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14.06.2010 21:09, sergey nyu

On June 12-13, a second attempt to enter the Daut River Gorge was successful due to assistance in obtaining a pass to this territory. And so, after arriving at the Administration of the Teberdinsky Nature Reserve at 10 o'clock in the morning, we finally crossed this cherished line quite legally.

Next, we decided to drive as far as possible through the gorge and set traps on the way back. The Daut River is overflowing with water from melting snowfields, but despite this, the water is clear and drinkable.
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And now, after about 15 kilometers, the path is blocked by a stream of mud, through which the Niva can no longer pass without the help of a shovel, and unfortunately there is no shovel.

The return trip with the installation of traps and catching butterflies, and the checkers flew, mother-of-pearl, there were many Alpine whiteflies, and, most importantly, the ribbons flew, took several hours.
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At 16 o'clock it started to rain, and since our minimum plan in the gorge was fulfilled, we decided to go to the village of Khurzuk and spend the night there, and in the morning we will leave for the gorge of the Ullukhurzuk River, where traps were set three weeks ago.
We got up at 6 am and saw a beautiful sunrise in the mountains.
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Despite the fact that local residents scared us with the flood of the river and washed away bridges, the passage to the upper reaches of the Ullukhurzuk River brought a positive surprise. Even the bridge that I couldn't cross on my last trip was repaired, but checking the traps brought a little joy.
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But we've set up traps in a much more promising place. I forgot to mention that the previous place was trampled by cows, but this experience was taken into account later.
On the way back from the gorge, we enjoyed beautiful views of the waterfalls and clean drinking water, which we enjoyed after work.
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We also caught butterflies along the way. We were pleasantly surprised by two specimens of colias tizoa in excellent condition, swallowtail, and erebia medusa.
On the way back, we again stopped at the Daut River Gorge to check the traps set last day. Two points did not give anything, but in the third point three karabus fell into traps

Inspired by the success, we set up a series of traps in a similar place, and, continuing to catch tapeworms, left their gorges and went home.
I forgot to mention that the weather on Sunday was fine, not a cloud in the sky.

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20.06.2010 17:14, sergey nyu

19.06.2010 g. together with "Stavropol" went to the area of art. Watchdog (KCR), having decided to get to the city of Chapal 1. We reached the village of Lesa - Kyafar without incident, crossed the bridge, stopped for a snack and decided where to go next. The weather was fine, although it was overcast on the way.
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Having a snack, we decided to take a walk along a country road to zaplpnirovannaya Gora, but alas... There were rivers running down the road, small ones, but enough to ruin the road in several places.
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Having overcome all these gullies, although they do not look so terrible in the photo, we drove up a little more and set the first series of traps. The land on both the right and left sides of the road is saturated with water, and streams flow everywhere.
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Having descended from the installation site of the first series, we decided to install a trial series, but we found Tribax under the stump (Stavropol will put it in a separate topic) and this prompted us to install traps in this place in full.
The weather began to deteriorate, and the same hives, tapeworms, and whiteflies flew from the butterflies, but in small quantities.
On the way back, I was interested in the cows waiting for the atobus, but it's not clear where they were going to go...
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However, we didn't dare give them a ride.

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05.07.2010 17:14, sergey nyu

Robyaty, no need to swear, let's get back to the topic better.
03. -04.07 2010 again went to the mountains. I visited the Uzunkol River gorge, where I set traps, caught three koenigs under logs, and in the afternoon I waved a net behind the Uzunkol alpine camp, as a result of which the exchange fund was replenished with daily peacock's eye, L. M. Yakhontov, and checkers.
The gorge was met with excellent weather, which lasted until the evening.
1. View of the mountains behind the village of Khurzuk.

2. We pass through the outpost.

3. View on the road to the alpine camp "Uzunkol", which is located at an altitude of 2200 m. above sea level.

4. And here is the camp itself

5. On the road to the fishing spots came across the "konika without legs"

6. Just a beautiful view of the snowballs

7. Evening comes in the mountains, it's time to go to camp.

8. The morning of the next day is greeted with drizzling rain.

9. Driving in the opposite direction, we inspect the places where traps are installed on tribax.

10. And here they are, and besides them and koenigs and staphylins and pterostichus.

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01.08.2010 13:45, sergey nyu

Hello everyone.
First of all, I am very grateful to V. Sinyaev for his excellent reports on trips to exotic places.

Now about our humble "sheep".
Last week, on Saturday, I took Dima "Dorkadion", as agreed, to Uchkulan. True, they broke off on the road (the gearbox flew), but with the help of friends they managed not to disrupt the long-planned trip.
And this Saturday, I took him and the material he had caught back in a repaired car, stopping at Douthat to check the traps.
So in order:
1. Landing of entomological troops in the amount of one combat unit on the approaches to one wild, but cute gorge in the area of the village of Uchkulan.

