Moscow and the Moscow region

took. current he is without a mustache for some reason. Rare? The color is gray. I can't take a picture, it might fly away. Jon is sitting in the bank, fast. Barely caught it.

Ah as zamorish sfotkay.

And who am I going to give it to? Who puts pryamoptera here?

And who am I going to give it to? Who puts pryamoptera here?

If there is no one - hold it in the freezer and give it to me when I arrive (now probably in winter).

photo of a cricket. Who knows?

Long-winged form Modicogryllus frontalis.

Thank you, I was already prompted that this is bordigalensis

Yes, I probably made a mistake (although it's still better to check the keys, they are very similar), but in this case, he skidded far.

Today, leaving the Orekhovo-Zuyevsky shopping center, I found a floating cibister under the streetlights. It seems not the most common view in the Moscow Region, especially in the city center.

Today, returning to Moscow from a dacha (about 30 km south of Domodedovo), I came across a live male Mantis religiosa sitting on the edge of a dirt road at about 15:00. Apparently, the informants did not lie about the finds of mantises in the Moscow region this year.

Today, returning to Moscow from a dacha (about 30 km south of Domodedovo), I came across a live male Mantis religiosa sitting on the edge of a dirt road at about 15:00. Apparently, the informants did not lie about the finds of mantises in the Moscow region this year.

He has been a resident of the Ministry of Defense for ten years.
Do you also write "30 km South of Domodedovo" on the labels?

He has been a resident of the Ministry of Defense for ten years.
Do you also write "30 km South of Domodedovo" on the labels?

You may be right. I don't know much about these animals. But for more than 40 years of collecting in this area, bogomolov has never met here.
No, I usually fill out labels in English and specify the coordinates. And what?

All pritvet.
Yesterday, before the rains started again, I took a ride to d.Zhukovo, Ramenskoye district.
I mowed down sawfly larvae and caterpillars on the grass, I got caught again
Drypta dentata (Rossi, 1790)


So that's where her nest is.

On October 9, TSCA Park will host the closing ceremony of the 2021 season. As always, we will look for female orthogrammarians. We will be glad to see all interested parties. Meet Timiryazevskaya metro station at the first car from the center at 11: 00.

September, by the way, is cold, so the orthogrammaries were already out a week ago.

September, by the way, is cold, so the orthogrammaries were already out a week ago.

Whoever wants to, will always come.

The post was edited by Gennadich - 03.10.2021 13: 56

I would like fresh congelatella, otherwise the photos in the collection are not to hell.

Closing of the season, on cotton wool - 4 last catches in plates, various stations, up to 10. XI., without mounted and cleaned in alcohol (spiders, larvae, mosquitoes). Up to 2/XI caddis flies were still caught, 2 species, but that's all, at a plus temperature, ice freezes in the traps. In late autumn, nutcrackers become noticeable, orthocentric ichneumonids of fungal mosquitoes and braconids-aliziins on diptera, proctotrupids and diapriids are rich. Occasionally, but in quite different places, there are glaciers. finally, a wingless chionea fell by the stream. This year, the dripta met often, and finally in a "flock" - on the SW edge of the extreme birches (10. X).
Box-ottol, "mounted", for the last month and a half, with a few stagnant exceptions from the summer.



This post was edited by CosMosk - 14.11.2021 14: 56

It's the middle of winter, which means it's time to report on this year's Moscow region trips. A couple of pages earlier, the first ones were already here - on Belopesotskaya and in Pushchino. Subsequently, I visited the first point once more and the second two and a half times, and also went twice to the vicinity of the village of Volodarsky, once to Nerskaya, and explored the southern environs of Protvino. In addition, at the very end of August, when nothing flies anymore, I also looked at some places in the vicinity of the village of Topkanovo.

