Moscow and the Moscow region

Lacanobia thalassina
M. O., Orekhovo-Zuyevsky district, Nerskaya station, on rakitnik 2.08.2015




10.08.2015



23.08.2015



The caterpillar stopped eating and began to rush around the cage, when I poured sand on it, it did not hesitate to build itself a cocoon (soft cocoon)
1.09.2015

I didn't have to wait much to shoot the pupa
20.09.2015




8.02.2016




The post was edited by Gennadich - 08.02.2016 12: 20

I will continue to brighten up your winter evenings, waiting for the long-awaited spring.
Euclidia mi
Caterpillar was identified by Vladimir Savchuk (okoem), and I thought it was pyadenitsa.
M. O., Orekhovo-Zuyevsky district, Nerskaya station, mowing 20.07.2015





Fed grass
31.07.2015



10.08.2015



23.08.2015



Pupa hibernates in cocoon
1.09.2015





9.02.2016





P.S.
Tomorrow is the full development cycle of Macaria liturata

The post was edited by Gennadich - 10.02.2016 09: 56

Macaria liturata
M. O., Orekhovo-Zuyevsky district, pos. Poplar, female born 1.06.2015


Eggs 5.06 and 7.06.2015


Caterpillars on common spruce 16.06.2015


26.06.2015

2.07.2015


20.07.2015




25.07.2015





31.07.2015

4.08.2015




I do not know for what reason, but this pupa did not survive the wintering, unlike the pupa from the caterpillar collected on the Nerskaya, I present its exuvium and imago below (I do not lay out the caterpillar with the Nerskaya everything is above).
M. O., Orekhovo-Zuyevsky district, Nerskaya station, caterpillar mowed down from spruce 23.07.2015
And this is 10.02.2016



Scotopteryx mucronata

I do not know for what reason, but this pupa did not survive the winter

The reason may be the quality of the feed. The last photo with the caterpillar shows gnawed needles - yellow, old.
Caterpillars that eat old food (leaves from branches that have been standing for several days) often get sick and die. Or they are fed and the pupa then dries out. I've worked hard on this repeatedly. At the same time, outwardly the leaves may even be quite normal, and the caterpillar eats them and dies. Therefore, to increase the probability of successful breeding, it is better to change the feed daily.
The second reason why pupae die (at least for me) is an unsuitable substrate for pupation. I found that some Crimean species need clay of a certain degree of humidity for pupation. If there is no such clay, then there will be no imago.

This post was edited by okoem - 02/11/2016 16: 14

Scotopteryx mucronata
The second year of the breeding attempt was successful.
I must say right away that Scotopteryx mucronata has one generation in contrast to its counterpart Scotopteryx luridata.
M. O., Orekhovo-Zuyevsky district, Nerskaya station, female in the afternoon of 7.06.2015


14.06.2015


The caterpillars grow very slowly, there are a lot of photos from here, so I'll post an abbreviated version.
21.06.2015 on rakitnik

26.06.2015

2.07.1015


19.07.2015


5.08.2015


19.08.2015


20.09.2015




Caterpillars are different in color and overwinter in the last instar stage
3.10.2015






I kept three caterpillars warm until the last moment, and two of them pupated, and one decided to spend the winter. When I took out the cage from the balcony, it turned out that the pupae had died.
24.10.2015




One caterpillar successfully overwintered pupated and on 11.02.2016 a butterfly (female)emerged from it




At the research site for the safety of the experiment, there was still such a cage with caterpillars for the winter.

Well, we still have a long way to warm up.
Notodonta dromedarius
M. O., Orekhovo-Zuyevsky district, pos. Poplar, female born on 6.08.2015

8.08.2015

19.08.2015 on the birch tree

24.08.2015


30.08.2015


20.09.2015



27.09.2015



cocoon 3.10.2015





female 19.02.2015

Empria immersa (Klug, 1818)
Definition by Marko Prous, Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut (SDEI)
M. O., Poplar, on willow (Salix sp.)
19.08.2015



29.08.2015



20.09.2015

25.02.2016

The sawflies began to climb.
Arge pagana (Panzer, 1798)
M. O., Poplar, on rose hips (Rosa sp.), 5.08.2015

9.08.2015

27.02.2016

Posted on Wordpress reworked photos from Russia 2010-2013.

