Siberia

Hello colleagues
Went yesterday with a friend Arventus'om to Lake Baikal,
the weather was disgusting, but despite this, pigeons flew everywhere: Scolitantides orion, Celastrina argiolus, Everes argiades, Lycaena helle,
missed a cool fathead-Carterocephalus argyrostigma.
Caught two phragmatobia fuliginosa. Parnassus nomion caterpillars of recent ages crawled everywhere, and you had to watch your feet to avoid stepping on them.
Of the beetles caught a lot of Harpalus erosus, Poecilus fortipes, Badister bullatus from carabus:
Several C kruberi, C spasskianus and one Schoncher.
I was lucky enough to catch a rare cool nutcracker – Mosotaleus baeri.
And no less rare and cool staff – Philonthis cyanipehnis with bright blue elytra.
In general, the trip turned out to be quite successful.

Have you tried typing and withdrawing nomions?

Now I have one pupa, just about to come out and five more caterpillars, I took this time, today or tomorrow they will pupate, the whole problem is that the cleaning agent does not grow much, so I can not take all the caterpillars

Today I caught the first hives in the entrance! On the street -10, the strongest blizzard, all covered with snow I go to the entrance, go up to my floor, and there, I couldn't believe my eyes - a butterfly!!! Apparently it came from the attic or something else, warmed up during a small thaw. In general, I left the apartment with a jar, covered the poor girl, brought her home... I will not describe the further course of events. In general in my collection there will be a February copy of urticaria

Today we returned from Khakassia and Tuva. We left on May 21 at 23.00. In Moscow, they say, it was the last warm day. We flew for 4.5 hours, met the morning in Abakan. Almost immediately we moved to Shushenskoye (it was a business trip, but I won't write details about museums, etc.), where I went to set traps. Alas, the village turned out to be extremely dirty: broken windows, garbage everywhere, drunk hard workers walk along the streets. The bm barely found decent places for traps, but the catch the next morning was the poorest: not a single Carabus, just a little bit of some kind of Carbid trifle. In the afternoon we drove towards Tuva. The first stop is near the village of Tanzybey, in the foothills of the Sayan Mountains. I managed to go to the river, turn the pebbles and pebbles. Here the catch was a little more interesting: a few leaf eaters, for some reason hanging out at the water's edge under rocks, bembs, etc. crap. Unfortunately, there were no nebryas. The weather was sunny, but not particularly hot: around +17. In the late afternoon, we stopped at a pass overgrown with orchids, and for the first time saw the Tuvan steppes. The first stop in Tuva is at the Arzhaan 2 excavation site. It was hot here, around +23-25. In the mass came across leaf-eaters Cryptocephala, caught and interesting land-walking elephant, some carbidic trifle. Located right on the banks of the Yenisei River. First of all, I went to stir up the stones - again vile bembs and only there were NO Nebryas. I set up traps, but the next morning only large Blaps were taken out. We spent the night, by the way, in a yurt. And it was the yurt that brought the most eye-pleasing fees from Tuva. Oddly enough, wasps helped in this. Vile creatures actively built nests right in our yurt, and behaved quite aggressively. On the second day, we spat on this shit and, in the absence of dichlorvos, sprayed the nests and the most disgusting individuals with Gardex tick repellent. The wasps weren't dead, but they were losing interest in recent buildings. My friend even sprayed the entrance to the yurt. And the next morning I found Tafoxenus in this place, suffering from poisoning, but perfectly fresh, shiny and beautiful. In the afternoon, Tuva also managed to collect a few more elephants, leaf-eaters, carapaces and abscesses. Two days later we turned in the direction of Khakassia. Located at the base at an altitude of 1350m. It was cold and snowing in the morning. The forest is coniferous. Nothing under the logs, except for a couple of local pterostiches. We saw bear tracks. There were small rabbits along the paths. Cedar trees were crumbling on the porch of the house. We searched desperately for Nebryas, because the streams and rivers were like mud, but again-nothing. And so, on the very last day, we went on a short excursion to some backwater waterfall. After taking the photo, I automatically turned over a large pebble under my foot and saw a real live light - a bright, green-red Nebria! In 20 minutes, we caught 6 of these creatures (probably a Catenulate, but probably a Fulgida), completely exhausting the pebbles. The next stop is already on the plain. There are dozens of mounds all around, and the beauty is fantastic. Soil elephants and blackbirds are collected. Somewhere I "caught" a tick and discovered it only in the evening, when the geek managed to suck (but I didn't have time to drink blood, fortunately) Now I drink iodapirin and hope that everything will be OK. We live in a yurt complex again. It's still cold at night. Ground squirrels ' minks are all around. Manual collection gave Carabus Granulatos (that's a laugh-to fly 4 thousand km and catch this crap), a little pleasant Carabids. The riverbank was not at all appetizing - rather steep banks, there are almost no beaches with jackdaws. height-350m. Nevertheless, I begin to rustle the stones, which gave another 3 (!) a kind of Nebria, some cool pterostichus and it is not yet clear that from thecarabids) Today flew out of sunny Abakan with the firm intention of returning to the season-in mid-late June. I'll attach the photos below.

