European part of Russia

October 2016 is more normal in terms of weather than last autumn's warm and dry season. There were several series of sunny days with night frosts-3⁰, thick frost in the morning, which lay in the shade all day. For the most part, the weather was overcast with a slight positive t-swarm during the day, sometimes with drizzling precipitation. Mace butterflies last met on October 13. The first snow with slight frosts fell on the 27th and melted a day later. On the 29th in the afternoon, the sun came out for a short time and warmed up to +4°, there were many active young Operophtera sp. With the beginning of early twilight, butterflies began to fly, landing mainly in the grass. The chickadee tried to catch one of them on the fly, but missed, being afraid of me. Looks like the season isn't over yet.

A few questions for experts:
On frames 2 and 5 of Epirrita autumnata?
Where on the frames 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 18, 27-29, 31-35 Operophtera brumata, where is O. fagata?
What's the scoop in picture 19?
What is shown in frames 3 and 20 - caddis flies or lepidoptera(which ones)?

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This post was edited by Nolik - 01.11.2016 22: 41

  
A few questions for experts:
On frames 2 and 5 of Epirrita autumnata?
Where on the frames 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 18, 27-29, 31-35 Operophtera brumata, where is O. fagata?
What's the scoop in picture 19?
What is shown in frames 3 and 20 - caddis flies or lepidoptera(which ones)?

19. Sunira circellaris
3, 20. Chimabachidae, Diurnea lipsiella

 

A few questions for experts:
On frames 2 and 5 of Epirrita autumnata?
Where on the frames 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 18, 27-29, 31-35 Operophtera brumata, where is O. fagata?

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Yes, I know this sign. Unfortunately, the characteristic lines are often hard to distinguish, or it is difficult to tell whether there is a break or not in the images. I would like to have more obvious differences in wing coloring, for example, clearly visible dark stripes in images 14 and 28, or the presence of dark spots, as in frames 27 and 29. But, apparently, such signs do not exist .

Since my post from 1-11-2016, there have been two more snowfalls, the last one is quite heavy, covering the ground with a solid layer of snow. Some butterflies have taken refuge in the hollows and burnt cavities of oak trees.




Both times the snow was completely washed away by subsequent rain. Precipitation with a slight frost did not interfere with the butterflies at all. On November 7, it warmed up to +8..+10°. On the 8th, a large number of Operophtera sp. were detected, behaved actively, crawled and flew at +5°. We managed to find two copulating pairs, judging by the almost complete absence of wing marks in females, this is Operophtera brumata.




On the 9th, at a temperature of +1°, many dozens of broomatas with various wing patterns and even coloring were sitting in the trees. Two specimens of Erannis defoliaria have also been observed.








Let's see what happens next.

According to forecasts, the last warm day in the Don Delta. +10, calm.

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According to forecasts, the last warm day in the Don Delta.

Forecasters were wrong - not the last one. There are fewer animals in the sands.

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Since my post from 1-11-2016, there have been two more snowfalls, the last one is quite heavy, covering the ground with a solid layer of snow. Some butterflies have taken refuge in the hollows and burnt cavities of oak trees.

What kind of friend is this?

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What kind of friend is this?

I don't know. In length from 5 to 10 mm.
Always at temperatures near zero, insects crawl on the first snows in autumn, during the thaw in winter, and in spring on the last snow. On a white background, they are clearly visible, so they fall into the lens.
There was also a small dipterous insect in the snow, and while I was trying to focus on it, it flew away.

I don't know. In length from 5 to 10 mm.
Always at temperatures near zero, insects crawl on the first snows in autumn, during the thaw in winter, and in spring on the last snow. On a white background, they are clearly visible, so they fall into the lens.
There was also a small two-winged insect in the snow, and while I was trying to focus on it, it flew away.

isn't this a Gelis-type wingless rider?

