Moscow and the Moscow region

Almost the same picture in the same district-not at my dacha. I will add that from katokal only nupts and blue ones, and the latter are more (five pieces per night). The pink ones probably flew off at the beginning of August, when I was in Belarus. It seems that dandelion silkworms too, because the only one that arrived on August 22 had a shabby look. In the myrmidon nursery myrmidon nemerenno, reached up to a dozen in line of sight, females and males alike, half worn. I'll write a more detailed report with photos later.

Yes, with Aedia funesta in the Moscow Region is good, at least in the O-Zuevsky district - not far from rare, caught also in Moscow (Kosino) and S-Pasadsky district, but less often.

And I didn't pay any attention to myrmidon there, they were already tired of it. Isn't Orion there by any chance? It seems like the right places.
But I saw katokala at the dacha only once, and she quickly got away from me (I saw her sitting only from below). She looked like a nupta in her underwear. And another thing: at the very end, on the night of August 21-22, I saw a healthy scoop, not a katokala, while the eurois were already flying away. Who could it be?

I didn't catch Orion there. Do catocals really fly so badly in your country, but what kind of lamp? Large scoops that have arrived to me over the past week: A. pyramidea/berbera, A. perflua, B. amica, E. occulta. The latter still fly, and even come across not very stripped!

I turn on the lamp above the porch (it casts a light on the bright door), and on the porch I put another table lamp, aimed at the street. (I don't have a drv) I also walk at dusk with a net along flower beds or fences. The most interesting thing is that the flowers and light come across different types. Perhaps a large scoop was the penultimate one, what is it compared to the occult? The occult, by the way, often does not have the same flight as normal scoops, flapping their wings less often. By the way, did you catch N. typhae? What size is it?

This post was edited by Ilya U - 08/24/2008 09: 35

So.. I'll also report back over the past weekend:
Caught both traps and light and collected manually.
on the light: A lot of scoops flew, I'm full of 0 in them, but I can call Scolyopterix libatrix and a large ribbon - fraxini. From hawkmoth-many Deilephila elpenor and Hyles galii and both butterflies and caterpillars. Colias myrmidone flew on forest roads, but infrequently.
Different Calathus fell into the traps: fuscipes, melanocephalus, and I think micropterus. Carabus hortensis, Anoplotrupes stercorosus, near the lake: Necrodes littoralis, Elaphrus angusticolis, Hydrophilis.
Manually collected: Curculio glandium, a bunch of leaf eaters and elephants, but they have not yet touched. The first time I met Maladera holosericea and would not take it if I did not know that serika does not fly already... and then I doubted took and opa)
Scaphidium quadrimaculatum-sat under a log. Harpalus with cereals photographed it would be necessary to determine. In the boar's rookery, I found funny beetles, small shiny ones with a very hard shell, very convex. Like everything...

Bedbugs from "photos from the net" are similar to Thyreocoris scarabaeoides
http://www.koleopterologie.de/heteroptera/...oto-koehler.jpg

In general, I returned from the dacha, from about a month of fishing to the light from my last report, in general, the end of July-August almost did not please me, there were several interesting species, and so - many banal annual species flew singly.
I won't write everything, just the most interesting ones:
A relatively large number of Thyatira batis compared to previous years (even 2 females were caught)
Trichiura crataegi only 4 males arrived, last year there were more of them. The sad thing is that they almost always arrive shabby, perfect ones are very difficult to catch.
Lymantria dispar, 1 copy. caught, 1 flew away and 1 with a half-straightened wing. (all males, of course)
Lymantria monacha, female, only one spruce in the forest and very few in suburban areas... this species has never been caught before...
There were almost no second-generation tufts, as during their summer the cold weather began (at night up to 6 degrees), so nothing interesting, the most common species.
Of the hawkmoth little interesting, except that one yazykan flew by, they usually fly in the mass with a period of 3 years.
With scoops, everything is a little better, I also found several caterpillars, including Cucullia, which has already pupated. (think lactucae)
Some of the types that are interesting to me are:
Noctua fimbriata (pair of specimens)), also more than usual Noctua interposita, Autographa bractea, Cosmia diffinis (1 caught, 1 missed), Ipimorpha retusa.
With moth is also not quite bad, surprised small Angerona prunaria in mid-August, Ennomos erosaria and another species, until determined, caught a female Thalera fimbrialis, Scopula rubiginata.
With erebids it is bad, male and female Scoliopteryx libatrix, Calyptra thalictri 1 ex., tapeworms in general are not enough, nupt and fulminates can be counted on the fingers, fraxini, in my opinion, just flew.
From the daytime banal unpaired chervonets, agriades, a lot of admirals. Another question: has anyone seen mourning girls in recent years, I haven't seen them in 4 years at all already. Lots of Carcharodus alceae, 3 copies. Thecla betulae.

