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13.07.2012 22:57, Hemul 51

I was no more than a week ago under the hero city of Novorossiysk, flooded by Putin's will, in a village with a very promising name of Dzhankhot...actually that came to me for tea.

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23.07.2012 0:24, хлор2

The mass festival of Fegei's false-Estrans ended in the mountains... But the long-awaited hermionsand dryads flew... Of course, I don't manage to catch dozens of parnassius, alexanors, xutes and maak swallowtails...

How does it turn out for some representatives of this forum?.. Maybe I'm just catching the wrong fish? But as they say, what is rich is happy... That's actually the whole catch today...

P.S. I already say hello to the flower spider, as it has been meeting me for a month on the same flower growing on a forest road...

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06.08.2012 16:10, Buzman

Yesterday I returned from the Western Caucasus, Karachay-Cherkessia, Teberdinsky Nature Reserve, 31.07-04.08.2012. The route was as follows: Teberda-Cold Stone-oz. Chernoe-Mezhozerny pass - Panoramnaya-oz. Blue - Mezhpupyrny pass (2A) - oz. Peacock's Eye-oz. under the Murujinskaya Igla - Muruju pass (icefall) – Teberda.
Since it was a mountain hike as part of a tourist group, there wasn't much time to collect beetles, although we did manage to collect some things. In the forest zone, at an altitude of about 2100 m, I set beer traps, the rest of the charges were made manually on the road in the meadow zone and then at an altitude of about 2800 m under stones.
I will be very grateful to everyone for their help in determining the material in the photo!

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18.08.2012 18:25, Лавр Большаков

PhilGri
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Zvenigorod neighborhood (Odintsovo district)
today, 19: 17 URL #10484
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(Dorcadion @ 18.08.2012 11: 28)
It's strange that you were told something at the border, there is now a lot of traffic, there are a lot of people, they don't pay any attention at all.
As an option to drive by car, they do not inspect, we did not even pull out things when we went in July...
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Yeah, they asked about the rims for the nets, and about the containers.
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I think you just happened to be a normal employee, which is very rare in those parts. Or - someone is specifically looking for on the terro-spy line.

19.08.2012 21:41, headshotboy

.. I had one idea from the category of "entertainment of idiots" - to stick my hand in the scorpion, but tk were far away in the mountains - did not dare. or maybe someone was bitten by rare scorpions-share your experience (do not offer individual intolerance)

Nothing interesting - purely physically, the animals are very frail, the needle is thin and weak, the metasome too. In order for it to pierce the skin, you need to choose a place where the skin is thin. Like between your fingers, etc..
The bite feels like a weak prick, then a local slight pain and a little burning sensation . Passes in a day without a trace.
I would compare it with the bite of a large krestovik, although purely mechanically the krestovik will be much cooler.

Euscorpius in this regard are not interesting. You'd better go south and try to play with androctonuses

For export.
Yesterday, people arrived and spent a month hanging around Abkhazia. They brought a lot of animals - mostly reptiles, but arthropods too. They were carried almost openly, because they caught a lot already on the way home, respectively, bags with reptiles were lying stupidly in the valves of backpacks and on top of the luggage.
At least someone would ask - they didn't even ask to open the bags for the sake of formality.

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10.10.2012 4:28, Dergg

Krasnodar Region, Bolshoy Utrish, 9-30. 08. 2012

This was already my fourth trip to this place as a teacher of entomology in children's and youth ecological expeditions, and therefore it was perceived by me almost as a vacation in the country

- and I did not expect particularly productive fishing this time, especially since August on Utrisha is the "season" except for straight - winged birds and praying mantises.

This year, compared to previous years, there was a strong shift in the phenological picture towards September - the appearance of yellowed leaves on the hornbeam, falling leaves from pistachios, abundant fruiting of the same pistachio and other shrubs. This was also reflected in the appearance of the entomofauna - almost all types of diaries flew terribly battered, ragged and frayed, this was especially noticeable on very numerous paphias, many of which were painful to look at; the same applied to some types of beetles.

One of the few relatively intact specimens of Limentis reducta

But the hipparchia that flew in the forest between the trunks of oak and juniper trees were quite fresh, perhaps because they were less susceptible to bird attacks.

The summer dates of many species have shifted - for example, Dorcus parallelopipedus, which I usually met here only once at the end of August, this time came across already in its second decade, and not so rarely.

