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Nilson, have you ever met a praying mantis? There are very interesting views there.

  Nilson, have you ever met a praying mantis? There are very interesting views there.

Bogomolov did not see it, but he met a wonderful empusa. Unfortunately, all the sorties were of a galloping plan, I didn't really look closely and didn't shoot much. For the first time I saw an adult ant lion - a funny insect, and even askalafs are cute!

Nilson, if you've taken a picture of an empusa, please post it.
Have you ever seen any Askalaf larvae?"

  Nilson, if you've taken a picture of an empusa, please post it.
Have you ever seen any Askalaf larvae?"

Unfortunately, I didn't take the empuzu - I didn't have a camera at hand. It was quite a large animal, and I thought that the empusa were small. As for the Ascalafian larvae, I confess that I can't even imagine what they look like. I'll show you myself now.

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Unfortunately, I didn't take the empuzu - I didn't have a camera at hand. It was quite a large animal, and I thought that the empusa were small.

Sorry.
The larvae are small, but the imago is quite normal in size. Just in the collections they do not make a special impression, but live-a sight to behold.

This is not Bolivaria sp.?

No, it's something like Ameles. Pay attention to the hind legs - they are jumping. Unfortunately, the creature could not be brought - stupidly put in the same jar with a scorpion

The empusa I met, by the way, is very similar in color, but more slender and with this, what's his name, plume on his head.
I also saw a huge number of straight-winged birds. Like this, for example.
In some places, it was completely covered with bushes.

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An outbreak of peanuts is a common occurrence in Estonia, where they are bred en masse every autumn. By the way, I have recently observed an incredible number of ladybirds Adalia bipunctata, there have never been so many of them, and standard autumn moths are not visible.....

Are there a lot of ladybugs right now? These are wintering birds, I wonder.
Also this year there were a lot of ribbons, ambigua, prodotis stolida...

since the beginning of September and to this day there are a lot of them, really the last couple of days I see them less often....

So, dear friends, I have returned from Corfu Island (Greece). However, my wife was against my trips to the surrounding areas, they say, we came here to rest or catch butterflies. I'll tell you what actually flew there.
There were VERY few butterflies, most often there were lemongrasses with orange upper wings and simple satyrs, of which there are simply clouds in the Moscow region! I saw several cute yellow eggs, one anguloclatrix, one small ribbon (typical for the Moscow region), a couple of checkers. At an altitude of 900m, this is the top of Mount Pantokrator, many podaliris flew, really a lot. At dusk, I often saw huge night peacock eyes, although these bastards flew at an altitude of 3-5m, so with all my desire I could not catch them. In general, I was surprised by such a poor fauna, perhaps the reason for this is the huge number of birds, in particular swallows. I specially walked through the mountain and flat meadows, there are practically no insects at all, not even flies!

In general, I was surprised by such a poor fauna, perhaps the reason for this is the huge number of birds, in particular swallows. I specially walked through the mountain and flat meadows, there are practically no insects at all, not even flies!

There are certainly insects there, and plenty of them. It's just that this is not the Middle zone of Russia. In the Mediterranean, it is not possible to catch in the usual ways, by skulking and even with a net. It is necessary to use only a variety of traps: soil, yellow, Maleza, and so on.
This rule also applies to fishing in the tropics.

Absolutely agree! And then you need to know the places..Its own specifics of the Mediterranean.
And the lemongrass is Gonepteryx cleopatra taurica.

It's strange, maybe there wasn't a season... Or the landscape is completely anthropogenic. From Croatia to Albania, the Adriatic coast is teeming with wildlife.

Have any of the forum participants visited the Canary Islands (Gran Canaria)? I'm flying there the day after tomorrow on a business trip. I hope to catch something, since, as a photographer, I got some free time. I suspect that there is also some kind of ambush with fees

There are certainly insects there, and plenty of them. It's just that this is not the Middle zone of Russia. In the Mediterranean, it is not possible to catch in the usual ways, by skulking and even with a net.

Yes, no, it's just easy to catch a net there, the butterflies are not scared, there were just very few of them! I can't say anything about the use of traps,because I only catch butterflies.

It's strange, maybe there wasn't a season... Or the landscape is completely anthropogenic. From Croatia to Albania, the Adriatic coast is teeming with wildlife.

