Central Asia and Kazakhstan

Stage three-Chakmak-Suu-Kara-Buura-Talas-Otmek-Teo-Ashuu-Kara-Balta-Bishkek-Moscow-Grodno.

Now we will skip Chatkal and go up the Chanach to the pass. Maybe we'll find Patricius Ludwig. There must be a bridge somewhere beyond the tugayas. Ah, here it is. Pancake…



Over the broken shroud of the bridge, the spirit of patricius floated merrily and stuck out its tongue (i.e., proboscis).
Well, there will be more time for Chandalash. But ... the SITTING continued, now under the Ashutor Pass. Above the Chatkala Valley below, hot updrafts pushed aside the clouds, and they trailed in a continuous line along both ridges, periodically watering the slopes.


This is the most characteristic scene from the life of entomologists in bad weather. And how much hope is in your eyes…

And then we got a dog. It was only necessary to feed the leader from the local parking lot a little, as he already firmly settled under our table. Moreover, defending the territory, he actively barked at everyone passing by, up to the owner, when he tried to call him to order (that is, to force him to do his direct duties – grazing sheep). However, like any good manager, things moved by themselves – the flock was grazed by several subordinates, whom our Seryoga (the dog's nickname for these four days) brought to us in the evenings on a tour – to show strange people who let us lick cans. But that was only his privilege, and the rest of us were allowed to watch. Attempts to join the feast were quickly thwarted.




We climbed the pass only once (they gave us a little sun), however, apart from the delphi, there was nothing interesting there. But at medium altitudes (2500-3000 m), in the intervals between rains, they still fished and quite successfully. There are a lot of cattle in the valley, but they graze quite competently – in any case, there is a clear overgrazing only directly near the parking lots. But still, the man managed to disfigure this gorge. Something was mined in these hills. The slopes are marked by the remains of roads that have already partially collapsed, half of which are pumped in by a pit, trench, or just a pile of rock that was pushed in front of a bulldozer. The mines are also present, but now everything is abandoned, only the foundations of the prospectors ' houses remain, the ground around them is strewn with fragments of cores. As it turned out, in the mines it is very convenient to hide from the weather, smoking at the entrance on a leaky tire from Kirovets and looking at the valley through a veil of rain.


And again in the valley, the sky is cloudless.

Кара-Буура. The famous pass through the Talas Alatau, according to many friends, is very rich in wildlife. Only now it opens in July. Today is July 2 – let's go, maybe you'll get lucky. Lucky. True, in the Kara-Kysmak gorge, the road went straight over snow bridges a couple of times, but it is quite passable.



We climb the pass, stop, and the first thing we notice is that in the middle of the road, not paying attention to passing trucks, a man is enthusiastically picking at a pile of horse manure. COLLEAGUES!!! We approach and say hello. It turns out that the gentlemen from Hungary, on the way for the third day, had previously been hoeing the Talas Valley. One is a bug hunter, the other deals with butterflies and straight-winged birds. They are at the beginning of a long journey-Chatkal-Ferghana Valley-through the Ferghana Range to the Naryn Valley and then around Issyk-Kul and Almaty back to Bishkek. Ignoring the wind and dust, we spend more than an hour sharing our impressions and information, exchanging addresses. Good luck to you guys, the cyclone doesn't last forever.



Perhaps, on this positive note, it was possible to finish. But a few more words. Kara Buura today is a gold mine right on the pass, which is being developed by the Chinese, and whose four-axle heavy trucks with rock raise a cloud of dust every few minutes as they descend the serpentine. This dust covers everything around - it is in plates, in sleeping bags, grits on your teeth. Just below the pass, the grass is no higher than a centimeter, it could have been smaller, but the sheep can see their teeth already resting on the stones. The forester drove up and, presenting a beautiful ID card, began to tell stories about the national park and the red-book juniper. After a counter-question about the most severe overgrazing (like, how did you allow it?), he faded and guiltily explained that recently Kara-Buure changed its status-it was a nature reserve, it became a national park, where, accordingly, economic activity is allowed on a limited scale (these "limited" scales are good). And it was obvious that he really cared, but here's what he could do. It's all sad.



And then there was the return trip-the Talas Valley, the Otmek pass, again Kara-Balta and here we are already washed and combed for dinner in a Chinese restaurant. After photographing some of the sights of Bishkek on the way, we rode to the airport.





