Moscow and the Moscow region

Apart from auraga, only Aprilina can be distinguished from non-frequent guests. And so, the catocals of Fraxinia continue to fly, and summer butterflies still arrive. There are quite a lot of porcini mushrooms in the forest. Egeria fly, I don't even know what generation, they started this year in April.

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Has anyone met Thyris fenestrella in MO?

The season closed, and the last bombicoids flew. After them, nothing interesting happens anymore. There were more mushrooms, the second wave of honey agarics, young white mushrooms, buttercups, podberezoviki, Polish, gray mosses went.

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The season closed, and the last bombicoids flew. After them, nothing interesting happens anymore. There were more mushrooms, the second wave of honey agarics, young white mushrooms, buttercups, podberezoviki, Polish, gray mosses went.

Is this an Oilman?

Is this an Oilman?

No, this is 83 km of the Yaroslavl railway station

And in the TSHA park yesterday, so far only autumnates with orthogrammaries, plumiger and defoliary have not yet been observed.
most interesting - saw a woodcock

Now, Moscow, Leningradskaya, dozens of plumigera, and the litura agrochola, an infrequent animal in our region, has also arrived

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TCA 2020
Report on our trip to the park of the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy together with Zhuk 10.10.2020.
This week I visited the park twice on my own and didn't have much success. In total, only 2 specimens of Larerannis ortogrammaria were found in 5 hours of searching. The park had been dry all week, the fallen leaves rustling underfoot. However, after the rains on Thursday and Friday, the situation has changed. On Friday evening, in the area where I live, the lime trees were full of male Operophtera brumata and we decided to try our luck in TLC.
We walked in the park for more than 6 hours.
What can be noted: O. brumata flies en masse, there are a lot of males of different colors at any stage of wing spreading. You can see them especially well on fences. In addition, several L. ortogrammaria have been encountered. There were only two Erannis defoliaria, and we found them near the end of the hike. There are also several species of scoops: Agrochola circellaris, Amphipya pyramidea.
In one of the areas of the park, we were pleased with 3 pieces of Ptilophora plumigera, including one female.
Surprisingly, we also managed to fulfill the main goal of the trip: we found a female, presumably O. fagata, whose male we found only in the amount of one piece.

On the last warm day, I spat at work and went to my place in Neftyanik for mushrooms. There is a mushroom, good white ones, a lot of butter and Polish ones. After the mushrooms, I stopped to see the yolks, there are not many of them, the photo shows the entire catch in 15 minutes. There are also khialas and myrmidons, one khiala is even somewhat similar to erata. A lot of admirals, burdocks, latons, some crazy pigeons. If the whole field was in flowers, then everything on it was fed, a lot of shovels, a lot of whiteflies and lemongrass. And this is October 14! Why should we go to Europe if it came to us by itself, at least because of the weather?
PS I was confirmed here that the lower right erata, apparently flew from the south in our October summer! At 14.30 when I caught it was +20!

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On the last warm day, I spat at work and went to my place in Neftyanik for mushrooms. There is a mushroom, good white ones, a lot of butter and Polish ones. After the mushrooms, I stopped to see the yolks, there are not many of them, the photo shows the entire catch in 15 minutes. There are also khialas and myrmidons, one khiala is even somewhat similar to erata. A lot of admirals, burdocks, latons, some crazy pigeons. If the whole field was in flowers, then everything on it was fed, a lot of shovels, a lot of whiteflies and lemongrass. And this is October 14! Why should we go to Europe if it came to us by itself, at least because of the weather?

Damn, MO like on another planet Today went near Yaroslavl in the forests-there are practically no mushrooms-stunted wormy russula, eaten up to the most impossible late buttermilk... if not for a couple of stumps with autumn honey agarics... there are no" Scales " from the word "at all", mowing - only young spiders and small beetles. All beetles. which I found-in the dead wood for the winter..

The post was edited by Elizar - 14.10.2020 18: 51

Damn, MO like on another planet Today went near Yaroslavl in the forests-there are practically no mushrooms-stunted wormy russula, eaten up to the most impossible late buttermilk... if not for a couple of stumps with autumn honey agarics... there are no" Scales " from the word "at all", mowing - only young spiders and small beetles. All beetles. which I found-in the dead wood for the winter..

