European part of Russia

And we already have mnemosyne flying off! And in general, some kind of garbage-except for horseflies and there is no one to run after!

But Jutta in the swamps to the south of the city flew on time, albeit in reduced numbers. Cold-loving she.

June 12, Oryol neighborhood, Luzhki settlement.
Everything is flying the same as four days ago, only the pigeons Amanda and Eumedon were added.
About a week and a half late flowering of many plants, insects are not numerous this year.

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12.VI.15

I finally got it! I've reached the chalk slopes! Oh, how long ago I wanted to get to the melas and now my dream has come true.

They were located in two locations that belong to the category of protected areas of local significance. These are chalk slopes near the village of Teplovka and the tract of Rattlesnake Dol. Both locations are located in the Volsky district.

I caught a bunch of new species for myself (they are also new for the region). These are Melanobaris carbonaria (Boheman, 1836), Tychius subsulcatus Tournier, 1873, Labiaticola melaena (Boheman, 1836), Larinus (Phyllonomeus) centaurii (Olivier, 1807) and many others.

And what there were zlatki, and what beetles, and what ktyri, and how many butterflies!

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Ilya, do you have any problems with Melanobaris carbonaria ? it looks like a normal species and you can give one male Stenocorus

Ilya, do you have any problems with Melanobaris carbonaria ? it seems to be an ordinary species but you can give one male Stenocorus as a gift

Are you confusing Melanobaris carbonaria with Malvaevora timida ?

Stenocorus quercus there, at least I'll give you all)

yes, I don't think I'm confused, big black baris. we have built a new mkrn in the northern part of the city, it is adjacent to the" Tatar Rampart " = like a defensive rampart from the Tatars chetr knows when created, there are a lot of steppe plants and these barises walk there on fresh asphalt in mid-May. how are you doing with analis (baris)? I only caught it 1 time, but I would like more
I will refuse all Stenocorusov, but 1-2 males would not hurt me to throw on a separate mattress - we will count

This post was edited by AGG-14.06.2015 10: 19

Trip to Dosang (Astrakhan region) on June 12, 2015
It's been a long time since I visited Dosang at the beginning of summer – in recent years, like most of my colleagues, I went to the May holidays, although I remember from the experience of trips of the "last century" that a lot of extremely interesting things appear there in June, so I persuaded my lepidopterist colleagues to go for one night on June 12, although I knew that they were there not much is interesting at this time. But there are enough midges at this time, although this year it turned out to be relatively sparing.
The result was very pleasant for one night. For the first time in Dosang, Chlaenius (Epomis) dejeanii Dejean, 1831 (the northernmost find of the species, as far as I know) was caught and decently filmed, and (again, as far as I know) for the first time in Russia, an individual was caught and filmed. Taphoxenus goliath. We also managed to take good pictures of quite rare species.
Well, in the app – a short photo report.

Our parking lot.

Evening in Dosang. Juzguns bear fruit.

Curious yellow ground squirrel not far from the parking lot.

At sunset, Pseudadoretus phthisicus (Dohrn, 1882) flew en masse near the top of the dune. For Russia, it was first listed by us from Dosang in 1991.

Leucoserica arenicola (Solsky, 1876) also flew to the light for the first time in the Russian Federation at the same time.


In places, Epicauta erythrocephala Pall sat on the flowers.

Carabus (Limnocarabus) clathratus Linne, 1761 flew to the light en masse

Maladera euphorbiae (Burmeister, 1895) came in sporadically.

The Calosoma (Caminara) imbricatum deserticola Semenov, 1897 ordered for the survey also arrived in the required quantity.

Chlaenius (Chlaeniellus) terminatus Dejean, 1826, not often encountered

In conclusion, the most interesting thing caught:

Chlaenius (Epomis) dejeanii Dejean, 1831

Taphoxenus (Taphoxenus) goliath Faldermann, 1836


This post was edited by evk - 14.06.2015 21: 53

Very productive trip!!!Very good report!!!!I would like to see photos of mattresses-if there are any.

and photos of butterflies would be too)

14.VI.15

We went to Popovka, Saratov region, yesterday. Somewhere there are the famous "Popov pine forests", but we did not see a single pine, but the sea of oaks!