Our backpacks did not interest the Kyrgyz customs, and now we are above the clouds. The last frontier left is the Sheremetyevo customs office. They are particularly interested in flights from Central Asia. After a little delay in the arrival hall, we open the door to the room under the sign "Green Corridor"with an independent look. Screening tables, scanners, and not a single soul. We quietly close the door behind us. Long live the eternal human pofigizm.

On behalf of the entire expedition team, I would like to express my gratitude to our Kyrgyz friends Nikita Kulakov and Arseniy Makarenko for the excellent organization of our trip.

List of localities and captured insects.



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Part four, it's the last one.

A little bit of mounted material, the rest are waiting for their turn.
Butterflies from this expedition are highlighted in red.

Salam alaikum,
I just saw the White Sun of the desert. I can't watch the last shots without crying. And what must be the darklings out there!
There is no sadder story in the world
than the story of Said and Javdet

Bishkek neighborhood, yesterday afternoon temperature +18, at night +8. As a result-the beginning of summer at night. First Lycia and Orthosia =).

Bishkek neighborhood, Kok-Zhar.
The first daytime ones of this year are Pieris napi.
Those who have overwintered also fly actively.
First hawk moth-Macroglossum sp.

Bishkek neighborhood, Kok-Zhar.
The first daytime ones of this year are Pieris napi.
Those who have overwintered also fly actively.
The first hawk moth is Macroglossum sp.

Macroglossum stellatarum, what other species can there be?

I'm not very good at hawkmeal, I've identified the genus-and that's fine =). Moreover, I saw it exclusively in flight - it didn't work out to catch it, it flies brutally.

http://rhopalocera.com/2014.html

Two days of dubak, vetrishche and dozhdishche (thunderstorms). Still empty. Tomorrow they promise up to +25 in the afternoon and up to +14 at night, I will come off =)

Bishkek neighborhood, April 24, 2014

Noticeably warmer weather, swallowtails and other mid-spring butterflies flew. There are noticeably more beetles. A second type of kravchikov appeared-who, I don't know, but is characterized by a beautiful bronze body and a noticeably (in relation to the abdomen) enlarged pronotum when compared with Karelians. In addition to kravchikov, a bunch of dung tribe runs and flies, as well as dorkashi. I caught a goldfish on the ground, small and long - at first I thought it was a nutcracker. A huge number of fresh xylocop flies - if anyone needs a zanedorogo, I'll catch it))). There are also a lot of different road wasps running around, and wild apple, pear and apricot blossoms are simply dominated by elephants.

Change Nizhny Novgorod to Bishkek in the captions. Don't embarrass people.

From April 5 to 25 of this year, my wife and I visited the wonderful country of O'zbekiston as part of a narrow circle of limited individuals.
The idea of the trip came up at the beginning of 2013, independently of us and Yakov Kovalenko, under the impression of communicating with a member of this forum, known under the nickname Protey. However, due to the fact that my vacation in the service needs to be planned for a year ahead, in 2013, unfortunately, I could not go. On the other hand, it gave more time to prepare and in the end everything turned out as well as possible.
T. U. Rakhimov, Associate Professor of Karshi State University, provided us with great help, assistance, cordiality and hospitality.Without him, this trip probably would not have been so successful.
List of participants of the trip (from left to right): Mikhail Mokrousov, Yakov Kovalenko, Denis and Anna Potanin, Georgy Anufriev, Tulkin Rakhimov (with his wife and daughter – did not go with us), Irina Gromenko (joined us for a short time), Uchkun Rakhimov, Viktor Gromenko (photo - G. A. Anufrieva).


Having moved out in two cars from Nizhny Novgorod on the morning of April 2, 2 days later (having spent the night in the village of Bolshaya Chernihiv in the Samara region and then Beineu in the Mangystau region), by lunch on April 4, we arrived at the border. And we were unpleasantly surprised by the announced terms of its transition – an average of 2 days. After standing for about a day and a half, by the night of April 5, we entered the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan. After spending the night in a teahouse about 150 km from the border, we left in the morning for Karshi, where we were already expected. It should be noted that Uzbekistan has permanent problems with fuel. Hoping that we would fill up in Turtkul, we passed Nukus without stopping at a gas station, and we were a little nervous – there was no fuel at the gas stations. And if Mikhail's diesel X-Trail could easily reach Bukhara, then I risked standing halfway in the desert. After spending about 2 hours searching for gasoline, and barely buying about 20 liters with our hands, we drove into Bukhara in the dark of the evening. In Bukhara, they barely found a gas station (UzGazOil) where they filled up 15 liters of gasoline and diesel fuel at a commercial price of 3500 soums per liter (the state price of A91 gasoline is 2100 soums per liter) (cash has almost run out, and Russian bank cards are almost not accepted anywhere – Uzbekistan has its own national payment system), let's go to Karshi. After reaching Karshi at around 2 a.m. on April 7 and meeting Tulkin, we arrived at his home, where after a small gathering at the dastarkhan, we collapsed to sleep.
After spending almost 2 days to settle the registration formalities, by the evening of April 8, we finally left for our first trip "to the Pampas" - the area of the Talimarjan reservoir. Quickly setting up a camp, we prepared for the night fishing: we stretched the screens, refueled the generators.



