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05.05.2014 10:22, Dergg

Lake Kara-Khol is bounded on the west and east by rather high and steep banks, and only in the north and south are the valleys of flowing/flowing rivers approaching it. We stood in the immediate vicinity of the mouth of the Monaga River, just beyond which the Elig Hem River flowed into the lake, at the mouth of which there were cattle breeders ' houses.

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Not far from us was the hut of Toli, a Tuvan fisherman, with whom from the very beginning we had the best of neighborly relations, and who throughout the expedition we exchanged camp food for fresh fish, to the mutual benefit of both parties.

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In addition, other inhabitants of the lake who live at a slightly greater distance from us — pastoralists and employees of the reserve-visited our camp from time to time. Often they did not come empty-handed — during the expedition we had a chance to taste the wonderful maral meat, prepared right in front of our eyes black pudding, araga (a local low-alcohol drink made from milk). And how delicious is Tuvan sour cream... mmm... you'll get swayed.

From the point of view of entomology, I must say that the place of the camp was not very successful. The valley of the Monaga River was a fairly monotonous leafy taiga, in which it remained only to put soil traps.

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The Elig Hem River Valley also had some settled areas, but it was only accessible by boat, and only a couple of times during the expedition they were able to fish there.

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So most of the time we had to fish only on the mountain slope that overlooked the camp, and in the narrow strip of meadows along the lake's shore. In addition, the weather predictably did not please us — there were many rainy days, few sunny ones.

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In the meadows, pigeons, fatheads, mother-of-pearl and draughtsmen flew in quite large numbers, as well as some extremely bright and elegant metalloid (it was not possible to photograph it alive, it was too fast frown.gif).

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Occasional swallowtails, nomions, stubendorfs, phoebes, and jaundice flew down the mountainsides. From the beetle — mostly any carbine, leaf-eating and soft-alkaline trifle. A rather large Cardiophorus was squinting from the sagebrush.

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On flowers and in sunny weather, it is completely "deserted", there are very few barbels, even banal taiga species. Of my favorite scarabaeids, only one species, Heptaulacus carinatus, was found in the vicinity of the camp during the entire expedition. Diocarabus massagetus was used for soil traps in meadows, mainly Diocarabus loschnikovi tsaganensis in the forest, Morphocarabus henningi, Morphocarabus mestscherjakovi (sporadically), Megodontus schoenherri (sporadically), and all sorts of carabid trifles on the edges. From the Nebrias, Boreonebria – most likely gyllenhali-was quite common along the lake's shores, and on the shore of Elig Hem, Catonebria aenea was found. In sunny weather, all sorts of circum-boreal taiga banals fly (monohamuses, Buprestis haemorrhoidalis, Melanophila guttulata, etc.).

On the steep slope overhanging the camp, I caught Blaps rugosa (and the higher I climbed, the more often I came across this blap), and also, from an interesting point of view, some very large blue Poecilus. However, starting from a certain height, only 2 species of beetles began to come across — blaps and some extremely numerous small Amara in all the surrounding biotopes. I never found a single Dorcadion, either on the settled mountainside or in the dry meadows of the Elig Hem Valley, although I searched hard for them.

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At night, there was a lot less flying on the screen than I expected. It must have been because we were actually standing in a deep pit, at the foot of a steep slope — and only from this slope did something fly. Mostly scoops and moth flies arrived, sometimes mixed with Arcti flav, Dendrolimus sibiricus, or some other simple moth. There were almost no beetles in the world, I remember only the arrival of some large melandriid (it looks like Serropalpus barbatus).

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05.05.2014 14:03, Dergg

Towards the end of our stay in the camp, we made an overnight hike to the Kasty-Khol lake, located to the west and separated from Kara-Khol by a low mountain range. To do this, we boarded the shore in the middle of Kara-Khol, where the river flowing from Kasta-Khol flows into it. Along the valley of which we began to climb the mountains, accompanied by Tuvan guides with pack horses.