In the village of Volodarsky, we managed to find a lot of new microbes: Cauchas rufimitrella, Grapholitha caecana, Perittia herrichiella (and maybe weberella), Pelochrista mollitana (which is not surprising, given the powerful thickets of elecampane) and Merrifieldia baliodactylus. In addition, he brought out Dichomeris limosellus from the caterpillar, and also met other interesting moths-Celypha rurestrana, Aristotelia baltica, Eteobalea anonymella, Pancalia leuwenhoekella, Orophia ferrugella and Apodia bifractella. Scopula nemoraria and Horisme tersata came across from the moths, at the same time a very bright caterpillar Calyptra thalictri mowed down from the basilisk, but I somehow managed to damage it with the rim of the net, I was upset and did not even take a picture. One of the beetles that attracted attention was Cassida murraea. In addition, the rarest orchid - helmet-bearing yathryshnik-was found on the limestones.

In Pushchino, during a spring trip, I drew attention to myself (tages, who was too lazy to chase with a camera, and Leucoptera sp. with gorse and broom, for which there were not enough cans) a completely small lawn at the entrance to the city. There, as well as on the slopes facing the Oka River under the power line, I collected most of the interesting things. In most of the Steppe Island Nature Reserve, the grass is already too high, and many places are even uncomfortable to walk. Apparently, without grazing, such places still need a fall of grass, but certainly not an annual one. Pushchino was pleasantly pleased with its colorful varieties - in addition to the banals, Zygaena loti, Z. centaureae, Z. ephialtes and Jordanita chloros met. At the end of the summer, there was an outbreak of Cupido minimus abundance, and daphnis was also occasionally caught. In addition, a lot of Melitaea britomartis flew in that same clearing. Among the smaller butterflies, Ecpyrrhorrhoe rubiginalis, Epichnopterix plumella, Tebenna bjerkandrella, Calyciphora nephelodactyla, and Bucculatrix humiliella attracted attention.

The second trip to Belopesotskaya was also marked by an interesting microbe: Scythris cuspidella, Glyphipterix equitella, Rhodophaea formosa and Agnoea flavifrontella. In addition, I collected and bred a caterpillar of Z. centaureae, but the butterfly came out a little underdeveloped, as the caterpillar got caught while mowing for thyme, and I hoped to the last that it was from Z. purpuralis))

I went to Nerskaya on the hottest and most stuffy day of the summer in the hope of finding Apollo on one of the old burning places adjacent to the railway (alas, he has not yet reached there). Because of the terrible heat, Phymatopus hecta and Phiaris metallicana reclined in my backpack, both of which were mowing down from the bushes in the mass. Other moths were more fortunate: Rhopobota ustomaculana, Agonopterix assimilella, Orophia ferrugella, and Argyresthia abdominalis. In the supposed biotope of Apollo, there was a huge amount of didyma and Rhodostrophia vibicaria, and one large Melanargia russiae was caught (oh, how I chased it...) and a lot of Daphne. Together with the less rare butterflies, the biomass was impressive, and there were noticeably more butterflies hanging out in the bug house than in the nursery itself.

At the very end of July, I walked along the clearing and forest edges on the southern border of Protvin. The most amazing find was Minois dryas killed in the trash! I hope there is a population there, and not an accidental flight-next year will show. There were also a lot of Ethiopians and a rare owl Heliothis ononis, once I saw daphnis and several times-corydon, there were also fireflies Cynaeda dentalis and Phycitodes saxicola, and in addition, Scolia hirta.

At the end of August, I walked on steep slopes in the vicinity of the village of Topkanovo. Their distinctive feature is the almost complete (at least, this was the impression) absence of steppe legumes and a huge amount of zopnik tuberous. As if not because everything is regularly burned there every year (I hope not...) In the undergrowth of the forest belt above the slopes, there is a lot of blackthorn in some places. Of the butterflies, I can only mention Selenodes karelicus.

