Siberia

I will add to the Photo Chronicle my report on a trip to Yakutia, Suntar-Khayata, in June of this year. By the way, I didn't plan to go there, but a foreign colleague... see my story "White Moth" in "Tales". Similar motif, slightly different plot and route.

Drop-off point, with a bag of groceries. And the same amount in the backpack.


After walking 10 kilometers along the river valley, we find an Even camp.


Even letter. The owner went hunting in the woods.


Check in on the territory. Outside is dangerous. Lots of bears. They also enter "fenced areas", but less often.


Exit for an excursion through the sloping "yagelny" forest.


Some kind of clematis in the woods. Probably rare.


Biotopes of the "white moth".


Its forage plant (tufted Gorodkova).


And here it is!... I rejoiced early, however. "Moth" flew only once. I saw about three of them in a day. For the entire expedition - two dozen. It was an abnormally warm May, essentially summer, and the butterflies seemed to be flying off early. Or something else... Nature is always unpredictable.


In the evening, the Evens came. And they started filming us on video!


And at night I came... Joke. The bear was removed from the car when driving at night in the Magadan region.


Photos from one of the following excursions.


And this... it was found near the forage plant arcticus. And near many others. Egg shells abandoned by caterpillars. I can guess whose they are.


Then even steeper-on the crest of the caterpillar! Eversmanny?


No, Eversman doesn't look like this. Found nearby, in a slightly different station. I feed the above in a box and get a pupa soon. Now it is wintering. What kind of butterfly will come out of it - that kind will be.


I found another caterpillar. By the look of Bremery! Sorry, she died for some reason I don't know.


In the forest there are wonderful adaptations. Racked my brain... A bear trap! (The Evens explained.) A piece of rotten fish is placed in the barrel. A hungry bear comes running, puts a paw in the hole, but there's no way back. Do not give "closed" petals. The barrel is tied tightly. The bear screams loudly. Evens come running, and... Inventive people, you can't say anything.


Another trap. It's easier here. Mishka climbs in, the door falls down. Little bear. The tube was slightly wider than my torso.


Even "everything" means reindeer.


Pupa in the floodplain.


From which the callidice whitefly was bred!


Return trip. The main thing is to follow the signs!


Farewell shot. A hitchhiker will pick us up soon...

Wild Yuri,
super report! Sorry, photos of mountains and butterflies are not enough! A tiny number of people go there, who else will take pictures...
By the way, how much casting time (and ejection time) did you get approximately?

  Wild Yuri,
super report! Sorry, photos of mountains and butterflies are not enough! A tiny number of people go there, who else will take pictures...

Thank you. I rarely took photos before. This year is the first time that I "took something off". I'll try more in the next one... And here are the magnificent landscapes and many other interesting things about Suntar Hayata: http://karpukhins.livejournal.com/9036.html. I didn't find the first part, though. Anyone who finds it, please provide a link.

By the way, how much casting time (and ejection time) did you get approximately?

Four days there and about five back. We traveled by bus from Magadan to Susuman and then by hitchhiking. There is no regular message. Taxi - at the price of a plane. Easier and faster, probably from Yakutsk. Next time.

Found the first part! http://karpukhins.livejournal.com/8811.html.

December 2nd. Omsk. on the street -29! Tyria jacobaeae hatched at home.

December 2, Tyumen, overboard -23, some aphid flies around the room)

December 2nd. Omsk. on the street -29! Tyria jacobaeae hatched at home.

December 2, Tyumen, overboard -23, some aphids fly around the room)

Damn it! how do you live there? Even from reading frost on the skin

Damn it! how do you live there? Even reading it gives you the creeps

And this is just the beginning ...

And this is just the beginning ...

December 21 is getting closer!!!

Oh, come on, just the beginning, in the vicinity of Novosibirsk in the near future it will mostly get warmer, but in the vicinity of Tambov it will get colder ))))

Damn it! how do you live there? Even reading it gives you the creeps

we live normally

Similarly, absolutely normal and not like this will be

December 2nd. Omsk. on the street -29! Tyria jacobaeae hatched at home.