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Along the way, it became clear how much more interesting these places are for an entomologist than the surroundings of our permanent camp: erebia, hipparchia, new species of pigeons and checkers appeared. When we came out of the forest part of the floodplain into the subalpine, parnassius and colias began to appear in much larger numbers (than near the camp). In addition, there were quite large colorful fillies.

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The banks of the Kasta Khol are quite a swampy area, with a corresponding fauna of insects.

I was somewhat surprised to see the Eriogaster caterpillars here.

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Moreover, if the caterpillars of Eriogaster lanestris from the European part of Russia live in communities inside the spider nest until pupation (and pupate in the first half of summer), these eriogasters at the end of July only just reached the last age (well, it's understandable, these are mountains), and the caterpillars of the last age spread out of the nest and, judging by Apparently, they lived on dwarf birches completely independently of each other. Does anyone know if geography dictated this way of life for them, or if it's just a different species (not lanestris)?

The lake itself was surprisingly warm for this height (1,900 m), shallow and overgrown with aquatic vegetation. In its waters, Dytiscus lapponicus (mostly in the form of larvae) and gammarus (probably the main food base of lapponicus) live in large quantities.

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The Yeri-Taiga ridge rises to the west of the lake.

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On our way back, we decided to take a straight line towards the camp, passing over the ridge that separated us. Most of the way passed through the mountain tundra, where stubendorffi sailboats were caught, as well as all sorts of interesting things from herobia and mother-of-pearl. These interesting things are now with a colleague of Papaver, who is writing a faunal article on them.
Well, at the end of the descent to the camp from a very steep slope, which is difficult to climb, and even more so to descend.

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05.05.2014 16:25, Andrey Ponomarev

I was somewhat surprised to see the Eriogaster caterpillars here.

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Alexander these aren't Lanestris tracks.
Perhaps these are the caterpillars of Eriogaster arbusculae.

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05.05.2014 17:07, Dergg



Alexander these aren't Lanestris tracks.
Perhaps these are the caterpillars of Eriogaster arbusculae.


Yes, I suspected from their behavior that they were some other species. Thank you for the version! smile.gif

05.05.2014 18:20, Dergg

The return trip from Kara-Khol followed the same route as the direct one. We were lucky to transfer to the southern bank of Kara-Khol in clear sunny weather, and not under chronic rain, as during the transfer to the northern one.

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While unloading from the boat in the coastal vegetation, I accidentally stepped on a nest of some voles (which I guessed from the squeak), and when I got the cubs out of the crushed nest, I found a huge flea, 5-7 millimeters long, on one of them — not much smaller than the cub itself smile.gif

The weather allowed us to wander around the steppe in search of six-legged animals while waiting for the next batch of boats. Once again, I had to regret that we camped here - such an abundance of butterflies, rattle mares, etc. - on the north bank was not even close. Yes, and the places are beautiful — an uneven steppe, strewn with stones left in this valley from the time of the glacier's descent. In general, not only this place, but the entire north-western Tuva — as far as we were able to see it) is a rock star, obviously the glaciers did a good job on its appearance.

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In some places, there were areas with very specific vegetation — for example, the southern exposure of one hill, overgrown with almost succulent grasses. On these herbs, I mowed out a cool Kytorhinus seed.

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After loading and leaving the southern bank of the Kara Khol in our cars, we drove in the light of day through the places we had first traveled under the cover of night. Thanks to this, we were able to get acquainted with the cultural attractions of these places - in particular, stone figurines, as well as the floor on which some great battle took place in ancient times, and in honor of which three trees that still live today were planted in the middle of this field. With all these fascinating details, we were kindly introduced to our Tuvan friends from the reserve, who accompanied us during this transportation.

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Another sacred place with ribbons, this time near arjana (a source of mineral water):

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Kara-Khol village (20 km from the lake):

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05.05.2014 19:47, Dergg

After spending the night in the vicinity of Ak-Dovurak, then we planned to take the bus to make a decisive march to Abakan to the train. However, not all expectations come true, and our adventures never thought to end. After we crossed the Tuva-Khakass border, our bus broke down, and we were stuck on the side of the highway a few hours before the train left.

