Siberia

Listen, - I beg you (I risk, unlike all other advanced entomologists, being known as a complete teapot) - but tell me, O pet of fate, - how do you manage to write messages on the forum in such sybaritic conditions??? - Or just log in to the Internet via your mobile phone?

Listen, - I beg you (I risk, unlike all other advanced entomologists, being known as a complete teapot) - but tell me, O pet of fate, - how do you manage to write messages on the forum in such sybaritic conditions??? - Or just log in to the Internet via your mobile phone?

My hosts are advanced people. Mikhaylovka is a large village. Approximately 18 thousand people. He is the director of a correctional school, she is the head teacher at the school. At home, unlimited Internet, TV more than a meter diagonally. But at the same time and moonshine and smokehouse and all that is different. And our mode - at 10 I am taken out to the field. They pick you up at 16. And at 22 we leave for the light until 2. Tomorrow afternoon I'll catch it and go home at 22. It is 400 km from Barnaul. sawing all night. I'd still be fishing for about a week. Today the freshest sea buckthorn hawkmoth arrived. And this is a great rarity for Siberia

This is my photo report about my trip to Mikhailovka in the Altai Territory. The first picture shows my hosts. On the second is a great pilaf. Then the typical salt lakes. And part of the catch.

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- And who is standing near the pilaf? "you," or the owner? - It's just that the owner doesn't seem to be very similar, but compared to your age, he is 10 years older.... - Or did the neighbor turn up for the smell?

Yeah, a neighbor. There the whole village has the same T shirts

This is my photo report about my trip to Mikhailovka in the Altai Territory. The first picture shows my hosts. On the second is a great pilaf. Then the typical salt lakes. And part of the catch.

What about the blue horses?and odininoky one on the hybrid similar?

Look at the wonderful German woman on Yakovlev's last mattress!

This is the owner of pilaf, a master of cooking and a cheerful person
German wonderful was 2.
The blue horse is C. nitida.
C. gibrida alone.
Skakunov caught in the forest, there is nothing else to catch. The rest is mowing, light, poop...
I don't even display daytime butterflies - squalor, one tersamon, one tarpeia, icarus, argus...
The scoop was quite a lot

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Steed blue is S. nitida...
Skakunov caught in the forest, there is nothing else to catch. The rest is mowing, light, poop...

Roman, I've been fascinated by this horse since I was a child. Is this really nitida? I searched the Web for a photo - this view is not completely blue... My childhood was spent in the Semipalatinsk region and I remember catching these noble blue horses at the intersection of Lenin Street and Krupskaya Street in the village of Malaya Vladimirovka. On the sands near the store.

Can C. coerulea be a nominative?

Roman, I've been fascinated by this horse since I was a child. Is this really nitida? I searched the Web for a photo - this view is not completely blue... My childhood was spent in the Semipalatinsk region and I remember catching these noble blue horses at the intersection of Lenin Street and Krupskaya Street in the village of Malaya Vladimirovka. On the sands near the store.

Yes, og knows him...
In Semipalatinsk, or as it is now correctly called Semey, it is good to spend your childhood. Such lovely beetles run

Today I returned from a short trip to Aktash, where I went with my son. In Aktash, as usual, I was met by a sung and already slightly slept company of Andrey (angilog), Vitaly Shablya, Sasha Nakonechny.
The first night caught nice. Ie I caught one directly on the wall of some warehouse. It flew...
The next day they threw Andrey into the mine, and caught some erebia and one bad eversmanni. Well, there are a couple of Norns. Small things. But nice. The cub waved the net, was satisfied and today we have already returned to the cold and inhospitable Barnaul. This is my 4th outing of the season. Kazakhstan, Aktash, Mikhaylovka, Aktash.
There is already a box of mattresses, i.e. about 1500 copies. I caught insects. And it's nice.

Today I returned from a short trip to Aktau ...

And from Europe a trip to such places seems like a long distance

Just like from Barnaul to Europe. Unfortunately.
To show your son the Hermitage or the Russian Museum or the Tretyakov Gallery, you need $ 1,000.
As well as go to Berlin or Vienna Yourself

After two weeks of not being in touch with Mikhail (Mikkay, he went to the south-western part of Altai for three weeks), he finally showed up (although he sometimes contacted Yakovlev, and tomorrow he seems to be meeting). According to him, about three years old, some bears (very few), there were almost no hawks, very few daytime ones (few jaundice, almost no parnassus, few pigeons). So if anyone was counting on his gifts - forget it . Yes, he picked up some beetles for Vladimir, but also not much.

