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I have forgot to show you the picture of a wingless female of Nyssia graecaria . Collected on 01 . 04. 2011 , can be tricky to see it , usually females are sitting on stones.

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In the middle of the month, I spent a few days in Slovenia on business. Because of the busy schedule, full-fledged fishing was out of the question, but for a while it was possible to get out into nature, and she hadn't really woken up yet.
I didn't catch any nocturnal fish.

I will be grateful for the definition of non-butterflies.

Xanthogramma pedissequum (Harris, 1776), or a similar species, X. stackelbergi Violovitsh, 1975, male, is located between the ktyr and the Italian bug...

This post was edited by Pirx - 25.04.2011 23: 13

I will be grateful for the definition of non-butterflies.

Tracks -- possibly Eriogaster catax
Butterflies:
Elachista sp.
Adela croesella
Scoparia sp.
Nola confusalis
Noctuidae sp.
Pseudophilotes vicrama
Scolitantides orion
Euclidia glyphica x2
Lasiommata megera
Erynnis tages

Hey guys ,
Just arrive at home - was in SW Bulgaria , Kresna Gorge for 2 nights (bad weather) , perhaps this is the most important Lepidoptera place , as well in general many interesting creatures lives there. Sorely nothing really interesting came into my traps , only 2 Omphalophana anatolica , Zethes insularis a few Hadena ( mgnolii , bicolorata , silenes and perhaps one filograna ) .. And again sorely , when some Saturnia pyri ( or Hyles sp. ) enter the trap , it start "cooking " perfect borscht with the rest of the moths
Here some pics ( don't pay attention of the мелоч just really hate going home with empty boxes.

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p.s. ... forgot to tell you , as weather was bad , I collect mostly Psychidae bags long the high way installations rocks etc ....collect too many , and a while ago , doing previous report just realized that one Psyche sp. has emerged ! Tomorrow I will do some pictures of it.

Hey ALL ,

This is part of the Psychidae bags I collected last month . Yesterday at night first
Pachythelia villosella emerged. I pictured it together with the bag.

This post was edited by Viktor Gashtarov - 05/10/2011 21: 55

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I spied the ut of one "Burger"... Impressive...

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I spied the ut of one "Burger"... Impressive...

I counted my straighteners, I now have 41 on drying, sometimes up to 70 comes

Again in Kresna gorge - 06-08.05.2011. My first idea was to sleep in the Stara Kresna railway station - it is located in the middle of the Kresna gorge , the only access to that station is the hanging rope bridge ... sorely as soon as the bus leave me I realized that the bridge was blown away from the last December flood of Struma River , that as well destroy the highway to Greece ( see picture with cursor ) . My only solution was hitch-hiking ( remember how it was 15 years ago )..and I "landed" at Peyo Yavorov railway station again.

Well , almost the same species of Lepidoptera , just this time came an Rethera komarovi - first for this year as well some more Hadena has visit my traps , as well my first for the year Methorasa latreillei. I had a competition at lamp this time - a few gecko's Gymnodactylus kotschyi . During the day not much interesting Rhopalocera , one Pieris kruperi ( saw only 2 ) . In the meadow saw an amazing snake , and my very favorite as temper - Elaphe quatourlineata quatourlineta - hunting for birds and nests ( few meters away saw an Miliaria ( Emberiza ) calandra and it's nest hidden in the grass ). About 20 years ago we watched another snake of the same species that climbed 10 meters of indoor wall corner to reach the nests of Passer domesticus and Delichon urbica . In this report I add an picture of pupa - it was in the Anchusa sp. raceme , if someone can recognize it , please contact me[i]. I really hope that this might be Janthinea fiwalskii- this amazing noctuid used to be collected rarely on Anchusa.

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One day excursion to the Tchepan Mts. , near Dragoman town - not far from Sofia ( 55 min by train ) . It is a very small hill like steppe mountain , place where last year’s many interesting discoveries have been made , esp. Lepidopterological. At the foot of the mountain is the famous Dragoman marsh – it is hard to believe that 50 + years ago it was a nesting place of the crane ! Then in the 50’s the mars was destroyed with draining channels. It was a catastrophe for all the plants and animals living there, all interesting creatures disappear and some like the the insectivore plant Aldrovanda vesiculosa extinct ( now recovered with plants from Romania ).
My purpose was the small Geometrid moth Narraga tessularia , I have found lots of them flying around + some other interesting creatures : Hepialus lupulinus , Polyommatus eroides ( not pictured ) and one female of Pentophera morio . In fact the last one I found following one of the males flying around , so they copulate even on my finger ! Rest of the pictures are just to have an impression of Nature there . Enjoy !!!

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SW Bulgaria , Belasitza Mts. from 01.06 - 03.06 , Kongor Hut 1300 m - the place I sleep ( an ex border kazarma ) and the subalpine zone of the mountain up to Kongor Peak 1951m. The purpose of my visit was Anarta cordigera - I collected it exactly 11 years ago , 20 meters from border with Greece , no net - I caught it with my arms , that's why it looks like pup and it is not in my collection.. Since then I use to visit this place hoping to find it again , sorely no luck - bad weather , clouds and few minutes of sun from time to time. Any way , lots of interesting insects can be found there , esp. the "face" of Belasitza Mts. - Dorcadion borisi - the only high mountain species we have , extremely local . Enjoy the pics :

This post was edited by Viktor Gashtarov - 03.06.2011 19: 57

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Very short report - for 2 days in SW Bulgaria , visiting parents , did not take my ultraviolet traps because of the full moon , collecting during the day and sugaring in the river. I guess I late too much for the Apaustis rupicola - all specimens I found were totally old , I take only one. At the sugaring - very fresh Mormo maura and few I think Schrankia , but I am not sure..does any one can say if the pictured Acontia sp. is titania ??? Thanks !

