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Well, here's what I caught today...
The only beetle that's new to me is Crioceris quinquepunctata

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Hello everybody!
Caught near St. Petersburg on May 7-9. Result.

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On May 8, on the night of May 9, it was very cold, one butterfly flew in, here it
is(Meaning Phyllodesma). And on May 9, one moth arrived. And not a single scoop ! While on the 7th in the evening there were 40 pieces.

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The moon came out, and the nights were very cold. If on the first night about 40 scoops arrived, then in the following nights - 0. A couple of moths and one tree-leaved one. One for the whole night.

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Is Lycia a hybrid?

On May 8, on the night of May 9, it was very cold, one butterfly flew in, here it
is(Meaning Phyllodesma). And on May 9, one moth arrived. And not a single scoop ! While on the 7th in the evening there were 40 pieces.

It is better to let one such Ph arrive. japonica arborea than 40 scoops yesterday

Rebzya, I will buy the eggs of philodesma sp. to do this, you just need to catch the female and put it in a jar, to be sure, you can put a sprig of fodder there.

Rebzya, I will buy the eggs of philodesma sp. to do this, you just need to catch the female and put it in a jar, to be sure, you can put a sprig of fodder there.

Eh Denis Sergeevich it is not quite easy to catch a female Phyllodesma, for this you need to try very hard to get lucky.

A short report on a single expedition 24. IV-2. V to the area of the village of Mikhaylovka on the Ilovlya River in the Volgograd region. The main goal of the expedition is Saturnia Spini. Having collected a bicycle backpack and tried to ride it, I decided to abandon the idea and repacked everything in a regular backpack, went without a bicycle. Arrival and departure - by train from Ilovlya-1 station. I bought gasoline for the generator of 16 liters and 6 liters of water. The total weight of the luggage became almost unbearable . However, I had to walk 4 km to the highway to Volgograd and stop at Olkhovka. I hitched a ride to Mikhaylovka, which I didn't catch right away, and I spent two hours voting. The driver turned out to be a good guy, apparently he didn't expect payment, but I paid 100 rubles and both were happy. By the way, despite the presence of settlements, a good road and bus stops, public transport there is almost not developed, and tickets for minibuses must be ordered in advance in Olkhovka, otherwise they will not put you in jail or you will have to persuade the driver, pay him the full price and go standing on the running board(as I did on the way back). Although, it depends on the driver.

So, when I got to my destination in the evening, I set up my tent in a clearing 200 meters from the road. Around, along the edge of the floodplain forest of oak, elm, maple, etc. blackthorn blooms in the mass. Some of the bushes are just beginning to bloom. I immediately noticed a few pasture ticks on myself, which were quite a lot(more than a dozen) at each parking lot, but I got used to them and just put them in the stain or knocked them down with a flick. None of them got to me.

I pulled up the screen and prepared to mow down the Saturnium... The weather is slightly windy, rather cool in the evening. There was no rain on the first day...

Before the summer started, I decided to test a new gas burner weighing 26 grams and cook dinner. The burner worked perfectly.

A sluggish summer began, then the summer increased along with the wind, there was no opportunity to take pictures, just pricked small scales. Spini didn't show up.

In the morning I decided to take a walk around the neighborhood, go to the mountain, call. It is worth saying that the connection there caught only if you climb to the middle of the slope of the chalk mountains. And as for walking, you can walk quite calmly, because the places there are sparsely populated. Despite the proximity of the village and the close proximity of the highway, I did not meet a single person in the field during the entire expedition. A few cars turned around immediately when they saw my tent, shepherds were driving their cattle far enough away and in a different direction, and there were no visitors on foot at all.





S. Mikhaylovka


Most likely, a fox was digging something.


Relatively close is the monastery - a place of pilgrimage for rare tourists, but I did not go there.


Returning to the tent pofotkal flowers

and caught the first polyxena. Polyxenes were found only in clearings near the river, but many were already heavily flown.

On the second and every subsequent evening there was a light rain and wind, but it was summer and I gradually filled the mattresses. I changed the clearing to a more promising one (in general, I changed the glades every day), where the blackthorn was much larger, it actually surrounded the clearing from all sides. I liked a lone oak tree in the middle of the clearing, and I stopped under it. This evening the wind was noticeably stronger, copra flew in a mass, a lot of different scoops, tufts, moth, but Spini did not come...