In Bryansk, winter was established much earlier than usual in recent years. Already in the second decade of November, snow fell, which partially
thawed in the thaw, but did not go down to the bottom. In November, there were no frosts below -9 degrees at night, except for the end of the month from -13. In the afternoon there was a slight sub-zero comfortable temperature of t-ra -2..-4. At the end of the second decade and in the middle of the third there were short-term thaws, the first to +3, the second to +1. Moth Operophtera sp. in significant numbers, even in the middle of the month, they existed in a snowy environment. I noticed an interesting feature of the behavior of birds pika-they are completely indifferent to the butterflies sitting on the trunks, pecking out only some small "crumbs" on the bark. I don't know exactly how strong the moth's vitality was, since I was ill in the second half of November and couldn't determine the time of their disappearance.









When I came to the oak grove on December 2, it was despondently empty, I found only one dried-up Operophter's corpse in a crevice in the bark (apparently
a spider's victim). At t-re -2, one spider was cheerfully crawling through the snow, and a dry fly was lying on the path.




On December 4th, in sosnyak, at a temperature of -5 degrees, I observed a mass procession of spiders along the snow-covered track of a forest road and next to it. While walking along the road for ~30 minutes, I counted about 40 spiders of different sizes. Sometimes they were crushed by the wheels. There were almost no spiders on the virgin snow.









December 9 thaw +2, cloudy with drizzle. 10th in the afternoon +3 with the sun peeking through. The abundance of various small crawling and flying animals in the oak forest near the frozen lake was reminiscent of the end of February-March. There were no jumping collemballs, but other small things jumped far away like fleas.





Winter mosquitoes (Trichoceridae?) are very active, flying, running in the snow, sometimes even hanging out together.






There were flies, but they (unlike mosquitoes) crawled in the snow, I did not see flying ones.







Occasionally there were crawling caterpillars and other small translucent larvae.





Even a small (10..15 mm) beautiful bug got out on the snow.



I saw one crawling woodlouse.


In the lens, along with the large ones, some very miniature insects with a length of units of mm also got into the lens.

In general, the season is not over yet, there is something to observe in nature.

If you are an expert on insects, please tell us which families and smaller taxa the animals shown in the images belong to (where possible).

This post was edited by Nolik - 12/13/2016 15: 54

Hello everybody! The people have finally moved on to winter training camps ! I need to make my own contribution, I haven't written anything for a long time. This is our winter in St. Petersburg.
Butterfly 23.12 in the city center, live, and the rest-25.12 at home. If this goes on, I will go again on January 01 for mushrooms. By the way, not a photo - Winter honey mushrooms, edible, grow from November to April. They say delicious things.

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That's what Gulf Stream life-giving does! And we have natal decorations for the fairy tale "Morozko" and the temperature is appropriate. Although usually at this time of year it happens just like you have now.

That's what Gulf Stream life-giving does! And we have natal decorations for the fairy tale "Morozko" and the temperature is appropriate. Although usually at this time of year it is just like you have now.

Yeah... Today it will reach +5. Wind, dampness, darkness. Winter was here in November, and for some reason it went to Turkey and the Sahara.

... and in Syria, notable photos of snow-covered landscapes are now coming from there. Somewhere in your neighborhood, the Vikings described the mysterious country of Biarmia, where grapes bore well. Now serious people consider it fairy tales, but such climate anomalies make you think. The same Vikings also called Greenland for a reason, although now Whiteland is solid there.

That's what Gulf Stream life-giving does! And we have natal decorations for the fairy tale "Morozko" and the temperature is appropriate. Although usually at this time of year it is just like you have now.

It's quite warm, +5C for sure, and maybe higher, you can't see it in the office. Even something like the sun was visible, but only for a few seconds. It brightened a little. Sometimes it does rain.

... and in Syria, notable photos of snow-covered landscapes are now coming from there. Somewhere in your neighborhood, the Vikings described the mysterious country of Biarmia, where grapes bore well. Now serious people consider it fairy tales, but such climate anomalies make you think. The same Vikings also called Greenland for a reason, although now Whiteland is solid there.