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All attempts to fix it ended in failure, there was no chance to catch the train, and we were despondent waiting for the arrival of minibuses called from Abakan. However, I decided not to indulge in the general gloomy mood, and developed a vigorous activity, which resulted in the capture of a rather motley set of beetles in the vegetation adjacent to the track, in particular-Pachyta lamed (which I had not previously come across in the EC), Allosterna tabacicolor bivittis and a large silk silk of a bizarre appearance-Paraphotistus baerii.

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It was late at night when we finally reached Abakan. The train tickets that we missed were exchanged with a small loss for the next flight, which we just had to wait for. In the suburbs of Abakan, in poplar plantations on the banks of the river of the same name, we set up another temporary camp. Despite the fact that with the end of gasoline, the generator was no longer possible to start up, I decided not to miss the opportunity to catch the light in a new area — and therefore, stretching the screen on the border of landings with an open field, I directed the light of several diode flashlights at it. And the result was not zero at all. Several individuals of Codocera ferruginea arrived from the beetles, as well as a couple of Lagria sp., which are noticeably different in appearance from L. hirta – with strongly darkened elytra, a slightly different sculpture, etc.

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From the butterflies flew some impressive metal-shaped scoop, the front wings of which were covered with shiny "mirrors", like the undersides of mother-of-pearl. Well, a few more nondescript representatives of the Noctuidae family. When it got worse, I changed my tactics and spread the screen out on the ground, directing the light of the lanterns at it from above. And then another memorable guest crawled up to me — a freckle with very shortened wings. Obviously flightless. But it overcame the distance of 50 m from the river bank to the screen...

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The next day, while waiting for the train, the hunt for the six-legged continued. The surrounding area of the camp, which was located in poplar plantations, was a settled wasteland, sometimes turned into a landfill, with interesting vegetation and appropriately interesting entomofauna.

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Very large leaf beetles that sparkle in the sun - Eumolpus euasclepiadeus-immediately catch your eye.

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On the flowers I come across Hoplia aureola-probably the westernmost location of this East Siberian species of crunchies. Immediately, I am almost sure that the bronze Oxythyrea funesta flies past me, for which this, in turn, would almost certainly be the easternmost point of its range (but since it was not possible to catch it, I can't guarantee that it was).

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On the sandy banks of the river lived a lot of wasps-spangles (to the great joy of colleagues Papaver'a), as well as entrenched in the roots of herbs small lozhnoslozhniki perfectly merging with the ground (but the eye of the entomologist can not be deceived...)

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When the sun rises high, Epicauta melanocephala begins to scurry in the grass in huge numbers, Mylabris and Hycleus sit on flowers in smaller numbers.

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Some kind of conocephalus, I suppose:

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Yellowish ant lion of impressive size:

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Well, and other small things:

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In general, in terms of entomological fertility, this Khakass steppe significantly surpassed all other places visited during the expedition, combined. It's a pity that we only stayed here for a day.
As for the overall results of the expedition and specifically Lake Kara-Khol, in general, expectations (greatly overestimated by numerous laudatory reviews about the nature of Tuva) were not fully met. Probably, the reason was not a very well-located place for the camp, from where access to interesting areas was difficult. It's also possible that we didn't quite get into the season (regarding beetles). But here, in the steppe near Abakan, the season did not even think to end wink.gif

The last thing I caught on this expedition was Poecilonota variolosa dicercoides, a goldfish from that poplar plantation. Then-fees, train station, train, Moscow...
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05.05.2014 22:48, AGG

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06.05.2014 0:49, Dergg

If it's about the one in the photo, then I'd say it's Pachnephorus ? tesselatus


I'll take a look at his head under the binoculars when I have time. The scale pattern really looks like Pachnephorus tesselatus.