This post was edited by Frantic - 29.05.2008 14: 55

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Here the catch was a little more interesting: a few leaf eaters, for some reason hanging out at the water's edge under rocks, bembs, etc. crap.

Well, who cares
Bembidions for me so not crap at all

Denis, bembs, leaf-eaters, blackbirds, one type of abscess, a few elephants-all this goes to the exchange fund. There are bembs from Tuva (Yenisei) and from the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Tanzybey River).

This post was edited by Frantic - 05/29/2008 13: 49

Denis, bembs, leaf-eaters, blackbirds, one type of abscess, a few elephants-all this goes to the exchange fund. There are bembs from Tuva (Yenisei) and from the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Tanzybey River).

In the evening, I will see what is available and write in pm

OK! I'll post photos of the mattresses later.

http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/rus/agyrt_fm.htm

This is what one of the collected beetles looks like.

Gentlemen, I'm here a little pofftoplyu Food tomorrow to explore the absolutely gorgeous lipnyak (not for long, for two months), I want to catch a good carabid. Who puts what baits in the soil traps on the carabid and in general, do these baits need? And then I do not know, somehow I catch more and more butterflies

Gentlemen, I'm here a little pofftoplyu Food tomorrow to explore the absolutely gorgeous lipnyak (not for long, for two months), I want to catch a good carabid. Who puts what baits in the soil traps on the carabid and in general, do these baits need? I do not know, but somehow I catch more and more butterflies

http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=237002

If anyone is interested, among the most pleasant Karabids in Tuva and Khakassia were caught:

Corsyra fusula (Fischer von Waldheim, 1820)
Diplous (Platidius) depressus (Gebler, 1829)
Nebria (Boreonebria) subdilatata Motschulsky, 1844
Nebria (Catonebria) catenulata Fischer von Waldheim, 1820
Nebria (Catonebria) fulgida Gebler, 1847

Plus some nice local Pterostiches and Harpalins.

Nothing outstanding, of course, but the animals are nice.

I stopped by for a couple of days in the city, decided to unsubscribe on beetles. Lipnyak turned out to be a little poor For a couple of weeks, only this came, and almost all in huge quantities
Carabus granulatus
C. cancellatus
C. schoenherri
C. menetriesi
C. glabratus
C. regalis (unfortunately isolated)
C. aeruginosus,
P. Cychrus caraboides, and Pterostichus niger and P. oblongopunctatus came in. Small things that I expected, for some reason do not go, which is very sad

Gentlemen, does anyone know that the catocals (fraxini, fulminea, sponsa) are already flying? Or do you still have to wait until the weekend?

Hmm, that's weird. I asked this question because fulminea and fraxini fly at the same time near Tyumen. And we had a very warm summer all around. Probably time to go fishing.

I left on Saturday to finish collecting the latest material for the diploma in raznousym. As usual, according to the well-known law of meanness, the day of arrival was marked by a 30-degree heat wave, which in the evening was replaced by a squally wind, thunderstorms and heavy rain for the next two days. But I managed to catch something. So:
Geometridae -
Timandra comae
Xanthorhoe designata
X. biriviata

Noctuidae-
Amphipoea fucosa
Archanara dissoluta
Ipimorpha retusa
Diarsia forida
Syngrapha interrogationis
Xestia ditrapezium
Tholera decimalis
Gortyna flavago
Catocala fraxini Enargia
paleacea I
'll throw a couple more metalloids in the "definition"

Arctiidae -
Eilema complana

Sphingidae-
Mimas tiliae (and quite fresh)

Drepanidae -
Thyatira batis

I also picked up some beetles in passing
Oberea oculata
Platystomus albinus
Rhynchites sp.