I don't know about Biarmia, but some of our boreal relics (Erebia embla, etc.) have taken the warming climate badly and since the beginning of the 90s they have fallen back to the central and northern regions. Finland (Finns monitor the entire territory well) and, probably, to the same latitudes of Karelia (from where data are very scarce); other more southern species (Lithosia quadra, etc.), on the contrary, now fly to the Leningrad region to "cool off"slightly.

Hello everyone! I made it ! I found the last day of "summer" and collected chanterelles. In the photo, where the green lawn and Santa Claus with the Snow Maiden in a green field are standing-this is St. Petersburg 31.12., and the rest of the photo 01.01.17. Under the Meadow, 100 km from St. Petersburg. Of the insects, I saw one mosquito and a spider web was stretched across the road. Everything ! There were a lot of chanterelles, but they were all frozen. Only two of them were alive, but I didn't walk for long, although it was +7.5 S ! Already in the evening it was -3C, and now up to-12C, the other day up to-30C promise. And the snow fell.

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Apparently, you just haven't trained to find winter insects, in most cases it's not easy and requires skill. I had never even thought that someone was active in winter, but now I notice even in subzero temperatures, although not always and not everywhere, a spider web across the road is 100% ballooning, and if so, then other arthropod life should have been full of life.

IMPRESSIONS OF THE PAST WINTER

The spring season started early, with lemongrass flying on the southern sunny slopes on March 4, and xanthomelae on March 5. In the city, in the meadows, and almost everywhere in the forest, the snow has come down.
Meanwhile, winter impressions are fresh. In past years, I occasionally encountered spiders and insects in the snow, but I considered this as an accident. This winter, I decided to investigate the issue more thoroughly. Whenever possible, with each thaw, I looked for where everything crawls, runs and flies. Here's what it turned out:
- Significantly more animals in the meadows, although there were also spiders and mosquitoes in the forest.
"There were mosquitoes and flies all winter. Mosquitoes flew almost always, including during snowfalls (see frame①). Flies were running and crawling in the snow, trying to fly up, but they couldn't.
- Kollemboly ("snow fleas") - December, February.
- Larvae, caterpillars, beetles, bedbugs-all winter.
"Spiders all winter. This is the largest group of arthropods in the snow. They also turned out to be the most "hardened" - some crawled even at -4°...-5°.
In winter, all those species are met, the pictures of which are given in my post from December 13 (http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=526321&st=3650#), and additionally those whose images are shown below.
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At one time, a hawk got into the habit of flying to the feeder near the house, sometimes its hunting was successful. It was interesting to see how the chickadee behaved, which did not have time to duck to a safe place when the hawk flew up - it was sitting on a branch one and a half meters below the hawk, completely motionless, with its head drawn in, like a growth, it was very difficult to identify the bird in it.
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The first more or less targeted catch this year. Bonus still awake Aglais urticae (Linnaeus, 1758).

Agonum (Europhilus) piceum (Linnaeus, 1758) – 1♀
Phosphuga atrata (Linnaeus, 1758 – - 3 specimens.
Anostirus castaneus (Linnaeus, 1758) – 2♂♂, 1♀
Cyphon pubescens (Fabricius, 1792) – 2♂♂
Betulapion simile (Kirby, 1811) – 1♂

Russia: Yaroslavl region, Nekouzsky district, pos. Borok, near the main building of the Geophysical Observatory, in the roots of an inverted birch, 18.03.2016 A. S. Sazhnev leg.

And I caught the first beetle this year a few days earlier, under kebabs.

Cyphon pubescens (Fabricius, 1792) – 1♂

Russia: Yaroslavl region, Nekouzsky district, pos. Borok, woodlands behind the IBVV RAS hotel, 15.03.2016 A. S. Sazhnev leg.

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The first more or less targeted catch this year. Bonus still awake Aglais urticae (Linnaeus, 1758).

Agonum (Europhilus) piceum (Linnaeus, 1758) – 1♀
Phosphuga atrata (Linnaeus, 1758 – - 3 specimens.
Anostirus castaneus (Linnaeus, 1758) – 2♂♂, 1♀
Cyphon pubescens (Fabricius, 1792) – 2♂♂
Betulapion simile (Kirby, 1811) – 1♂

Russia: Yaroslavl region, Nekouzsky district, pos. Borok, near the main building of the Geophysical Observatory, in the roots of an inverted birch, 18.03.2016 A. S. Sazhnev leg.

