European part of Russia

If you believe the forecasts - the last warm weekend in the Don Delta.

In the south of Ukraine along the way, too. And your butterflies are the same as ours.

We also have a Bavius flight

We also have Bavius out

How long has it been out? And yesterday I was in the steppe on the Ingulets river, but I didn't see it.

This post was edited by Wave Storm - 04.10.2015 17: 56

Optional second or third generation, probably due to heat. Although the Indian summer will end a week earlier.

We also have Bavius out

Pseudophilotes bavius? We have it strictly monovoltaic - only in May it flies. He's got nowhere to put his eggs right now. In the Rostov region, caterpillars live exclusively on Salvia nutans flowers.

And we also have it on Salvia nemorosa. And it blooms in some places now with us.

In the Rostov region, bavius completely ignores other types of sage. I tried to transplant caterpillars for food - they just "deliberately" fall off these sage trees, not to feed.

This post was edited by bora - 04.10.2015 19: 18

On Sunday, I decided to go for a ride to see how things were going on the logs.It was warm and the sun was even hot.Near the logs there was a type of clearing with rare flowers-3 types.Butterflies and dragonflies flew, almost like in summer.But there wasn't much else-mostly tahini.Rarely did the last hornets fly by.Bumblebees flew rarely and looked for a wintering ground, imho.The Moscow people furiously combed the forest for mushrooms,when they saw me, many people were surprised-what is he doing in the forest with a net and a jar in his hands??, mute questions were read in their eyes,one middle-aged woman even said-Vasya, we are looking for something wrong!!!By the way, everyone's baskets were empty....And I had riders flying on logs,and they were caught a little, for Sychevas. With... [attachmentid()=239685]

This post was edited by Maksim M. - 05.10.2015 21: 31

The beginning of October was pleasant with warm and mostly clear weather, on October 3 and 4 in the afternoon it warmed up to 17 degrees, on October 5 it was already up to 21 degrees. But summer is coming to an end, the first autumn night frost with frost on October 1 was weak, did not cause any damage to insects or summer flowers, a more serious frost is expected in the middle of this week.
Below is a selection of insects found in the vicinity of Bryansk. The first digit in the frame designation is the calendar day of October. What flew,
caught the eye, but did not get on the pictures: Autographa gamma (these are tired of their number in September), and very large dragonflies (rocker arms? These are worn very quickly and do not sit down).
What is interesting:
- very fresh and very battered individuals of the same species often fly together;
- although in general there are few butterflies, but if you walk well in different biotopes, you can find many summer species that, it turns out, are alive and quite well. You see, the freshest burdock flies, but I saw it at the end of May, and at the turn of July-August. It is quite expected to meet now urticaria and anguloptera, caught at the end of September (sorry, not enough time);
- almost no Nymphalis xanthomelas (only one saw in September), although in past years there were indecently many of them, almost like mosquitoes;
- Aglais io is still a lot, although the autumn generation appeared for 2 weeks later than last year.
I don't know what kind of view is shown in the image 3_1, please tell me.
If anyone is interested in ktyri, I have placed a few pictures in the topic "Autumn predatory insects"
http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=562417&st=0#

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I haven't posted any reports for a long time
On Sunday, October 4, quite unexpectedly for myself, I went for a walk in the old manor park, now part of the borders of Yaroslavl.
The weather was favorable for walking, but I didn't really expect anything interesting to happen. However, almost immediately, before reaching the park, and passing thickets of bird cherry and gray alder in the sawn-down trunk of an apple tree, I found the bark beetle's passages and picked up beetles (as it turned out later-a new species for YAO - Xyleborinus attenuatus). In the same" chapyzhnik " were collected two more species of bark beetles - Lymantor aceris and L. coryli. further to the bank of the Volga began a birch grove .
there was nothing interesting there (for me there was nothing), so I went to explore the Volga River bank and picturesque ravines .
There was nothing but the cow Calvia decimpunctata and the alder leaf-eater Agelastica alni, so I went back to the birch grove, where the sun was just warming it up, flies were hanging out on the trunks,and a stray dragonfly was running around. Since it was never identified, it is clear that it is larger than Sympetrum, but smaller than Aeschna. The broken trunk was busily examined by a large rider, and on the other a singing grasshopper warmed up, favorably taking the photo session....
In chapyzhy, I broke a fallen stump, collecting rotten wood for the larvae of bronzes, and already at home in the package weevils were found: Furcipus rectirostris and "Rhynchaenus" testaceus...
Judging by the snowfall and the weather forecast , this hike was probably the end of the season