And where does jacobaeae come from?

And where does jacobaeae come from?

from the south of the Omsk region

today we have xanthomelas and urticae flying! soon it will be trampled...

Hello,
Yesterday I decided to go fishing at night in the country. The temperature is +10...+16. This will be my first night fishing trip of 2013!







In addition to insects, a hedgehog also came to light. However, the photo did not work out clearly.



Here is a trap of a different plan



Here are other arthropod guests. For a couple of evening hours, I found 6 pieces, or rather they found me. There are a lot of them.



And finally, not a big, but relatively good result.

I don't have much time to write reports right now - it's a hot season!
23. 06. 2013 Omsk region, Krutinsky district, collected a male Stauropus fagi!
As far as I understand , this is the first discovery of this species in Siberia!

Greetings to all!
I'll be in Irkutsk at the end of July. There will be free 2-3 days to go somewhere in the neighborhood and take pictures and pick up something. If anyone has been to those parts, what places around Irkutsk are interesting for taking good photos of lepidoptera?

I first saw this miracle in the country, not far from Krasniarsk. I am not a professional biologist, but this bird surprised me very much, for the first time I saw such an insect with a length of 4-5 cm. The first impression was that it was a hummingbird, a very similar technique for processing flowers: it does not sit on a flower, but hovers, uses its long proboscis, in flight it is almost not audible (not buzzing), only a barely perceptible rustle of wings. Upon closer inspection, it became clear that this insect, and a very large one, was very struck by the position of the wings, they are located strictly perpendicular to the body.
I was very surprised by this insect, I want to identify it and read something about it.
Photos taken from your phone are therefore of poor quality.

This is a hawk moth (Sphingidae), most likely yazykan

I can't see clearly from my phone. Yes, and the photo leaves much to be desired..... In my opinion, this is a hawk moth of the Hyles genus. Try Googling for Hyles galii or Hyles euphorbiae. I think you will recognize your "bird".

I have seen these night moths many times (now I know that they are hawkmoths), looked at the photos on the Internet, but this is somehow all a little different, besides it was a clear day.
I want to pay attention to the place of attachment of the wings and their mechanics - this is what made the greatest impression on me. The wings are folded somewhere between the chest and abdomen (please forgive my non-biological education) and work strictly perpendicular to the body in flight.

Did not enter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chalnbX6U34
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eecJFkANiY

35 years I live, constantly in the country and occasionally in the forest, but for some reason I have never seen such large insects.

I have seen these night moths many times (now I know that they are hawkmoths), looked at the photos on the Internet, but this is somehow all a little different, besides it was a clear day.
I want to pay attention to the place of attachment of the wings and their mechanics - this is what made the greatest impression on me. The wings are folded somewhere between the chest and abdomen (please forgive my non-biological education) and work strictly perpendicular to the body in flight.

Did not enter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chalnbX6U34
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eecJFkANiY

35 years I live, constantly in the country and occasionally in the forest, but for some reason I have never seen such large insects.

I finally got home with a normal computer and want to confirm my guess.
As I thought in the pictures or Bedstraw hawk moth (Hyles gallii) or Hawk moth (Hyles euphorbiae): despite the quality, for some reason I am more inclined to Milkweed. Both species can fly during the day and are migrants (they can easily reach you).

I finally got home with a normal computer and want to confirm my guess.
As I thought in the pictures or Bedstraw hawk moth (Hyles gallii) or Hawk moth (Hyles euphorbiae): despite the quality, for some reason I am more inclined to Milkweed. Both species can fly during the day and are migrants (they can easily reach you).

This is a bedstraw hawk moth. Our "homegrown" - more than once found caterpillars on the cypress or bedstraw. The butterfly itself was found near Krasnoyarsk only during the day. And in Zap.Sayans (Ergaks) a pair of hawk moth flew to the light. For some reason, euphorbia does not reach us, although it is common in the Novosibirsk and Omsk regions.

