Caucasus, Ciscaucasia and Transcaucasia

  
Pyrgus alveus?

IMHO rather serratulae.

IMHO rather serratulae.

I'll sort it out and report back

I asked a classmate to look for an invasive firefly Cydalima perspectalis in Sochi, it turned out that it was out of the roof there!

I asked a classmate to look for an invasive firefly Cydalima perspectalis in Sochi, it turned out that it was out of the roof there!

It's not like it's higher than the roof, it eats the last boxwoods there. It is all over the coast, last year it penetrated Krasnodar, and this year it has already eaten almost everything. Apparently, next year will finish the last natural stands of boxwood in the region.

Nakhichevan 11-16. 07. 2014

Turkish-Azerbaijani border.
Turkish customs officials reacted favorably. The car wasn't gutted.
At the last turn, the employee knew Russian and asked what the fuck we were doing here?
Azerbaijani customs turned out to be more difficult.
At the entrance, they waited a long time for insurance registration. The customs officer did not understand either Russian or English. It's also a good thing that a person from our former USSR turned out to be nearby and helped with the translation. God grant him good health!
All things had to be unloaded and dragged through the scanner.
When we were applying for a visa, an employee took our passports and went somewhere with them. Then he came, asked us for a long time who we were and how we got here, and finally puzzled us that we had to register within three days, otherwise the fine was $400.

After crossing the border, we found ourselves in a fairyland with luxurious roads, beautiful cities and wonderful nature.
The speed limit was marked in large numbers on the roads. Despite the excellent roads, the speed limit is very low: 50-70-90. But no one is in a hurry. There are cameras everywhere. Melancholy..., barely restrained after Turkey.
Okay, I guess that's not interesting...
In short, without receiving official registration, we moved to Ordubad.




Then go to the famous village of Nyus Nyus for all butterfly lovers.
Vladimir Lukhtanov was there exactly 30! years ago, and the road that would leave the village in the gorge, no longer remembered. We got lost in a maze of narrow streets, but we were rescued by a man named Reza, who not only showed us the way, but also visited us in a big beautiful jeep and brought us treats... (Here I remember "Master and Margarita":"...he was particularly interested in my views on power.")
Well, about the sad later...
The number of diurnal butterfly species in the surrounding area was close to a record.
We counted 65 species!
This is the third result in the last 10 years of observations. Records belong to the gorge near Akhalkalaki (Georgia) and a place in the Eastern Caucasus along the Tugchay River Valley (Azerbaijan), where 70 species were recorded in two days of observations.
It would be very interesting to read about such statistics of colleagues.

Surroundings of Nyus Nyus village.






An extraordinary beauty-Marigold parisatis (Hipparchia parisatis). There were a lot of butterflies of this species. They fluttered at the base of the rocks, hiding in the shadows of the cliffs, but I couldn't see the butterfly feeding, and I wondered what they were eating here. When I went down to the stream, I found the answer. Dozens of butterflies were feasting on fallen cherries.



Carcharodus stauderi


Kretania alcedo


Hiponephele lycaonoides?


The highlight of our trip is Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) damonides. A poorly studied species. And although I was lucky enough to find a forage plant, but I was not able to get a clutch.


Chazara briseis


Chazara bischoffii


Eogenes alcides


Medvezhut


Two days later, I had to go to Nakhichevan and check into a hotel in order to get the coveted registration.

  
This is the third result in the last 10 years of observations. Records belong to the gorge near Akhalkalaki (Georgia) and a place in the Eastern Caucasus along the Tugchay River Valley (Azerbaijan), where 70 species were recorded in two days of observations.
It would be very interesting to read about such statistics of colleagues.

In Crimea, the maximum number of diaries per day I met in the area of the village of Verkhnyaya Kutuzovka (near Alushta) - 45 species.

I also have a record of 45 in the Kharkiv region - it was 25. vi. 2012. Forty-five-butterfly berry again.

My records are as follows: Chernihiv region - 48 (mid-July), Crimea-45 (Bor-Kaya, early July). A colleague said that he had observed up to 60 species in the Khmelnitsky region on the Dniester.