And I caught the first beetle this year a few days earlier, under kebabs.

Cyphon pubescens (Fabricius, 1792) – 1♂

Russia: Yaroslavl region, Nekouzsky district, pos. Borok, woodlands behind the IBVV RAS hotel, 15.03.2016 A. S. Sazhnev leg.

Alexey, were there any nutcrackers in the wood??? In the cradles???

The first more or less targeted catch this year. Bonus still awake Aglais urticae (Linnaeus, 1758).

Please excuse the slightly strange question: At what temperature did A. urticae come out?
And then on the photo you can see that there is still a lot of snow in the forest.

Alexey, were there any nutcrackers in the wood??? In the cradles???

It's hard to say for sure, because there's a mixture of earth and roots, but I've roughly torn off the beetles themselves. There was more land than the tree itself. At the same time, the beetles themselves are quite fresh, and as they say, the species develops in forest soil, in litter, in rotten wood...

Please excuse the slightly strange question: At what temperature did A. urticae come out?
And then on the photo you can see that there is still a lot of snow in the forest.

The temperature was about 4 degrees, in the sun, of course, more, but the wind was blowing.

I went on a ski trip in the Murmansk region on the Kola Peninsula. Lovozero Lake district.
And of course I also met insects there=) on a snow field... in -6..-8'C =)
Just before that, I talked to Nikolai Paramonov about winter mosquitoes, so I collected them and sent them for identification.
Identified as Chionea (Chionea) crassipes crassipes Boheman, 1846

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The landscape is something like this =)

While the snow is falling, it melts and falls again. Myrmecophilic beetles were collected as one of the elements of the invertebrate fauna of anthills. We have partially decided today...

Dendrophilus pygmaeus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Gyrohypnus angustatus Stephens, 1833
Euplectus nanus (Reichenbach, 1816)
Protaetia metallica (Herbst, 1782) (larvae)
Corticaria longicollis (Zetterstedt, 1838)
Palorus depressus (Fabricius, 1790)

Russia: Yaroslavl region, Nekouzsky district, pos. Borok, the vicinity of the Barsky pond, in the Formica sp. anthill, 26.03.2017 I. S. Turbanov, A. S. Sazhnev leg.

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While the snow is falling, it melts and falls again. Myrmecophilic beetles were collected as one of the elements of the invertebrate fauna of anthills. We have partially decided today...

Dendrophilus pygmaeus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Gyrohypnus angustatus Stephens, 1833
Euplectus nanus (Reichenbach, 1816)
Protaetia metallica (Herbst, 1782) (larvae)
Corticaria longicollis (Zetterstedt, 1838)
Palorus depressus (Fabricius, 1790)

Russia: Yaroslavl region, Nekouzsky district, pos. Borok, the vicinity of the Barsky pond, in the Formica sp. anthill, 26.03.2017 I. S. Turbanov, A. S. Sazhnev leg.

Interesting... Palorus,and I collected in YAO only in Borka-under the bark of a birch tree... And there were no myrmecophilic Monotoma???

Interesting... Palorus,and I collected in YAO only in Borka-under the bark of a birch tree... And there were no myrmecophilic Monotoma???

I remember about Palorus, it was on the list for Bork in my "literature", now I found it. I understand that some of the beetles inhabit the anthills quite conditionally, as places for wintering, so we found Corylophidae in the Formica nest also in the spring, Monotoma oddly enough was not, neither conicollis, nor the more common angusticollis.

Yesterday I tried to examine another anthill, but because of the frost, the ground and substrate froze, it turned out only to take the upper layers for the eclector, it was not dense and not quite "myrmecophilic". Two species of Scirtidae, both recorded in decomposed wood by the type of different rot, and in other remains, and the first species was previously found in the nest of Lasius sp. also in the spring.