It is quite possible that it is not the season, because when I first arrived there(19.05), the butterflies were not visible at all, and after a day or two those very lemongrass and simple satyrs actively flew. The coast of Corfu is Ionian. The landscape there is never man-made, solid mountains-forests-meadows.

Have any of the forum participants visited the Canary Islands (Gran Canaria)? I'm flying there the day after tomorrow on a business trip. I hope to catch something, since, as a photographer, I got some free time. I suspect that there is also some kind of ambush with the fees

there are a certain number of endemic barbels (especially Deroplia), which are best collected by dusting off or looking at the wood at night. Good luck.

It is strange that you have encountered so few insects in Corfu. Judging at least by the books of Gerald Durrell ("My family and other animals", "Birds, animals and relatives", "Garden of the Gods"), who lived in Corfu for 5 years, there are simply clouds of insects there, and all year round. On the other hand, it was 70 years ago...
About the Canary Islands: the entomofauna of the islands is characterized by a large number of endemic and
African species, so something interesting is sure to come across.

It is strange that you have encountered so few insects in Corfu. Judging at least by the books of Gerald Durrell ("My family and other animals", "Birds, animals and relatives", "Garden of the Gods"), who lived in Corfu for 5 years, there are simply clouds of insects there, and all year round. On the other hand, it was 70 years ago...

That's it! 70 years ago, there were not so many hotels, roads and private houses there. And there was no airport as such. I saw photos of Corfu in the 20s and 30s. The virgin island was!

there are a certain number of endemic barbels (especially Deroplia), which are best collected by dusting off or looking at the wood at night. Good luck.

Thanks! I have already read this in the Czechs. but what about the situation with Qarabida? Plates? I didn't find anything on the Internet. mysticism..

the coleopter catalog is there, but where can I get it?..
http://www.entomopraxis.com/canarias.htm#Table

Islands Total present Present in a single island Total endemics Island endemics

El Hierro 475 76 240 57
La Palma 668 120 310 107
La Gomera 617 128 325 121
Tenerife 1194 387 590 291
Gran Canaria 891 221 414 177
Fuerteventura 439 62 162 33
Lanzarote* 431 54 148 32

* There are 42 endemics from Fuerteventura and Lanzarote together.

Hello everyone. I got back from Gran Canaria today. I did not sleep for almost a day, and therefore the story can not claim to literary delights and depth. However. Let me remind you that almost a week ago I flew to Gran Canaria , the third largest island in the Canary Archipelago. The road there is a real hemorrhoid, and therefore the first day (after the night of flight) was made free for us. I took the opportunity to walk closer to 12: 00 to the only oasis of wildlife that was not polluted by hotel developments - the coastal line of the Maspalomas resort. What's it? Sand dunes, occasionally painted with prickly grass or palm trees. it is also a haven for nudists and modestly hiding in the bushes of gays. Pretty, so I fell into the neighborhood in search of beetles Trying not to embarrass the naked people who constantly come across on the way, I tried to find at least something alive. The first living creature (not counting the marginals) was an unremarkable grasshopper, the second-a bug. I turned sour. Finally, the first beetle came across - a small, but cute, rounded shape, with long thin legs of a black calf. She (and a little later her captured companions) scurried across the sand like droplets of black mercury. I've caught more than a dozen of these creatures (probably endemic to the island), so I can offer them to anyone who wants to exchange them. Then, near a shady palm tree, I caught a larger, oblong blackfin. I was happy, but I didn't find any duplicates for it. I didn'T see any more beetles. I did all sorts of things, lifting rocks and searching through the rotting leaves of a palm tree. Alas and ah.. After all, it's NOT the season, and that says it all. If I had arrived in early May, or already in August, the picture would have changed for the better. Fishing by lantern light also brought nothing (not counting the huge cockroaches that were caught by local cats, and which I probably gavethem all). Another fishing trip occurred at the exit to the mountains - at an altitude of about 1800m. Here, of course,was a very different picture. An abundance of greenery, flowering shrubs and flowers. Some large nymphalids, whiteflies and pigeons flew. But, alas, from the beetles we managed to take some externally close relative of the Olenka (black and white medium-sized hairy beetles). There was quite a lot of it, so I'm ready to share this view. But at the top I managed to stay only 20 minutes.. Alas and ah, this is the end of my hunting on the island of Gran Canaria. Yes, I easily took out the fees directly on the mattresses in a photo backpack.