I also got such a worm (A. flavia?).

I was surprised by the fact that when I offered him strawberries, plantain and willow as food (I don't know what he cracked before), he ate everything. But I still gave preference to plantain. I remember from my books that even such well-known polyphages as dipper bears, in late adulthood, feed only on the plant on which they spent their "early childhood". Has anyone else observed such cases of "promiscuity in food"?







This post was edited by Vabrus - 08/19/2008 21: 37

This is not A. flavia.
If I'm not mistaken, flavia is below in the photo.
What size is it ? Very similar to matronula, though I do not know how in the Tyumen region. with this species ....

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2cajarc
Thanx, probably, really matrona. We are doing fine with them, about a month and a half ago, 5-10 people arrived stably during the night

Eh...some people are lucky...it's getting warmer outside my window...already -30...from the living creatures only spiders in the bathroom (I can't lime reptiles)...

sadness...sadness...sadness...

Spring has come to Siberia! Yesterday (April 2), my colleagues and I went for a test night fishing trip for Lepidoptera. In general, we did not expect to catch anything, since there is usually nothing at this time, but as soon as the lamps were turned on, numerous scoops Conistra vaccinii (Linnaeus, 1761) immediately began to attack the screen, then Xylena vetusta (Hubner, [1813]) joined them, and Achlya flavicornis scoops came across (Linnaeus, 1758), in addition, at the end of fishing, a colleague caught one scoop Orthosia sp., which will still need to be determined later, and I came across one Depressaridae, also not yet determined. Interestingly, the DRV lamp flew much better than the DRL installed 100 meters after the turn of the forest road. Perhaps this is due to another place, but outwardly there were no differences between the glades... I didn't photograph anything this time, just caught it. For this all!

Did you take a pigeon's nest?

taler, isn't it just a platitude, or did I misunderstand something?

Lucky for you, Europeans And we only have butterflies flying, I thought-summer has come, but no-snow fell 15 centimeters, winter again

by the way, Vabrus, have you already caught something there in the Tyumen region?

This post was edited by Konung-08.04.2009 16: 12

We haven't caught it yet - and there's no time, and the weather was good for a week in total. Wintering only povylazili. Svezhachok I will go to collect closer to May, and there I will definitely unsubscribe, that yes as.

While writing the previous message, I found a tick on the dog. Caught it right in the yard, in the city center, 4 days ago. The season is open. People, protect yourself

This post was edited by Vabrus - 08.04.2009 19: 34

In addition to the second April mini-report from the Omsk region, I enclose a photo of a specimen of Orbona fragariae (Vieweg, 1790) caught in a nearby clearing on the same night by my colleague.

It's fantastically warm today. 18.
Flying a lot of things.
But I didn't catch it. I was on a business trip.
In mid-May I will give a report on V. Kazakhstan, I hope.

On April 20, we went out with our colleagues for night fishing in the vicinity of Omsk. They put the car in a swamp, barely pulled it out for 2 hours! The catch was as follows:

Endromis versicolora - 13 males

Achlya flavicornis - very much

Orthosia gothica
Orthosia incerta
Xylena vetusta
Conistra vaccinii
Conistra rubiginea
Brachionycha nubeculosa

Several species of Oecophoridae and Depressaridae, as well as several species of Acleris leafworms.
In the evening, Archiearis parthenias were still darting among the birches.

The night fishing ended in heavy rain, which forced us to get out of the way before the road was cleared...


On April 21, I went to the north of the Omsk region, to the border of the subtaiga and southern taiga. Caught A. parthenias, various micros. During the night, a crowd of A. flavicornis + Lycia pomonaria!, Odontosia sieversii!, B. nubeculosa, X. vetusta, C. vaccinii, some Oecophoridae, Depressaridae, and one Pterophoridae flew to the light. And again I had to finish fishing because of the rain!

- Great! - even in the Omsk region, spring moth years are already in full swing! - And I only got out with the generator 2 times in my life... - My hands are so itchy!

And I only got out with the generator 2 times in my life... - My hands are itching!

well I did not catch at all at night even once

- Great! - even in the Omsk region, spring moth years are already in full swing! - And I only got out with the generator 2 times in my life... - My hands are so itchy!