06.07.2014 9:39, Sergey Didenko

We returned from a trip to Buryatia and the Irkutsk region. For two weeks, we tried to catch the weather, driving around these regions, but partially succeeded. The route was approximately as follows: 21.06 Irkutsk-22.06 Mondy (rain) - 23.06 Slyudyanka, Chersky Peak-24-25. 06 Pribaikalsky National Park, the vicinity of the village. Elantsy - 26.06 in the same place, near the village of Kosaya Steppe - 27.06 near the village of Mondy, the village of Nilova pustosh-27.06-04.07 p. Mondy - 05.07 Irkutsk. Mikhail and I had a traditional goal-bears, Sergey (yuopidu) has hawkmoth and everything that moves (I recently started studying entomology and haven't had enoughsmile.gifyet, Oleg from Krasnoyarsk has impressions of nature. It is spring in the region, three weeks ago a 30 cm layer of snow fell in Mondy and the leaves on the trees were just beginning to bloom (Vadim was sitting there in early June catching white flies). Dandelions, rhododendrons of all 4 colors (yellow, white, pink and lilac), yellow irises, orange swimsuits bloom. Of the bears, we can note a lot of ornat, dialampr and dodii diafan, one quenzel and one dodii kononenko. The photo shows my half of the catch on the bears. Alpinas were not seen in Mondes, although they collected several caterpillars and one pupa, but it is not a fact that this is from her, although they turned over a thousand stones. Tenediuses floated out of the Parnassus mountains, Phoebus, Stubik, and Eversmans appeared. It was in the Mondes, and the Apollos were frolicking under the Elans. Three of the most vivid impressions from the trip in order:
1-a terrible rain with hail from buckets in the mountain steppe of the Baikal National Park, when 30 minutes of rain from the mountains flowed rivers of mud, one of which passed through the tent of Sergey and Oleg, which they held with their weight.
2-climb in the back of 53 Gaz to Volodya's mountain lodge in Mondy, along with all your belongings. The rydvan didn't have a tailgate, things were trying to slide down, cans of beer and stew were bouncing up to the level of the sides and trying to fall on my head, but everything worked out, wet, alive and charged with adrenaline got to the place.
3-meeting with a bear, but not with the one that quenzel, and the one that is more than two meters and growls. It roared at me from a distance of about 50 meters, separated by a small ravine. She must have been driving away the bear cub, whose tracks we later found.
I took photos only on my phone, and then Mikhail and Sergey will add better images to my report. By the way, Sergey has all the night catch, he will also post photos of the gray mass later. There were not so many nocturnal ones, because the bats did not doze, and one managed to fly to the screen. I took a little daytime money, but I didn't have a lot of it! There were also few beetles - spring!

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06.07.2014 12:14, Yopidou

In the continuation of the sdi message, I send some photos of nature.

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06.07.2014 12:34, Yopidou

Photos of mattresses.

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06.07.2014 18:00, Ilia Ustiantcev

sdi, and what kind of butterfly on the mattress with yolks, at the bottom left of the thick heads, some kind of motley bird?

06.07.2014 18:25, Sergey Didenko

Yes, something like our sorrel
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07.07.2014 0:28, Pavel Morozov

on tufts, I must say, quite interesting.

09.07.2014 9:00, Sergey Didenko

A small addition to the report on Buryatia-Irkutsk.
Flavia emerged from a chrysalis found under a rock at an altitude of 2700 m??!!
Caterpillars eat a little (or rather, volnyanka relicticus eats PLUM in three gulps?!, but bears eat plantain very poorly, although they ate it before the flight. I post a close-up of beetles that I didn't meet on my previous trip 2 years ago.