For the 8th region (in Blue) My records are as follows:
1. Moscow region, Serpukhov district, Luzhki district-Respublika district, 10.07.2013-48 species 2-3.
Vladimir region, Kovrovsky-Sudogodsky district, Krasny Mayak settlement area - Bolotsky settlement area, 01.07.2013-41 view
Moscow Region, Leninsky district, Volodarsky settlement area - Bolshoe Savrasovo village area, 03.07.2013 - 41 view

A colleague said that he had observed up to 60 species in the Khmelnitsky region on the Dniester.

Maybe it's about me? Then a slightly damaged phone turned out, exactly 50 views in one day, but this is at two points at a distance of 7-8 km from each other. And the figure "about 60" appeared in a personal conversation with Igor Georgievich Plyushch, it was about the Kiev region, in my opinion Spartak station

For the 8th region (in Blue) My records are as follows:
1. Moscow region, Serpukhov district, Luzhki district-Respublika district, 10.07.2013-48 species 2-3.
Vladimir region, Kovrov - Sudogodsky district, Krasny Mayak settlement area - Bolotsky settlement area, 01.07.2013-41 views
Moscow Region, Leninsky District, Volodarsky settlement area - Bolshoe Savrasovo village area, 03.07.2013 - 41 views

What does Kalmykia have to do with it?

What does Kalmykia have to do with it?

Only if the code of the Kalmykian vehicle registration plate coincides with the number of the European Central Region in the work of S. Yu. Sinev "Catalog of Lepidoptera of Russia".

Maybe it's about me? Then a slightly damaged phone turned out, exactly 50 views in one day, but this is at two points at a distance of 7-8 km from each other. And the figure "about 60" appeared in a personal conversation with Igor Georgievich Plyushch, it was about the Kiev region, in my opinion, the Spartak station

Hi Gena Thank you for clarifying and I apologize for the error

Continuation of the report on the expedition to Nakhichevan.
14.07.2014

After spending the night in the hotel, we decided to go to another wonderful place-the village of Kyukyu.
The navigator did not send us along the paved road, but directly through the village of Badymly. After climbing the serpentine into the mountains, we found a wonderful place, made a day tour. We have prepared a place to spend the night. We hung up the screen and installed a generator. Fried potatoes. They poured brandy... And then they started calling me to find out where we were. I thought it was our friend from Nyusnyus who wanted something. Then there was a call and I was asked to go to the road. Then polite people arrived and we were sent back to the hotel. This was the end of our free spirit. We were told that due to the tense situation, we can only move around the territory accompanied by representatives of the Institute of Ecology.
It was a pity for the potatoes, which we did not try.

Multiple snapshots.
Surroundings of Badymly village.




Michauxia glauca -Michauxia glauca. Amazing huge bell.



There were a lot of wild cherries (Gray cherry). The berries are tart, but quite edible and quench your thirst well.



Carnation.


Ephemeral bell


Prickly astragalus


Zigaena tamara


Carcharodua alceae. Well, it sat very nicely, I couldn't resist.


Spialia phlomidis


Leptidea duponcheli


Kretania eurypilus


Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) ninae


There was a mass of P. bellargus in the puddles


Palperes libelloides fluttered on the slopes.



Isn't that an oak barbel? What was he doing there?


Zlatka



There's someone hiding out there.

Isn't that an oak barbel? What was he doing there?

It looks like Cerambyx dux. It may be developing on a wild cherry tree.

Goldfish-Julodis andreae (Olivier, 1790). Hides-Caucasian mountain agama Paralaudakia caucasus (Eichwald, 1831) .

Whoooooo, big eyes!

Thank you for the interesting report. It was only necessary to put it in the reports on the Caucasus.
Are these all the butterflies you've seen, or is there more?
I'm interested in daily reports.

I also caught fresh caviar, saw either turnips or turnips, and piece-by-piece also non-flying kraeglazka maera and chervonets plamennogo. Like everything . On the account of the Caucasus taken note of