This post was edited by Elizar - 10.10.2015 17: 03

Aeshna mixta, maybe. They are small and fly just at the end of the season.

Aeshna mixta, maybe. They are small and fly just at the end of the season.

Aeshna mixta in the YAO was not specified and I do not know it, the size of the dragonfly was approximately like that of the grandmother Cordulia aenea, but essno not it ... If a dragonfly sat down, I could catch it or at least take a photo

for a true entomologist, any exit from home, and sometimes without leaving, is always full of adventures and discoveries!
yesterday's Saturday in Tambov foreshadowed +10 and it did not disappoint. we went with a friend and his 10-year-old daughter on bicycles to the suburban forest in order to stretch the bones and fry a little pork neck on the way I met Napi and Admiral, some malicious flies managed to get under my glasses, rolled around and started looking for a parking place. the place was not so hot, because there was only a pine tree around, and there were only a couple of oaks needed for firewood per sq km, but the long wanderings with the child and the early onset of darkness besieged us.
we raked the leaves and needles under the fire pit, brought firewood, and on the site of our future fire someone is swarming... Xylena (probably vetusta, I'll see how it dries). we have been looking for this butterfly for 3 years and caught only 1 specimen and here under our feet the trip was a success
the only birch in the vicinity turned out to be withered and with a bunch of tinder boxes, on which Bitoma was sitting, but very small and light, and an incomprehensible small Rhizophagus. For decency's sake, I took one of the many flying staffs from Omalin. some moths and other dipterous garbage flew and Pogonocherus decoratus crawled on the back of a friend, a new species for me, and accordingly for the region
the trip was a success! and the meat is excellent


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Today I took my friends for a roller-skating trip to the territory of a sports complex on the outskirts of the city.There is a deciduous forest,I took a montage and walked through it.I picked at the dry standing aspens and found all the beetles in them.A couple of riders were caught in a recumbent trunk.Cucumbers were right in almost every trunk, closer to the ground.There was no one in the dry trunks,just ants and spiders.The top row-caught in the same place,but on the last half-warm day on the trunk of a half-dead aspen tree, everything ran and flew.

This post was edited by Maksim M. - 10/25/2015 18: 32

Question and whose larvae are they??-I haven't seen them before,I think....

Question and whose larvae are they??"I don't think I've ever seen one like this before....

I clicked the wrong button
Maxim in my opinion kukuzhesov

This post was edited by OEV - 25.10.2015 19: 05

Question and whose larvae are they??"I don't think I've ever seen one like this before....

Someone from the chernotelkovs, probably the same kukuis.