Cyphon pubescens (Fabricius, 1792)
Cyphon variabilis (Thunberg 1787)

Russia: Yaroslavl region, Nekouzsky district, pos. Borok, park in the vicinity of the geophysical observatory, in the Formica sp. anthill, 1.04.2017 A. S. Sazhnev leg.

Please do not swear too much and do not throw rotten tomatoes. The photo is terrible-it was taken with an antediluvian phone, but I really want to show off in the spring. As they say - the first swallow!!!

Please do not swear too much and do not throw rotten tomatoes. The photo is terrible-it was taken with an antediluvian phone, but I really want to show off in the spring. As they say - the first swallow!!!

I haven't seen it in St. Petersburg yet. The heat hasn't reached here yet.

This post was edited by fraudatrix - 03.04.2017 13: 48

Gentlemen experts, the question concerns the north-west of Russia - does it make sense to shine on the upper marshes now? Can there be anything interesting right now? May-June - clear. no questions asked here. And now?

Rather early. Cold. Lanestris hadn't flown yet. In mid-April, with warm weather and positive night temperatures, you can try.

I support you, I have matinees up to -18, it's a little early

Yesterday amphibious reptiles crawled and beetles flew... two female Dytiscus circumcinctus Ahrens caught, 1811

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Yesterday, in addition to walking dogs, rescuing snakes, we also managed to catch beetles...

Dytiscus circumcinctus Ahrens, 1811-2♀ ♀
Dytiscus marginalis Linnaeus, 1758 – 1 ♀
Material: Yaroslavl region, Nekouzsky district, pos. Borok, 8.04.2017 Yu. G. Udodenko leg.

Omalium rivulare (Paykull, 1789) – 1♂
Cyphon pubescens (Fabricius, 1792) – 1♂, 1♀
Litargus (s. str.) connexus (Fourcroy, 1785) – 1 экз.
Ernobius abietis (Fabricius, 1792) – 1♂
Material: Yaroslavl region, Nekouzsky district, pos. Borok, the bank of the Barsky pond, diurnal years, 8.04.2017 A. A. Prokin, I. S. Turbanov, A. S. Sazhnev leg.

In the photo with beetles: left-Dytiscus marginalis Linnaeus, 1758, right-Dytiscus circumcinctus Ahrens, 1811

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Here and in Saratov the season is open!

The weather is great today. It's warm, the sun is shining, the birds are singing. I had a wonderful walk. Strained only a hell of a number of "kebabs", I had to run away from them.

He collected mostly small staphylinids, spangles and bystranok. Under the bark there were some microscopic elongated staphylinchiki, I don't know yet who they are. I tried to sow the litter - it's a bit damp. I sowed turf - Omias puberulus and Sitona inops were solid elephants; I got one bystryanka, and from staffs - black small tachyporins, and one Sunius. Not too thick. They didn't really let me fish near the lake - I took only Ochtephilus and Myllaena. Then I found a tree stump with a liquid fermented juice and collected a bunch of Athetini and glitter on it. Finally unearthed and dismantled an anthill on a white cloth ?temnothorax or similar small goosebumps. There were high hopes for gropers, but I didn't find anything, alas(

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Here and in Saratov the season is open!

The weather is great today. It's warm, the sun is shining, the birds are singing. I had a wonderful walk. Strained only a hell of a number of "kebabs", I had to run away from them.

He collected mostly small staphylinids, spangles and bystranok. Under the bark there were some microscopic elongated staphylinchiki, I don't know yet who they are. I tried to sow the litter - it's a bit damp. I sowed turf - Omias puberulus and Sitona inops were solid elephants; I got one bystryanka, and from staffs - black small tachyporins, and one Sunius. Not too thick. They didn't really let me fish near the lake - I took only Ochtephilus and Myllaena. Then I found a tree stump with a liquid fermented juice and collected a bunch of Athetini and glitter on it. Finally unearthed and dismantled an anthill on a white cloth ?temnothorax or similar small goosebumps. There were high hopes for gropers, but I didn't find anything, alas(

Ilya, and glistyanochka, which Glishrochilus case is not "American"???