Soon to Mongolia.
I'll go back to the beginning. august. Then to Tuva.
Then I'll report back. Great weather to all. Here we have the coldest June in 100 years. Terrible weather.
I feel sorry for everyone who went to Altai this year in June.

This is a meeting in Aktau. Early June 2009.
From left to right:
Me (Yakovlev), Sasha Nakonechny, Artur (my son), Vitaly Shablya, Andrey (Angylog).

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This is a meeting in Aktau. Early June 2009.
From left to right:
Me (Yakovlev), Sasha Nakonechny, Artur (my son), Vitaly Shablya, Andrey (Angylog).

Oh, my son also has a net! Zdorevo

Look at the face standing there, like "again the net was stuck, it would be better to leave it on the computer to play" ^_^

No, I was very happy to drive butterflies.
I caught it for the first time. I am not a supporter of taking children on trips, but here I just had a trip for 3 days, a meeting with friends and picked up a net almost ritually. Arturka was very pleased.

just kidding

This is a meeting in Aktau. Early June 2009.
From left to right:
Me (Yakovlev), Sasha Nakonechny, Artur (my son), Vitaly Shablya, Andrey (Angylog).

At first I saw the photo,and I thought, damn, the same slope with a young cedar tree.Well and then the letters were all put in their places

At first I saw the photo,and I thought, damn, the same slope with a young cedar tree.Well, then the letters were all put back in place

Well ... and we were there on June 22 at the mine right now: wild wind and mallet. And none of the entomologists, since, according to a local resident, half a meter of snow fell a week before us and a few hunters were immediately blown away, was in Aktash passing on the 25th-all the peaks were bleached to the middle. Such is the "summer"...

Yeah, Michael showed up (what's with the phone all week?). How you went to Lake Baikal, write what you caught.

Yeah, Michael showed up (what's with the phone all week?). When you went to Lake Baikal, write down what you caught.

It's nothing special. I was on the Buryat shore of Lake Baikal (Maksimikha, Ust-Barguzin, Chivyrkulsky Bay) from July 20 to July 26 at a conference. They didn't do much science there, and alcohol was more of a drag.Attempts to catch something were made regularly, but, to be honest, with little success. First of all, there are practically no open spaces there: low hills up to the tops are overgrown with windbreak taiga, along the coast there is, in fact,a strip of high swamp. Secondly, in the morning the coast was often covered with fog, although in general, the weather was wonderful-the sun, a light breeze and up to 28 gr. In short, something was flying, mostly along the coastal highway and a few back roads. In terms of species composition, it is 2-3 weeks behind in the middle zone of Russia. What was unusual was that butterflies, in general, are much quieter. For example, poplar tapeworms calmly let them approach with a net and do not rise into the crowns above 2-3 meters, even females. Unlike Altai (the report is still up to me), the species composition is very similar to the Moscow region, at least externally. The same tapeworms (poplar and Camilla, pestles, mother-of-pearl, marigolds. There are a lot of pigeons, but I can't tell them apart very well. Single specimens of swallowtail and yellowfin are singed. More interesting are the places and species composition in the area of the Chivyrkulsky Bay in the protected area of the Barguzin Nature Reserve. But we didn't really manage to run and fish there - there were a lot of people and we were there without parking. Nevertheless, it was there that they managed to grab the only copy of Parnassius. The only one not only caught, but also seen. On a 45-degree slope, almost in front of the eyes of the rangers, it had to be caught by hand. On the same slope, there were several mottled trees. And that's all, not counting the mass of hefty (up to 8 cm) almost black red-winged fillies that flew out from under their feet at a distance of up to 30 meters. The captured Parnassius looks like a male nomion to me, but here we have much cooler specialists, I hope they will correct me if necessary.

There was no opportunity to catch fish specifically at night, and there was also only time to collect under the lanterns. Therefore, only the large poplar-leaved and raspberry cocoonworms and the Siberian silkworm were remembered.
Beetles gathered exclusively along the way. The most numerous was a medium-sized black barbel, such as spruce or fir, which flew everywhere in the mass and ran on planks and logs. The flowers often had barbels like virens and red leptura. Ground beetle and horse were met and caught one specimen each. There were some dark bronzes, in the mass - a bandaged wax.
That's all there is to it. In Ulan-Ude did not catch, in night pubs are not up to it
Not rich, in a word, but the place in Buryatia was not the best for an entomologist.