This post was edited by Frantic - 08.06.2007 21: 57

Some photos from the Canary Islands. Then I'll post more.

This post was edited by Frantic - 09.06.2007 15: 32

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beauty!
And you probably left the bug there?

Sure. Let the bug live

Wow! I also want to go there!

There's nothing to do there right now. But after 3 months, the beetle, of course, will trample again. I've also found fresh remains of very large black heifers and small bronzes.. But it is precisely the broken remains. I tried to look for goldfinches and barbels, even found a few trees that were affected by someone, but the imagos were not found.

This post was edited by Frantic - 09.06.2007 18: 36

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beauty!

Good photos) About the ban on blood-sucking diptera completely agree)

I returned from Montenegro a couple of days ago. I caught mostly beetles and mostly by manual harvesting without any devices. True, I put a dozen soil beer traps and hanging fruit traps. The first ones were attacked by a bunch of gooseflies, woodlice and cockroaches – not a single beetle. A couple of banal lepturines took the fruit bait. Compared to last year, the catch is very modest. Apparently, it was a very warm and early spring. Even Protaetia angustata, which was dark in the summer of 2006 in any biotopes, was quite rare. I can understand Solarway, and his frustration about Corfu-probably, a lot of things just flew away. Moreover, at altitudes of about 1000 m, everything blooms, flies and crawls very actively.
From butterflies: background species everywhere and in large numbers-P. machaon, I. podalirius, Charaxes jasius, Melanargia sp., P. aegeria, M. dryas, L. megera, A. circe, L. reducta, A. ilia (var. clytie or metis species), Lybithea celtis (in 2006-everywhere, this in summer-sporadically), pigeons from the subfamilies Polyommatinae and Theclinae – in general, nothing particularly exotic.
What is surprising is the almost complete absence of marine exposure on the slopes of Curculionidae, Carabidae, Elateridae, Staphylinidae and other families that are quite common in our country. Tenebrionidae caught only one species. For karabuses, you definitely need to go somewhere in the mountains: Durmitor, Prokletiye or just to some canyon in a wet pine-beech forest, away from the seaside karst. At an altitude of about 800 m, I came across one poorly recognized crushed specimen of a large ground beetle, probably Procerus caelatus.
Among the barbels, instead of last year's Purpuricenus budensis, P. kaehleri was occasionally found in clearings in the forest. The latter could be found in a noticeable number only on damaged willows. Isotomus speciosus, Rhopalopus ?macropus, Microcerambyx scopolii, and Paracorymbia cordigera were found almost everywhere. A pair of Agapanthia species.
Goldfish include Capnodis tenebrionis and C. cariosa, Anthaxia obesa, A. discicollis, A. passerini, Buprestis cupressi, Dicerca sp., and Chrysobothris affinis in the mass.
In the open rocky areas on chicory, there are a lot of Hycleus atrata (I think they are)
Rather banal large beetles - O. nascicornis, L. cervus, C. cerdo.
Cute Cleridae were caught.
The images show a typical landscape of bald spots on the mountain slopes, an olive grove and some arthropods.

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I'm thinking of going to Montenegro in August. In theory, the second generation of ground beetles should go. But, knowing the Mediterranean (in Greece and Croatia, which I have visited many times), I am sad to confirm that sometimes there is a complete golyak on the coast

Colleagues, in the dry Mediterranean, put water yellow plates, the thing has been repeatedly tested in such a biotope! Beetles are certainly not dominant there, BUT a lot of different beetles fly there to drown, including!
cheap and angry.

