Moscow and the Moscow region

2lepidopterolog Something late in the Moscow region Boloria aquilonaris pupates...
On Sunday, June 25, in the hottest weather from 10 to 13, we visited the Pykhanskoe swamp system. (this is the north of the Yaroslavl region...) Aquilonaris fly en masse-in droves, including flown specimens. There are also peat pigeons and swamp haylofts...Apparently, metamorphosis slowed down at home, and accelerated in the swamps in the heat. They also searched for peat bogs, but there are no blueberries in the area of the swamp, which they managed to search through, and, accordingly, there is no yolk... And the swamp bug is at zero... True, in a pile of moose d..., a toddler and a small aphodium were caught. I need to see it.

The deterioration of the weather in the Moscow region did not allow us to carry out our plans for this weekend. On the night of July 1-2, it was both cold and windy.
However, I managed to catch something. The crested Notodonta dromedarius was born (it is not clear which generation it belongs to, apparently, to the first, since the winter was severe and many leapfrogged with the time of summer).
We also found two rather rare scoops Eryopygodes imbecilla.

The crested Notodonta dromedarius was born

Hmm ... looked at leps.it this butterfly - something similar flew in last weekend... although, I may be confused... Is it big?

to Morozzz:
Caught in the light? Or byli "free hunting"?
By the way, did your expedition to Primorsky Krai come to fruition?

to RippeR: The old man! I'm already jealous of you! Very cool! Congratulations!

to Bad Den: N. dromedarius somewhere 5-5. 5 cm will be, in general, a standard crested. We have a fairly common butterfly, normally flying in late May - early June and the second generation-in late July-early August.

to taler: Caught in the light. And we will fly to Primorye in two weeks.

This post was edited by Morozzz - 03.07.2006 17: 30

to Morozzz:
Then I ask for a detailed report.I think it will be interesting not only for me, but also for the exchange material there, have a good hunt and good luck

to taler: Great!

And here in the Moscow region, it seems like the heat has set in.
The night flies so fast that you forget everything in the world. If it was on a fishing trip, then you could say- "they don't give you a worm to plant."
I came across everything standard, more or less rare, moth and scoops, cocoonworms and scoops.
The second generation of Notodonta crested whales (torva and ziczac) has already started.
There are also interesting moths - Discoloxia blomeri, Comibaena bajularia, Thetidia smaragdaria, Ourapteryx sambucaria.

I was just saying that butterflies suddenly appear on the screen.
Indeed, some hawk moth will fly up so "tr-r-r-r" while you try to catch it with your eyes-boom! - you look - and it has already "peeked out".
to RippeR: Regarding large hawkmoth and other fluffy and thick nocturnal animals, it is better to take a tattoo box and pins. This way you can save your material better. In moths, the fluffy pronotum is very vulnerable, often with a pattern, easily injured and deformed when folded into bags.

Usually I just lay out all the moths, including the "increased shagginess", on cotton wool (a layer of cotton wool, butterflies on it, another layer of cotton wool on top) - everything is preserved perfectly, not frayed.

Maybe someone will be interested:) This week I took a short vacation and was finally able to go with a companion in search of the only" ephemeral " horse beetle in the Moscow region-Cicindela arenaria. This is a very small representative of the (sub)family, but it is very beautiful (you can view the photo on the ZIN website). According to verified information, this brute runs only in one place in the Moscow region - in the Voskresensk district, near sand pits. My companion has already been there 3 times (at different times of the year) and failed to catch the coveted horse. And now, we are going for the fourth time.

The weather was completely favorable for the project: it was not very hot, but sunny. With a bunch of overlays and transplants (where without it.. especially funny was the" hitting " of a rooster protecting chickens - I have never seen such an impudent bird in my life;)) we got to the designated place at about 12.30 pm. By this time, of course, it was already pretty hot, and the ubiquitous Cicindela hybrida literally swarmed under your feet. To be honest, I've never seen ANYTHING like this in my life. I have witnessed abundant populations of salt marsh racehorses (for example, Cicindela chiloleuca in Ukraine), but "hybrids" flew under my feet, REALLY like flies. There were hundreds of them. And how can you find the unfortunate little "arenaria"among them?!:)

At first, we walked along the forest sandy paths, among pine plantations. This did not produce any results. Then we went out to a sand pit with water, but the abundance of vacationers prevented us from fully exploring the coast. We decided to look for a pond that is free of swimmers. We walked another half a mile, came across a huge quarry, in which no one swam. Then I wished I had taken a camera, because the quarry and its surroundings were so picturesque. The lake was decorated with small, wooded islands, which suggested Karelia:). The surrounding area of this quarry is something fantastic for MO: everything is covered with sand dunes, on which small fir trees and pine trees grow.. A kind of perverted mini-desert. We saw moose tracks...