So I came back from Tuva.
There were many situations. Caught a new genus of day butterfly for Siberia, while I will not say what. I think to publish in the trace. Atalanta's hotel room.
Everything was fine, the Japanese exhausted us a little with their absolute helplessness in the field and constant drinking.
Full report with photos on http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?unam...0-8F&feat=email
Posobirali little, but very interesting.
Hello everyone

After the mushrooms, there were no coffins.
We were led by Sergey Smirnov , one of the smartest young botanists in the Russian Federation. A plant species and two insect species have already been named in his honor. Therefore, the mushrooms and everything we ate (sterlet soup, caviar and other delights) was very edible.
The Japanese in the field are terrifying. Parking for 30 min. You bring them to the plant and then they see it. One entomologist - Ishikawa (spec. on bedbugs) at least something caught. Flour with them by the Japanese.
One day was completely devoted to the work of the Ministry of Emergency Situations (not for nothing in Tuva and our friends Shoigu). they pulled out 2 UAZ trucks and did not pull out one with poor Moscow tourists who drowned the car up to their ears in a swamp. we couldn't help them

Omsk region, Cherlaksky district, salty sagebrush-grass steppe on the border with the southern forest-steppe. Caught on DRL and DRV, the temperature at 21.00 is about +10, by 23.00 it fell to +5. We expected to catch Lemonia dumi, but-alas... There were only scoops. Received:
Dasypolia templi (Thunberg, 1792)
Autographa gamma (Linnaeus, 1758)
Xestia c-nigrum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Xanthia icteritia (Hufnagel, 1766)
Xanthia ocellaris (Borkhausen, 1792)
Xanthia gilvago ([Denis et Scsiffermüller], 1775)
Allophyes oxyacanthae (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rhizedra lutosa (Hübner, 1803)
Blepharita amica (Treitschke, 1825)
Gortyna flavago ([Denis et Schiffermuller], 1775)
Nonagria typhae (Thunberg, 1784)
Euxoa sp.

Omsk region, Cherlaksky district, salty sagebrush-grass steppe on the border with the southern forest-steppe. Caught on DRL and DRV, the temperature at 21.00 is about +10, by 23.00 it fell to +5. We expected to catch Lemonia dumi, but-alas... There were only scoops. It's arrived:

Show photo of Blepharita amica pliz

Show me a photo of Blepharita amica pliz

I also caught a lot of them this year

Show me a photo of Blepharita amica pliz

is it from this particular catch, or is another one suitable?
here, for example, from the fees of previous years:


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Report on a trip in the summer of 2008 to the Southern Altai. The team consists of Lena Guskova, Slava Doroshkin, and myself. Drove a friend on the UAZ. Fees - the usual Altai medium and high-mountain set.
1. The icy expanses of the Ukok Plateau
2. Ukoka lakes at night. The temperature is about 3 degrees below zero.
3. View of xp. Tabyn-Bogdo. This is the junction of 4 countries. Russia, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan. It looks like Tibet, doesn't it?!
5. some animal husbandry
6. Our small group: fellow travelers and guides Datsan, Ruslan and Uralgazy, Elena Guskova, Slava Doroshkin
7. A wonderful man, the only Russian in the village of Jazator (Belyashi) Vladimir Pavlovich Kavriga. He gave me all these places 14 years ago! Now he is very ill. I sincerely wish him good health.
8. Oh, grayling...
10. Visiting my friends-the most biological family of the Jazzator-biology teacher Yulia and forester Alexey Zurganbaev.
11. Yaks graze
12. The real Russian Altai!

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And what is so uncertain. An apartment in Moscow-horseradish-is an elite hut in Siberia or a palace in the district center. With a small amount of capital and creative work , this is where you need to move out of the clouds, the human anthill and the most terrible infrastructure in the world. Sometimes our fools rush to Moscow, go. They think that the extra thousand euros a year earned there pays for the nightmares of one week. I feel sorry for them. Sincerely. They do what they don't know.
One act of entering the yugo-Zapadnaya metro station at 7.30 am is equal in terms of the number of nerve cells spent to a year of living in Barnaul or Kemerovo or a thousand years of living in Khovda.

After such stories, the thought comes, and not to send everything to..., and not to preselitisya in Khovdu

Today outside the window -30, and at home I was happy to hatch a male Eudia pavonia! Last week I laid out a couple of cocoons in the heat, and now-a pleasant echo of summer days

In addition to yesterday's male, a female pavonia came out today!
Happy holidays to all of you!

Here's what they looked like when they were kids


and before pupation:


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Here's what they looked like when they were kids

How were they fed?

ivoy

Apparently, white willow

Two Phragmatobia fuliginosa bears hatched today. In the fall, I collected several caterpillars crawling over the track, placed them in an aquarium, which I put out on the balcony for the winter. Two weeks ago I put it in the heat and here is the result:





Happy New Year!