Highland Flavia
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bear goose from the Oblique steppe, Baikal National Park, length 5 cm
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volnyanka reliktikus, 6 cm
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bear goose from near Elantsev, h=800 m, 3.5 cm
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Mondy, altitude 1900m, during the day in flight on a riding swamp
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Oblique Steppe, 700 m high, on the trunk of a huge umbrella
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Elantsy district, height 800 m
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Mondy, altitude 2000 m
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Mondy, height 1600 m
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Mondy, altitude 2000 m, in the forest tundra with larches during the day in flight
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10.07.2014 13:09, Andrey Ponomarev

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10.07.2014 16:25, Pavel Morozov

Here, by the way, yes!
The photo on the background of a cloud is simply gorgeous!

Night fees are not inferior in level. On the tufts, I repeat, it was interesting to catch. An interesting point for N. ziczac, which looks like its eastern "subspecies" N. ziczac pallida, but is darker, i.e. it looks like ours. It's funny that I don't notice N. dromedarius among N. dembowskii. As for Cerura, everything is clear with erminea, but the butterflies of the vinula group need to be checked. The same can be said for Pheosia. Interesting bright P. palpinum, F. bifida mixed in. Good places.

And again: Wow! Amurilla subpurpurea! Or was it just my imagination?
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10.07.2014 21:10, Sergey Didenko

Amurilla cocoonworms arrived near Elantsy in the Baikal National Park in the amount of 4 pieces. The photos also lack a box with a tattoo of Sergey (yupidu)and all Misha's fees, although he has everything in bags, it's inconvenient to take pictures, but there is nothing new that is not present on the presented photos there. So, females of timon, lunar cocoonworm, bears, if only something from the day he did not have marked on the photos got mixed up.
In any case, the task is not completed, the stupid alpina is not caught. Something beetles are silent, what kind of views in the photos close-up?

10.07.2014 22:42, Victor Titov

I post a close-up of beetles that I didn't meet on my previous trip 2 years ago.
Mondy, altitude 1900m, during the day in flight on a riding swamp
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Agapanthia amurensis Kraatz, 1879
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11.07.2014 10:33, Guest

Oblique Steppe, 700 m high, on the trunk of a huge umbrella
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Agapanthia daurica Ganglb., 1884
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13.07.2014 13:48, RippeR

not A. altaica?

13.07.2014 17:57, Cerambyx

Oblique Steppe, 700 m high, on the trunk of a huge umbrella
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Agapanthia daurica Ganglb., 1884


Neither one nor the other is Agapanthia alternans Friv., 1842, it is precisely umbrella plants that it eats.

A. altaica is quite locally distributed in the Altai and eats peonies, and A. daurica is close to villosoviridescens, and like the latter it has dark antennae and a different character of elytra pubescence.
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16.07.2014 18:57, RippeR

I didn't think that alternance is there

17.07.2014 16:48, Cerambyx

I didn't think there was an alternative there

yeah, it just goes east to Transbaikalia, I have beetles it seems from Gusinoozersk or somewhere from those places

17.07.2014 21:05, Konung

Yes, something like our sorrel

most likely Jordanita budensis. It was them that I caught in Monds.

17.07.2014 21:06, Konung

18.07.2014 8:11, kalistrat

Svyatoslav, on Olkhon, what interesting things can you pick up? I will be very grateful if you can tell me!)

18.07.2014 11:22, Grigory Grigoryev

well, why stupid? very good alpinas fly there smile.gif

in the photo, these stupid alpinas from Monds smile.gif2 pcs are caught, the rest are grown from eggs without wintering.

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19.07.2014 5:50, Konung

Svyatoslav, on Olkhon, what interesting things can you pick up? I will be very grateful if you can tell me!)

I haven't fished on Olkhon, but I think it will be the same as on the shores of Lake Baikalsmile.gif, the composition of the fauna can be found on the website of E. Berlov

19.07.2014 19:58, kalistrat

I haven't fished on Olkhon, but I think it will be the same as on the shores of Lake Baikalsmile.gif, you can see the composition of the fauna on the website of E. Berlov

Thanks!

19.07.2014 21:09, Guest

Svyatoslav, on Olkhon, what interesting things can you pick up? I will be very grateful if you can tell me!)


