from srednyaya Akhtuba.A lot of photos.
I decided to divide it into four topics or parts.
Part one is generalizing.
Bolkhuni settlement

market

club

Monument to Comrade Kirov

One of 5 stores

Droga ferry ride




ferryboat

Local landscape before and after the rain



My nano setup



River landscapes and not a lot of fishing
I still do not understand vacationers who use nets in this beautiful place, and even more so electric fishing rods.






Cooking
Smoked Perch&Beer

Khe and smoked catfish

Pike cutlets stewed with vegetables (82 pieces)


The arrival of our friends and colleagues at the camp made some adjustments to the rest of the trip.This can be called a well-known phrase from the well-known film: "I am not the enemy of my health, I can have a cultural rest."

Animals
Fucking raccoons








Roadside Cafe Fountain

Curative hydrogen sulfide spring at 909 km.


The post was edited by Gennadich - 22.09.2014 17: 15

22.09.2014 17:46, Andrey Ponomarev

Part Two-Macro scales
Here is everything that was encountered during the period from September 5 to September 21.
Briefly about the weather.The first week of our stay turned out to be very warm and sometimes overcast, which naturally could not but affect the summer,but the second week was not very pleasant at night, sometimes up to +2. In general, it was many times better than last year,and I am happy with the arrival.Some of the collected females threw eggs, some of the caterpillars came out,the proposed spontaneous food did not give results.So I'm asking for help with the definition.
If some types will be repeated, I apologize.
Hyles euphorbiae, every night









Protoschinia scutosa in bulk

Lacydes spectabilis, many males only two females




Tholera hilaris, both sexes are plentiful




deduction?









A pair of cocoonworms very similar to Phyllodesma tremulifolia arrived, but it's not spring.

22.09.2014 17:47, Andrey Ponomarev

22.09.2014 17:57, Andrey Ponomarev

Continuation of the macro
of these scoops in a mass of different colors, here from this there are already caterpillars and I don't know what to feed






Another interesting cocoonworm is one and a half times smaller than the female Lasiocampa quercus


Cucullia splendida with sky blue metal








Nupta?


It is possible that the scutosa caterpillar eats silver wormwood

22.09.2014 17:59, Vlad Proklov

22.09.2014 18:03, Andrey Ponomarev

Part three
Micro scales
September 5 roadside cafe in the Ilovli district of the Volgograd region



Bolkhunskaya micra

22.09.2014 18:16, Vlad Proklov

This is not a micro, but a Nola squalida.

22.09.2014 18:27, Andrey Ponomarev

Part four final
Bugs and more




On the sandy spits of Sukhoi Gerasim


Cool weevil, if you put your hand to it, it turns over on its back and pretends to be dead




And behind this Indian I crawled on my knees for about a kilometer, because he does not let a standing person get closer than two meters.From the outside I think it was an impressive sight




This earwig was also found there


Into the light

















Ugh that's it.

22.09.2014 23:50, Vlad Proklov

23.09.2014 8:45, OEV

23.09.2014 13:22, Andrey Ponomarev

23.09.2014 13:59, Alexandr Zhakov

Andrey, everything is fine!
There are no numbers next to the photo. How do I enter names? and on the micro a lot of deaf angles, probably photographed from all sides ?

23.09.2014 14:58, Victor Gazanchidis

Hello everyone From 19 to 22 I was at my dacha in the Kasimov district of the Ryazan region. Tc was beautiful sunny weather, I decided to look in the immediate vicinity of the station Lemonia dumi. I had several suitable places in mind-fields where there is no farming, no mowing of grass, and which do not flood during high water. I started with a dry meadow, overgrown with yastrebinka, not far from the Oka River. After half an hour of fruitless fermentation, I was about to move to another point, when a fresh male flew out of nowhere right at me. Naturally, I stayed to iron the area further. In total, from 12 to 14 o'clock, I observed flights of about 20 males.
The next day, I arrived at the area early to observe what time the year starts. Tk nights were very cold (up to 2 degrees), butterflies start flying from 11-30, and the mass flight occurs from 12-30 to 14, and ends around 15. It is characteristic that during this period only males fly. They fly at a level of approximately 2 m from the ground, changing their trajectory very quickly. It is interesting that on this day, unlike the previous one, all the males were already fairly flown.
According to the literature, mating occurs between 14 and 15 hours, and then males stop flying and females start flying, periodically diving into the grass and laying eggs. In just 2 days, three females met, approximately from 15-30 to 17 hours, two flown and one completely fresh. Females are characterized by a characteristic " low " flight and fly quite close to the ground. From the latter, we managed to get some eggs.
The goal was fulfilled - a population with a relatively high population density was found, which in the future will allow us to continue observing this interesting species.
Biotope photo