There were no longer hundreds of Hybrids in this place, but thousands. Soon we cursed the little creatures: they swarmed so much that it was extremely difficult to identify any of them. In the end, I was lucky enough to catch a good mount - Cicindela Sylvatica-a large, bright male. Alas, it remained the best find of the day.. But we know the second reliable "point" for it in the region - the first one is near the PTZ:)

In general, we passed through this "unfinished desert" until 17.00, then moved back.. So Cicindela Arenaria has remained a constantly elusive pink dream of a blue childhood:-)

Friends, has anyone in the conditions of the middle zone already caught a scoop of order ribbons (Catocala) this year? They should be here by now.
I use the bait and turn on the lamp. Other scoops fly well, but THESE DON'T.Last year, at least 3 species could be caught at this time.
In general, the question is: what is the situation with them?

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Yes, I caught a Red Order Ribbon in my entrance. She was sitting on the wall. I live about m.Petrovsko-Razumovska

to Solarway: Thank you, what date did you catch her?
By the way, I was just asking about the order ribbons. Only, something didn't log in.

About the order ribbons: and we have so far flown two-nupta and fraxini.

We were still in the area of the Prioksko-Terrasny Nature Reserve, caught interesting butterflies-Erebia aethiops, Scotopteryx moeniata, collected caterpillars of scoops of the genus Cucullia (probably scrophulariae, and maybe verbascae) on mullein.

By the way, now the parks are worth a walk. Autumn moths have already appeared. Today I saw the first Erannis defoliaria. If you are lucky, you can also meet Agriopis aurantiaria.

There is also Catocala fraxini, quite fresh, Catocala nupta is very stale. Got a scoop of Nonargia typhae.

October 23 caught moth Ectropis crepuscularia (bistortata)!!!!!!!

Morozzz, please write more details about the findings of this butterfly in the Moscow region. Very interesting!!!

The case here came out last week.
I come home from work, take the elevator to my floor, and see the moth Eupithecia sp. Sitting on the ceiling. Caught, straightened - not yet determined. I kept wondering how a typical spring-summer butterfly got here.
Neighbors put a lot of flowers in pots in the common corridor, among the pots - a pot of marigolds, obviously from the street or country house. Maybe the pupa was in the ground, maybe the caterpillar fed on the marigolds.

And near work (I work outside the city) on a concrete fence on November 21, I saw a crawling caterpillar of a pine cocoonworm of the third age. Thaw, you know.

A pine cocoonworm?the one that's camping?A venomous creature,I can assure you, my dear sir

A pine cocoonworm?the one that's camping?A venomous creature,I can assure you, my dear fellow

No, not camping. Banal Dendrolimus pini (Lasiocampidae).

On Saturday 17.03. in the east of Moscow at about 22 pm, despite the cold (+3 - 4), caught the first of this season butterfly - scoop Brachionycha nubeculosa. I sat in a daze on the wall of the house near the street lamp. I got it out with a net without any problems (except for the problem of sidelong glances from passers-by - still, even in our age, it's quite a strange sight: a man with a huge net at night and, moreover, in early spring). In the same place, but near the next entrance, I caught this view yesterday (20.03). I haven't seen Bulavousykh yet.

This weekend I went out of town (Ruzsky district) and walked through the woods. Nitsche revived did not see, but in the trash nakavyryal 4 pieces of Platucerus caraboides and a bunch of some small ground beetles. I also tried to dig up anthills. In them, in addition to ground beetles, I dug up some riders . The weather was not very good, the rain was drizzling.

Today on Rublyovka saw lemongrass! Wow flew, in Rublevsky style....

2Omar
And how is it "in Rublevsky"? With raspaltsovka or something? Or are there Eureka stickers on the wings?

This post was edited by Elizar - 21.03.2007 17: 04

Happy hangout!

This weekend I went out of town (Ruzsky district) and walked through the woods. Nitsche revived did not see, but in the trash nakavyryal 4 pieces of Platucerus caraboides and a bunch of some small ground beetles. I also tried to dig up anthills. In them, in addition to ground beetles

And what ground beetles?
Especially in anthills?

Badister bullatus, but I don't know the others. I'll post a photo in the definition of beetles.
Here are some photos from the tour:
Platysma nigrum? from the anthill


again he and Chrysolina rufa from anthill


Vesnyanka sp. river bank


This post was edited by Zhuk - 07.05.2007 20: 02

Today I was in the Domodedovo district, walking around the outskirts of the forests. Various small things(small beetles and diptera) flew, although it was a little colder and the wind was blowing. Of the butterflies caught Archiearis parthenias, Diurnea sp. (fagella?) and some kind of leaflet. Still under the stone I found some flat beetles(in my opinion, some Aradus), a small ground beetle (Bembidion sp.). I found standard carabuses and dead-eaters in the trash. I wanted to pick at the anthills, but the ants were already crawling out. I didn't take any chances.