Various bronzes were found on the resulting oak sap, including Protaetia (Cetonischema) aeruginosa (Drury, 1770), as well as Gnorimus variabilis, Rhagium ?mordax, Plagionotus detritus, Purpuricenus kaehleri and, of course, the decoration of our forests - Deer Beetles.

We had a good trip.

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14. VI. 15
We went yesterday to Popovka, Saratov region.
Rhagium ?mordax

Sort of like Rhagium sycophanta?

Sort of like Rhagium sycophanta?

Thank you, I'm in mustache zero became

Thingids-Dictyonota strychnocera Fieber, 1844. On rakitnik.

Thank you, I'm in mustache zero became

Oh, do not slander yourself All b such zero were.

Judging by the reports, a lot of people spent the last holiday usefully. We (this is me, Mikhail (Mickey) and his wife and Sergey (yupidu)) they were no exception and also went to the Don (in Zadonye) with a one-night stop in Ilovla. Among the targets were oak hawks, maculese chelis, gorgons (dwarf hawks), to see the twilight dances of deer beetles and whether the first catocals flew out or not. The last two points were fulfilled with a negative result - it is clearly too early for the Katokals to fly this year, and the Lukanuses did not arrange dances. There were Marumbas (though not en masse), maculese also arrived, but in small numbers, gorgons were normal. To be more precise, the first arrived relatively fresh 15 pieces, the second 19, and the dwarf arrived 44 pieces by two o'clock in the morning (they were caught only on the last night), they were tired of crawling after them, especially since they had to return to Moscow in time to catch traffic jams. We did not have time, the return trip took 16 hours, which was extremely tiring against the background of a complete lack of sleep (12 hours of sleep in 4 days). Of the interesting things, I can note the marble crunch, possibly quite good goldsmiths, and the complete absence of dorcadions. There were almost no beetles at all, except for lucanus, there were scarabs and copra in the mass, and not a single barbel at night. During the day, various pigeons, nymphalids and marigolds flew in the mass, but we practically did not catch them due to the heat and uselessness. Even the Mnemosines hadn't flown away yet, though they'd already seen mother-of-pearl Pandoras, Semele, and some briseids. Bumblebees did not fly at all, macroglossums flew broken. The nights were generally cold, the temperature dropped to 10-12 degrees by two o'clock. There are very few cuckoos, taking into account the ubiquitous sagebrush steppe (about 50 pieces, about 8 species), only one sea-buckthorn hawkmoth. In general, we considered the trip a success, despite the heavy road and the very small number of insects collected. The main thing is to have a good time in good company! The photos show most of the catch.

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and photos of butterflies would be too)

Milkweed and barred hawkmoth (not fresh) flew from butterflies, only Spilosoma urticae from dippers, and Gonospileia munita, G. triquetra, Mythimna l-album, M. pallens, and Protoschinia scutosa from scoops. Small things of various sizes in large quantities - it was not up to it, and I do not know it practically.

Very productive trip!!!Very good report!!!!I would like to see photos of mattresses-if there are any.

I'll ask a colleague to shoot the mattresses, I didn't collect them myself, I only shot them