Yes, I can confirm that over the past two weeks, over the weekend, attempts to collect mushrooms in the Yaroslavl region near Pleshcheyev lake led to the fact that the mushrooms were not collected, but we were successfully fed by elk flies. There are hundreds of them in the swamps in this heat, so there was no time for mushrooms, which were really very few. Therefore, I had to go from the dacha on 83 km of the Yaroslavl highway near Orekhovo-Zuyevo to another dacha and collect mushrooms there

This year I decided to pay attention to coleoptera.
Most of the collections are made with the help of soil traps in three points of the Moscow region: 1) Chekhov district (mixed forest); 2) sosnovy bor and 3) syraya polyana in Serpukhov district.
The left part of the box - beetles collected on cow dung.
Lower right corner - manual harvesting on the clay-sand bank of a forest pond.
Some ground beetles are hand-picked in a mixed forest in the south-west of Moscow.

This year I decided to pay attention to coleoptera.
Most of the collections are made with the help of soil traps in three points of the Moscow region: 1) Chekhov district (mixed forest); 2) sosnovy bor and 3) syraya polyana in Serpukhov district.
The left part of the box - beetles collected on cow dung.
Lower right corner - manual harvesting on the clay-sand bank of a forest pond.
Some ground beetles are hand-picked in a mixed forest in the south-west of Moscow.

And the water scorpion got in the way ))

And the water scorpion got in the way ))

Yes. I put one soil trap on the swampy bank of a forest pond. As a result, a water scorpion, Dytiscus marginalis and a leech got there. I saw all three creatures for the first time in my life. It was very interesting.

This year I decided to pay attention to coleoptera.
Most of the collections are made with the help of soil traps in three points of the Moscow region: 1) Chekhov district (mixed forest); 2) sosnovy bor and 3) syraya polyana in Serpukhov district.
The left part of the box - beetles collected on cow dung.
Lower right corner - manual harvesting on the clay-sand bank of a forest pond.
Some ground beetles are hand-picked in a mixed forest in the south-west of Moscow.

Only the tanners ' sawyers are not straightened out for the Orthodox) In barbels, they basically do not bend like this, even in the determinant it is written)

My reports on the Oil industry this year are quite monotonous Again mushrooms, they are there, although they have become somewhat less. Although on the weekend of October 24 it was quite warm, the temperature fluctuated around plus 14, but the sun was sporadic, so we didn't see any yellowheads At night, another aurago flew in, most likely it lives here, and not knocked up. In general, despite the plus 10, the screen is already flying sluggishly at night, 3 types of scoops, winter moth and plumigers. The season is over

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Today I received an email with a comment from Jürgen Rodeland. In 2011, I shot Pyralis regalis, which in 2020 became Pyralis cardinalis KAILA, HUEMER, MUTANEN, TYLLINEN & WIKSTRÖM, 2020.
About how.
http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Pyralis_Cardinalis

On November 9, the Moscow Region season ended. yesterday approx.+9, then immediately cold snap:

I didn't look at the diaries,but from memory-the end of the 90s-the last temperatures around +9+11 in the afternoon were also exactly approx.November 10th, give or take a day.

In the photo, what is selected immediately on the mattress and in the tire iron from 90 grams of insects (7 liters, 30 deep plates), the rest is in the alcohol archive. Methods: I wash the catch in water, throw it in the tray-I choose garbage, alcohol groups on a blotter, for drying - I put what I need on a piece of paper slightly filled with water - the wingswhiskers are easily straightened, then I drain the water from the tray or pull it out with a syringe, and when it dries up night-day (slowing down evaporation, covering it with another tray to not dry until I get ready) - everything is soft and elastic-I straighten it out. The flies will be as good as new, well,as far as they could be beaten with bristles during straining and washing - often quite good, but you need to straighten your legs-whiskers and "comb" the bristles.
If there is no time to immediately disassemble fresh, fixed "for later" and taken out of alcohol (pour an absolute 1:1 volume of the material, after 2 weeks or a month, replace the healing fat infusion with fresh 70%alcohol), everything with soft covers will require time-consuming wiring for alcohols and acetone. I decided to avoid such an extra effort, to disassemble more immediately,at least put it on cotton wool. If you don't have time to disassemble right away,but put it aside for a few days.days-I pour it in vinegar and keep it in the refrigerator for several days (but then the snails soften-decalcify,and the flies will drop their eyes when they dry). Drying stage:

from Oct 24 to Nov 3. glaciers have already started to appear (although RoPro photographed them already on 30.9.2017), only 2 males and 2 females at two points, both at the edge of the coniferous-mixed forest of the south-western exposure.
At the same time, there was still quite a riot of parasitic diversity.pereponov and other fragments of summer - on the eye and the net can not see anything, but they are quite caught in such a late season, 3 times richer than the one presented (this last week). Newts also migrated through the forest.
There are no more newts in this catch, the drift slugs Krynickillus were walking less, but suddenly the juvenile small gray-striped Deroceras suddenly popped out, and the number and diversity of Proctotrupidae sharply increased. Senkos don't care - autumn is their time. mushroom flies Heleomyzidae are also in full late autumn diversity, but here they are not selected at all, male mushroom mosquitoes are in alcohol (like Phoridae - there were very few of them). The calliphorids merged sharply - only 1 male Calliphora per week of trap exposure. the peak of barabus-nemorabus was somewhere in mid-late September.




This post was edited by CosMosk - 19.11.2020 16: 44

Happy New Year 2021 to all of you!!!

Good luck, good health, and new interesting finds in the coming year!!!

A herd of buffalo.

Stictocephala bisonia Kopp & Yonke 1977

23.09.2020
Moscow Region, Balashikha, Olgino forest Park.





14.10.2020
Moscow Region, Balashikha, Kuchino forest Park



Buffalo flew in droves. This is the first time I've seen them in the Ministry of Defense, and even in such a large number. Before that, I had never come across them here, only in the south.

This year, my bison were growing well in August. I wanted to open a hunt, but I read that we have been celebrating them for a long time. There were no casualties.

Hello everyone.
Today I was born with a butterfly that I couldn't get out last year. Please love and favor
Cucullia chamomillae (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
in person.
M. O., Ramenskiy district, Zhukovo 19.06.2020, caterpillars are collected on Tripleurospermum inodorum in the number of 100 pieces, of which I received 35 cocoons, parasites know their business.


22.06.2020


25.06.2020


28.06.2020


Other color variations


Cocoon creation 28.06.2020

Of the 35 cocoons, as I wrote above, 19 pieces remained, the rest were also parasitized.
22.09.2020

This is all taken on 31.01.2020









Here you can see that the dark strokes enter the fringe. Cucullia lucifuga doesn't have this.

Is this butterfly (Cucullia chamomillae) rare? On Inaturalist, there is only one observation from Russia that I made this summer: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/50962809

Hello everyone.
Today I was born with a butterfly that I couldn't get out last year. Please love and favor
Cucullia chamomillae (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)
in person.

100 tracks! Andriukh, you're a monster now!) Here you will find a couple of pieces of the usual type and it is already joyful

This post was edited by Zhuk - 31.01.2021 21: 59

Is this butterfly (Cucullia chamomillae) rare? On Inaturalist, there is only one observation from Russia that I made this summer: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/50962809

In the center, frankly, infrequent:

100 tracks! Andriukh, you're a monster now!) Here you will find a couple of pieces of the usual type and it is already joyful

So it took exactly that much to display. 2. waiting for more.

Another new view for me in the Moscow region.
Before that, I came across in Sochi, the Crimea and the Volgograd region.

Harmonia axyridis Pallas, 1773
Larvae and pupae massed on birch trunks

14.10.2020
Moscow region, Zheleznodorozhny, l / p Kuchino
Larvae



Predkukolka


Pupae



Bugs






That same evening about a dozen flew to the light on the balcony

Hello everyone Has anyone already been out in nature this year? Any results in the Moscow region?

I'm going to do it next week ) While the weather is not favorable.

Hello everyone Has anyone already been out in nature this year? Any results in the Moscow region?

On the border of Moscow with Lyubertsy in the private sector every evening I have a lamp burning, several cans of vaccinations and all, not a single new one (not overwintered) The butterflies didn't arrive so late yet the years had never started.

On the border of Moscow with Lyubertsy in the private sector every evening I have a lamp burning, several cans of vaccinations and all, not a single new one (not overwintered) The butterflies didn't arrive so late yet the years had never started.

Very strange! The mother-and-stepmother has not been on the heating mains for several days, and according to my observations, this guarantees the output of parthenias and pilosaria.

UPD: Butterflies want the first normal report of 2021 to open 101 forum pages, so you need 6 more flood messages here.