This is a bedstraw hawk moth. Our "homegrown" - more than once found caterpillars on the cypress or bedstraw. The butterfly itself was found near Krasnoyarsk only during the day. And in Zap.Sayans (Ergaks) a pair of hawk moth flew to the light. For some reason, euphorbia does not reach us, although it is common in the Novosibirsk and Omsk regions.

Podmarennikovy - so podmarennikovy (from such photos it is difficult to understand)
It is mainly females that fly to the light: http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtop...dpost&p=1410586 but sometimes the males got knocked up. In short: an incomprehensible butterfly.

[quote=Justus,12.07.2012 20: 27] Thanks! I wish I knew what she was eating.
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[quote=barry,12.07.2012 20:55]

Cucullia lactucae
Forage plants of caterpillars
Compositae, Sonchus, Lactuca.

And what does Siberia have to do with it?

Well, then she eats normal weed.
A picture from Justus ' message (some quotes came out crookedly), hence Siberia.

Here is a short report of a not quite successful (in terms of butterflies) trip to the Western Sayan Mountains, the foothills of the Aradan range.
Even from the plane, I sensed something was wrong when I saw completely white mountains from the window. Spring was late in the mountains this year.


Yesterday's, possibly nighttime bear tracks cross my path


The nearest people are very far away, I saw the tracks of tourists who wanted to follow the trail a few days before me, but at some point changed their minds and returned back(the driver who gave me a ride told me about them).




An impending storm, and I naively decide to wait out in the tent. It's only after the wind starts ripping out the tent stakes and I'm fairly flooded that I decide to go down.

A lonely tent on a slope.

However, a strong wind, literally blowing off my feet along with a heavy backpack and trekking poles, plus rain and snow and visibility of 10 meters, make it so that I finally lose the trail.
Avalanche-prone area, descent on a mat like a sled on a glacier and I'm finally at the bottom.


Relax after the storm below. Hut with a stove, sauna.

I think I'll pass for the directorate) Anyway, there's no one around.


As a result of butterflies: 1 pc. Parnassius eversmanni(The only one I saw on char, well, a couple of whiteflies), golubyanka probably H. helle and banal meadow yellow, which I caught already below.
The beetles were much better, there was Carabus
mestscherjakovi in sufficient quantity, well, a few more interesting ones.

Here are the same places last year, only a little later.

Krasnoe Lake from a height of

Nutrition with natural products))

Here is a small report of a not quite successful (in terms of butterflies) trip to the Western Sayan,
an impending storm, and I naively decide to wait out in a tent. It's only after the wind starts ripping out the tent stakes and I'm fairly flooded that I decide to go down.
A lonely tent on a slope.

The tent is painfully thin for this region.

The tent is painfully thin for this region.

No, in general, it is quite passable-in terms of weight and other characteristics, it has proven itself in several similar campaigns. Just don't put it on top))

Here is its previous version, camping weight 1 kg.:


Now it is defined for a warm climate, like Thailand. But the first times I went with her, plus another piece of polyethylene)))

2007год

[quote=Garricos,22.09.2013 14:45]

[quote=MIV,22.09.2013 20:32] Here is a small report of a not quite successful(in terms of butterflies) trip to the Western Sayan Mountains, the foothills of the Aradan range.
Familiar places. What dates were you there? If you traveled through Krasnoyarsk, WHY didn't you stop by? I'd like to see old man Zakharzhevsky, he remembers you.
P.S. And the skakunchik cool turned out!
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Thanks). No, Mikhail, this time I'm going through Abakan without going to Krasnoyarsk. I was there from June 8 to 14. Hello to Igor Semyonovich! I hope next summer it will work out in Krasnoyarsk

Closing of the season in the vicinity of Krasnoyarsk on December 27, 2013.
The pension Fund deprived me of any hope of a trip to Thailand in the form of mandatory fees for sole proprietors in the amount of 36 thousand rubles. So I decided that since fishing in warm countries won't be possible in the near future, I need to compensate at least in this way. And even if it's a blizzard outside... Then there will be even more snow and even colder weather

Here is a small result:


And I'll close the IP nafig...

and the living envied the dead

Closing of the season in the vicinity of Krasnoyarsk on December 27, 2013.
The pension Fund deprived me of any hope of a trip to Thailand in the form of mandatory fees for sole proprietors in the amount of 36 thousand rubles. So I decided that since fishing in warm countries won't be possible in the near future, I need to compensate at least in this way. And even if it's a blizzard outside... Then there will be even more snow and even colder weather

Here is a small result:


And I'll close the IP nafig...