I decided to radically change the location, fortunately, there was only one option left, and for reliability, consult with friends. Thank you to Sergey Didenko (sdi) for your valuable advice. I didn't get to their clearing, but it was for the best, because my clearing was again completely secluded and not visited, and other places, thanks to a good road, were visited by vacationers every day.
There was also a lot of polyxene here. Avoiding danger, this butterfly prefers to fly in the thickets of thorny bushes, rarely rising above the crowns. Some of them had to be followed through the bushes. Many of the butterflies were badly worn.

There are many lizards on the slopes of the chalk mountains. This one attracted me with its bright color and growing tail.

Lots of T-shirts and dark-bodied girls

Again, these caterpillars, it looks like nymphalids, but I would like to be more precise... Who knows?

And here are the others, a whole colony

On the flowers in the mass sat chanterelles-catch, I do not want.
In the glasses placed on the bank of Ilovli, a few beetles came - karabus, khlenius.

During a morning walk on the slopes, about 11 o'clock, I saw some daytime hawk moth with a bright reddish or pinkish-red color of the abdomen and hind wings. The wings are rather not transparent. I didn't see it clearly, I didn't see it clearly, because it was moving quickly from flower to flower. the wingspan is about 4-5 cm, although this is subjective. I tried to catch him, but missed, and he didn't give me a second try, so he flew away and I didn't see him again.
Perhaps it was Macroglossum stellatarum, and the reddish color of the abdomen is just a trick of the eye.

On my last night in Mikhaylovka, I called out to the Gods and asked for at least one peacock eye of any kind. But I didn't expect the Gods to respond so quickly and so cunningly. I asked for any kind, but not any quality! After 5-10 minutes, the dead Spini flew into the trash and fell on the mat, unable to climb on the screen. I had to take what I was given...

I found a caterpillar in the grass, I don't know what kind


On the way back, I planned to go fishing on the outskirts of Ilovlya-1 near the City Hospital, waiting for the night train. I must say that the area of Ilovlya-1 and further to the Don was originally planned. However, as a result of the refusal of the bike, this route was not implemented, which I am very happy about, because in Ilovla-1 years was zero. One poplar hawk moth with a ragged rear wing arrived (I didn't take it), one small scoop and a lot of midges and mosquitoes. Again, it was raining, windy and pessimistic.


Here's the full catch:






I would be grateful for identifying any of the insects caught. I noticed an interesting behavior in these bronzes on the example of one of them. When she landed on the white, rocky ground, she buried her head under a bush, so that the back of the white part completely merged with the surface. An interesting example of mimicry coloring.


There were so many May beetles and at dusk there was nothing but them, one at a time.

Copra stacked in rows. Above are large females, below are small females, "nedosamtsy" (with a very small horn) and below are supersamtsy(i.e. normal males with a large horn and a bumpy pronotum).


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Again, these caterpillars, it looks like nymphalids, but I would like to be more precise... Who knows?

http://babochki-kavkaza.ru/index.php/nymph...s-aurinia-.html

A sad sight and a strange one. A pile of permanently sealed cocoons and not a single one opened. Moreover, there is no significant damage to the cell walls, that is, the attack of predators disappears. Even if all the adults died for some reason, the pre-pupae and pupae should have continued to develop independently. Why is this nest so ukontropupelo in the prime of life? Nothing comes to mind but the cold. We sometimes have a little bit of closed brood in the late nests of gallicus and nymphs until the autumn frosts, which kill it, sometimes even the very moment of the wasp's exit is imprinted in this way. But these are always isolated remnants, but I don't remember such a picture as in this photo. In general, judging by the phenology that is two or three weeks behind ours, you have a cold region.

And a very short report on a single three-day expedition to Borisoglebsk from May 7 to 9.
I also traveled by train. If you order a taxi in Borisoglebsk, then in the city 50 rubles, and if you take any of them, then 150 rubles out of town. For me, it was not critical, I took the first one that came across. I drove to the gas station. A principled gas station attendant was waiting for me there, who flatly refused to pour it into a plastic canister with a proud air and assumed importance, citing some prohibitions and checks. I should have waited for any local with a canister, but I was too quick and asked the gas station attendant to pour three times directly into the generator... I poured gasoline, turning the generator over, for which I soon paid.

The generator refused to work in normal mode with the flap closed, and worked for two nights in start mode, while saving fuel 1.6 liters was enough for 4: 40-5: 00 hours with a load of 320Wat + phone charging. I must have put oil on the carburetor and something else. Now it is in a conditionally working condition, waiting to be checked after washing with a tanning bed.

