Moscow and the Moscow region

TLCA Park 11.10.2011. Amphipyra piramidea is somehow unusual and small.

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Are the Ptilophores gone yet?

I saw a couple of males.

Last night, four males were gathered by the "skinners" in Moscow, at work. Yes, and brumata is full yet. Although it seems dubno already..... Surprisingly

Last year I saw the last brumata on November 20)

Last night, four males were gathered by the "skinners" in Moscow, at work. Yes, and brumata is full yet. Although it seems dubarno already..... Amazing

nothing surprising. Broomats come after being stripped-these are the very last of our babochek

  
Then we go to the screen and see the purest male Poecilocampa populi.
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Th the not understand, catch like on the screen, and photos of butterflies in the natural environment. How do I understand this?

Th the not understand, catch like on the screen, and photos of butterflies in the natural environment. How do I understand this?

We catch them at night and shoot them in the morning.

  
On Voinovaya Gora, I found a rotten tinder box in which Bolitophagus sp. settled for the winter.(probably Bolitophagus reticulatus,I don't know for sure).

Gennadich, he is: there seems to be no one else to be like that. In my opinion, they generally sit on tinder boxes all year round (they live there).

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That's all.We are waiting for the new season.Although

It's a little early... On New Year's Eve, the season is supposed to be closed.

It's a little early... On New Year's Eve, the season is supposed to be closed.

Yes, we have dubnyak already. I only saw a few broomats yesterday, that's all . If only the bark is picked, but this is no longer for butterflies.

It's a little early... On New Year's Eve, the season is supposed to be closed.

Well, if the abnormal heat returns, then you can continue.

Moscow region, Chekhov district, October 20-23, 2011
I think I closed the season. The daytime temperature on these days was about 10 degrees, the weather was both cloudy and clear. Warm evenings, which were the most active season, were followed by cold ones with temperatures below zero.

Encountered during the day these days:
Aglais io
Epirrita autumnata
Operophtera brumata
Operophtera fagata

Flew to the light:
Operophtera brumata
Operophtera fagata
Erannis defoliaria
Colotois pennaria
Poecilocampa populi
Ptilophora plumigera
Autographa gamma
Agrochola circellaris
Eupsilia transversa

Flew to the light:
Autographa gamma

Exactly gamma? Don't confuse it with Macdunnoughia confusa by accident?

Exactly gamma? Don't confuse it with Macdunnoughia confusa by accident?

Yes, definitely Autographa gamma, I didn't confuse it with Macdunnoughia confusa.

Today I went to Losino-Ostrovsky forest Park (Moscow) and found it in the snow in the mass

winter mosquitoes, some kind of collembola (approx. 5mm), and some kind of fly (approx. 4mm). The latter moved very quickly on the surface of the snow and burrowed into its cracks without taking off. It reminded me of a horse bloodsucker's maneuverability. It would be interesting to learn more about neu. And about the callembol.

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Wow! I have long dreamed of finding at least some living creatures in the snow, once I read about glaciers, about collemballs too, but the paradox is that as soon as we have snow, I immediately fall into "winter hibernation", well, I can't walk in the snow, everything seems so lifeless.

I come home now and I have a New Year's gift got out!
Female hirtaria!

Happy New Year to all of you!!!

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I want to open the 2012 season! Already!
This morning a male Lycia hirtaria came out, we can say that he brought the new year with him

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Yesterday I took a tour of the Silicates cave system. This trip was made more for the purpose of introducing to speleology than entomology - the caves there are very trans - anthropogenic (in the era of White-Stone Moscow, there was an active quarry in which limestone was extracted-and now it is a favorite place for Moscow cavers).





However, as you know, insects are everywhere, including in such caves. The presence of bats in caves, as well as mold, creates some ecological niches. In the rock, which, apparently, was under the resting place of bats, among their excrement, Choleva was caught, which at a temperature in the cave of about 5 degrees was more than active (almost ran away).


In addition, something resembling the larval chambers of some insects (well, worms) was found in the clay lump. By the way, can someone help me identify what it is?


Of the mosquitoes, only one chironomid was seen. I was extremely surprised by the absence of blood-sucking mosquitoes in these caves. It would seem that urban kuleks, which develop perfectly in flooded basements of houses, should thrive in caves, where in places there are flooded areas and a lot of people - but no.
On the ceiling of one of the caves, water condensed into droplets on the cobwebs spanning the ceiling. There were a lot of cobwebs on the ceiling, but I couldn't find its owner.



By the way, I never met the bats themselves, although I often came across their excrement. Apparently, bats spend the winter in these caves. Although, according to cavers, the other day they met here quite an active, not gibbering animal-perhaps awakened by cave visitors.