I was on Olkhon 17-21. 07. 09. There was no opportunity to catch fish purposefully, so I didn't study the fauna thoroughly. It feels like the most "fishy" places are Cape Khoboy and Pad ' Tashiney. Of the interesting things for me, I caught Plebejidea cyane in the first place, and Albulina orbitulus in the second. And so, indeed, from the mainland of Lake Baikal is not much different.
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16.10.2014 21:23, Кочевник

I visited Olkhon at the end of July 2013. A huge amount of fresh autonoi, dryads, haylofts, several types of pigeons, arginnis-3 types.
There are not many species, but the number is huge.
Did scoops fly at night? but it's bad because of the rain. Hawk moth -one H. galii.

From the interesting - Cucullia splendida
to Khoboy did not get, although, they say, the most beautiful place, I regret...
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19.10.2014 13:46, Hello friend

Photos of mattresses.

i.am from Germany, and see your cootons i interest on Noctuidae from Sibiria,
my Name Armin becher
i want to buy.
you interest on Exchange are ok. for me

ar,om

24.05.2015 20:44, Синицын Валерий

Greetings to all from Western Siberia, from the Tyumen region. So I started the season! Got out to catch the light of Aglia tau. Well, it's spring now! I thought to catch a shabby female that would throw eggs, and fly the freshest butterflies literally just made ! So much for the end of May, though ! The result is two males and a female. There are also a few scoops, tufts and moths, but I don't take them and I don't distinguish them very well. I go for my" favorites " of Saturnia, hawk moth, and ursa major. In these parts, these aristocrats do not indulge in their visits. Five or ten "revelers" will look at the light during the night, so it's a great night! So most of the time I miss the lamp! So I mean, maybe someone is interested in the "night" of our places ? I can help you without charge - that is, for nothing, if for business .
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25.05.2015 0:48, Pavel Morozov

Greetings to all from Western Siberia, from the Tyumen region. So I started the season! Got out to catch the light of Aglia tau. Well, it's spring now! I thought to catch a shabby female that would throw eggs, and fly the freshest butterflies literally just made ! So much for the end of May, though ! The result is two males and a female. There are also a few scoops, tufts and moths, but I don't take them and I don't distinguish them very well. I go for my" favorites " of Saturnia, hawk moth, and ursa major. In these parts, these aristocrats do not indulge in their visits. Five or ten "revelers" will look at the light during the night, so it's a great night! So most of the time I miss the lamp! So I mean, maybe someone is interested in the "night" of our places ? I can help you without charge - that is, for nothing, if for business .

Valery, you shouldn't take tufts for nothing (like other families).
I'd like to see what kind of Furcula you have flying around.
It would be very interesting.

25.05.2015 3:39, Синицын Валерий

Okay, I understand about the khokhlatok girls. I will add up and send photos to the magazine...

05.06.2015 11:44, Konung

06.06.2015 11:42, Синицын Валерий

I will try.
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28.06.2015 11:52, Konung

We have just returned from a two-week expedition to the Russian Altai.
I don't have time to write a report yet - I'm leaving again. I hope it works out later. so far, there is only one photo for priming:
Altai, Kurai ridge, Aktash, Mountain Spirit Lake, altitude 2800
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28.06.2015 21:03, Barnaba

Not as intriguing as in the previous post. Novosibirsk, today.
Due to the good warm weather, I ran away from work instead of lunch (I'm here on a business trip) and arranged an excursion to the arboretum next door. It turned out to be pleasant and not useless from the point of view of beetles, even a MIDGE could not spoil the impression. I managed to get some footage. There were also a lot of butterflies that my soap box, alas, does not take normally on the move: massively urticaria, some other nymphalids, quite a lot of mottled and thick-headed butterflies, hawthorns, tapeworms, pigeons and all sorts of others that I don't really know wink.gif.
And yesterday, at dusk, Laothoe populi flew from the poplars growing below to the kitchen on the 8th floor. Pinkish so cute. I wish it was L. amurensis, I donwink.gif't have any.

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