Unfortunately, it was flying sluggishly, to put it mildly, so the three of us (Yakov, Mikhail and I) decided to take a walk with flashlights in the vicinity of the camp. Beetles came across, and we were elated, went forward, went over one hill, another, took a little to the side, went a little more – and decided to go back. Going in the right direction, as it seemed to us, we climbed another hill and were surprised to find that for some reason the camp lights were not visible. It became obvious that we were lost. From navigation devices – only push-button phones and the Moon. Reasonably reasoning that if we move in an absolutely wrong direction, we will either be brought back by the Turkmen border guards, or dawn will come, we went a little further, now in the (absolutely) correct, but different, direction. However, Anya, who remained in the camp, reasonably judged that we were too late for something, developed an active activity, which resulted in a call from Viktor, who oriented us where the camp should be, where the moon is, and where the back is, and after a while we did return. Unfortunately, the wind that raged during the night broke the arcs at one screen and attached the DRL-250 to the canvas of the second, which pretty much spoiled it, so in the future I had to collect one of the 2 screens. After spending the whole next day in the vicinity of the reservoir, by the evening of April 9, we moved to the next point, to the east, to the old white saxaul landings on the sands in the vicinity of the Shurtan field. It was a little warmer there at night and was a little more active in the summer. During the day, a huge number of Central Asian turtles crawled in the vicinity of the camp, and Yasha was lucky enough to take a picture of a gray monitor lizard (no matter how much we searched for it later, we were no longer lucky).





After filming and collecting money at one more point, we returned to Karshi.
Our next targets were sandy desert areas in the Mubarek area and Mirishkor district (from April 11 to 14). In those places, in particular on the salt marsh near the Untoblo deposit, there was one of the 2 nights with a good summer (unfortunately, it was not possible to stay all night – a high-security object), Yasha collected some interesting leiodids there. The places are very promising, but, unfortunately, spring is late this year, and we did not manage to find all the richness of fauna and flora (although the ferulas have already bloomed - photo by Ya. N.Kovalenko).



Our next destination was the Nuratau Range, which we reached on April 16. We stopped in the village of Sept. The day's gatherings were rather sparse, as elsewhere, the six-legged's activity had only just begun. In the mountains around the village there are quite a lot of caves and grottoes, in one of which we found interesting fish, presumably some sturgeon (which we found quite strange). Later, at night, after installing the screen and while nothing flew on it, we visited this cave to try to catch a few fish and take a closer look at what it is (if something interesting-then pick up alcohol). However, the attempt was unsuccessful, the fish escaped. In the same cave, a colony of bats (horseshoe and some other species, larger) was found. A few minutes of frantic swinging of the nets - and a couple of horseshoes and another mouse still caught. Specific blood-sucking flies (Nycteribiidae) and ticks were combed from them (photo by Y. N. Kovalenko).





Meanwhile, a certain amount of micra hit the screen. In the morning, after Mikhail's unsuccessful attempt to catch a large gyurza hiding in a stone wall, we gradually drove to Samarkand to meet Viktor's wife, Irina, stopping on the way to collect in the places we liked.
The extreme point of our trip was the desert in the vicinity of Termez, where we left Samarkand on the morning of April 18. On the way, again, we stopped at a number of places for collecting, in particular at the Kitab pass, where snow flakes were melting, T-shirts, kravchiki and black-bodied animals were crawling (something like Prosodes). We didn't reach Termez that day, so we spent the night in a teahouse in the village of Karashina.
Early in the morning of April 19, we continued to Termez. The road from the border of Kashkadarya region to Termez is mostly being rebuilt, as the old one is almost completely destroyed in some places. After reaching Termez and meeting with the management of the Natural Science Faculty of the Termez State University, we went to the desert near the Uchkizil district center. Later, we camped at this point. The night air was quite plentiful, and after walking along the dunes with a flashlight, I finally managed to see ground beetles in a natural setting for the first time in my life. There we also met wonderful aroids.
Photo by G. A. Anufriev