Judging by the reports, a lot of people spent the last holiday usefully. We (this is me, Mikhail (Mickey) and his wife and Sergey (yupidu)) they were no exception and also went to the Don (in Zadonye) with a one-night stop in Ilovla. Among the targets were oak hawks, maculese chelis, gorgons (dwarf hawks), to see the twilight dances of deer beetles and whether the first catocals flew out or not. The last two points were fulfilled with a negative result - it is clearly too early for the Katokals to fly this year, and the Lukanuses did not arrange dances. There were Marumbas (though not en masse), maculese also arrived, but in small numbers, gorgons were normal. To be more precise, the first arrived relatively fresh 15 pieces, the second 19, and the dwarf arrived 44 pieces by two o'clock in the morning (they were caught only on the last night), they were tired of crawling after them, especially since they had to return to Moscow in time to catch traffic jams. We did not have time, the return trip took 16 hours, which was extremely tiring against the background of a complete lack of sleep (12 hours of sleep in 4 days). Of the interesting things, I can note the marble crunch, possibly quite good goldsmiths, and the complete absence of dorcadions. There were almost no beetles at all, except for lucanus, there were scarabs and copra in the mass, and not a single barbel at night. During the day, various pigeons, nymphalids and marigolds flew in the mass, but we practically did not catch them due to the heat and uselessness. Even the Mnemosines hadn't flown away yet, though they'd already seen mother-of-pearl Pandoras, Semele, and some briseids. Bumblebees did not fly at all, macroglossums flew broken. The nights were generally cold, the temperature dropped to 10-12 degrees by two o'clock. There are very few cuckoos, taking into account the ubiquitous sagebrush steppe (about 50 pieces, about 8 species), only one sea-buckthorn hawkmoth. In general, we considered the trip a success, despite the heavy road and the very small number of insects collected. The main thing is to have a good time in good company! The photos show most of the catch.

I'll add my impressions:
- one million A. villica, and they fly simultaneously in the north of the Ryazan
region and in the south of the Volgograd region. Everything is mixed up this spring and summer...
Daytime +30, night +10. At the same time, the temperature drops sharply after sunset.
And at 8 am it's already hot;
- a dozen caught spur shovels;
- years of askalafs, they move funny in flight;
- Sergey-sdi refusing to catch gorgon hawks because of their abundance

Nice trip: what they wanted, they caught. Catocals don't count, because it's just too early for them. It is rarely possible to implement everything at once.

And we are all very sad. During the day +18C, at night +3C-10C and the sky is clear. So we would have so many gorgons ! Do not throw it away, leave a couple, there is not a single one ! I fully agree that everything is very mixed up. Some insects perceived the eight-March heat as the beginning of summer. Some don't. Yesterday I saw a dawn in the south of the Leningrad region, usually it was already flying away in the north in such numbers. It's time to make people laugh. A small story:

Who doesn't know yet.
Today, around 11.00, I was returning to St. Petersburg, by car (I was not alone, so I even have a witness who fully agrees with what we saw), in the Perinskoe forest area (this is 50 km from St. Petersburg), about 80 meters in front of the car, something appeared moving across the road. From left to right. I noticed it when it was in the middle. Something low, sprawled on the road. At first I thought it was something running across the road.
I've seen minks, foxes, and martens on the road before. But it was moving slowly, crawling. As the car moved, it approached the right-hand ditch.
By the time the front wheels were level with where it was, it had already disappeared into the bushes. Just. I wanted to stop the car and take a look.
But there was waist-high grass and very thick bushes. I doubt I would have seen anything. It was (from a distance of 80 meters), as thick as my wrist and about 2 meters long, because the highway there is 2-lane (my lane and oncoming). I do not know how much there is a standard width of the strip, 3 meters ?
So it was a little longer than the width of half my lane. I.e. just about 2 meters. The color scheme was somewhat uneven, from sand to dark gray. I do not know what it was. If it wasn't the Leningrad region, I'd say it was a snake. (Not python, too weak for it). It was moving slowly.
At first I thought, why is the animal running so slowly and flattened out on the asphalt?
Then many people suggested to me that if I stopped, I would be eaten. That this is how it is designed, it feeds on curious entomologists and every time it gets bigger and bigger !

(Most of all, today's incident reminded me of this photo, only the scale is not the same.)

It turns out that everything is even worse there !

http://topspb.tv/news/news30921/

The snakes in the photo, the usual vipers, were removed this weekend due to the lack of butterflies !

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And we are all very sad. During the day +18C, at night +3C-10C and the sky is clear.

I think, Anatole, that the African monster from the last photo does not threaten us, especially since it dropped to +14

I hope so !

And we are all very sad...

Where is it in your country?

Where is it in your country?

In the Leningrad region. Where else would the weather conditions suck like this?

Very productive trip!!!Very good report!!!!I would like to see photos of mattresses-if there are any.

Mattresses of collections on svet Dosang Astrakhan region June 12, 2015. Comparison of Taphoxenus goliath and Taphoxenus gigas.

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Krasata!!!!!