Cassida murraea


Horisme tersata & Cauchas rufimitrella


Cauchas rufimitrella & Agonopterix assimilella


Grapholitha caecana & Perittia herrichiella


Pelochrista mollitana


Its biotope during the flowering period of the forage plant


Dichomeris limosellus


Zygaena centaureae & Scythris cuspidella


Glyphipterix equitella & Agnoea flavifrontella


Rhodophaea formosa & Rhopobota ustomaculana


Argyresthia abdominalis


Nerskaya-rosemary and blueberry grow without a single hint of a swamp in a dry pine forest


Zygaena ephialtes & Melitaea britomartis


Aristotelia baltica & Merrifieldia baliodactylus


The post was edited by Ilya U-28.01.2022 20: 19

Zygaena centaureae



Zygaena centaureae & Zygaena loti


Jordanita chloros & Epichnopterix plumella


The meadow where all this beauty flies:


Tebenna bjerkandrella & Apodia bifractella


Brenthis daphne & Hyles gallii


Heliothis ononis & Scolia hirta


Erebia aethiops & Selenodes karelicus


Minois dryas & Orchis militaris


Cupido minimus



Topkanovo

Cool photos. I looked at the excerpt-a little freaked out. How do you deal with perevyenka? Do you use any special plant holders?

I take it you're talking about moles?" It was shot at home, so there is no wind here. And with photos of diaries in nature, there seems to be nothing supernatural. Here in nature, only the Ethiopian, hirta, ononis and gallii were shot (and there is a slight movement), as well as minimus, which were sitting quite deep in the grass.

About pestryanok, where the shutter speed is 0.6 s.

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About pestryanok, where the shutter speed is 0.6 s.

It was shot at home, on carefully collected flowers in the biotope, put in the refrigerator before the photo shoot. Moreover, the role of the vase is played by a piece of white moss with a burrow the size of two fists (it is already three years old, or more...), where it is convenient to stick the stems, and instead of a tripod (I bought a normal one just a couple of days ago) - two stacks of books

Oh, I see, I thought it was in the field...

Hello everyone! I am interested in the Protaetia genus, collecting its representatives, but due to the current situation, the idea of trying to travel somewhere to the south has been covered with a copper basin. So I decided to collect someone who lives closer, namely the bronze Protaetia (Potosia) fieberi in the south of MO. Knowing that many of the forum members have been there (Luzhki and so on), I would like to ask how this locality is in terms of "coming, fishing and leaving", if there is no car. Is it really possible to find housing? And whether it is safe to climb through the woods there without catching any problems.

The season has opened! But there's still a lot of snow. Canister scoops, transverses, pyliosaria moth, and marginates. Lanestris. So far, that's all in the first hour

Pictures:

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The season has opened! But there's still a lot of snow. Canister scoops, transverses, pyliosaria moth, and marginates. Lanestris. So far, that's all in the first hour

Very sad

I went for a walk in Krasnogorsk. Nothing special, but still nice.

https://evergestis.wordpress.com/2022/04/14/krasnogorsk-8/

I plan a trip on 18.04.2021 to my dacha.
Task # 1 catch female Odontosia sieversi, Eupithecia lanceata and Apocheima hispidaria for breeding.

The post was edited by Gennadich - 15.04.2022 15: 37

I wouldn't mind a couple of hispidaria males, let alone a female

I plan a trip on 18.04.2021 to my dacha.
Task # 1 catch female Odontosia sieversi, Eupithecia lanceata and Apocheima hispidaria for breeding.

Three reports from the trip with Gennadich:

https://evergestis.wordpress.com/2022/04/27/topolinyi-3/

https://evergestis.wordpress.com/2022/04/27/voinova-gora-2/

https://evergestis.wordpress.com/2022/04/27/piryutino/

Aphodius of Warrior Mountain - Phaeaphodius rectus Motsch.
It's more likely to come from a summer cottage than from swamp grasses.

Aphodius of Warrior Mountain - Phaeaphodius rectus Motsch.

And a cool little dunghill! Not known west of Russia!

And a cool little dunghill! Not known west of Russia!