Yes, butterflies are already in full swing, it is not necessary to catch them on the generator by the way, you can also use the battery. I usually put 2 lamps - one from the generator, the other from the battery. By the way, you can shoot a macro with a whale, but you need to hang all sorts of attachments on it (lenses, rings), and you can generally, if there is, hang a lens thread from the zenith. You can still flip the whale, so there are a million ways out! there would be a wish!

Report on catching white flies from the window. Tyumen, 2. V. 2009.

Light collections on the night of May 7-8, 2009 Years from 22.00 to 1.00. The thermometer is about 13 degrees. The first time I fished at a new dacha-I realized that agricultural landscapes do not have good fees

Selenia tetralunaria
Cleora cinctaria (in bulk)

Scoliopteryx libatrix
Orthosia incerta
Lithophane socia

Just a little more micra. I'll post it in the definition when I straighten it out. That's how it's all so sad...

Report on a trip to the Southern Altai region.
We left on Friday at 14 with Alexander Nakonechny.
We spent the night in the Ongudai district in a tent.
Second overnight stay in Chagan-Uzun village of Kosh-Agach district. Height 2140 m. Fishing in the light is limited due to heavy winds. I.e., no horseradish was caught. In the morning I picked under the stones. There are no daytime butterflies yet, either. Under the stones are beautiful leaf-eating chrysolins, many ground beetles, black-bodied plants. We ate a mountain goat (buna).
Every day they were caught in the light in Aktash. 1300 m. Very good. Watsonarctia deserta, Chelis sp., lots of scoops.
Then take a taxi home. Sasha stayed for another week.
Estimate of 6000 rubles

Tip Sasha continues to catch in Aktash and every day we call up with him
While the scoops are mostly there.
But occasionally and bears 2 species, hawkmoth 2 species.
I am sure that among the scoops there will be very interesting materials. Thank God there is a very smart young noctuidologist Anton Volynkin, who I think Siberia will grow thoroughly. Therefore, now we are trying to determine all the scoops. And even this group has ceased to be terra incognita for us.

Tip Sasha continues to catch in Aktash and every day we call up with him
While the scoops are mostly there.

Can I see them?"

I look at your reports, gentlemen, and I can't get enough of them. It's summer everywhere, but it's still spring here
On Saturday, I finally managed to escape to nature. And not anyhow where, but to the Sverdlovsk region. With goals that are not entomological, but exploratory.
So, Sverdlovsk region, the bank of the Tavda River.



The place was really gorgeous. View from the high river bank (up to 60 meters in some places) it opened to the surrounding villages, fields,
forests, etc. After wandering around the top, shooting all the beauty, we started looking for a place
to go down without the risk of breaking a couple of limbs. Along
the way, leaf beetles (Lochmaea?)were found in the mass on the willow tree.,



Gonioctena leaf beetles (?),



cute caterpillar of some moth,



and there was a nutcracker in the rotten trunk of a pine tree. That's what his name is,
I can't even imagine



It was much more fun on the beach. Callophrys rubi and Pieris napi flew from butterflies. A pile of Elaphrus was running around in the sand.
Caught some slow-motion Agonum sexpunctatum,
for which he was immediately filmed



A bee was basking in the sand. Andrena? I'm not good at that at all



That's what harsh Tavda beavers are capable of





Such traces of vital activity were found at every step.
And badger, and fox, and hazel grouse. Here it is.



It was on such a wonderful note that we got back to the beach.
On the steepest part of the slope, as if mocking, a male Aglia tau flew over our heads a couple of times.
Well, nothing, not the last time we live

I give myself to catching insects in the Mikhailovsky district of the Altai Territory. 10 km from Kazakhstan. Dry forests and steppes.
The conditions are wonderful.
In the morning, my friend takes me to the point. He picks it up at 16. Shower, beer, dinner, 100 g of moonshine.
At 22 on the point-catch the light to 2.Superco.
Daytime butterflies are sparse. Banal stuff. But so I catch a little. Magnificent steeds, for which hunting in the sun is a real hunt. A pretty good set of other beetles. Koshu.
At night, there are about 25 species of scoops, small wine hawk moth, and a pair of cocoonworms. Overall nice, but no frills.
Pleases a minimum of mosquitoes and host benevolence and cuisine. Okroshka, pilaf, kebabs, borscht.