June 15 was in the village, the night is very pleasant in the weather. it flew quite well by my standards)

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To Kleobis: Tinplate works are going on near St. Petersburg! Could this snake have been a young boa constrictor-a runaway or discarded by some careless owner?

17. VI. 15

I drove to Popovka again today. (see my report a couple of days ago)
I wanted to catch more ragievs and sycophants. But I somehow forgot where the oak from which it flows is located (I seem to remember the signs, but the oak is not there). There was no time to look for another oak tree, so I went to mow it.

Caught the elephants I've long dreamed of-Larinus (s. str.) idoneus Gyllenhal, 1835

When I was about to leave, some cool crunches flew on the sands. This is the first time I've seen them. Sorry about the bus. So you could catch it.

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Crustacea Anoxia pilosa.

In the north of the Vologda region is cold, tonight it was about 0 +1, went home poked a couple of kakah, flying a lot of hawthorn



even 5 years ago, there were many more such large ants, now we need to look
for an Addition: I spat on everything and went on a quiet hunt, opened the season

well, I picked up more





This post was edited by lazardin - 06/18/2015 20: 47

In the north of the Vologda region is cold, tonight it was about 0 +1, went home poked a couple of poop

And not a secret if, whose "poop" poked?

20.VI.15

Another Pop-Up
Result:
10 Calosoma sycophanta
9 Protaetia metallica
5 Protaetia aeruginosa
9 Purpuricenus kaehleri
1 Emus hirtus

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White Night near St. Petersburg (Luzhsky district) June 20-21. Finally warm: plus 12-14 degrees.

Yesterday, 20.06. s. g., Sergukha and I went for a drive through flowers and mixed forests, in the districts of Kaluga and Tarusa, just to look at the subject of osmoderms and gmos oak groves.We found a place in the Tarussky district, Kaluga region,where 2 species of stenokorusov were caught for the first time,all in one place.And on the flowers everywhere the picture was different.A riot of insects was seen in forest clearings,in the field and on the roadsides it was dreary and nothing flew-it fed.After lunch, it started to rain and the ride turned into a challenge in completely soaked clothes.In any case-even blindly, because the glasses were fogged up and they were constantly flooded with rain, it was not possible to wipe them with anything... Question the first 5 pieces of stenokorusov-art.the meridianus?And the rest...?

Yesterday, 20.06. s. g., Sergukha and I went for a drive through flowers and mixed forests, in the districts of Kaluga and Tarusa, just to look at the subject of osmoderms and gmos oak groves.We found a place in the Tarussky district, Kaluga region,where 2 species of stenokorusov were caught for the first time,all in one place.And on the flowers everywhere the picture was different.A riot of insects was seen in forest clearings,in the field and on the roadsides it was dreary and nothing flew-it fed.After lunch, it started to rain and the ride turned into a challenge in completely soaked clothes.In any case-even blindly, because the glasses were fogged up and they were constantly flooded with rain, it was not possible to wipe them with anything... Question the first 5 pieces of stenokorusov-art.the meridianus?And the others...?

Do you have any other stenocoruses besides the meridians?
Is it only atypical quercuses? This photo doesn't show very well...

The post was edited by Kolobok - 21.06.2015 19: 33

They are different.The first 3 are yellow females, then a yellow male - the difference in whiskers,a black female with black legs, a trace. 3 black females with yellow legs and spots on the side of the elytra,one also has spots on the tops,and on the lower row-4 males with dark spots at the bottom of the elytra, so I asked....

They are different.The first 3 are yellow females, then a yellow male - the difference in whiskers,a black female with black legs, a trace. 3 black females with yellow legs and spots on the side of the elytra,one has spots on the tops too,and on the bottom row-4 males with dark spots at the bottom of the elytra, so I asked....

These are all color morphs of S. meridianus. In the Kaluga region in the south, there may still be S. quercus, it also has color morphs, but it has the 5th segment of the antennae longer or equal to the 3rd, unlike the beetles in the photo.

If this is all one species,how different are they in appearance,but they were caught in the same place,in neighboring forests they were not caught.I'll straighten it out and take a better picture again....