So. From the gas station, I walked less than 1 km to a power line clearing in an oak forest on a steep slope above the Vorona River (a tributary of the Khopra) and decided to stop. I hid my things in the bushes and walked around the clearing all day. Then, in the late afternoon, I put up a tent and a screen.


Meager daily fees for 3 days - mostly hymenoptera. A few pigeons - I didn't take pictures. Aquarists are into the light.


I saw Iphiclides podalirius, but he wouldn't let me get close.
Below, closer to the river, in the swamp, I found a station of polyxena, almost all broken.


All three days the weather was excellent, but at night it rained quite a bit, so I had to fasten the umbrella again. The first night I fished upstairs. From the most interesting place, the male Aglia tau flew in, although they seem to rarely fly to the light or do not fly at all.


On the second night I went down to the swamp. It was noticeably colder than above and high humidity. The flight was weaker, but still one hawk moth arrived in good condition. What kind of hawk moth? It looks like a poplar tree, but it doesn't look like a poplar tree.


I regretted that I did not take a net for mowing, because you could mow a lot of interesting things. The grass was tall, and the dandelions were already half-bloomed - it was almost summer.

I also put glasses in three biotopes. Nothing unusual - lots of carbides. I'll post the catch later, we need to sort it out.

There were a lot of ticks, not a single pasture one, only iscodes (conditionally encephalitic) mostly in the forest. I looked around every 5-10 minutes, none of them stuck.

Down in the swamp, roe deer came at night, as I learned in the morning from fresh tracks. At night, around me, on the bushes, at a distance of 1-2 meters, the forest dormouse Dryomys nitedula jumped. I couldn't take a picture, although I didn't try, just watched.

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A short report on a single expedition 24. IV-2. V to the area of the village of Mikhaylovka on the Ilovlya River in the Volgograd region. The main goal of the expedition is Saturnia Spini. Having collected a bicycle backpack and tried to ride it, I decided to abandon the idea and repacked everything in a regular backpack, went without a bicycle. Arrival and departure - by train from Ilovlya-1 station. I bought gasoline for the generator of 16 liters and 6 liters of water. The total weight of the luggage became almost unbearable . However, I had to walk 4 km to the highway to Volgograd and stop at Olkhovka. I hitched a ride to Mikhaylovka, which I didn't catch right away, and I spent two hours voting. The driver turned out to be a good guy, apparently he didn't expect payment, but I paid 100 rubles and both were happy. By the way, despite the presence of settlements, a good road and bus stops, public transport there is almost not developed, and tickets for minibuses must be ordered in advance in Olkhovka, otherwise they will not put you in jail or you will have to persuade the driver, pay him the full price and go standing on the running board(as I did on the way back). Although, it depends on the driver.

Interesting report!
Nifigasebe, already 3 nastusov hooked! Awesome!

As the manager Bunsha said (film " Ivan Vasilyevich changes his profession."):
"I have vague doubts..."
Nikolai, it looks like you have in your photo a grated male peacock-eyed plum (thorn) Saturnia spini (Denis et Schiffermueller, 1775) and not a pear...

As the manager Bunsha said (film " Ivan Vasilyevich changes his profession."):
"I have vague doubts..."
Nikolai, it looks like you have in your photo a grated male peacock-eyed plum (thorn) Saturnia spini (Denis et Schiffermueller, 1775) and not a pear...

Let your doubts be dispelled, no one talks about Saturnia pyri, all the time it's about spini. And Spini flew in.

  
I would be grateful for identifying any of the insects caught. I noticed an interesting behavior in these bronzes on the example of one of them. When she landed on the white, rocky ground, she buried her head under a bush, so that the back of the white part completely merged with the surface. An interesting example of mimicry coloring.

These bronzes are called Protaetia karellini. Their imagos are fed by nibbling on the juicy bases of the stems of plants-which, obviously, you have observed

Interesting report!
Nifigasebe, already 3 nastusov hooked! Amazing!

Almost all weevils "climbed into their hands by themselves." There was no mowing net. I picked up things that crawled past or around the tent and shook the thorn branches a little.

