Caucasus, Ciscaucasia and Transcaucasia

April Georgia with Dorcadion, a friend, reliable partner and a great connoisseur of the Caucasus! With memories, after surviving on the edge of the abyss...

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After April, there was a July tour of Georgia and Ingushetia with Dorcadion and Alexey K. from Krasnodar.We brought a lot of material, closing many of the missing items,as well as kanesh chachu and branded wine
Great greetings to all participants!

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Good day to all. I liked it in Abkhazia-the variety of landscapes, and as a result - the views.
Caught a little, more fotkal.

Podaliri and swallowtail are easy to meet near the shore almost at any time.

Allancastria is found far from the sea, in clearings in the mountains, the time is April, if May - then higher. It doesn't go to Alpika, only to the upper part of the forest.

I have seen different Apolons, in August and on Alpika-it is clear that they have different colors, and mnemosyne in June and July is also on Alpika. It's spring there at this time.
I was especially surprised by the appolons-you go into the neighboring gorge and have a completely different color. This summer, in the area of Atsgara, they flew along the alpika like ordinary whiteflies, there were a lot of them. True, the places are hard to reach - we did a hike. The place is completely deserted, only here such a club-footed mountaineer was seen

This post was edited by Emelya - 19.11.2017 03: 34

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I saw different apolons, in August and on the alpika-you can see that they have different colors,
Especially surprised by the appolons - you go into the neighboring gorge and have a completely different color.

So there are two types of them (in addition to mnemosyne) - ordinary and Nordmann, that's different

This post was edited by fraudatrix on-19.11.2017 11: 03

So there are two types of them (in addition to mnemosyne) - ordinary and Nordmann, that's different

Moreover, they suggest that the common Apollo is a subspecies of suaneticus.

I will also post some photos of trophies:






























This post was edited by Emelya - 27.11.2017 09: 33

and peacock eyes:







This post was edited by Emelya - 27.11.2017 09: 35

This year, peacock eyes (grushovaya, in particular) flew to Abkhazia quite fresh in mid-June.
I have one instance in the collection.

This post was edited by sergey nyu - 27.11.2017 20: 10

Take pity on people-change the camera. A year has passed, and the who is still there.

A little spring from the North Caucasus. Pyatigorsk, March 18, 2018, +23 degrees, Apalus bimaculatus (IUCN Red List of Threatened species)

This post was edited by Michalis - 19.03.2018 23: 37

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On Sunday it was +23. I wandered near Mashuk. There's snow on the top. I saw the first mace - whiskered butterflies-lemongrass (male) and two others-either fighting, or courting each other (I did not understand and did not have time to consider) - whether urticaria, or anguloptera With-white.
Ants scurry everywhere. A variety of flies.
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This post was edited by Andreas - 21.03.2018 23: 55

On Sunday it was +23. I wandered near Mashuk.
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This post was edited by Dmitrich - 22.03.2018 08: 29

But like this?
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This post was edited by Andreas - 24.03.2018 20: 45

Yesterday I leave the house at night - I look at a pregnant cat-eyes in a bun and at the wall: - and there the "barn" scolopendra crawled out on the lime wall lit by a lamp. The length is about 4cm. A little more.
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This post was edited by Andreas - 28.03.2018 21: 28

This is not a scolopendra, but a drupe, and its length is close to the maximum.

But you still chose a cruel way to display your photos...

Yesterday in the city I saw a slightly worn burdock. This is so to understand that this is a migratory individual that has arrived, it turns out?
I saw a turnip (male) today on the weeds - it turns out that it has already come out of the pupa! And spring is cold and very late.

And it is necessary that at least a preview can be seen right here without unnecessary clicks. The [img][/img] tags are used for this purpose. And your method, when it is impossible to know a priori what is depicted there and, accordingly, whether you want to watch it , is really cruel. What if there's just another photo of a nude beach?

Spring is late, but it's a sin for you to complain in comparison with residents of other regions. You have daytime butterflies already, in theory, flying for a month. We've only just got them, and they're still only one admiral's worth of them.

Dear colleagues!
If you are interested, please come to the separate topic " Observations in nature: insects (Stavropol Territory)":
http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=579269

We discuss not only insects, but also other groups of animals and plants.
Thank you in advance to all guests and regular visitors.