Since they did manage to go to Tai, these comrades were released into the forest to their usual habitats. In order to successfully meet the spring and start breeding))
P/S I didn't kill them, but just put them in the freezer and when the temperature rose, they actively began to wake up.

Hello everyone!
I decided to go fishing during the May holidays, the weather was warm. That's exactly what happened...

While the new season has not finally come into its own (at least in Moscow it is now so cold that it is time for insects to return for the winter), I will finally post here a report on the expedition to Tuva and, in part, Khakassia. Held in the second half of July and early August of last year. A colleague of Papaver, whose rich knowledge of Tuvan realities, the psychology of local residents, and the history of the Tuvan language has often come in handy, also took part in this trip .

Our destination-Lake Kara-Khol in the north-western part of Tuva-is located in such a way that the road to it itself turned into a very long roundabout journey. Having reached Abakan by train, we loaded ourselves into minibuses, and all the numerous belongings - into a truck, and set off in the direction of Tuva. We crossed the border between Khakassia and Tuva on the picturesque Sayan Pass, 2200 m high. There were snowfields on the pass, all the appropriate mountain flora of the Western Sayan Mountains bloomed, and not very numerous erebia flew.




Then our road descended to the flat part of Tuva. Although Kara-Khol Lake is located on the north-western edge of this republic, however, there are no entrances from the north to the reservoir, and the only road passes through the city of Ak-Dovurak. As we approached Ak-Dovurak, the heat increased, and the area around us gradually flowed into a semi-desert.









Just before we reached the town, we passed a huge block of white rock that I understand is an asbestos deposit.



After having lunch in the Akdovurak canteen, having a rest and talking with the authorities of the Ubsunur Nature Reserve (with whom we had previously agreed to park on the territory of the Kara-Khol cluster), we continued the road to the lake on off-road transport with Tuvan drivers.

The Pampas gave way to a moderately mountainous landscape, and elements of the ritual culture of the Tuvans began to appear — piles of stones with many colorful ribbons.




After passing a small pass, we found ourselves in the valley of the Alash River (which flows out of Kara-Khol), and along it we headed towards the lake. From time to time there were all sorts of stops, delays, breakdowns, etc., which made it possible to go out and inspect the local steppe for six — legged animals — there were black heifers (Crypticus quisquilius, Pedinus sp.), small carabids, in many cases-the ladybug Coccinella magnifica. I also had a chance to observe this picture — a small area littered with corpses of ants. Before my eyes, the ant workers brought in more and more "units" that had served their time. Interestingly, the presence of such an open "cemetery" is normal for lyazius, or some kind of force majeure?



As a result, we didn't make it to the lake that day, so we had to spend the night in the Alash Valley. Well, not exactly in the field — at the place where we stopped, they tried to build a children's camp a long time ago, but apparently the business stalled after the construction of several wooden utility rooms for workers. We spent the night in these huts. In one of them, we were met by as many as four brown earflaps at once.





A small reconnaissance tour of the surrounding area in the morning:








Then we finally reached the lake and began to ferry our numerous belongings by boat to the northern shore of this long (11 km) narrow lake. The whole procedure took a total of almost 2 days, was quite boring and filled with a depressing drizzle of bad weather. During an overnight stay on the southern shore, unknown Tuvan intruders stole personal belongings of several expedition members from the tent, which they very short-sighted left in the vestibule-instead of storing in a protected pile in the center of the parking lot.

But now the road is finally behind us, and we are already setting up a station camp, where we will spend the next 2 weeks.



This post was edited by Dergg - 05.05.2014 20: 00