Then there was a return to Karshi (we should also mention the strict control of cars and passengers entering from Surkhandarya to Kashkadarya region - with a scan on the scanner, one of the routes of traffic of Afghan heroin passes here), 2 days of paperwork, and on April 23, early in the morning, we left in the direction of the Uzbek-Kazakh border. Arriving at 2 a.m. on April 24, we spent less than 2 days there. Of particular concern was the fact that pedestrians and passengers were supposed to pass the border separately from cars with drivers. The closer the line got, the more worried we got. The" queue " (very small, about 400-500 people; in some months it accumulates up to 5000-6000) of pedestrians stood in a small corridor in the open air, fenced with a chain-link fence. It could be called a queue conditionally, since there was no special queue, but there were plenty of fights, jostling and crowding (during our stay at the border, one of the pedestrians there broke his leg, but deaths are also frequent - according to the drivers of passenger minibuses who constantly drive there). However, everything went well for us – when it was our turn to enter the territory of the border checkpoint, the border guards let us all pass together. After quickly completing all the procedures on the Uzbek and Kazakh sides, we reached Beineu and spent the night, then continued on our way home.
Overall, the trip was considered a success, and preliminary estimates suggest that several new taxa of insects will be described.
During the entire trip, the driveshaft was wound more than 8600 km.
Slides with mattresses – a little later
List of points here: https://maps.google.ru/maps/ms?msid=2136501...72072,20.917969

Denis, awesome places and cool photos!!! I was particularly impressed by ferula, and on it, by the way, one hefty lixus lives)))

And it turns out that you spent more time at customs than you caught in the field?)

Looking forward to the weevils)))

Denis, awesome places and cool photos!!! I was particularly impressed by ferula, and on it, by the way, one hefty lixus lives)))

And it turns out that you spent more time at customs than you caught in the field?)

Looking forward to the weevils)))

There were lixuses, if my memory serves me correctly, on those feruls that grew on the Zeravshan ridge, near the Kitab pass.

No, we stayed for a total of about 3.5 days, and in total we were in Uzbekistan from the 5th to the 25th, of which we caught about 2 weeks or a little more.

In the period from April 11 to April 23, we decided on a brave sortie in the south and east of Kazakhstan. Brave - because the weather was extremely unstable, sometimes it was cold with wind and snow, but sometimes it was warm and sunny.

Our entire route covered just over 6000 km: Омск-Павлодар-Караганда-Балхаш-Тараз-Шымкент-Туркестан-Баканас-Талдыкорган-Бухтарма-Семипалатинск-Павлодар-Омск.

The purpose of the trip was the early spring fauna of raznoustykh. They caught mostly only at night, but during the day they moved from point to point.

I personally shot quite a bit, because I spent almost all my time behind the wheel...

Driving out of Omsk on a sudden snowfall on summer tires, I was even seized with anxiety, and I'm not too early for butterflies this time? But after only 80 km, the snow stopped and my mood improved.


Having met in Pavlodar with friends (Sergey Titov and Anton Volynkin), we set off for a long time without hesitation. When we got to Balkhash, we spent the night in the town of Priozersk - a sort of dilapidated, half - abandoned, but previously thriving military town with a characteristic entourage-satellite radars at the entrance to the city, models of missiles and satellites around. However, the hotel (in Kazakh "Konak-Uy") pleased with its comfort, the availability of all amenities (such as a shower, TV, air conditioning, Wi-Fi, etc.) and a very democratic price tag-only 3500 tenge for a room for three (for our money about 700 rubles).

By the end of the next day, we reached Dotaraz, then Shymkent, after which the next morning we were already in the fields on the bank of the rapid Arys River, where we managed to meet Tomares fedtschenkoi from a particularly pleasant place
(photo by A. Volynkin)




a wide variety of blooming tulips were found along the entire route

photo by A. Volynkin

We also visited the famous Turkestan to see the Mausoleum Complex of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi , a place of pilgrimage for many Muslims from all over the world. The buildings of this complex date back to the 12th-14th centuries and make an amazing impression with their beauty and scale, especially when you realize what times it was all built.
photo by S. Titov

Then there was Syr Darya, Ili, and other interesting places:



photo by A. Volynkin
photo by A. Volynkin


The final leg of our trip in East Kazakhstan was the route from Tarbagatai near Urzhar to Bukhtarma.

