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11.01.2010 14:52, Андреас

Hello...
Was, so on holidays in Dagomys (Sochi). - I'll put it bluntly: - there was neither time nor opportunity to get out to climb and crawl. – My next fiancee (who graduated from the biofactory faculty in the first of her three intstitutov) is simply annoyed when I switch my interest from her to the six-legged neighbors...
- It was possible to shoot in the yard, and then, by running: - Shields on the dogwood tree, a winged individual of an ant of unknown appearance and gender that flew out, an ordinary tongue, onaruzheny on a zanoveske in the bedroom.
- And so, in addition to this-on December 31, I only saw the Admiral from the daytime butterflies, and then – once. Some flies, butterflies, spiders on a wild beach During the day the temperature reached 20 degrees in the shade. At night – about 13. Silence. Grace. A lot of things are blooming. I didn't want to leave.

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13.01.2010 16:25, Фиалка трехцветная

I will also allow myself to attach files from several places. Also Karachay-Cherkessia. Fishing there is not worth it (1 km to the border with the territory near the Caucasus prir. biosphere reserve, judging by the signs), but you can take photos there.
However, the first image is my native places, in the Murmansk region (69 gr. n.), but there are butterflies here (one of the rare days when the temperature was +30, 8.08.07 This happens in these places once a year)
2. Mountain view from the village of Zakan (the village is located at an altitude of approximately 1230 m above sea level)
3. Teschin Zub town, Zakan village (if my memory serves me correctly, the altitude is approximately 3000 m above sea level, maybe less)
4.You know who))
5. Damkhurts River.
6. Mostovaya Polyana village (approximately 930 m above sea level)

Photos of poor quality, as you can see, were taken on a simple digital soap dish. Now I have a semi-professional camera, so the pictures would be much better

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14.01.2010 9:52, sergey nyu

[quote=Tri-colored violet, 13.01.2010 17: 25] Also Karachay-Cherkessia. Fishing there is not worth it (1 km to the border with the territory near the Caucasus prir. biosphere reserve, judging by the signs), but you can take photos there.
As far as I can tell, I also fish in those places, maybe in nature reserves, but I just don't bother about their borders. All around the border zone and except for the border guards, no one checks their documents and they don't say anything about the protected area, although I didn't hide the net in the bushes.By the way, I have a self-made folding one, 50 cm in diameter on a handle from a Chinese podsachnik, telescopic, about 2 m long.

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14.01.2010 13:39, Фиалка трехцветная

It's just more difficult for me: when I'm in Zakan in the summer, I live in the house of my husband's relatives, who work as huntsmen in the Western territory. I myself can't catch death's head hawks and swallowtails under their noses, etc.)) In addition, I decided for myself in this regard, since trapping is prohibited in nature reserves, it means that I will not catch anything except P. napi, to which I have a research interest, and this is a mass species, my capture is unlikely to undermine its population. The rest of the species I collect for my personal collection (but not on the territory of the nature reserve) or just take pictures. Only 2 families live in the village of Zakan, and there were almost no tourists there before (by the way, in 2006). There were only 6 files on the Internet at the request of S. Zakan!), and in the last 3 years they have constantly come alone and in groups, pitch tents, take a lot of photos (the number of sites, by the way, has increased hundreds of times, and they post very high-quality photos).

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14.01.2010 14:33, okoem

I myself can't catch death's head hawks and swallowtails under their noses, etc.)) In addition, I decided for myself in this regard, since trapping is prohibited in nature reserves, it means that I will not catch anything except P. napi, which I have a research interest in, and this is a mass species, my own trapping is unlikely to undermine its population

Where and what to catch is up to you. However, you can be sure that your capture of Deadhead hawkmoth, Swallowtail and P. napi populations of these species will not only not undermine, but even not cause them any significant harm.
The meaninglessness of a ban on trapping for the vast majority of insect species has already been discussed more than once, including on this forum.

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14.01.2010 18:46, Tigran Oganesov

My short report on a holiday trip to Sochi. Apparently, he was not far from Andreas

Most of the time it was partly cloudy with clearings.
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There were four or five sunny days, but it also rained. Temperatures ranged from +9 during rain to +18 on sunny days. In the sun itself, it was very hot, the thermometer showed +26, it was possible to walk in a T-shirt, which I did as much as possible

. This temperature was to the taste of insects, in contrast to Egyptian fillies

One of them managed to get out into nature only once, he got to his native Akhun.
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Hellebores were already in full bloom.

And cyclamen time was just beginning.

Scorpions Euscorpius mingrelicus were sitting under the rocks,
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cute haymakers of the genus Trogulus,
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larvae of fireflies and crowds of woodlice, mahilis and all sorts of millipedes.
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Admirals flew in the sun, and bedbugs and flies warmed themselves on fallen trees and grass.
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Ticks also came out and periodically made attempts on me.
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There were quite a few birds, mostly chickadees. But we also met a mottled woodpecker, a nuthatch and a nimble pika.
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In the city, bananas were in full bloom and attracted bees.
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People even took up windsurfing
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And there was snow on Krasnaya Polyana

Here is an essay on "How I spent the New year"

P.S. On the night of December 30, I saw the lunar halo for the first time. It was so huge that my camera couldn't fully capture it. Interesting sight.
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