This post was edited by Zhuk - 25.03.2007 19: 09

Phigalia pilosaria on March 20 in the city park of Mytishchi

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Last weekend I was in the village again. The weather was just great! Even the evening beetle season had begun. It's still snowing in the woods, though. Well, Lan, get to the point.
Butterflies: Archiearis parthenias flew in greater numbers during the day, Polygonia c-album, Aglais urticae, Inachis io woke up. At night I caught the light, but the moon and a strong wind interfered. Brachionycha nubeculosa flew(10 pieces flew in!), Orthosia incerta, O. gothica, Biston strataria and some leafhoppers.
Beetles: in the evening flew some small (3mm) plavuntsy, staphylins(in my opinion, something from Omaliinae). In gnilushki collected a bunch of different small staphylins (from 1mm and more). Even in the forest, someone cut down a birch tree, and there on the leaking juice this was happening! Some diptera were circling in a heap over the stump, and spangles and other small beetles were crawling on it. I found a female firefly under a rock(maybe a larva?). I found afodiev in poo(I didn't define it)/ Asamoe funny thing is that in the forest on 1 sq. m. moss sat 15 pieces of Poecilus cupreus. Maybe it was the females laying their eggs .
Brachionycha nubeculosa

2 Zhuk
is not a bad catch, however!

And who is Boreus?

This is a glacier. In the Center, they probably already "flew away".
I just got out of town for the first time last Saturday. To Skorotovo. I rolled out my lip, I thought maybe Aglia had already flown out, and there was still snow there. But I think I saw one male... In addition to the "standard", very numerous springwort, ts-beloe, as well as lemongrass, urticaria and io (the last three were not caught), I caught some chyudo-yudo on a leaking birch tree. Most of all, it looks like a fairly large hybrid of L-white and xanthomelas, but I don't even know if there can be such things. The trip, by the way, is described in my LiveJournal...

This is a glacier. In the Center, they probably already "flew away".
I just got out of town for the first time last Saturday. To Skorotovo. I rolled out my lip, I thought maybe Aglia had already flown out, and there was still snow there. But I think I saw one male... In addition to the "standard", very numerous springwort, ts-beloe, as well as lemongrass, urticaria and io (the last three were not caught), I caught some chyudo-yudo on a leaking birch tree. Most of all, it looks like a fairly large hybrid of L-white and xanthomelas, but I don't even know if there can be such things. The trip, by the way, is described in my LiveJournal...

maybe it wasn't Aglia, but endromis.

In fact, I probably haven't seen either of them alive yet. But for a male, endromis was a little too light and broad-winged...

B. nubeculosa, Biston stratarius, and at least two moth species still fly in the Moscow region.

Sednya went out to the country, the weather was bad . Then the sun, then rain and snow. I caught a lot of beetles. From the catch: Rhagium inquisitor, funny staffs Stilicus sp. (similar to festivus), Oxytelus sp. and some Ptinus sp. I'll post photos of staffs later.

This post was edited by Zhuk - 22.04.2007 22: 49

This weekend (5-6. 05) again in the village (Ruzsky district).
5. 05. Weather sucks (+7). It was cold, a strong wind was blowing, and it was snowing.
I only caught beetles. Since last year, I specially left the bait in the forest (kachan cabbage). It has a lot of spangles (type 4 in my opinion) and other small beetles(Cryptophagus?). On the flowers of the spleen, I found some glistening beetles. Of the butterflies seen sleeping Archiearis parthenias. From an interesting flatfish Dendrophagus crenatus, which I haven't seen before. In the evening, I tried to fish for the light, but quickly turned everything off, as the temperature dropped to -3.6.05
. The weather improved noticeably(+18), the sun came out.
Fishing was great (especially after a long winter). From the beetles with Rhysanthia viridissima, Deporaus betulae, spangles Epuraea sp., some small elephant with a checkerboard pattern on the elytra. From the butterflies Ematurga atomaria, Anthocharis cardamines, Pieris napi, Celastrina argiolus, Araschnia levana. They flew Inachis io, Aglais urticae, Polygonia c-album, Gonepteryx rhamni. Of the diptera, I caught Bombylios major and, unknown to me, a completely black lion cub (Stratiomyidea). Here are the cases...

Archiearis parthenias



Fishing place-floodplain of the Ozerna river.


This post was edited by Zhuk - 07.05.2007 19: 16