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23.09.2014 15:51, Andrey Ponomarev

23.09.2014 20:34, AntSkr

26.09.2014 21:30, Oleg Nikolsky

Due to the high popularity of scoops on the forum recently, I post "to the heap" a few pictures taken on fine days from September 5 to September 21 in Bryansk and the surrounding area. Maybe someone will be interested.

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29.09.2014 20:32, Oleg Nikolsky

At the end of September, it's nice to remember the outgoing warm season. Several images of diurnal lepidoptera from Bryansk and its environs during the transition period from summer to autumn.
The first number in the file name is the date of recording.

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30.09.2014 19:09, Oleg Nikolsky

Finally, a few more pictures of lepidopteran trivia.

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12.10.2014 17:38, Mantispid

October 12, 2014

In Saratov, the "Indian Summer" has come. The weather is wonderful! Daytime +20.

I decided to take a short walk in the Kumysnaya Polyana forest park. The collections are very similar to the previous ones - Notiophilus palustris, Badister, Stenus ludyi, Ocypus, Oxypoda. There are a lot of funny ant-loving crickets in the anthills. A couple of even pickled (along with copies). the ant).

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28.10.2014 10:09, Maksim M.

Belated report on a trip with a Black Coleopter to the Voronezh and Volgograd regions in June 2013.

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28.10.2014 10:10, Maksim M.

28.10.2014 10:13, Maksim M.

Further-Volgogradskaya, Shlyakhovsky pos, the border of the Archedo-Don sands.The night was a record flight total, took beetles.

28.10.2014 10:15, Maksim M.

Next-sands and night...

28.10.2014 10:20, Maksim M.

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28.10.2014 10:23, Maksim M.

Ilovlya floodplain, heat-40C in the daytime and Dubak-4C at 23-40, and this is 09.06.2013...

28.10.2014 10:25, Maksim M.

28.10.2014 15:13, Mantispid

28.10.2014 16:53, Maksim M.

Continuation, we ride between Ilovlya and Shlyakhovsky.A very interesting biotope - in the steppe, on the border of the sands, a whole juniper forest-the age of the trees can not be determined, but they are up to 60-80 meters in diameter, and they are regularly advancing on the desert,and there are hundreds of these trees within line of sight.

28.10.2014 16:55, Maksim M.

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28.10.2014 17:05, Maksim M.

And, like a mirage, in the shade of large oaks, a well with a chapel and a barrack with pilgrims met-the absence of all the achievements of civilization, although there was a parking lot on the territory,we had a drink, walked from the shade, again in the heat, towards the house...

28.10.2014 21:46, Maksim M.

29.10.2014 0:31, Victor Titov

on the border of the sands, a whole juniper forest-the age of the trees can not be determined, but they are up to in diameter

29.10.2014 6:31, Maksim M.

Viktor Dmitrievich,in my opinion, this is a kind of juniper and each dark green spot is initially one tree, and it grows to the sides vegetatively in area, and not in height.And it is carried by seeds from berries, which, as can be seen in the photo, are very large.

29.10.2014 6:46, Maksim M.

29.10.2014 7:41, Kovalevsky

29.10.2014 10:43, Victor Titov

Viktor Dmitrievich,in my opinion, this is a kind of juniper and each dark green spot is initially one tree, and it grows to the sides vegetatively in area, and not in height.And it is carried by seeds from berries, which, as can be seen in the photo, are very numerous.

I'm not really talking about that. You use the term "tree"in reference to this juniper tree. And in relation to trees, when they say "diameter", they usually mean the diameter of the trunk. So imagine a tree with a diameter of 80 meters!
You are talking, as is now clear, about the diameter of the crown, or rather even about the area of growth of the shrub (the shrub does not have a main trunk, and therefore this characteristic - the diameter of the trunk - is not relevant).