European part of Russia

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

Delicious mushrooms! In Japan and China, they are cultivated on an industrial scale.

In our supermarkets, they often sell pickled fish in cans. And frozen. Pay attention.

Hello everybody! Today I got out into the forest after all ! Here is the result. From insects -
only mosquitoes, one by the way, sits on the 1st chanterelle, but it is hard to see.

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Someone might notice: this isn't a mushroom forum. Therefore, it is necessary to make some explanations.
Well, first of all, pictures with chanterelles are placed by a fairly well-known amateur entomologist in narrow circles. Secondly, this beautiful forest, located a couple of kilometers from the town of Luga, is an approach to the biotopes with sandy soils, where rare species of lepidoptera live in the Leningra region, and in the summer there is a pilgrimage of people armed with nets. And finally, the phenomenon itself, which is happening for the second year in a row, is unique. Although our late autumn will soon be little different from the cold summer, but the conditions are still not fungal: during the day it is a weak plus, at night it freezes, and one day it was with a steady minus. The day is short and there is almost no sun. And they are growing! Probably because the soil is not frozen yet, but it is well moistened (in summer it is very dry there).

Hello everybody!
It seems that yesterday I went very timely for mushrooms ! Despite the snow outside
+1.2C and fly "winter mosquitoes". They fly directly into the snowfall and land on the snow cover. Quite a lot.

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Hello everybody!
It seems that yesterday I went very timely for mushrooms ! Despite the snow outside
+1.2C and fly "winter mosquitoes". They fly directly into the snowfall and land on the snow cover. Quite a lot.

Winter has come, the end of the chanterelles.

Someone might notice: this isn't a mushroom forum. Therefore, it is necessary to make some explanations.
Well, first of all, pictures with chanterelles are placed by a fairly well-known amateur entomologist in narrow circles. Secondly, this beautiful forest, located a couple of kilometers from the town of Luga, is an approach to the biotopes with sandy soils, where rare species of lepidoptera live in the Leningra region, and in the summer there is a pilgrimage of people armed with nets. And finally, the phenomenon itself, which is happening for the second year in a row, is unique. Although our late autumn will soon be little different from the cold summer, but the conditions are still not fungal: during the day it is a weak plus, at night it freezes, and one day it was with a steady minus. The day is short and there is almost no sun. And they are growing! Probably because the soil is not frozen yet, but it is well moistened (in summer it is very dry there).

There may also be rare beetles, if the biotope is primary, someone would pick at old logs and stumps...

Winter has come, the end of the chanterelles.

It's here ! What a pity ! Chanterelles were so delicious...

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It's here ! What a pity ! Chanterelles were so delicious...

Why don't you pick through the old stumps and logs?

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Why don't you pick through the old stumps and logs?

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Highly informative messages.

Here are some reports about fishing in our area!!

I tried to determine the type of mosquito flying in the snow, here's what came out of it:

"They are up to hell, it turns out:
http://eversmannia.entomology.ru/eversmannia_06_56.pdf "

I received a reply from the highly respected "alex 2611 Saint Petersburg"

This post was edited by cleobis - 02.12.2015 22: 03

The autumn season is over, you can sum up the results. The last day butterflies (Nymphalis xanthomelas) flew on October 30, after the night frosts. At the same time, the last grasshoppers were seen. The dragonflies disappeared after October 12. Autumn moths (Operophtera brumata and Colotois pennaria) appeared in mid-October and lasted until the end of November, when night frosts of -9°came. Now it's pre-winter with snow, occasionally you can meet only some mosquitoes. Below are some illustrations. If you are interested, you can view a more detailed selection of images at http://butterflies-32.net/Autumn-2015/index.html.

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Please tell me if the scarab lives in the vicinity of Volgograd, if so, where is the best place to look, if not, then the same thing about Astrakhan

This post was edited by Collector-05.12.2015 23: 17

Please tell me if the scarab lives in the vicinity of Volgograd, if so, where is the best place to look, if not, then the same thing about Astrakhan

Near Ilovlya I saw once (Typhon) at the end of July 2011.

Italy, Bibione 2015 August

Continuation

I apologize, of course, but how long ago did Italy join the Russian Federation ? Or is it just about the Bibione resort ?
And if no kidding, maybe your posts should still be moved to the appropriate topic? http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=526370&st=550

I apologize, of course, but how long ago did Italy join the Russian Federation ? Or is it just about the Bibione resort ?
And if no kidding, maybe your posts should still be moved to the appropriate topic? http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=526370&st=550

I'm sorry, I clicked the wrong way

S. typhon is also found in S. pius.

As far as I know, one of them is active during the day, and the other at night. This may not be the official way to distinguish them.

