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13.10.2013 19:17, А.Й.Элез

Yesterday, at the Izmailovskaya metro station (already very late in the afternoon), there were a lot of plumigers: both crushed and shrunken on the platform (even in cobwebs) here and there, and on the pillars, on the walls and on the ceiling - both floors, from the flown to the freshest. Groups of up to ten are marked on the window glass. In the park itself, they are rare. There is also one fresh male pennary at the metro station, fagates and brumates are not numerous (mostly fresh), several male defoliaries, and a ragged male orthogrammary. In the park, male defoliaries and bassoons with brumates are common, ranging from flown to luxuriant; male orthogrammarians are common, ranging from ragged to luxuriant (which are smaller), up to three on one trunk and up to ten on one lamppost. Butterflies take off reluctantly, except for the males of orthogrammaria, which take off easily and fly for a long time without landing. Closer to w. Enthusiasts already at dusk on the trunk in the fold of the bark-not much flown Amphipyra sp. Wingless females are not marked, but I didn't really look for them, everything marked is not the result of a special search, but just caught my eye on the route. Photos are available, but I'm tired of throwing out this good stuff.
Occasionally there are bedbugs, ladybugs, mosquitoes, and gold-eyes.

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14.11.2013 0:21, evilforester

Yes, for example, at the beginning of November,when we had warm nights, shagreen and nemoralis again ran along the roads, although they should be in hibernation and not walk,this will affect the number of spring overwintered imagos, because many died under wheels and shoes.

I do not think that the number of deaths will somehow affect the main, spring mass of imagos, since the vast majority did not leave the borders of the biotope and at a hint of low temperatures, they found a shelter for wintering.... it's not a fact that they will come out in the usual mass in the season, but you should not panic...It's like with Dorcadions, you don't have to do it year after year....

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14.11.2013 12:24, PhilGri

It seems that in the middle zone, the year for butterflies is minus. I have never seen such empty screens as this weekend in early August. Everything is extinct. Judging by the message of Mikhail in the Ryazan region is the same ... nya.

To be honest, I had the same impression about the last season as a whole.

Last year, there were many eye-pleasing species that flew massively or in significant numbers near Zvenigorod... Endromis versicolora, Aglia tau, Peridea anceps and Drymonia ruficornis just in heaps, Mimas tiliae in large numbers, Proserpinus proserpina, Smerinthus ocellatus, Laothoe populi, Laothoe amurensis, Sphinx pinastri, Arctia caja, Callimorpha dominula, Panthea coenobita in the mass, Moma alpium, Griposia aprillina, Catocala promissa, Comibaena bajularia, Lomographa temerata, Biston strataria...

In the same year, I do not particularly recall anyone's mass departures (with the exception of the most popular Autographa gamma types). Everything is somehow more modest, poorer and in smaller quantities. Well, perhaps the admirals were not weak departure, Cossus cossus, Noctua pronuba and Apoda limacodes more than in all the years of observation. For the first time in all these years, I met such banal species as Ceramica pisi and Mamestra brassicae. Well, I met one Callopistria juventina... But the rest is somehow poor.

Who else has a similar impression?

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31.01.2014 1:43, vasiliy-feoktistov

I'll post it here, perhaps. After all, although the caterpillars were collected in the Vladimir region, they were fed in Zheleznodorozhny, on local forest raspberries (they refused to eat garden raspberries). Just an hour ago, the first male Saturnia pavonia was born . The caterpillar that formed it appears in this report dated June 20 2013: http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtop...dpost&p=1415121
Spring is just around the corner, comrades, although it's -20 degrees outside Dubak right now

Although I don't have such a home studio as Gennadich, I still took one photo

I would like to express my gratitude to Sasha Boldyrev (aka Sungaya ) for valuable recommendations on breeding

I forgot to write: the cocoon was moved from the balcony to the heat on January 22, 2014. Approx. it took a week.
picture: 002.JPG

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31.01.2014 2:10, PhilGri

I'll post it here, perhaps. After all, although the caterpillars were collected in the Vladimir region, they were fed in Zheleznodorozhny, on local forest raspberries (they refused to eat garden raspberries). Just an hour ago, the first male Saturnia pavonia was born

Vasily, I unfortunately failed with pavonias last year. Cocoons lay in an unheated attic until April (I think it was not lower than minus 5 in the coldest time there). Napkins hung from the sides of the box all the way down to the bottom - that is, butterflies had something to cling to vertically. Unfortunately, only one of the 8 pavonias had its wings spread. Could it be that I foolishly cut the cocoons? There were no other deviations from the norm.

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31.01.2014 2:26, vasiliy-feoktistov

Vasily, I unfortunately failed with pavonias last year. Cocoons lay in an unheated attic until April (I think it was not lower than minus 5 in the coldest time there). Napkins hung from the sides of the box all the way down to the bottom - that is, butterflies had something to cling to vertically. Unfortunately, only one of the 8 pavonias had its wings spread. Could it be that I foolishly cut the cocoons? There were no other deviations from the norm.

It's the first time I've taken it out myself, but I've also cut the cocoon crosswise slightly and only the outer shell. Well, periodically (once a day) moistened this cocoon with water from a sprayer for indoor plants. The first swallow turned out perfectly, as you can see.
I will add: always leave the cocoons on the same branch where the goose pupated and place the cocoon neck up before hatching.

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01.02.2014 11:22, Wild Yuri

Vasily, I unfortunately failed with pavonias last year. Cocoons lay in an unheated attic until April (I think it was not lower than minus 5 in the coldest time there). Napkins hung from the sides of the box all the way down to the bottom - that is, butterflies had something to cling to vertically. Unfortunately, only one of the 8 pavonias had its wings spread. Could it be that I foolishly cut the cocoons? There were no other deviations from the norm.

It was cold for them to form in pupae there, I think. I, too, many butterflies were not displayed, or the wings did not open well when I kept the pupae in a cold shed in the country. There were no problems when I began to place them for removal to a warm loggia. After winter diapause in the refrigerator.

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