Yesterday I took a tour of the Silicates cave system...

Of the mosquitoes, only one chironomid was seen. I was extremely surprised by the absence of blood-sucking mosquitoes in these caves. It would seem that urban kuleks, which develop perfectly in flooded basements of houses, should thrive in caves, where in places there are flooded areas and a lot of people - but no.
On the ceiling of one of the caves, water condensed into droplets on the cobwebs spanning the ceiling. There were a lot of cobwebs on the ceiling, but I couldn't find its owner...

It may have been a web of keroplatid mosquito larvae.

Proof of work:

Narchuk E. P. Determinant of families of dipterous insects of the fauna of Russia and neighboring countries [title: Determinant of families of dipterous insects (Insecta: Diptera) of the fauna of Russia and neighboring countries (with a brief overview of families of world fauna)]. - St. Petersburg: [Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences], 2003. - 251 p. (=Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vol. 294)

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Topic on bioluminescence of diptera.

Below is the only instance of a representative of this family (genus Keroplatus) from my collection.
June 18, 2011, Donetsk region, collection of A.V. Martynov. Length 12 mm.

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Hello everyone.
21.10.2011 Vlad and I collected mines on a birch tree in Poplar.

Ph. anderidae.

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  Ph. anderidae.

Wow cool.

Here, I took off the Phyllonorycter anderidae bred by Gennadich from the straightener.

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Hello everyone.Last night, the first night "fishing" of the year took place, so to speak.
A moth flew into the light of the desk lamp, and I took a picture of it this afternoon.
I wonder what kind it belongs to?Tinea pellionella is a fur moth or Tinea tapetiella is a dress moth, although this one has a 20-22mm span of about 9-10mm.Or maybe it's someone else?

Check the availability of fur coats and dresses.

Hello everyone.Last night, the first night "fishing" of the year took place, so to speak.
A moth flew into the light of the desk lamp, and I took a picture of it this afternoon.
I wonder what kind it belongs to?Tinea pellionella is a fur moth or Tinea tapetiella is a dress moth, although this one has a 20-22mm span of about 9-10mm.Or maybe it's someone else?

This is a dress moth - Tineola bisselliella

Hello everyone.Last night, the first night "fishing" of the year took place, so to speak.
A moth flew into the light of the desk lamp, and I took a picture of it this afternoon.
I wonder what kind it belongs to?Tinea pellionella is a fur moth or Tinea tapetiella is a dress moth, although this one has a 20-22mm span of about 9-10mm.Or maybe it's someone else?

Well, I have about the same story. Fly at night to the light of a mobile phone

Today I decided to take a walk along the Moskva River.The weather is beautiful +5,the sun is warm.
I scared off polychrome on the beach,and she flew away like a scalded bird.
The snow is higher than knee-deep,if we have a sharp warming, cataclysms in the form of floods can not be avoided.




In the burdock closer to the root, I found these wintering pupae.Interesting scales or not?





In Chernobyl.




Muskrat arts.



And this is our ecological art.

I wish it had all melted away by now.
Snow and blizzard conditions are expected again tomorrow.

  
Muskrat arts.

Even if the" muskrat " metal-ceramic with titanium coating to put-all-one it will be weak. This is the beaver "nashkodnichal".

In the burdock closer to the root, I found these wintering pupae.Interesting scales or not?

Some diptery

I saw flies in the city on the pripechnaya side,so the anguloptera flew by, I didn't take it..But the bad guys-meteorologists warned that on Sunday-10C, happiness was very close!

Even if the" muskrat " metal-ceramic with titanium coating to put-all-one it will be weak. This is the beaver "nashkodnichal".

I wonder where it came from on the Moskva River in the vicinity of Zhukovsky.
It's him that bridges the dam,but there will be a flood in Moscow.

I wonder where it came from on the Moskva River in the vicinity of Zhukovsky.
It's him that bridges the dam,but there will be a flood in Moscow.

Andriukh, the Canadian beavers in the MO have just bred - oh, my God! Get your gun ready=)

I wonder where it came from on the Moskva River in the vicinity of Zhukovsky.
It's him that bridges the dam,but there will be a flood in Moscow.

Andriukh, the Canadian beavers in the MO have just bred - oh, my God! Get your gun ready =)

Call me: beaver FLEA comb

Waiting in Moscow for spring together with entomologists, some winterers could not stand it and risked crawling out into the street today

Yeah! Yesterday the weather was so good, I went to the greenhouse (in the country) there ants all woke up in piles crawling, saw some kind of finger fly, and small beetles, as well as spiders! In general, there is spring in full swing, you go out into the snowdrifts!