Dyk and in the ECR appeared recently, it is settling, maybe it will come to the Europeans

Hello everyone! I am interested in the Protaetia genus, collecting its representatives, but due to the current situation, the idea of trying to travel somewhere to the south has been covered with a copper basin. So I decided to collect someone who lives closer, namely the bronze Protaetia (Potosia) fieberi in the south of MO. Knowing that many of the forum members have been there (Luzhki and so on), I would like to ask how this locality is in terms of "coming, fishing and leaving", if there is no car. Is it really possible to find housing? And whether it is safe to climb through the woods there without catching any problems.

Good afternoon!
It is not very convenient to get to Luzhkov itself without a car ( previously, the bus ran twice a day). You can take the Pushkin bus (126) to the Luzhki turnoff, then walk or walk along the Drying Valley. I don't know about housing. Of the problems you can face with feral dogs. Once I saw a pack in the forest, because they were in a car. Well, about the protection of the reserve, which is constantly changing, you should not forget. By the way, the floodplain behind the Meadows up to Zibrovo has been actively plowed in recent years. In my opinion, Nikiforovo will be more interesting, there is also a bus going there.
Good luck!

I plan a trip on 18.04.2021 to my dacha.
Task # 1 catch female Odontosia sieversi, Eupithecia lanceata and Apocheima hispidaria for breeding.

In the evening of 22.04. a female sieversi arrived (for the first time). Shone at his dacha near Serpukhov. In previous years, males arrived, but rarely, singly. There is a photo, but you can't attach it right now. I'll add it later.

Good afternoon!
It is not very convenient to get to Luzhkov itself without a car ( previously, the bus ran twice a day). You can take the Pushkin bus (126) to the Luzhki turnoff, then walk or walk along the Drying Valley. I don't know about housing. Of the problems you can face with feral dogs. Once I saw a pack in the forest, because they were in a car. Well, about the protection of the reserve, which is constantly changing, you should not forget. By the way, the floodplain behind the Meadows up to Zibrovo has been actively plowed in recent years. In my opinion, Nikiforovo will be more interesting, there is also a bus going there.
Good luck!

Just the other day, a friend informed me that the" turn to Luzhki " (opposite the place where the traffic police used to be) now has bumpers and there is no bus stop there, and not only the bus to Pushchino (from the Yuzhnaya metro station I went on it), but also local people going from Serpukhov to Pushchino, stop there they can't; with the reverse ones, it seems the same, the former traffic police also doesn't have a stop. I haven't checked, but I believe it. But you can get to Serpukhov by an early train, and then call a bindyuzhnik already to the place. You can, of course, who knows the roads, ask the Moscow bus driver to drop you off at the turn on Danki (the so-called" fork"), from there walk along the highway to Karpovaya Polyana, from its rear - along the power line glade (with a crossing over the Sushka River) to the western border of the PTZ, and then turn along the power line glade along the PTZ fence in the direction of the south-west cordon, Luzhkov and Oka. But there won't be much time left for the vicinity of the PTZ, because buses from Moscow don't start running very early.

You can spend the night in a tent in those parts; you are unlikely to knock on the door of the houses there for the night. God did not personally bring me to meet with dog packs in the forest, and if I'm lucky, it's a dangerous thing.

The way back. If you have a smartphone with the Yandex app, then calling a taxi is not a problem, since you pay immediately. You can usually not call anyone to the village from a push-button phone (when you pay in cash at the end) (they are afraid that they will reach almost the place, and the client will suddenly cancel the call). I usually either waited for the six o'clock bus (to the station in Serpukhov), which runs from the bottom (and then up) Luzhkov; I hope he hasn't been liquidated yet. In those cases when I did not fit into the field until six in the evening, I went no later than eight-something on foot to the highway, along the way I either soon picked up a hitchhiker to Serpukhov, or I hitchhiked or walked to the highway, climbed to the side of the road (north of the bridge over Luzhkovsky highway, there the bump was strongly bent outwards, leaving for a transport stop) and voted, very soon some (micro)one stoppeda bus (from Tula, Pushchin, Novomoskovsk, etc.) that used to take you to Moscow at most for the prescribed price of a bus ride (if it wasn't Sunday evening, when there were almost no free seats). Many times it happened that cars were driven to some metro station. In general, voting is quite a useful thing in these places (compared to the more squalid places of the Ministry of Defense).

