Ural Region

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The ssacad
pictured is a viper?

Only today I managed to pick up photos from a trip to Tyulgansky district of the Orenburg region 8-10. 07. 2011
The main purpose of the trip was to pick up Rosalia alpina. I collected a dozen beetles from this place the year before last, but then the weather let me down. Now the weather was sunny and warm (if not hot), and I escaped for three days to the Small Nakas farm. A couple of hours by bus to Tulgan, and another 15 km from Tulgan by car - and here it is Mount Yamantau, along one of the slopes of which there is an asphalt road. The time is already approaching in the evening, but the sun is still warming and the first rosalia comes across 10 meters from the edge of the forest located near the road. In the next two days, things are even more fun and in total we manage to collect 31 copies of rosalia. Beetles are found on the inhabited trunks of linden and maple, and these are already dead trunks from which the bark has fallen off, but still quite solid. Activity is shown in the warm time of the day from approximately 10-11 o'clock to 7-8 o'clock in the evening, depending on the temperature, but it seems that around lunch (at the hottest time) activity decreases. Interestingly, almost all beetles were collected in shaded areas of trunks (under overhanging vegetation or on the underside of trunks), and only 1-2 specimens were collected in sunlit areas.
Other barbels captured include Purpuricenus kaehleri, Clytus arietis, Anaesthetis testacea, Exocentrus punctipennis, Exocentrus lusitanus, Leiopus linnei, and a number of even more common animals.
It was nice to detect Osmoderma barnabita by its smell for the first time. While walking through the forest, a rather strong sweet smell "hit" my nose, which could not be confused with anything else. Four meters above me, in the thick trunk of a birch tree, where the top had fallen off, there was a hollow about 40 centimeters long and about 25 in width. For birch, this species has not been recorded before, so I first walked around the nearest neighborhood within a radius of 30-40 meters in order to search for other hollows (and if possible - lower ), and found only a huge dry hollow in a maple tree with larvae of bronzes and old remains of osmoderma. Surprisingly, last year's (at least, or even more) osmoderma legs that had lain in the hollow and had managed to get wet and dry many times during this time also produced a characteristic sweet smell, but of course already weak, which could only be smelled by directly sniffing them The hollow itself did not smell. It smelled exactly under the birch hollow. To pass by this birch tree, knowing that osmoderms are sitting at the top, was beyond my strength, and after a few minutes I scratched my hands and feet on the bark, overcame the 4-meter height without a single branch and grabbed the edge of the hollow. In it, exuding a pleasant sweet smell, two male osmoderms sat buried in the dust. That same day, a few hours later, I caught another, the largest male. At first I saw him sitting on the edge of a hollow tree on raised legs, apparently emitting his "fragrance", which was clearly felt under the birch tree. As a result of my unsuccessful attempts to reach it with a net, the beetle climbed into the hollow, from where it was soon extracted, but with less losses to my health The next day in the morning I checked the hollow again (climbing there 3 times faster than the day before), but it was empty. The females I had previously caught alive or the beetles collected in the crown traps did not smell as strongly as these males, that is, live males emit a much stronger smell.

You wouldn't describe in such detail the location of a red-book,partially commercial-looking station...otherwise, in a couple of years,there won't be much left of this population of yours...and to collect such a large series of beetles that disappear in many places ,in my opinion,is not worth it...IMHO, naturally