Outside the window is November.
Gray, thick sky. Dampness.
At such a time, you want to remember the warm summer, refresh your memory of the successful moments of the past season. I would like to tell you about one of them.
07.06.2015
Novgorod region, Krestetsky district.
This day was scheduled for a long time before. It was planned to go on a reconnaissance mission to catch the elusive trout.
The river is located near the town of Kresttsy and is a tributary of the Msta River.
The path to it flew by unnoticed. A moose was seen from the highway. The sun was slowly rising from the ground and, by the time they arrived, it was shining brightly. Hawthorns, small pigeons, and satyrs fluttered over the banks of the river. The folding net, just in case, was placed behind his back in a backpack.
Fishing didn't go well from the very beginning. The water level was low, plus the rocks in the river were covered with filamentous algae. I'll tell you in advance: I didn't catch any trout during the entire trip, and I didn't even see them close by. I had to settle for a couple of hams and a chub.
By the second hour, I began to notice that the hawthorns, fluttering everywhere and everywhere, some kind of potash. On trial, I decided to catch one of them flying nearby: "Dear friends! What the hell are hawthorns?"
The net was urgently unpacked, a new look for me went to the collection.
This accidental epiphany smoothed out the fishing mishap to a large extent.
I apologize for the poor illustrative material.

I decided to celebrate the National Unity Day with a small exit for beetles. Since the weather is not conducive to long walks (although it is light +, but cloudy and rain is forecast), thickets in the sanitary and industrial zone and a forest belt along the Railway were examined. Although I took a camera, I didn't take any photos at all… As a result of a two-hour search of stumps, dead wood, and moss stripping, the following beetles were found at the base of the trunks:
Carabus granulatus Linnaeus, 1758.
Tachyta nana (Gyllenhal, 1810).
Pterostichus oblongopunctatus (Fabricius, 1787).
Agonum sp.
Platynus assimilis (Paykull, 1790).
Lebia chlorocephala (Hoffmann, 1803).
Dromius quadraticollis A. Morawitz, 1862
Philorhizus sigma (Rossi, 1790).
Phosphuga atrata (Linnaeus, 1758).
Lordithon sp.
Bolitobius cingulatus Mannerheim, 1830.
Ampedus nigroflavus (Goeze, 1777).
Rhizophagus bipustulatus (Fabricius, 1792).
Bitoma crenata (Fabricius, 1775).
Chrysolina polita (Linnaeus, 1758).
Phratora sp.
In one of the fallen trees, when it was broken in a nest of black ants (not Lasius niger), I found a pair of specimens of Myrmecophilus crickets Myrmecophilus sp. (possibly acervorus Panzer, 1799). It seems that this species was not found in the YAO…
And I took ants and crickets – if anyone needs them – write!

...The Moscow people furiously combed the forest for fungi

I wonder what kind of mushrooms Muscovites could look for in November?
We have, for example, only rows of 2-3 types, which are not very popular in Russia. Well, there are still many "winter mushrooms" (these, by the way, are also ranks) - Flammulina velutipes. But, according to my observations, very few people know them at all and, moreover, collect them.

Post from 05.10., mushrooms-were....

What about oyster mushrooms? Or do they only grow in cellars in MO? And why did Flammulina suddenly become a rank-and-file? It is just like the real honey mushrooms in the relative plan closer. Even in the cold, a false chanterelle will give birth well. Although, probably, Muscovites think that it is impossible to eat it. I read that in late autumn some very tasty govorushki are still growing massively near Moscow. And we could easily have any mushrooms now, if not for the record-breaking dry grass.

Post from 05.10., mushrooms-were....

Sorry mua, I stepped in, taking it as November 5.

What about oyster mushrooms? Or do they only grow in cellars in MO? And why did Flammulina suddenly become a rank-and-file? It is just like the real honey mushrooms in the relative plan closer. Even in the cold, a false chanterelle will give birth well. Although, probably, Muscovites think that it is impossible to eat it. I read that in late autumn some very tasty govorushki are still growing massively near Moscow. And we could easily have any mushrooms now, if not for the record-breaking dry grass.

No, there are 2-3 types of oyster mushrooms in the Moscow region and they grow wild. Yes, but why collect these gummies when there are plenty of normal mushrooms? Well, if someone is really a gourmet, then you can buy them in almost any supermarket, as well as champignons. In principle, very few people collect such mushrooms as ryadovki or govorushki from us. Young people have almost lost their skills and are not able to distinguish even boletovye, and the elderly are not up to it to roam the woods. Those who live in the village do not collect oyster mushrooms or other "garbage".