A new trip report has been added to the topic: "Observations in nature: insects. Stavropol Territory "(forum "Life and mores of insects").
http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=579269

I am grateful to all visitors.

This post was edited by Opatrum - 29.04.2018 11: 45

Dear colleagues!
There is a new report # 7 about the trip (in the topic: "Observations in nature: insects. Stavropol Territory"; forum "Life and customs of insects").
http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=579269

I am grateful to all visitors.

Added
Report No. 8. "Kugultinskaya gora" (Stavropol Territory, Grachevsky district, Kugulta village district; 12.05.18)

Visit: Forum "Life and mores of insects", topic " Observations in nature: insects (Stavropol Territory)").

Photos are divided into two groups: "Animals"; "Plants, fungi, lichens, landscapes".
The full report is attached as a word file.

If you have any questions or suggestions about joint publication of materials or other types of cooperation, please write to us.
I would be grateful for your comments, suggestions, and help in determining the species.
I am ready to make a trip to the point you need in the Stavropol Territory to collect the necessary materials and observations.
Email address: opatrum@mail.ru.

I would like to thank all the visitors and guests.
Sincerely.

We went with my wife to the village today. Arkhyz (Karachay-Cherkess Republic) in order to put soil traps, but due to unforeseen circumstances, it was not possible to do so. So we decided to spend 4 hours (from 8 to 12) walking around the local places and catching all sorts of insects, after which we set off home. Well, I managed to take some pictures. Life is in full swing...

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Dear colleagues!
The repository of reports on expeditions within the Stavropol Territory, as well as on interesting finds directly in the city of Stavropol and its environs, has been somewhat reorganized on yandex. Disk (for ease of use, for breaking down material "by point", for adding materials for previous years).
In this connection, I give a link to the shared folder:
https://yadi.sk/d/iezKYQ_V3WCDRi
Please pay attention to the auxiliary file "Chronology of expeditions and observations"when viewing this folder!


All previous links are active.
I will continue to inform you about the addition of new reports (for the current year, for previous years).
If you are interested, please read the written report in each photo folder.
An invitation, if you are interested, to view video files in folders with photos (located at the end).

A new report has been added! (there are photos and videos)
Report No. 2.100. " Grushevyi village (near Stavropol). May 18, 2018 ":
https://yadi.sk/d/svmOwaXm3WCESV

If you have any questions or suggestions about joint publication of materials or other types of cooperation, please write to us.
I would be grateful for your comments, suggestions, and help in determining the species.
I am ready to make a trip to the point you need in the Stavropol Territory to collect the necessary materials and observations.
Email address: opatrum@mail.ru.

I would like to thank all the visitors and guests.
Sincerely.

Dear colleagues, good afternoon!

The shield bug Halyomorpha halys is actively spreading around Sochi, in Abkhazia, Georgia. No one has the opportunity to collect several individuals, put them in alcohol/vodka and send them to St. Petersburg? Not necessarily from Russia. Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other countries are also interesting. I am ready to pay for the shipment.

Dmitry Musolin (musolin@gmail.com)

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Yes, this is a "stinky bug", it is in Abkhazia all terribly jammed! But I won't get there until early September, and I'll be there a lot. You can collect it there in tons, I can send this joy by mail . A bottle of tea will do? Well, you, father and gourmet!
And so in the summer in the mountains I plan to see the appolonchiks.

This post was edited by Emelya - 05/22/2018 11: 38

Yes, this is it. at least in September (but earlier it would have been much better, maybe you can send mail from there?). Preferably several pieces from different locations (with an indication of where they came from).

I don't know about chacha. usually in alcohol or vodka for fixing. At least a little. But let's go with chacha - the main thing is that they don't start to decompose.

thank you in advance!

Yes, this is a "stinky bug", it is in Abkhazia all terribly jammed! But I won't get there until early September, and I'll be there a lot. You can collect it there in tons, I can send this joy by mail . A bottle of tea will do? Well, you, father and gourmet!
And so in the summer in the mountains I plan to see the appolonchiks.

- You speak different languages and talk about different things, and maybe your mentality does not allow you to hear and understand each other.