This post was edited by AntSkr - 08/24/2008 22: 29

I was unlucky with mourning girls in 2007, and this year I met one Namay holiday at my dacha and another one a week ago.

So.. I'll also report back over the past weekend:
Caught both traps and light and collected manually.
on the light: A lot of scoops flew, I'm full of 0 in them, but I can call Scolyopterix libatrix and a large ribbon - fraxini.

In addition, about the scoops that Sednya dared:
Acronicta rumicis
Acronicta leporina
Laspeyria flexula
Cucullia sp.
Lacanobia oleracea
Tholera cespitis
Tholera decimalis
Diachrysia stenochrysis
Amphipoea fucosa
Cirrhia icteritia
Elaphria venustula
Enargia paleacea
Lithophane socia
Pseudeustrotia candidula
Staurophora celsia
Mesoligia furuncula

I turn on the lamp above the porch (it casts a light on the bright door), and on the porch I put another table lamp, aimed at the street. (I don't have a drv) I also walk at dusk with a net along flower beds or fences. The most interesting thing is that the flowers and light come across different types. Perhaps a large scoop was the penultimate one, what is it compared to the occult? The occult, by the way, often does not have the same flight as normal scoops, flapping their wings less often. By the way, did you catch N. typhae? What size is it?

It is smaller, a centimeter and a half in span, flies little, immediately sits down. N. typhae caught often, a span of about 5 cm, the color of the front wings varies from pale beige to dark gray.

Promised detailed report on fishing at the dacha near O-Zuev from August 18 to 23

First, about the trip to the nursery for myrmidons. The number is crazy, females and males are about equal, females have a large variability in color (see the photo, is it really all white and yellow myrmidons???). From other daytime banal mother-of-pearl (both from the wrong side of Selena? I still don't understand how to distinguish selenium from efrosina by basal spots), shabby pigeons, the underside of one cm in the photo (what kind of species has not yet been determined), chervontsy fire – females and flaming.
At night, much less than usual. Second generations of medium-sized wine and bedstraw plants, shabby dandelion silkworm and other banalities.
Scoops – made of catocals - blue and red (see photo). Some of the others in the other photo are
(1 row from top to bottom) - Blepharita amica (2), Lithomoia solidaginis (2), Cucullia sp.?;
(2) - Noctua interposita (4), Xestia c-nigrum;
(3 – - Staurophora celsia (2), Mesogona oxalina (2), Chersotis cuprea;
(4 – - Gortyna flavago, Xanthia togata,???, Anarta trifolii, Diarsia rubi;
(5) - ???, ???, Tholera cespitis, Rivula sericealis.
There were few moths, here are some in the photo.

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banal mother-of-pearl (both from the wrong side of Selena? I still don't understand how to distinguish selenium from efrosine by basal spots)

Your specimens are selenes; the Moscow euphrosyne has only a mother-of-pearl spot in the median cell on the underside of the hind wing and the lower one from the basal ones. In addition, efrosins fly in wetter places than selenes, and we have only one generation.

At his dacha on weekends in the Orekhovo-Zuyevsky district of nymphalia met hives, admirals, peacock eyes and angloptera.

I fished yesterday for the light, in general, there are not many interesting things, mostly summer views are not over yet, there are not enough autumn ones.
From the interesting - this afternoon I found Calamia tridens.

Yes, from the autumn only Agrochola circellaris in the mass.
It is not far behind gamma and Xestia c-nigrum.
The only thing that seemed interesting this warm weekend is Eustroma reticulata

And I got Nycteola degenerana!

What surprised me was the arrival of a male Arctornis l-nigrum!!!

On www.leps.it there is a September photo of this species.