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Hadena capsincola (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuyevsky district, Nerskaya station, na drema belaya (Melandrium album) 19.07.2015




25.07.2015


9.08.2015




1.03.2016

Furcula bifida
M. O., Orekhovo-Zuyevsky district, pos. Poplar, female born 20.06.2015


22.06.2015

2.07.2015 caterpillars planted on a willow tree, but they did not eat it, they preferred to eat aspen


20.07.2015


31.07.2015

5.08.2015


10.08.2015




15.08.2015


24.08.2015



28.08.2015




20.09.2015





5.03.2016

The male had obviously come out during the night and was a little worn out

Ostrinia nubilalis (female)
Sasha Zhakov helped identify
the Poplar Forest, 20.09.2015, where a caterpillar crawled to find a place to spend the winter



I wove a cocoon on the wall of the jar, 27.09.2015 and 31.01.2016

After heavy watering imitating the beginning of spring, the caterpillar wove another cocoon in a napkin on the lid of the jar where it pupated.
23.02.2016




9.03.2016

Moscow, Victory Park, March 10, 2016

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Today I found the transverse under the lamp, the season hasn't started yet, but it's almost here. Meanwhile, the upcoming cold snap is going to be limited to the weekend, another thing is that in a week something more solid can come.

I went into the tub, and there's a male Thylodrias contractus sitting right in the tub. In my fright, I first took it for Rhipiphoridae.

This post was edited by Necrocephalus - 03/18/2016 00: 30

Today.
Male A. pilosaria - Leninsky Prospekt on the edge of the Neskuchny Garden.

Happy opening of the season!!!

I declare the entomological season 2016 open!!! Today, while waiting for the tram, I collected a dung beetle of the Aphodius genus. And here, as a sin, there was no stain. I had to turn on my wits: fortunately, there was a spare pen in the pencil case. Quickly pulling out the rod (which I later lost), the handle instantly turned into a case for catching beetles.
P. S. From tomorrow you need to take stains with you...

This post was edited by Black Coleopter - 04.04.2016 22: 31

I declare the entomological season 2016 open!!!     Today, while waiting for the tram, I collected a dung beetle of the Aphodius genus. And here, as a sin, there was no stain. I had to turn on my wits: fortunately, there was a spare pen in the pencil case. Quickly pulling out the rod (which I later lost), the handle instantly turned into a case for catching beetles.
P. S. From tomorrow you need to take stains with you...

Spring has reached Moscow

... second already in a year.

On the periphery, there is no spring yet-the soil is still frozen even on the slopes and there is frost at night.Bumblebees will fly-this is spring.And Moscow-everything is warmer there-is still a megacity..

On the periphery, there is no spring yet-the soil is still frozen even on the slopes and there is frost at night.Bumblebees will fly-this is spring.And Moscow-everything is warmer there-is still a megacity..

Today or tomorrow, a warm front will pass with a precipitation of 5 mm. rain falls at temperatures of 6-10 degrees above zero. Then (according to the current forecast) at least a week of heat with daily highs in the range of 15-20 degrees. Spring has come so close that those who have not yet prepared for the season will soon regret it!))

So spring has reached Moscow

That's for sure! Even in the north of Moscow, swamp turtles have come out on the Yauza riverbank. Like get warm.

.I've never understood why to open and close seasons? Usually they discover something new, and nature is something permanent even for thousands of years... for example, birds just change their habitat. In a simplified version, I threw my knapsack over my shoulders and wandered like birds behind the sun... but the most important thing is knowledge and experience – what, where and when you can get, meet and spend something ( get a contrasting shower). Variety is the most important thing. Travel more, tse gist...