About this bug, I will say that I, for the life of me , can not specifically remember when I first saw it in Sochi. Had he been there before? And last year in September, for example, he climbed all the windows in the room in the mass.
But we don't have it on KMV yet. Instead, similar in size inhabit these:

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This bug, of course, has never been seen in Sochi before. This is an invasive species. It moved from China to the North in the 1990s. To America and around the same time to Switzerland. Most likely with packaging materials. From Switzerland, he settled in Europe, reached the North. Italy, from where he most likely got to Sochi with planting material in 2013. There are already a lot of articles about this, including our colleagues and me. Our work, for which I ask bedbugs from different locations, is precisely aimed at understanding how closely related populations from different countries are.

You will not be able to cancel or completely destroy it now. The damage to local agriculture will be great. And it will be very annoying in the houses...

- You speak different languages and talk about different things, and maybe your mentality does not allow you to hear and understand each other.

About this bug, I will say that I, for the life of me , can not specifically remember when I first saw it in Sochi. Had he been there before? And last year in September, for example, he climbed all the windows in the room in the mass.
But we don't have it on KMV yet. Instead, similar in size inhabit these:

Glory to the quarantine service!!!!!

rather, "Glory to the Olympics", under which all services were bent... and the nursery industry collapsed...

Glory to the quarantine service!!!!!

Dear colleagues!

Added a number of new small reports on the territory of Stavropol for 2018:
01.01.18 (report 1.5.1.) - Stavropol, 3rd City Hospital; https://yadi.sk/d/aOmCuzN43YaG3X Ladybug in winter.
05.01.18 (report 1.5.2.) - Stavropol, 3rd City Hospital; https://yadi.sk/d/LleCHaIU3YaGYB Mushrooms.
08.03.18 (report 1.5.3.) - Stavropol, 3rd City Hospital; https://yadi.sk/d/TMbpyYsB3YaHWh
12.04.18 (report 1.1.101) - Stavropol (forest, near the 3rd City Hospital); https://yadi.sk/d/WC2qva1W3YaMgP EZH.
13. 04. 18 (report 1.3.200) - Stavropol, center (lower Lenin Street); https://yadi.sk/d/wouqWiFn3YaNag A partridge?
14.04.18 (report 1.1.102) - Stavropol (forest, near the 3rd City Hospital); https://yadi.sk/d/FjYt-NdX3YaPmy
17.04.18 (report 1.6.1) - Stavropol (ST "Forget-me-nots"); https://yadi.sk/d/fNGmb7QK3YaR8W HEDGEHOG.
22. 04. 18 (report 1.0.1) - Stavropol (Forest, near cadet. schools, 127a Vasyakina St.); https://yadi.sk/d/-yJGb0rH3YabP6 Ants on medication. Red tick.
24.04.18 (report 1.1.103) - Stavropol (forest, near the 3rd City Hospital); https://yadi.sk/d/bJ6pyVEn3YaRtK HEDGEHOG.
09. 06. 18 (report 1.3.203) - Stavropol, center; https://yadi.sk/d/BMRre6Mz3YavD A large hymenopteran.
14.06.18 (report 1.3.204) - Stavropol city, center (Komsomolskaya Gorka); https://yadi.sk/d/77asSAau3Yawmy Bumblebee. A thrush chick.
20.06.18 (report 1.2.101) - Stavropol (forest, turn to Hrushevy village); https://yadi.sk/d/CfLviNnC3Yaygm
22.06.18 (report 1.7) - Stavropol Zooexotarium; https://yadi.sk/d/GTOVKBTM3Yb39R
22.06.18 (report 1.2.102) - Stavropol (forest, turn to Hrushevy village); https://yadi.sk/d/BZzk-4tD3Yb45d Interesting ground beetle-horse.
24.06.18 (report 1.2.103) - Stavropol (forest, turn to Hrushevy village); https://yadi.sk/d/IPsOlLds3Yb6YY An abundance of slugs.
26.06.18 (report 1.8.) - Stavropol (forest, southern slope of the Komsomol pond); https://yadi.sk/d/LdiVB1Nz3Yb7ZQ
28.06.18 (report 1.2.103) - Stavropol (forest, turn to Hrushevy village); https://yadi.sk/d/hDMkVYcm3Yb7Dg an abundance of bedbugs

Mostly entomology material.