Dim it was piuses that were born in the Frolovsky district of the Volgograd region, in 2014, June.

Piuses were born in the Frolovsky district of the Volgograd region in June 2014.

??"Maxim, are you sure?! According to Kabakov (Kabakov O. N. Lamellar beetles of the subfamily Scarabeinae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabeidae) of the fauna of Russia and neighboring countries, Moscow, 2006), pius flies and makes manure balls during the day and does not fly to light, but typhon is active just at night and is attracted by light sources.

Probably it was necessary to add-IMHO -, I did not take those scarabs-I took a Coleopter-but I need to ask him if he reliably identified them or not.They were smaller in size,and there was some difference in the sculpture of the elytra-in principle, I did not try to remember anything about them,but they flew at dusk, not at night, in exactly one place-the border of the floodplain of the river.Don and semi-deserts of the Archedo-Don sands.Viktor Dmitrievich-a place right apart-is amazing, but with insects there in June, almost nothing was found due to bad weather during the day and a full moon at night.

Not everything is so simple with these two species of Scarabaeus.
Males differ significantly and well in the structure of the parameres; females are more difficult to deal with.
The size of the upper lobe of the eyes is the most reliable of the external signs: in S. pius, it is rather small and narrow when viewed from above, and fits at least 2.5 times the length of the posterior edge of the cheek (usually 3 or slightly more, as Kabakov (2006) points out). In S. typhon, the upper lobe of the eye is noticeably larger and fits less 2.5 times, usually about 2x or even less. But this trait (eye size) does not seem to have a strong ontogenetic correlation with the length of the posterior edge of the cheek (i.e., their variability is largely independent), so there are different ratios, as well as, apparently, aberrations, including (relatively rare, according to my data, approximately 1: 500 viewed individuals) that reach borderline values. It would be better to link the eye size to a measurement whose variability is more coordinated.
Also, in the" classical " case of S. pius, the furrow in front of the dentate basal edge of the prsp is not noticeable (not pronounced). Nevertheless, there are populations in which it is more or less pronounced in many and even most individuals, especially closer to the lateral edges, although to a lesser extent than in the "classic" S. typhon (while in the eyes, and in some cases in the studied parameters, it is S. pius). The reverse situation (the absence of a furrow in S. typhon) has never occurred to me personally, but from the reservation ("usually") in Kabakov's key, I understand that it is also known.
All the other frequently mentioned features (the shape of the frontal keel, the shape of the clippings of the platypus teeth, and even more so the degree of gloss, the nature of shagging, the color of the pubescence of the hind legs of males, etc., etc.) are subject to variability in these two species, the scope of which significantly exceeds the differences, and the assessment of similarities can be very subjective. In terms of body length (with a variation of 2+ times within the species) and body shape, these species imho also do not differ (I have instances from 14 to 32mm of both species).
In terms of habitats, S. pius seems to me to be more confined to the sands and somewhat more xerophilic, but this is an impression, not a fact.
In the Astrakhan and Volgograd regions, according to my data, S. pius usually comes out earlier than S. typhon, especially in not very warm springs. So, at the beginning of May of this year, along the way, I collected several dozen scarabs at several points from the Archedinsky sands to the Tuvayak region, I didn't look at the paramers, but habitually all S. pius. In general, at the beginning of the season, it usually prevails in places where it occurs together with S. typhon, and from the second half of May - on the contrary. However, this year I was almost exclusively in Peski, where in some places there may not be S. typhon at all.
According to my data, both species reliably feed and roll balloons during the day, S. typhon also reliably at night, and the later in the season (and warmer?), the greater the occurrence at night. During the day, in early June, only small individuals of this species are more often caught, usually on horse manure in the total mass of gymnoplevs. In S. pius, I did not observe food storage at night, but in May it is reliably caught in the light (at least DRL, DRV+UF365 and just UF365; with only DRV - I do not remember), and also falls at dusk or at night in traps with bait for coprophages, and this is no longer associated only with mating. I don't have much data for June, so I need to look at fees. So my data differs from Kabakov's data in terms of summer at light and, to a lesser extent, in terms of the time of day of activity. Here it is necessary to understand exactly what kind of activity, in what season and climate, in what part of the population and what it is notable for (in dung beetles, strategies can strongly depend on the size class of individuals, which in turn depends on the strategy of the parents, which ... and so on ).
Every time I go to the N. Volga, I think sluggishly that I finally need to specifically collect at least 5-6 dozens of scarabs of these two species at ten different points, including when they occur together and not together, pull all of them to accurately determine and calculate the variability (it is unclear, however, what to do with the females). It (variability) has never been studied quantitatively. But every time I understand that my hands are in order, they are unlikely to reach it, it's a pity to spend time on a trip (you need to specifically look for places - and more than one - with a large grazing area, where you can really get up to several hundred a day, and spend time collecting and laying this stuff), and little by little they are already caught. Well, let's wait for the material to accumulate naturally. Just retired and will do

So it turns out a logical solution-You need to select from different points of the n-skoe call of scarabs, I can help in 2016, because in May a trip is planned, we will catch starting from Archeda to Krasnoyarsk, Astr. obl.