You can also spend the night in Serpukhov: in the evening, on the asphalt road between Luzhki and the highway, look for a ride, get to Serpukhov, find an inexpensive hotel there (there is information on the Internet, you can arrange in advance) for an overnight stay; then on the second day you can leave for Luzhki by an early bus (like at seven in the morning, from Moscow by train to it it is impossible to keep up), then on the second day there will be a lot of time in Luzhki.

Just the other day, a friend informed me that the" turn to Luzhki " (opposite the place where the traffic police used to be) now has bumpers and there is no bus stop there, and not only the bus to Pushchino (from the Yuzhnaya metro station I went on it), but also local people going from Serpukhov to Pushchino, stop there they can't; with the reverse ones, it seems the same, the former traffic police also doesn't have a stop. I haven't checked, but I believe it. But you can get to Serpukhov by an early train, and then call a bindyuzhnik already to the place. You can, of course, who knows the roads, ask the Moscow bus driver to drop you off at the turn on Danki (the so-called" fork"), from there walk along the highway to Karpovaya Polyana, from its rear - along the power line glade (with a crossing over the Sushka River) to the western border of the PTZ, and then turn along the power line glade along the PTZ fence in the direction of the south-west cordon, Luzhkov and Oka. But there won't be much time left for the vicinity of the PTZ, because buses from Moscow don't start running very early.

You can spend the night in a tent in those parts; you are unlikely to knock on the door of the houses there for the night. God did not personally bring me to meet with dog packs in the forest, and if I'm lucky, it's a dangerous thing.

The way back. If you have a smartphone with the Yandex app, then calling a taxi is not a problem, since you pay immediately. You can usually not call anyone to the village from a push-button phone (when you pay in cash at the end) (they are afraid that they will reach almost the place, and the client will suddenly cancel the call). I usually either waited for the six o'clock bus (to the station in Serpukhov), which runs from the bottom (and then up) Luzhkov; I hope he hasn't been liquidated yet. In those cases when I did not fit into the field until six in the evening, I went no later than eight-something on foot to the highway, along the way I either soon picked up a hitchhiker to Serpukhov, or I hitchhiked or walked to the highway, climbed to the side of the road (north of the bridge over Luzhkovsky highway, there the bump was strongly bent outwards, leaving for a transport stop) and voted, very soon some (micro)one stoppeda bus (from Tula, Pushchin, Novomoskovsk, etc.) that used to take you to Moscow at most for the prescribed price of a bus ride (if it wasn't Sunday evening, when there were almost no free seats). Many times it happened that cars were driven to some metro station. In general, voting is quite a useful thing in these places (compared to the more squalid places of the Ministry of Defense).

You can also spend the night in Serpukhov: in the evening, on the asphalt road between Luzhki and the highway, look for a ride, get to Serpukhov, find an inexpensive hotel there (there is information on the Internet, you can arrange in advance) for an overnight stay; then on the second day you can leave for Luzhki by an early bus (like at seven in the morning, from Moscow by train to it it is impossible to keep up), then on the second day there will be a lot of time in the Meadows.

Sorry, I didn't know about the fact that there is no stop on the highway at the turn to Luzhki. I haven't been there in a long time. Now I only go there by car at the bottom under the highway bridge. But the fact that repairs were carried out at the top is a fact.

Aphodius of Warrior Mountain - Phaeaphodius rectus Motsch.
It's more likely to come from a summer cottage than from swamp grasses.

Ptinus raptor

  
Ptinus raptor

My raptor collections are exclusively made from houses that are unheated in winter (such as summer cottages, houses at a biological station, and village houses that are not heated or lived in in winter).