Thus, at the moment, all available field material on the Stavropol Territory and the city of Stavropol for 2018 is posted on yandex. disk.

Link to the shared folder of all ordered reports:
https://yadi.sk/d/iezKYQ_V3WCDRi
Please pay attention to the auxiliary file "Chronology of expeditions and observations"when viewing this folder! https://yadi.sk/i/g9V-ynBT3YbBiN

If you are interested, please read the written report in each photo folder.

If you have any questions or suggestions about joint publication of materials or other types of cooperation, please write to us.
I would be grateful for your comments and suggestions.

I am ready to make a trip to the point you need in the Stavropol Territory to collect the necessary materials and observations.

Please, if possible, provide assistance in identifying animal and plant species.

Email address: opatrum@mail.ru
Thank you!

Dear colleagues!
New report added (No. 56. 30.06.18; Beshpagir village area, Big and Small Sand Massifs):
https://yadi.sk/d/fhLTw-c-3YgYY8

These sand massifs and the adjacent steppe are located on the opposite side of the Beshpagir quarry , so the information is both new and interesting.
Photos are traditionally divided into several folders: "Plants, landscapes"; "Animals"; "Rocks, fossils", "Videos".
Please refer to the written report, if possible.:
https://yadi.sk/i/SiqnMSW43YgYWE

Link to the shared folder of all ordered reports:
https://yadi.sk/d/iezKYQ_V3WCDRi
Please pay attention to the auxiliary file "Chronology of expeditions and observations"when viewing this folder! https://yadi.sk/i/g9V-ynBT3YbBiN

If you have any questions or suggestions about joint publication of materials or other types of cooperation, please write to us.
I would be grateful for your comments and suggestions.
I am ready to make a trip to the point you need in the Stavropol Territory to collect the necessary materials and observations.

Please, if possible, provide assistance in identifying animal and plant species.

Email address: opatrum@mail.ru
Thank you!

Now a female Oryctes nasicornis flew into the kitchen and landed on a towel. Released to the garden)

rather, "Glory to the Olympics", under which all services were bent... and the nursery industry collapsed...

This is exactly

A short photo report about a trip to the Sarykum dune (Dagestan).

We went for one day. The navigator showed the nearest route through the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, the Republic of Ingushetia and the Chechen Republic. And this is all in order to get to our neighboring Republic of Dagestan (we were traveling from Stavropol). I decided to give it a try.... We were traveling at night, so they gave us documents for checking at all the posts, showed us luggage racks, etc., which took a lot of time. The only advantage of this route is the price of gasoline (3-5 rubles lower than in the rest of Russia).
We have already decided to go back around all four republics - it is much quieter, and we have won in time.

As for Sarykum, in previous photo reports, everyone has already said everything for me and more than once. The places are amazing, the fauna is very diverse. After being here for a few minutes, I already regretted that I spent so much time this year on all sorts of Dosangs, Kalmykia and the like in search of an interesting semi-desert and desert. I should have gone straight to Sarykum! I'll do it next spring.

Part of the catch was not captured on the camera, at the moment everything is in the freezer, so in the report I will limit myself only to those species that I managed to take pictures of live.

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Yegorchik: Prionus in the photo is Asiaticum?

Yesterday, near the Salt Lake, I noticed how a huge rider/wasp (I don't even know the name, since I see it for the first time) was running backwards, holding a huge spider by the cephalothorax. Startled by the camera, he flew away, but then returned, found and continued his work, dragging the victim into the bushes.
Sorry for the terrible quality.

Yesterday, near the Salt Lake, I noticed how a huge rider/wasp (I don't even know the name, since I see it for the first time) was running backwards, holding a huge spider by the cephalothorax. Startled by the camera, he flew away, but then returned, found and continued his work, dragging the victim into the bushes.
Sorry for the terrible quality.

Pompilida of the genus Cryptocheilus, harvests wolf spiders.

Pompilida of the genus Cryptocheilus, harvests wolf spiders.

I rummaged around, and came to the conclusion that I most likely have Cryptocheilus octomaculatus


This post was edited by Andreas - 13.07.2018 16: 43