Young people have almost lost their skills and are not able to distinguish even boletovye words ...

I really respect your contribution to science, but...
in order not to lose them, you need to teach them, drag them around and poke them with your nose. let them selfyatsya with semi-white or several types of mosses. on the background of hemp with false honey agarics. find and lick the gall mushroom campaign !
not the youth "lost", but the culture of education under the yoke of gadgets disappeared due to the ossification of "teachers" and morons from the Ministry of Education
what's the xxxx " do you agree to your child's homework assignment?" -and will he do a dick at home? What do I get a free day for? give me a piece of paper in which I will write, so that my child xxhrachili pointer!!! let him learn, not play on the tablet!!!!! Indeed, history is moving in a spiral - the word "teacher" is returning to its historical meaning
I write and chew a pie with Polish (I made it myself), not a pizza with champignons...

This post was edited by AGG - 07.11.2015 23: 45

No, no, young people actively collect mushrooms, but a little different. And it is not a fact that the old generation will be able to distinguish exactly those mushrooms from their counterparts.

hello people from Smolensk who is there?

Probably mushrooms, who wanted to collect and prepare in any form, should be collected when they are in the forest.And I do not need to know the list of conventionally edible mushrooms-there is nowhere to put them, and they are tasteless-very fresh.I don't use glutamate,although everything is delicious with it.....

hello people from Smolensk who is there?

There is.

  
So in the pre-winter and winter time, do you have" normal mushrooms " growing?

Even as they grow! Winter honey mushrooms. In the photo on the left, three days ago in the Dobrovskiy district of the Lipetsk region. Delicious, by the way, mushrooms!

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Even as they grow! Winter honey mushrooms. In the photo on the left, three days ago in the Dobrovskiy district of the Lipetsk region. Delicious, by the way, mushrooms!

Hmm, delicious... On bezrybye and cancer-fish.

Hello everybody!
I'll repeat my post from January 07, 2014 !
This is near St. Petersburg. And this year I didn't go yet, I didn't have the opportunity.

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Hello everybody! In St. Petersburg in the morning snow flakes, and the summer left much to be desired, so it seems that this year there will be no winter mushrooms. But I'll still go in December.

Wow, I didn't know that a real chanterelle is just as wintry as a false one! Here, then, is another type of mushroom in the piggy bank "not normal", though also "rubber". And the winter mushroom, which is flammulina, it only begins to bear fruit after stable frosts, so I would not say so categorically about its absence due to the early snowfall.

Kaluga region.
So winter has come.

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Probably soon the winter beauty will melt away.We still need to look at a couple of points on the subject of wintering beetles,in the 2016 season, many places of our native land are planned to be visited.

Wow, I didn't know that a real chanterelle is just as wintry as a false one! Here, then, is another type of mushroom in the piggy bank "not normal", though also "rubber". And the winter mushroom, which is flammulina, it only begins to bear fruit after stable frosts, so I would not say so categorically about its absence due to the early snowfall.

Yesterday, November 19 in St. Petersburg on the street man bucket ! I sold chanterelles !

As predicted, it's autumn again.And today is right-the end of September-warm and windless.Sergukha and I decided to check several promising spots in the vicinity of Kaluga for wintering imagos.In total, we checked 4 points in different biotopes,the day is short and it was already dark in the forest at 16: 00 and nothing was visible.Each point had its own characteristics,but I won't describe them for a very long time.[attachmentid()=244498] [attachmentid()=244500]

This post was edited by Maksim M. - 11/21/2015 21: 42

There were galls like this on the oak leaves.But for some reason, there was no one inside...and the actual catch and Sergukha

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I forgot to explain.On the mattress there are female ants with wings and just workers, I took them because of the size and these are not found before.If someone is interested-there are males with wings and in my opinion all kinds of workers in abundance.