Shargacucullia verbasci orientalis
Simyra dentinosa

In general, a decent amount of material has been collected, and there may be something new...

Expedition members (from left to right): Svyatoslav Knyazev, Anton Volynkin, Sergey Titov

the photo was taken at the end of the trip on the Bolshoy Tarbagatay ridge.

This post was edited by Konung-03.05.2014 19: 28

Denis, awesome places and cool photos!!! I was particularly impressed by ferula, and on it, by the way, one hefty lixus lives)))

And it turns out that you spent more time at customs than you caught in the field?)

Looking forward to the weevils)))

Why didn't you ask us what it's like to cross the Uzbek border by car? In 2011, we just crossed it by car... Due to our natural arrogance, it took us less time (just a little over a day in both directions), but the experience was priceless))) .

Why didn't you ask us what it's like to cross the Uzbek border by car? In 2011, we just crossed it by car... Due to our natural arrogance, it took us less time (only a little more than a day in both directions), but the experience was priceless))).

Something I didn't ask - I asked, they wished us good luck
It all depends on when to go there. In 2012-2013, at various times in Karakalpakstan, it was possible to drive for 4 hours.

A short trip of a few hours. They were looking for Zegris.
SE Kazakhstan. Almaty region. Kushikzhal Sands, Aksu River, one kilometer south-east of Kuraksu village. 40 kilometers south of the island.Balkhash.

It's not a desert yet, but it's coming soon.
But in the meantime - some kind of "Shackle".
In the distance you can see the peaks of Dzungaria
Transfer to Matai station. The desert is already across the road
The desert began with salt marshes
Often filled with water and all sorts of animals
Zegris biotope
Turangi
Like a ferula blooming
Rhubarb blooms


Burning tugai in the Aksu riverbed
The air temperature was about +35 degrees. The Zegrys were found, and even a couple of them were rounded up. Fly insanely fast, instantly change the flight path. On average, each instance accounted for 80 meters of sprints. Plus acrobatics with a net.

This post was edited by alex242 - 05/04/2014 19: 12

A short trip of a few hours. They were looking for Zegris.

The air temperature was about +35 degrees. The Zegrys were found, and even a couple of them were rounded up. Fly insanely fast, instantly change the flight path. On average, each instance accounted for 80 meters of sprints. Plus acrobatics with a net.

how many Zegris were there? and what is the situation with microzegrades?

how many Zegris were there? and what is the situation with microzegrades?

We saw about a dozen, collected only two, identified as Zegris fausti. There were also various chernotelki, bronzovki, weevils. Ausonia, turnips, mignonette, and pigeons flew. A dustpan was being shooed out of the bushes. It was hot - terrible. Running is unbearable. If you drink water, you'll be drenched immediately afterwards. My mouth is dry. We are waiting for a cold snap, and then we will rush again.

We saw about a dozen, collected only two, identified as Zegris fausti. There were also various chernotelki, bronzovki, weevils. Ausonia, turnips, mignonette, and pigeons flew. A dustpan was being shooed out of the bushes. It was hot - terrible. Running is unbearable. If you drink water, you'll be drenched immediately afterwards. My mouth is dry. We are waiting for a cold snap, and then we will rush again.

yes, the ones in the photo - fausti of course. It was strange that there were so few of them... and catching in the heat is a familiar picture ))

Well, as promised-photos of some mattresses (clickable)

Well, as promised-photos of some mattresses (clickable)

chernotelki credit!!! especially those with a white border

I counted as many as 4 weevils )))

Well, as promised-photos of some mattresses (clickable)

Denis, do you have any butterflies?

  
I counted as many as 4 weevils )))

And I - 5 : 1 - on UZ #12 and 4 - on UZ #11.

Well, as promised-photos of some mattresses (clickable)

Denis, is this all your bug fees or just a part of them? At about the same time (April 12-19, 2014), I was in approximately the same places and collected beetles, if compared with your mattresses, 20-30 times more in terms of species. I was pleasantly surprised by the clay desert west of Karshi (between the oasis and the Turkmen border). Especially at night. There were no Chioneosoma species alone, not to mention blackbirds and elephants.