The post was edited by Ilya U-08.04.2021 18: 08

Well, or you can not flood and report for 2020 on Pestovo, and then I've been putting it off for six months. Just a few photos with comments.

The season started on March 18... from the May butterfly Choreutis pariana. To pair it with Autographa mandarina - for the fact that it is also square.


Ant on a willow tree:


Spring rarities of Anticlea derivata and Trichopteryx polycommata.


The successfully bred Syngrapha microgamma-caterpillar was higher in this topic.



Asthena albulata & Cochylis nana


Retinia resinella & Lampronia capitella


Blastethia turionella & Thera variata is an unusual color


Silvery clouds


Lampronia flavimitrella & Agnathosia mendicella

Leucania comma & Brown variation of Hada plebeja


Tischeria ?ekebladella & Mythimna vitellina - the second find in the region, and the first by date


Ornixola caudulatella & Cyphophora idaei


Odonteus armiger. Either I didn't pay attention to it before, or it was especially massive this year.


Photedes extrema & Dioryctria, suspiciously similar to schuetzeella


Hellinsia ?didactylites & Elachista gleichenella


Dicycla oo & Nemophora cupriacella


Acronicta alni


Buckleria paludum. A few years ago I caught one specimen on the Sim, this time I found a whole population in my swamp (almost in the same place as the microgamma), and somehow managed not to catch any in previous years and on the way "there" during a walk, several specimens were found only on the way "back"


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Idaea seriata & Xanthia ocellaris-both from Moscow


Nycteola asiatica (determined by Mats with a specimen in his hands) & Phiaris palustrana, which arrived not only for the first time here, but also very late-on August 31.


Aproaerema anthyllidella & Endotricha flammealis


Euchromius ocelleus & Pterapherapteryx sexalata-not only an aberration, but also very late caught, September 5


Griposia aprillina-you can't pass by this butterfly without a photo!


Cadra ?furcatella


Pheosia tremula from September 27 & Cadra cautella. The last one-from Moscow, closed the 2020 season on November 29.


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Great photos of Ilya!)

April 10-11, Ruzsky district, Lenkovo. Shone until one o'clock in the morning, flew sluggishly and sporadically, total:
Brachionycha nubeculosa
Lithophane consocia
Orthosia incerta
Orthosia gothica

During the day, Archiearis parthenias and a standard overwintered party are in full swing.

Photographed last year in Lishnyagi Nonnea dark:
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and now the question has arisen, how far to the north in the ECR goes metallovidka Euchalcia consona? It's her food plant. Is there a chance to find this species in the south of the Moscow region?

and now the question has arisen, how far north does the metalloid Euchalcia consona go in the HDI? It's her food plant. Is there a chance to find this species in the south of the Moscow region?

In Ryazan there is.

Volodya Vasilenko last night shone a light at his home in Alferovo. There are no Lanestris. The Siversies are arriving. Male endromis flew. Moth scoops are standard for spring. In my Ukhtomka village on the outskirts of Moscow, creposcularia moths have already flown, and early spring moths and scoops are also flying.

The next night Volodya received three lanestris (males) and no endromis

Jogging in the Yegoryevsky and Lukhovitsky districts of the Moscow region on April 17, 2021. The photo could not be attached. Among other things, the apollo points were checked; S. V. Kovalev noted a feeding apollo caterpillar (7 mm). A sign of the apollo biotope (this is not only for the Ministry of Defense), the presence of a landfill is becoming more and more common from year to year. In the Lukhovitsy district, two larvae of osmoderma and cancellatus were found under the bark of one fallen dead oak tree (among the rot and their own droppings), and three cucuzhus were found under the bark of another.

Incomplete stardart set of flying birds in the spring: vesennitsa (only parthenias are noted), lemongrass (almost exclusively males are noted), c-album, urticaria, xanthomelas, 1 specimen was recorded in the Yegoryevsky district. mourners.

Two days earlier, I had surveyed the nature of the territory of the Moscow Radio Engineering Plant, which is now mostly occupied by third-party enterprises (if you are interested, you can look at the Yandex map of Moscow and see how many buildings and institutions and what territory are listed at the simple address Vereyskaya str., 29). The most interesting thing was to observe on the edge of the forest a sandy cliff with many minks 6 millimeters in diameter, near which several individuals of a large buzzer were spinning. In selectively checked burrows, many remains of exuvia pupae were found.

This post was edited by A. J. Elez - 04/27/2021 06: 14