There are very few reports, probably people got tired over the summer...
We went on Friday with Nikitsky to shoot traps set a month and a half ago on Zhukov (I have already written about this in detail). The barbel for which these traps were set, of course, was not caught. In 25 soil and 4 window traps, about a kilogram of material was collected, but who was caught there is better to ask Romka (Omar) who communicates with the professor. By the way, in view of the "excellent" weather on Friday, we went together, and the planned company besides us of three more people disappeared, to which the professor said that "this is a characteristic phenomenon for such weather." There are no photos about the trip, because the hands in the rain in the five-degree heat froze quickly and there was no desire to shoot.
At the dacha, on the night from Saturday to Sunday, butterflies flew a little, nothing outstanding, but Diloba caeruleocephala just arrived, usually I have it flying in early October.

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to sdi for 30.08 08
4 row 3-not a scoop-ognevka Galleria

I was at Vladimir's, stopped by to pick up the boxes. At the same time, he showed me his fees. I don't know anything about beetles, but some butterflies aroused interest. In cocoonworms - three tremulifolia caught in Punks (this is not one I have on the border with Lyubertsy); in dipper-regularly arriving lichen chetyrehtochechnaya (I don't remember in Punks or near Yegoryevsk) plus plantain in the light; agate scoop probably not so rare for MO, but it never came to me.

Agate scoop in MO terribly rare migrant

I was at Vladimir's, stopped by to pick up the boxes. At the same time, he showed me his fees. I don't know anything about beetles, but some butterflies aroused interest. In cocoonworms - three tremulifolia caught in Punks (this is not one I have on the border with Lyubertsy); in dipper-regularly arriving lichen chetyrehtochechnaya (I don't remember in Punks or near Yegoryevsk) plus plantain in the light; agate scoop probably not so rare for MO, but it never came to me.

And the agate scoop (we both mean Phlogophora methiculosa, right?) Did you get caught in Punks?

Just returned from the village (Ruzsky district, Lenkovo). The weather was really cool. Everything flies, buzzes and crusts just some kind of summer . I practically didn't catch it during the day. Lots of admirals, hives, and anglwings are flying around. On lapchyatke near the house found 3 huge caterpillars Macrothylacia rubi. I also found a Calliteara pudibunda pupa.
Night fishing was naturally more productive:

Geometridae:
Epirrita autumnata

Noctuidae:
Catocala fraxini
Diloba caeruleocephala
Xestia c-nigrum (easy vogon!)
Axylia putris
Autographa gamma
Agrochola circellaris (also quite a few)
Eupsilia transversa
Lithophane consocia
Lithophane socia

Catch:

And the agate scoop (we both mean Phlogophora methiculosa, right?) Did you get caught in Punks?

I think by Yegoryevsk, we mean exactly it. You can find out more precisely from Vladimir, who makes boxes (he left his coordinates in the equipment). By the way, I liked the 40x50 elm boxes, I ordered more, they cost 1320 rubles apiece.

Yes, the season is almost over, no one writes. Maybe Mikhail, having returned from warm lands, will give out something with a bang. In Moscow, fleecers are already flying (though pyramid scoops in excellent condition are immediately caught), there is almost no hope for anything rare. True, this weekend they broadcast some unseasonably hot weather, so I'll rush to the dacha, maybe on Thursday evening, and I'll have time to catch something else this year.

If the electricity is turned off again , the season will definitely end for me, they have already turned it off 2 times from Saturday to Sunday from evening to morning...

I once tried to turn off the lights when I was watching the FIFA World Cup (someone was changing the wiring). I raised such a scandal there that they don't even try to turn off the electricity when I'm in the country anymore. Well, unless of course there is an accident on the line, no one is insured against force majeure.

Just when it's cold, the whole village turns on the heaters and the power of the substation is not enough and it automatically turns off. And only an electrician who is usually drunk on a Saturday can turn it on...

Dacha, Chigasovo, okr. Zvenigorod, Odintsovo district, M. O.
Catching on light DRL 250-125 W
Years began after 20: 00 with the onset of complete darkness. The main mass (so to speak) flew up to 22: 00, From 23:00 nothing flew. The air temperature is +13.
What arrived:
small, like, leafhoppers,
a pair of
fingerflies Epirrita autumnata
Operoptera fagata
Thera juniperata
Colotois pennaria
Poecilocampa populi
Conistra vaccinii
Conistra rubiginea
Agrotis segetum
Lithophane socia
Eupsilia transversa
Hydraecia micacea
Agrochola circellaris
Xestia c-nigrum
Scoliopteryx libatrix
The photo shows what I took with me

Do not pay attention to the laying of eggs on the left. These are echoes of the summer period

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Dacha, Chigasovo, okr. Zvenigorod, Odintsovo district, M. O.
Catching on light DRL 250-125 W
Years began after 20: 00 with the onset of complete darkness. The main mass (so to speak) flew up to 22: 00, From 23:00 nothing flew. The air temperature is +13.