Almost all weevils "climbed into their hands by themselves." There was no mowing net. I picked up things that crawled past or around the tent and shook the thorn branches a little.

well, the forage plant and lifestyle for nastus is still not known even approximately, hence partly its rarity and locality

well, the forage plant and lifestyle for nastus is still not known even approximately, hence partly its rarity and locality

It is for N. goryi sareptanus that no forage plants are known? As far as I know, they are all on the umbrella islands, in Central Asia they are usually on feruls, and in the Caucasus they are not.fausti mainly grows on hogweed and angelica. I even saw an article somewhere about the possibility of using this species for biological control of hogweed

It is for N. goryi sareptanus that no forage plants are known? As far as I know, they are all on the umbrella islands, in Central Asia they are usually on feruls, and in the Caucasus they are not.fausti mainly grows on hogweed and angelica. I even saw an article somewhere about the possibility of using this species for biological control of hogweed

Well, I've heard about fausti, which feeds on hogweed, but sareptanus is from a different subgenus, maybe it has a different food plant... there is no information about sareptanus at all, maybe you know any scientific works on them?

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Well, I've heard about fausti, which feeds on hogweed, but sareptanus is from a different subgenus, maybe it has a different food plant... there is no information about sareptanus at all, maybe you know any scientific works on them?

No, I do not know any works on sareptanus with a clear indication of the forage plant. Arzanov somewhere indicated ferulae for the nominative subgenus. Somewhere else it was mentioned that sareptanus is a broad polyphage, but without specifics, although this means that the diet includes plants of different families, which seems strange. In Central Asia, I collected species of this subgenus on ferulae on the Hissar and a few others in different places, I don't remember what (often they are on the ground at all), but I don't have these collections anymore. I also had some Sareptanuses from the Lower Volga region. I remember that quite narrow terms of all finds for many years, from the last decade of April to the second decade of May, from where the forage plant should vegetate during this period, i.e. the ephemeroid is most likely. m. b. I also have fees indicating plants, but the material is all on mattresses in storage, and I'm in on the road, and until September it is unrealistic to see. I found the mentioned article on nutrition.fausti, in the experiment it was successfully developed on different umbrella plants. I attach the article.

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Yesterday, an attempt was made to get out to the nearest forest lake, called Tamenskoye, in order to collect soil samples and check peat bogs for the presence of daytime butterflies. I didn't take my camera with me, so only photos of small captures, some of which were put aside for sorting and exchanging, and didn't get into the frame.
For general development, a big request is to recognize the ktyr (if this is it)






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Today, after work, I went for Brachyta interrogationis, which I promised to the forum participant
Two hours on last year's leafy plot, the mosquitoes in the process collected more tribute from me than I did



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Pytho depressus.

22 V. 16 Peschanka village, Saratov region, at the junction of Atkarsky and Tatishchevsky districts

It's been raining for 3 weeks now. Only last Friday and Saturday were sunny days. We decided to try to go to Gerbil on Sunday. In the morning there was a fierce wind, cold and rain. But by lunchtime the weather improved and we managed to catch some fish. I came off on Anthaxia signaticollis and Acalyptus carpini. I came across some interesting barbels-Cortodera femorata F. But especially there was a lot of all sorts of flies!

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It's been raining for 3 weeks now. Only last Friday and Saturday were sunny days.

lucky for you, and we have been bathing every day since April 28. I had a great vacation: 4 weeks of rain, 2 of them with a temperature of
and in the second picture between the melandrid dasithids?

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lucky for you, and we have been bathing every day since April 28. I had a great vacation: 4 weeks of rain, 2 of them with a temperature of
and in the second picture between the melandrid dasithids?

No, these are sharpeners, like Ernobius ?longicornis

cool ones
and what kind of pogonokherus? and what kind of fleas are blue with red legs?
ps did Oleg Polumordvinov contact you today about Omias Veruka?

cool ones
and what kind of pogonokherus? and what kind of fleas are blue with red legs?
ps did Oleg Polumordvinov contact you today about Omias Veruka?

pogonokherus? I thought exocentrus..."
what kind of fleas - no idea, it's not for me)

yes, we talked to him about verruk

Well I dedicated this evening to Donacia aquatica well the result

Raduzhnits from the bottom row (circled) in the hands would hold/twist under binoculars... Clearly something interesting

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These rainbows have already migrated to the mattress for sunny Moldova, in the evening I will try to reshoot separately and better, and you can also repeat the outing to this place

Dima, it's always good to repeat the sortie, and set aside the circled raduzhnits for Elizar-a.

OK, put it off ))), I'll pick up more

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Don Delta. First clear day after two weeks of heavy rain.

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Don Delta. First clear day after two weeks of heavy rain.

0869 - maracandicus?

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