Hello everybody!!! On this cold winter day (minus 20 outside the window), I wanted to write my first fishing report on this forum! It was early October. Together with our chemical colleagues, we went to the conference in the sanatorium "Avtotransportnik Rossii", which is a 20-minute drive from Tuapse on the seashore. For me, almost the most important task was to hunt butterflies - it is not so often possible to go anywhere from the Urals during the hunting season... Well, across the road from the sanatorium there was just the right place - a dirt road with dancing tracks on the sides, going at the foot of the mountain to the stream. There flew quite a lot of fresh egeria, male cabbage flies (which I have not seen in my eyes in the Urals for 6 years), admirals, thistles, and c-white anglerflies. Quite a flown pathos was also seen. On the hottest day, we were also lucky enough to catch a battered male and female oak marshmallow (on cooler days they were not visible at all).
And on October 3, I finally decided to climb the mountain. There, closer to the top (no higher than 500-600 meters above sea level, according to the sensations), shrew's kraeglazki (apparently from a new generation) and beech marigolds flew behind the wind in heaps - only 3 very pokotsany females were found. And already at the very top, pea whites and saffron yolks were hiding in the grass from strong gusts of wind. [attachm
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Then, when I went down, I found some shaggy caterpillar
And a photo of a modest catch from the mountain
(I moved it from the European part of the Russian Federation)

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Then, when I went down, I found a furry caterpillar

Caterpillar Calliteara pudibunda Linnaeus, 1758.

A question for the knowledgeable.My wife and daughter are undergoing treatment in the district of Loo-Semashkho, until 15.03., put several series of soil traps, walked along forest paths, nothing was caught in three days.Question-why does nothing come across-off-season, or something???They have some experience in such types of fees.

It's still a little early to catch ground beetles at this time, you need to turn serious stones or pick rotten logs, there will start running more or less from the beginning of April, plus or minus, depending on spring...

They picked at the logs and turned over the rocks-only centipedes and woodlice, although the cherry and apricot trees were already in bloom.And that there are no wintering imagos in those places?On flowers fly xylocops and a lot of all sorts of pereponov, caught a black cockroach and staff, but until 15.03. mozh che will change...I advised to put traps on the hot slopes, and not in the shade of trees, imho there is a chance to catch something...

And what kind of black cockroach is there, a photo?
In Komsomolskaya Tolstushka last Friday, I was surprised to read that" black "cockroaches were brought to us from America"? What kind of new PR move is this??

Xylocops fly on flowers and there are a lot of different epaulets...

And why no one likes and collects emails

If they buy a net in Sochi today, they will catch it, if possible, they are a daughter with her mother, and not a guy with a dad!!!!

13-17.04.2015. Surroundings of Anapa.

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Maybe someone will be interested: a film about the entomological expedition of the Kaluga ecological club Stenus to the mountains of North Ossetia in May-June 2014:

https://youtu.be/m5qZP4yrwXM

who is comfortable - available on rutracker
http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4996890

This post was edited by Sasha Kagemusha - 03.05.2015 02: 59

Thank you guys for the movie! and for some participants, and for the material , it was as if he had returned there again. we were there at the same time as you, but we were based in Alagir itself and made exits from there. bathed every day
PS to the vigilant police officers of Alagir a separate respect we, because of their vigilance, missed the bus and the next day, when we were voting on the highway near Unal, they waved to us from the UAZ and drove past

A little more about Anapa
13.04.15-caterpillar Kretania sephirus kubanensis (Anapa, Sukko)
21.04.15-pupated
04.05.16-imago output

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Thank you guys for the movie! and for some participants, and for the material  , it was as if he had returned there again. we were there at the same time as you, but we were based in Alagir itself and made exits from there. bathed every day
PS to the vigilant police officers of Alagir a separate respect we, because of their vigilance, missed the bus and the next day, when we were voting on the highway near Unal, they waved to us from the UAZ and drove past

Yes, I remember what we were told about you, but somehow we didn't manage to cross paths (
In principle, it was raining everywhere we were. But in general, the higher - the less-it seemed so.

At the expense of the police, yes-with vigilance is clearly too much.

Hello everyone We are sitting with Opas in Azerbaijan. It's hot here, you can die, but the country is interesting. A detailed report from me upon arrival. It's a pity that photos of something are not fastened.

We are sitting with Opas in Azerbaijan. It's hot here, you can die, but the country is interesting. A detailed report from me upon arrival.

We sit well...

Good! Oh, but I didn't figure out the Internet, I didn't think that so many messages were thrown. In the mountains, it glitches a little.

While there is an Internet mattress for priming.

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Some more photos from your phone, while there is an Internet connection. Далі буде.

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Some more photos.

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Hi! I'll add a landscape to it

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Sorry, all the photos are still from your phone.