Oh, I wonder what kind of flyers they are...

Report on last weekend (4-5. 10. Lenkovo)
During the day, a huge number of different insects flew, but there was nothing sensible. Lemongrass and admirals flow from butterflies. But fishing in the light was much more interesting (the beginning of summer and so on is the same as Morozzz). A huge number of different caddis flies were flying, probably all autumn species.
That's what flew:

Geometridae:
Epirrita autumnata
Operophtera brumata
Thera juniperata

Noctuidae:
Nycteola degenerana
Mythimna pallens
Axylia putris
Xestia c-nigrum
Agrochola circellaris
Agrochola lota
Gortyna flavago
Hydraecia micacea
Lithophane socia
Nonagria typhae








This post was edited by Zhuk - 07.10.2008 09: 17

Report on the last warm days at the dacha in O-Zuevsky district (2-5. 10. 08). Amazing weather drove all Muscovites out of the city. The number of mushroom pickers and hunters in the forest on Saturday was the highest for the whole year. It's good that I managed to skim the cream on Friday and pick mushrooms in silence, although I also picked a lot of mushrooms on Saturday. I put the best photos. Now about the butterflies. I guess I've already chosen my limit of new species for the year, so I didn't catch anything new for myself. Almost all the autumn species flew, plus several species that should not fly for a long time, for example, poplar hawk moth, lichen, and birch crested bird. All three nights it was very warm, around 15 degrees. Once again, I was convinced of the effectiveness of a pricked lamp over a non-pricked one. The first two nights it flew much thicker on the broken lamp than on the third, for a whole night. Here's a list of what ended up flying:
Geometridae
1. Cabera exanthemata
2. Colotois pennaria
3. Epione repandaria
4. Erannis defoliaria
5. Epirrita autumnata
6. Operophtera brumata/fagata
7. Xanthorhoe spadicearia
8. Thera juniperata
Noctuidae
1. Scoliopteryx libatrix
2. Lacanobia suasa
3. Mythimna pallens
4. Hypena proboscidalis
5. Hypena rostralis
6. Agrotis segetum
7. Xestia c-nigrum
8. Autographa gamma
9. Macdunnoughia confusa
10. Actinotia polyodon
11. Agrochola circellaris
12. Agrochola lota
13. Blepharita amica
14. Conistra rubiginea
15. Conistra vaccinii
16. Eupsilia transversa
17. Lithophane socia
18. Nonagria typhae
19. Xanthia togata
Lasiocampidae
1. Poecilocampa populi
Notodontidae
1. Pheosia gnoma
Sphingidae
1. Laothoe populi
Lymantriidae
1. Orgyia antiqua
Arctiidae
1. Eilema lurideola ?

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wow!

Does this apply to mushrooms? Then yes!! But there are no outstanding butterflies...

And I fished for the light on the weekend. From the interesting - 3 pieces of Thera juniperata and 9 (!) males of Ptilophora plumigera (I will post a photo this week in the corresponding topic). Well, the usual little things.

Today, a lepidopterologist and I decided to give up on the stupid university and went to the park of the Timiryazevskaya Academy.
The weather was not very pleasant, it was drizzling. There was a lot of stuff like Erannis defoliaria, Larerannis orthogrammaria (less than last year), Operophtera brumata and Epirrita autumnata. We were looking for wingless Larerannis females, but there were only one males. And now, in desperation, we went home when suddenly lepidopterolog noticed E. autumnata on the fence.
I went to the fence and looked at this moth, but then I looked up and saw...

...Ptilophora plumigera!!!!!!!

Utter shock. Rethinking life values . After 10 minutes of recovering from this shock, we climbed the fence up and down, but to no avail. Finally, I caught sight of a lamppost, on which, a few meters from the ground, another ptilophora was sitting!!! Now the main object of our interest is lampposts. Of course, we didn't find anything else on them.
We were going to go home. I went into the woods, behind the fence, I'm sorry, for a little need, and the Beetle began to inspect the maple growth behind the fence. Soon I heard his victory cry - another ptilophora was found, this time a female!!!

Another minute later, male.

Everyone was sitting on the branches of a young maple tree.
After searching for butterflies for another hour and a half, we drove home after dark.
Four wonderful ptilophores left with us