Podalirii, usually also caught me in August at the caterpillar/pupa stage, now flew with might and main, although also very shabby.

But there were plenty of right-winged birds and praying mantises, as it should be.

On flowering plants, many large hymenoptera were found - Xylocopa, scolium, eumenes, centimeter spangles.

Nest of polystes

And on the flowers of mallow I found here such a larinus-like weevil, in my opinion some kind of slightly subtropical appearance. Maybe something imported? (near the port city of Anapa)

Yellow plates flew all sorts of small things from flies and riders, and occasionally even "flower" spiders

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10.10.2012 5:43, Dergg

Fruit-bearing pistachio

Ephedra

There were a lot of galls like this on the pistachio and sumac leaves

If you break them apart, it turned out that approximately identical-looking galls feed two completely different hosts - inside one are broods of large orange aphids.

inside the others-caterpillars about a centimeter long (leaf wrapper)?

One of my plans for this expedition was to collect several Cetonischema speciosa specimens for breeding. It turned out to be more difficult to do this than I expected - the vines did not fly into the wine traps, and in general, there were much fewer of them flying in the forest than usual in August (all this shift in phenology!). In the end, lying in wait near large hollow oaks and a long-handled net allowed me to catch two very badly crippled, half-legged bronzes, but fortunately both turned out to be fertilized females, and I managed to get larvae. Both bronzes, by the way, still live at my house

Protaetia cuprina

Capnodis cariosa

Cerambyx scopolii

Some (by the way, can someone tell me what?) a species of small tree ants panic signals with alarm pheromones, bending the tip of the abdomen up. It's a bit like shooting in the air, isn't it?

By the way, these ants are generally dangerous creatures - so they got into the container in which I lived Mantis religiosa through some small crack, finished it off, dismembered it and began to take out pieces of food through the same gap

Agrius convolvuli

Some kind of saddlefly, downright gigantic by the standards of its family. When I first saw her sitting on a tree trunk, I even took her for a xylocope from a distance

Tarantulas often ran around our camp at night, sometimes climbing into tents, and I had to perform the functions of a regular extractor of these spiders, as well as centipedes and all other evil spirits, from tents.

Gonocerus juniperi - a local grasshopper that lives on juniper-was caught only once in the past years, but this year it has somehow bred very strongly

A traditional hike to the Dry Estuary is a place halfway between Bolshoy and Maly Utrish, with a small lake drying up by August. At this place, not so long ago, there was a livestock farm, then a hunting farm. But then, when the territory became part of the newly formed Utrish Nature Reserve and huntsmen began to appear here, the hunters left these forests. As a memory of those times, the ruins of hunting lodges and families of wild boars remained in the surrounding forests, which during our overnight stay came close to the parking lot. Local raccoons went even further - one of them made his way to our parking lot in the morning, began to dig through the pile of things where our food was stacked. The raccoon finally picked up a packet of cookies and started to take them to the bushes, but one of us woke up in time...

Some bristle-tails (?) The Utrish forests are generally rich in primiptera living in litter and wood...

... and on crickets

Hornets on the Dry Estuary were just a wild number, they are there literally at every turn. Here's one of them quartering pieris:

The red-winged redclop was found in this area in two ecological forms: one (similar to the one that lives in our middle zone). it lives in clusters in the forest in the litter at the roots of trees and on the lower part of the trunk; the second - which I encounter for the first time-lives in meadows and in thickets of grass on the stems and leaves of hollyhocks, also in considerable quantities. Morphologically, both forms are identical.

By the way, a similar picture is observed on Utrish and for the satyr Hyponephele jurtina - this butterfly, in the middle zone is a typical meadow inhabitant, here, in addition to the usual station, it also inhabited dry forests of the Mediterranean type, where it leads a lifestyle similar to local hipparchies - it sits on the lower part of trunks and on the litter, moving in short flights from place to place.

On my return from a hike near the Utrish camp, I met a medium-sized Mediterranean turtle. Coincidentally, a few days later our camp was visited by Mark, a turtle specialist and herpetologist from Nizhny Novgorod, who is engaged in the census and mapping of the Caucasian population of the Mediterranean turtle, which is listed in all possible Red Books.

After mapping this turtle specimen with our help, Mark also used this photo to determine the type of snake that we found suffocating a bat one night. It turned out to be an extremely rare Pallas skidder in these places

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