I returned from Montenegro a couple of days ago. I caught mostly beetles and mostly by manual harvesting without any devices. True, I put a dozen soil beer traps and hanging fruit traps. The first ones were attacked by a bunch of gooseflies, woodlice and cockroaches – not a single beetle. A couple of banal lepturines took the fruit bait. Compared to last year, the catch is very modest. Apparently, it was a very warm and early spring. Even Protaetia angustata, which was dark in the summer of 2006 in any biotopes, was quite rare. I can understand Solarway, and his frustration about Corfu-probably, a lot of things just flew away. Moreover, at altitudes of about 1000 m, everything blooms, flies and crawls very actively.
From butterflies: background species everywhere and in large numbers-P. machaon, I. podalirius, Charaxes jasius, Melanargia sp., P. aegeria, M. dryas, L. megera, A. circe, L. reducta, A. ilia (var. clytie or metis species), Lybithea celtis (in 2006-everywhere, this in summer-sporadically), pigeons from the subfamilies Polyommatinae and Theclinae – in general, nothing particularly exotic.
What is surprising is the almost complete absence of marine exposure on the slopes of Curculionidae, Carabidae, Elateridae, Staphylinidae and other families that are quite common in our country. Tenebrionidae caught only one species. For karabuses, you definitely need to go somewhere in the mountains: Durmitor, Prokletiye or just to some canyon in a wet pine-beech forest, away from the seaside karst. At an altitude of about 800 m, I came across one poorly recognized crushed specimen of a large ground beetle, probably Procerus caelatus.
Among the barbels, instead of last year's Purpuricenus budensis, P. kaehleri was occasionally found in clearings in the forest. The latter could be found in a noticeable number only on damaged willows. Isotomus speciosus, Rhopalopus ?macropus, Microcerambyx scopolii, and Paracorymbia cordigera were found almost everywhere. A pair of Agapanthia species.
Goldfish include Capnodis tenebrionis and C. cariosa, Anthaxia obesa, A. discicollis, A. passerini, Buprestis cupressi, Dicerca sp., and Chrysobothris affinis in the mass.
In the open rocky areas on chicory, there are a lot of Hycleus atrata (I think they are)
Rather banal large beetles - O. nascicornis, L. cervus, C. cerdo.
Cute Cleridae were caught.
The images show a typical landscape of bald spots on the mountain slopes, an olive grove and some arthropods.

And they didn't take cockroaches, of course?

And they didn't take cockroaches, of course?

No, I didn't take it. And then - there was only one species, and it seems far from endemic.

On Saturday, I checked the earthen traps in Verkiai Park. Put 15 glasses for 3 days, as a bait I used:
5-Beer,
5-Apple cider vinegar
5-A piece of beef sandwich
On beer caught:
>>20-Carabus hortensis
6 - Carabus convexus
3 - Carabus granulatus
2 - Carabus coriaceus
2-Carabus nemoralis
Carabus cancellatus
8-Trypocopris vernalis
many different geotrups and 2 dead eaters
For meat tempted >>40 geotrups and 16 there
are a lot of dead eaters-Carabus hortensis
4-Carabus granulatus
Carabus convexus a
little small beetle and black bodies
On vinegar is a little weak:
7-Carabus hortensis
2-Carabus convexus
a couple of geotrups and 2 fairly large hawk moth!!

Collections made on 22, 23, 30 March and 13 April in Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK.

Photo 1. Carabidae:
Row 1: Laemostenus complanatus (Dej.); Pterostichus nigrita (Payk.)
Row 2: L. complanatus (Dej.); Nebria brevicollis (F.); Oxypselaphus obscurus (Hbst.); Paranchus albipes (F.); Leistus fulvibarbis Dej.;
Row 3 (incomplete): Platynus assimilis (Payk.); O. obscurus (Hbst.); L. fulvibarbis Dej.; P. albipes (F.)

Photo 2. Carabidae:
Row 1: Platynus assimilis (Payk.);
Row 2: Agonum fuliginosum (Panz.);
Row 3: A. fuliginosum (Panz.); Pterostichus strenuus (Panz.); Ocys harpaloides Serv.;
Row 4 (incomplete): Ocys quinquestriatus Gyll.; O. harpaloides Serv.

Фото 3. Carabidae:
Cychrus caraboides (L.);
Pterostichus melanarius (Ill.)

Photo 4. Carabidae:
Cychrus caraboides (L.)

Photo 5. Carabidae:
Row 1: Calathus rotundicollis Dej.;
Row 2: Ocys harpaloides Serv.; Agonum fuliginosum (Panz.); C. rotundicollis Dej.

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To be continued.

Photo 6. Carabidae:
Row 1: Harpalus rufipes (Deg.); Nebria brevicollis (F.);
Row 2: Nebria brevicollis (F.); Amara aenea Deg.; Anchomenus dorsalis (Pont.); Agonum fuliginosum (Panz.); Pterostichus strenuus (Panz.)

And in other photos - places where the training camps were held

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