.never understood why open and close seasons? Usually they discover something new, and nature is something permanent even for thousands of years... for example, birds just change their habitat. In a simplified version, I threw my knapsack over my shoulders and wandered like birds behind the sun... but the most important thing is knowledge and experience – what, where and when you can get, meet and spend something ( get a contrasting shower). Variety is the most important thing. Travel more, that's the point…

Sorry, maybe I'm wrong, the opening of the season is a state of mind! And I think it's great!!!

.never understood why open and close seasons? Usually they discover something new, and nature is something permanent even for thousands of years... for example, birds just change their habitat. In a simplified version, I threw my knapsack over my shoulders and wandered like birds behind the sun... but the most important thing is knowledge and experience – what, where and when you can get, meet and spend something ( get a contrasting shower). Variety is the most important thing. Travel more, that's the point…

Roman, you may or may not be offended.
Here, you look at your Columbian-Australian-New Caledonian variety and f * * * * * eat.
You read Grooms, Roborovsky and Przhevalsky and also (the same verb).
You work, you work, you work, you work, you work, you work, you work,you work, you work, you work, you work, you work, you work, you work, you work, damn, then you study, you improve, so to speak, your qualifications and expand your education, some defenses, scientific papers, seminars and other "very necessary and necessary stuff".
Again, from time to time, you look at the reports, you begin to understand that you are turning into a janitor of some kind, while even you come to the dacha not to turn on the lamp, but to get a stupid night's sleep.

Again you go to the forum, and here - all cool, bl, travelers! And the rest are recommended to travel more. Just like in the joke about the question on the culinary forum how best to eat black caviar with or without butter.

No, well, nothing, you even manage to describe the view/subspecies in Tinea between the background routine.
And again-Tibet, Pamir, Tien Shan, Talysh, Kunashir and Sakhalin beckon from the laptop screen.
And you can't even go after fucking myrmidons here.

THAT is WHY the BEGINNING OF SPRING AND THE "OPENING OF THE SEASON" ARE SO EXPENSIVE FOR those who do not have the opportunity to go to "these are your Tibetans".

Moderators, ban, warn, etc.
As you wish.

thank you all.

Pasha, although I travel (not just for a reason, of course, but for specific scientific purposes), but I warmly support you - I always meet you with great joy every season in my native land, if time permits. Even though I've walked the routes of the Groom and other greats, and I've seen dozens of thousands of butterflies in nature and museum collections, the thrill of shooting the first butterfly of the year is hard to compare with anything; it's something from childhood. I admit that such feelings are unfamiliar to some, but what can I do?..

  

THAT is WHY the BEGINNING OF SPRING AND THE "OPENING OF THE SEASON" ARE SO EXPENSIVE FOR those who do not have the opportunity to go to "these are your Tibetans".

Pavel, I think almost everyone can visit all this splendor without too much effort, because for the most part these are commercial trips. It's only a matter of "the roads we choose"
And I really love the beginning of the season myself, I wander through the parks in search of moths that I don't need, I catch all sorts of lanestris every year that have already been caught, So this is holy

.never understood why open and close seasons? Usually they discover something new, and nature is something permanent even for thousands of years... for example, birds just change their habitat. In a simplified version, I threw my knapsack over my shoulders and wandered like birds behind the sun... but the most important thing is knowledge and experience – what, where and when you can get, meet and spend something ( get a contrasting shower). Variety is the most important thing. Travel more, that's the point…

I strongly disagree! In nature, there is no constancy, everything develops and transforms (I refer to the works of Ch.Darwin). Two absolutely identical seasons have never been and never will be. Each time, there will be fewer species, more of them, some will disappear altogether, and some new ones will appear for the region (you just need to be able to detect them). And even a seemingly well-studied species in the new season, under the influence of a slightly different set of environmental factors, can throw out something new and completely unexpected. Don't miss the upcoming field season, there will never be another one like this - this is what Professor N. N. Yaroshenko taught us at UNI. And for most birds, just the same, a strong philopatricity is characteristic, unlike most insects. So they don't really change their nesting sites, and no one drives them away from their former place. And only by sitting in one place year after year, like nesting birds, does the researcher have the opportunity to trace the long-term dynamics of the object under study. This is the only way it can work with units of a species that are not individuals, but populations. And wandering around haphazardly and stuffing mattresses just to get more species into them is... hmm... superficially.

this is all well and good, but did lanestrives fly in your moskvah?

this is all well and good, but did lanestrives fly in your moskvah?