It lives and is quite common, it happens en masse on the sands. In the Astrakhan region everywhere, and in addition to S. typhon comes across and S. pius.

And when and where is it better to look for larvae?

So it turns out a logical solution-You need to select from different points of the n-skoe call of scarabs, I can help in 2016, because in May a trip is planned,we will catch starting from Archeda to Krasnoyarsk, Astr. region.

Yes, the main problem is not in the collection of material, but in the availability of opportunities and time for its processing. Thank you, of course, but since it is not clear when and how quickly the fees will be processed, I don't ask anyone about it yet. I'll probably be there myself in early May.

A trip is planned for May 2016

Oh, how! Is the list of participants ready yet?

And when and where is it better to look for larvae?

It depends on what age. Charged ovoids are available as early as mid-May. Eggs take 1-2 weeks to develop, and larvae take 4-5 weeks to pupate. The best time is June.
The life cycles of our dung plants are relatively poorly understood (in comparison, for example, with those of American or Australian dung plants, including introduced ones). Simply put, all scarabs are telocoprids (katateli). In the two species under consideration, steam is formed, like, in the process of harvesting food, when a ball is formed from fresh manure and rolled together into a mink consisting of an entrance channel and an end extension, the so-called "dining" chamber. In this chamber, a "food roll" of oval-flattened shape is formed from a ball and eaten together. This process is repeated several times already together. Finally, the couple rolls balls of manure into a prepared burrow (the same or another one) and mates. After that, according to some sources, the male leaves the female, and according to others, he participates in the process before sealing the mink. The female (or both parents) usually makes 1 to 4 pear-shaped ovoids from stored balls, on which she lays eggs. The depth of burrows depends on the soil, on denser 10-30cm, in the sand up to 60cm. In addition to ovoids with eggs, burrows sometimes have a supply of manure in the form of a "food roll", but whether it remains as a residue from the food of the parents, or is stored for the offspring, is unclear. The female (both parents) leaves the burrow and seals it with a 3-5cm thick sand plug (the channel is not completely filled up). During the season, the female can make up to 10-15 such minks. Larvae eat the food supply, grow and pupate, forming a dense cocoon of excrement and feed residues. The pupal stage takes about two weeks, but there is evidence that there may be a pause at this stage. Adults after metamorphosis do not come out immediately, and in some cases, apparently, overwinter in a cocoon. Sometimes the cocoon is supposed to get wet from autumn or spring rains to release the imago.

Oh, how! Is the list of participants ready yet?

Dim-read-PLANNED!!! In addition-we assume-and everything else disposes, so far it's all talk and dreams.Full clarity will be in April, and on May 6-no moon!!!!!!

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Full clarity will be available in April

But they ask you to decide on your vacation before the end of January.

But they ask you to decide on your vacation before the end of January.

About going, - you, as always in the state, about even more and Serguha, most likely I'm driving and probably check out 30.04 or 01.05 or 2.05 or 03.05.....Here is the picture for today.About cataclysms and nuclear war-we do not take into account-for now...Find out the train schedule to Obninsk.Check out at about 19-oo, or 20-00..

This post was edited by Maksim M. - 12/11/2015 01: 43

Unfortunately, his name is not specified,and I will not be able to explain exactly.But approximately-you catch and carry everyone there will be both F. and M., if they roll balls-then in pairs, imho.Inside the species, they are not aggressive-but if you implement all of the above-and describe it in the report-RESPECT and RESPECT are guaranteed!!!By the way, I was in the forest here and I collected larvae of a large nutcracker and kukuyusov ts.

This post was edited by Maksim M.-12/13/2015 10: 02

then another question is, how is their gender determined?

I mean, how do you tell the difference between males and females in these scarabs by their appearance? The easiest way is along the fringe of bristles on the inner surface of the hind legs. In males, it is long and thick, in females it is almost not pronounced.

Then another question-does this feature apply to all scarabs?

Then another question-does this feature apply to all scarabs?

From the former USSR - yes, but not all Scarabaeus of the world fauna.

Yes, that's exactly what the question was about.