This post was edited by gonkem1986 - 30.08.2011 20: 52 by

On May 06-08, we went to the Orenburg region. We stopped in Sol-Iletsk, from where we raided the surrounding area.
On the first day, one of the main goals of the trip was caught - Zegris. Butterflies were flying in a melon field overgrown with crossflowers, from which watermelons and melons had not been removed last fall - a very unsightly biotope and not at all suitable for such a wonderful butterfly. On this field, crushing the watermelons crunching under our feet, we ran for two hours after the fast-moving zegrys, who did not want to sit down on the flowers. As a result, we managed to take a couple for two. Contrary to expectations, Neolycaena rhymnus was not found in the overgrown flowering caragana steppe (apparently it was too early for them), but Neolysandra coelestinus flew in large numbers.
On May 07, they fished in the chalk hills and an abandoned chalk quarry in the Akbulak district. Here, Euphydryas orientalis was found en masse, Melitaea trivia and phoebe were caught, as well as the only more or less unbroken female of the already almost departed Proterebia afra. In the sagebrush steppes nearby, the freshest Triphysa phryne was not uncommon.
On the night of May 08, they fished in the same place, at the chalk quarry. Unlike the previous night in the forest near Sol-Iletsk, which was remembered only for the excessive abundance of Dicranura ulmi and pine hawk moth, here we were pleased with cucullias, dipper festiva and the wonderful pygmy hawk moth gorgoniades. True, the hordes of Loxostege sticticalis seriously interfered with fishing, which did not allow you to calmly inspect the screen.
Separately, it is worth noting the curiosity of the Orenburg public. Every night, locals came to the light, watching the process with genuine interest. A servant of the nearby penal colony also visited the chalk quarry. The stern ensign at first categorically stated that we were in restricted territory (although there were no warning signs about this), but the gift of persuasion and our obvious inoffensiveness turned him into an equally curious spectator.
On May 08, they rushed 250 km from Sol-Iletsk, to the mountains beyond the town of Kuvandyk. Here, to our delight, Coenonympha leander and Melitaea arduinna have just started. On the hilltops, podalirias flew en masse, chasing each other and a few battered swallowtails.

Total were caught:

Pieridae
1. Zegris eupheme
2. Pontia chloridice (1 dead male)
3. Colias erate (1 female)
4. Colias (hyale?)
5. Leptidea sp.

Papilionidae
1. Iphiclides podalirius

Lycaenidae
1. Thersamonia thersamon
2. Pseudophilotes vicrama
3. Neolysandra coelestinus
4. Plebejidea cyane (1 male)

Nymphalidae
1. Euphydryas aurinia sareptana
2. Melitaea robertsi uvarovi
3. M. ornata
4. M. arduinna

Satyridae
1. Proterebia afra
2. Triphysa phryne
3. Coenonympha leander

Caught in the light, except for moths (in envelopes ) - in the box in the photo.

In general, the trip turned out to be extremely successful - we managed to catch most of what was planned, got a lot of pleasure from the wonderful nature of the region.

But the most unexpected and pleasant discovery took place on the way home, in the Bugulma district of Tatarstan. Pseudophilotes bavius, a new species for the Republic of Tatarstan, was discovered on the southern slope that has been favored since last year.

This post was edited by Krupskyi - 14.05.2012 18: 06

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Pieridae
1. Zegris eupheme
2. Pontia chloridice (1 dead male)
3. Colias erate (1 female)
4. Colias (hyale?)
5. Leptidea sp.

Papilionidae
1. Iphiclides podalirius

Lycaenidae
1. Thersamonia thersamon
2. Pseudophilotes vicrama
3. Neolysandra coelestinus
4. Plebejidea cyane (1 male)

Nymphalidae
1. Euphydryas orientalis This species does not fly here. It's from Asia Minor. In your case it is most likely E. aurinia sareptana
2. Melitaea trivia This one should be watched. Maybe M. roberti
3. M. phoebe
4. M. arduinna

Satyridae
1. Proterebia afra
2. Triphysa phryne
3. Coenonympha leander

I came back from a trip . Moscow-Samara-Orenburg-Yuzhnouralsk-Chelyabinsk-Ufa-chebaksary-Moscow. I really liked the beauty and nature. Pravdo in the Orenburg steppes, the ground is already dry and cracked.The southern Urals met us with night frosts. The entire route took about 5000 km.The route was driven too fast, in 18 days, and it should have been 30 days for normal zborov. I caught everything that came across,but the result was not enough.All sorts of excesses prevented: local aborigines,the weather( they tried to hold the screen with their hands,a very strong wind).

And what is the T-shirt in the photo?

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