We'll find out soon!

.don't worry, I also came to meet the spring in Russia...it all depends on who is sticking out of what...if you feel yourself in the size of one cubic centimeter, then this will seem like an abyss, and if you try something else, then you already need to think where now...

Sorry, maybe I'm wrong, the opening of the season is a state of mind! And I think it's great!!!

The average life expectancy of a man in Russia is 63 years. Of these, seven years are spent on childhood amnesia. That leaves 56 years. Isn't that too much for the state of mind?

The average life expectancy of a man in Russia is 63 years. Of these, seven years are spent on childhood amnesia. That leaves 56 years. Isn't that too much for the state of mind?

Roman, I don't think there are too many of them! As we have already stated earlier, work, children, unforeseen circumstances that sometimes do not depend on us..... Therefore, I think the first scoop seen and it does not matter who, is fine and it does not matter what it is called, the opening of the season or the continuation of the previous one.

And I have today bred a female Phragmatobia fuliginosa from a caterpillar collected on March 30 in Moscow. The first butterfly of the year. Although the appearance is ordinary, but this event still brought joy and a sense of real spring.

Izmailovsky Park, 08.04.2016.
Morozzz & Zhuk
Female Lycia pomonaria, male Orthosia cerasi, in flight Gonepteryx rhamni and Brephos (most likely) parthenias. Bedbugs, bumblebees, grass frog (as much as 20 meters from the highway Enthusiasts).

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Direct connection from Gennadich's dacha (Topoliny settlement, O.-Zuevsky district, Moscow Region). There is no snow. It is quite cold (now +4), mostly A. flavicornis, a little C. vaccinii, E. transversa, a few B. nubeculosa, B. strataria, S. libatrix, A. marginaria, S. oculella. Lanestra isn't here. During the day on the V Mount vesnitsy (parthenias). That's all for now, we're waiting for you tomorrow.

On the periphery, there is no spring yet-the soil is still frozen even on the slopes and there is frost at night.Bumblebees will fly-this is spring.And Moscow-everything is warmer there-is still a megacity..

Yesterday I saw one sleepy bumblebee sluggishly, but I flew, at first I took it for a beetle. I also noticed a wasp. I took 2 Aphodius's.

That's for sure! Even in the north of Moscow, swamp turtles have come out on the Yauza riverbank. Like get warm.

Where's that?"

This post was edited by Black Coleopter - 09.04.2016 08: 14

08.04 on the outskirts of Obninsk,after 15-00,bedbugs, flies, small aphodics, mosquitoes.On the rare flowers of the mother-stepmother sat small bees-piece by piece.In the shade, it is cold and wet, although in the sun-20-24 C, this is the first day when insect activity was visible.Already, the delay in the start of the season is definitely noticeable...I want to catch something...

About turtles-somehow does not fit in with the general theory of reptile life, in addition,
they should have their paws on the ice-it's fun, at least to see a photo or video-eh?

Well, we have the fauna of the Moskva River and its tributaries within the Moscow Ring Road, and not such stories go. From the ryapushka population opposite Sofiyskaya to the giant catfish opposite Rostovskaya embankment. The second bike is quite likely.
And the first one, too. Taras Shevchenko Embankment has a lot of chub and perch. There are bream, crucian carp, pike. I once saw an angler catch a stonefly. There are yellow pods growing there, and white water lilies.

At the expense of marsh turtles-doubtful, but red-eared - this is a reality thanks to careless lovers of exotic animals.