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Acontia sp. is titania ??? Thanks !

yes

Never mind, Grisha, I'll dilute your joy from the received babbling bison. I've collected a few simpler flies for you in the mountains of Slovenia.
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Thank you, Oleg, - this is Scaeva nr. selenitica/dignota, the extreme right specimen is a close genus, Eupeodes, most likely corollae/latifasciatus/luniger / etc. Oleg, did you get my last (20.VII) email ?

Thank you, Oleg, - this is Scaeva nr. selenitica/dignota, the extreme right specimen is a close genus, Eupeodes, most likely corollae/latifasciatus/luniger / etc. Oleg, did you get my last (20.VII) email ?

Yes, I received it, but I only answered it now

I was in Bulgaria in the vicinity of Varna (and then all Turkey and Turkey). 17.06-02.07.2011 The area is quite good, deciduous, sometimes pine forest with an abundance of clearings, gradually turning into a forest-steppe.Once I accidentally went to a local nature reserve and fished there all day, and when I left, I noticed a sign that this is the territory of the national park. But I didn't seem to run into it, although theoretically I could. The weather wasn't bad either. I fished mostly during the day and set soil traps for beetles, with night fishing almost did not work out, but I caught a few interesting things, such as Marumba quercus. From the beetles, I caught a couple of interesting barbel species-Morimus funereus and Cerambyx cerdo, as well as bronzes and carabids. Well, every little thing. I'm going to wind up in Kharkiv, so there's no time to sort it out yet. When I get there, I'll report back in more detail. Overall, the impression is pleasant.

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I came back to all booolshoy greetings.
Not a big report from Spain.
All insects and animals were shot in the botanical garden of tropical plants "Marimurtra", with the exception of bronzovka.





Non-venomous snakes.


After shooting this pigeon, I took cactus needles out of myself and my camera belt for half an hour.










Catching and removing insects is controlled.

Spain is good, but Russia is not better.On June 26, he arrived from the Catalans,and on June 27, he rushed off to Vologda, then bish for fishing,or rather to Lake Kovzhskoe, which is 260 km away. from Vologda.

Heavy fishing share, and sleep hotsa.


Barbels

I came back to all booolshoy greetings.
Not a big report from Spain.
All insects and animals were shot in the botanical garden of tropical plants "Marimurtra", with the exception of bronzovka.

Bedbug -- Spilostethus pandurus
Marigold -- Pararge aegeria
Golubenki -- Satyrium esculi and Cacyreus marshalli

Thirty kilometers from Budapest, on a forest road, I gathered a few motes in the headlights. It will be necessary to cook on the subject of E. christyi.
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and you can cook them online
muddy group. and I am sure that the distribution of species of this genus is much larger than they write. it's just that no one really deals with them "autumn=autumnata" and that's it!

This post was edited by AGG - 28.10.2011 21: 07

As soon as I arrived in London today (I wasn't going to catch it at all), the freshest Scoliopteryx libatrix popped up through the window. I even took it.

VAISTENU -- on the catcher and the beast runs =) Well, the weather also whispers -- +11 now, half past one in the morning

I managed to spend two days fishing on a karst in Slovenia...

Cool robin on the shingle! On the blue flower is a female babbler Episyrphus balteatus, the males starved to death in the fall, and the females, who prefer pollen rather than nectar, thrive... Oleg, I got the hint (judging by the last photo)!

Robin sat under a nearby car in the parking lot and watched us from there. Absolutely nothing is afraid of the bird.
Thank you for defining a murmur. And what kind of hint did I manage to give my extreme photo?

How I didn't talk you out of collecting sirfids...

barko: female dragonfly Sympecma fusca; overwintering imago.

offtopic: I thought robin was a blackbird for some reason. At least in America it is.

Well what is a robin not a blackbird

Yes, she is also robin.

offtopic: I thought robin was a blackbird for some reason. At least in America it is.

as a Brit to a Brit: Taki robin (=robin)

Like a Brit to a Brit: Taki Robin (=robin)

I already figured it out. The American thrush is not just a robin, but an American Robin (Turdus migratorius)

This is a robin, which in most European countries remains for the winter. And it belongs just to the family of thrushs

I went out of town for an hour to check out Archiaris parthenias. Unfortunately, I didn't meet any of them. On the fly popalat some leaf wrapper.

Acleris sp.

  Acleris sp.

?laterana

Spring has cautiously arrived in Lithuania. The first overwintering scoops, Eupsilia transversa and Conistra vaccinii, fly to the light and bait. The days are getting warmer day by day.

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Spring has cautiously arrived in Lithuania. The first overwintering scoops, Eupsilia transversa and Conistra vaccinii, fly to the light and bait. The days are getting warmer day by day.

And where is the photo of the catch?

And where is the photo of the catch?

"Catch" left to live. Data is more important to me.

And we generally now have -11 outside the window (at the time of writing this post) and snow on the most nebaluysya. And the day before yesterday I went for a walk and in the private sector a contagious dog jumped out from under the fence and bit my leg: that's all the animals. Exactly troll remains......

In the dead of winter, when the biting of insects comes to naught, remarkable concentrations of them are observed in the houses of butterflies

In the dead of winter, when the biting of insects comes to naught, remarkable concentrations of them are observed in the houses of butterflies

No, I don't like such offices fiercely

Lithuania, Žialtiskiai.2012.03.17
caught from 18: 30 to 20 hours.Temperature 20 hours - +4C
Per lamp only two Eupsilia transversa.
There are about 30 Eupsilia transversa and one Conistra vaccinii per bait.
The season is open

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Well, here's the first tick. I'm ready to hook in. Spring went however.