Our route: from Tashkent via Samarkand off-road to the fields above the Kattakurgan reservoir (Airybel mountains). Then we descend to the Karshi steppe, which we crossed from the North to the South with a stop in the city of Mubarek to refuel with fuel and fresh water. On asphalt to the eastern shore of the lake. Sichankul (Sichankui – so it appears on the maps of the 80s). On the sands along the border with Turkmenistan to the Karshi oasis and then through Karshi along the southern slope of the Zeravshan ridge with an ascent to the watershed (up to 1800 m by car, to the pass on foot) in the area of Kalkama and Ayakchi villages. Then go to Shakhrisabs and through the Takhtakaracha pass again to Samarkand and Tashkent.
I'll try to prepare the report and post it on my personal website. Now, due to the late spring, we have a peak season in the low mountains. From Thursday (May 8) again the road-Zaamin, Malguzar mountains, Turkestan ridge.

Denis, is this all your bug fees or just a part of them?

This is certainly part of it, 6 mattresses out of 35, I think.

Denis, do you have any butterflies?

Mikra only, Yasha scoop for barko caught.

It's time for me to make my own contribution, the first purposeful walk for dorcas and T-shirts. Alas, one dorkash was not crowned with success, but it came off on butterflies.
A few photos of what you saw and caught

Unfortunately, there are no pictures. Some kind of bad picture hosting service.

the pictures are fine. check your internet

Kushikjal Sands, part 2

We go there...
Saxaul Grove
3D photo-Turanga. Watch with glasses on 3D TV.












There were no Ausonians at all, and the Zegrys seemed to be flying away. One fausta + one microzegris. Bears mated everywhere, Didyma's fresh-grown checkers, and in some places prosekas are friends on dry bushes.

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It's funny, I once watched sisyphus feeding on the shit of a Mediterranean turtle in a forest in the Krasnodar Territory. Here the situation changed to the sands of Central Asia, and the characters are the same, Only the appearance of the turtle is slightly different.

Again, I managed to go to the mountains for a short time. Foothills of Dzungaria, Balykty River (Balakhta). Somewhere between Kapal and Taldykorgan.




Tyria jacobaeae L
Melanargia russiae M+F
Polyommatus ripartii ssp. sarkani
Alauda arvensis About


Minois dryas M
Chazara briseis M
Hyponephele dzhungarica M


Hyponephele dzhungarica M
Hyponephele dzhungarica F

Polyommatus ripartii ssp. sarkani
Carcharodus alceae

http://www.rhopalocera.com/kg2014.htm

  http://www.rhopalocera.com/kg2014.htm

Very beautiful landscapes! Especially this gorge - http://www.rhopalocera.com/kg2014/IMG_9710.JPG ! I want to put

  http://www.rhopalocera.com/kg2014.htm

the report is just great!

"Absolutely depressing impression of the Chon-Kuurchak gorge. The gorge is being actively developed, almost completely eaten up by cattle:"

8 photos! a "good" places 1-2 photos it is clear that in some places it is bad. Yes! this is worth paying attention to. but! what's all this moussing about? is this an attempt to instill culture? - all forumchan have it, nadezhdyusyu. and everyone can get enough of shit from the window. and those who "shit" that no and they do not care...

  http://www.rhopalocera.com/kg2014.htm

Beautiful!

the report is just great!  

"Absolutely depressing impression of the Chon-Kuurchak gorge. The gorge is being actively developed, almost completely eaten up by cattle:"

8 photos! a "good" places 1-2 photos it is clear that in some places it is bad. Yes! this is worth paying attention to. but! what's all this moussing about? is this an attempt to instill culture? - all forumchan have it, nadezhdyusyu. and everyone can get enough of shit from the window. and those who "shit" that no and they do not care...

This is a regret. My Northern Tien Shan started with Chon Kuurchak in 1993, and back then it was beautiful, green, with lush tall grass meadows. Now there is no grass.

By the way, out of 8 photos about depressing-only 3. The rest show beautiful mountains around-TM Koramius patricius uzyngyrus

I understand... my native places (meadow steppe and oak grove) together with my house burned down, and now there are weeds stopping the car-a logical succession, so that it was empty!
my house....
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In general, a decent amount of material has been collected, and there may be something new...

Here is the promised new species, collected by us in the spring on an expedition to Kazakhstan:
Perigrapha yasawii Volynkin, Titov & Knyazev, 2014

photo added to the topic about hadeninae, description here: http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtop...48#entry1502048

This post was edited by Konung - 25.08.2014 18: 25