The location of the landing party in the gorge and all the perepitiya of a week's stay, I hope we will soon learn from Dima's photo report. I really hope so.
And so, skipping the removal of troops from the point of casting and checking traps on the Daut, we omit and immediately proceed to the analysis of "flights".
Dima doesn't need to eat or drink, just to get to the much - loved tribaks and not only them.

With its help, this process was accelerated several times.
And here is a part of the catch waiting for the mounting process.

And here are the mattresses from my part of the catch.

Sorry for the poor lighting of the mattresses.

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13.08.2010 21:44, sergey nyu

Good evening again, everyone.
Yesterday (12.08.10) I went to KCR, Dombay. Using a chairlift for about 1 hour, I reached the top of Musat Cheri (Moussa Achitara) at the level of 3012 m. And then I went down on foot, and where I had to roll down in 3 hours to the third observation deck at an altitude of 2600 m.Along the way, catching, sometimes in a fall, what flies by. And the nordmanns, already flown, flew by about 50-50 %, there were almost no females, but this, as it turned out, was out of ignorance, because they had to be driven out of the grass, erebia iranica, graukasica, boloria Caucasica. By the way, the descent from the fourth to the third platform is about one and a half kilometers away, but what a kilometer and a half it is...
View of the Alibek gorge from the beginning of the ascent.

View of the mountains of the Greater Caucasus range from the top of Musat - Cheri. As far as I understood, Belala-Kaya 3861m. and Ertsog 3863m.

Belala - Kaya Glacier waterfall

Out of the corner of the lens is a view of the Alpine meadows where the Nordmanni live, an altitude of approximately 2900 m.

And finally, a catch in three hours.

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16.08.2010 9:00, sergey nyu

Good day to all.
Yesterday I went to shoot traps on the Beket Ridge in the vicinity of the Kyafar Forest.(I don't know if it's a village or an aul).
The weather was overcast, there were no butterflies, so we were closely engaged in beetles. We were engaged, because we went together with Mikhail "Stavropolets".
Biotopes of tribax habitat on the Beket ridge of the KCR.

And here are the tribaxes themselves and not only them.

In my opinion, there are two types...

Another mattress with some change

And for a snack, I got a single copy.Can someone determine?

These are fees from one point to the second, the bulk was made up of exaratuses, I haven't sorted it out yet.
Apologies to Andreas, I didn't want to poison my soul.

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23.08.2010 22:43, sergey nyu

Good evening again, everyone.
Yesterday I returned from a two-day trip to the gorges of the KCR: Uzun - Kol, Daut, Ullu-Khurzuk. I checked and removed traps. The season ends. At night it is already cold, during the day the air warms up slightly, there are almost no butterflies, whiteflies, erebia are no longer there, and no no yellow fly, but not tizoa at all.
So, on 21.08 we passed the border post and entered the Uzunkol gorge, where for almost 2 months there were three series of traps at different heights, from 1600 to 1800 m.
So in order:
Rocks at the Uzun-Kola border post 1650m.

View from the border post on Chatbashi 3766 m.

We are going to cross the ford of a mountain river that flows into the Kuban.

View of Chatbashi from Uzun - Kol gorge

Here is such a venomous handsome vymahal at the traps.

And here is the first result

Tribax habitat in the Uzun-Kol gorge.

Parking for the night at the border post.

Unknown scree of the alpine meadows of Ullu-Hurzuka, where we got 22.08.

And here is the catch collected in two days from three gorges.

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29.08.2010 10:45, sergey nyu

Hello again.
I don't want to, but this is probably one of the last posts in this topic this year, at least with a mountain theme.
Yesterday I went to check the traps in the vicinity of Teberda, installed a month and a half ago.
I was already betting on the July heat, the heights are small, up to 1500 m, I chose a wetter slope, but there were no special hopes for an interesting catch, and, as it turned out, in vain.
In addition to the ubiquitous koenigs, cichruses and tribax teberdensis, an interesting beetle was found in sufficient numbers in relation to the traps that were not destroyed by some two - legged brainless animal, since about half of the traps were methodically pulled out. Thank God a few traps got mice and these traps disdained to destroy. That's the whole catch.
Here is a photo of these beetles. When they were wet, the elytra shone blue-green.
Now it's darkened on the ceiling, but still there is a greenish tint. Size 25 - 30 mm.

But one of them is mounted. You can just see the low tide, although the photo is not very good.

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Other tribaxes that were trapped with the first ones.

And for a snack, a few views of the Teberdy Mountains from the road.

And here is the Teberda River in the vicinity of the village. Nizhnyaya Teberda.

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31.08.2010 10:51, andrewins

Hello again.
I don't want to, but this is probably one of the last posts in this topic this year, at least with a mountain theme.
Yesterday I went to check the traps in the vicinity of Teberda, installed a month and a half ago.
I was already betting on the July heat, the heights are small, up to 1500 m, I chose a wetter slope, but there were no special hopes for an interesting catch, and, as it turned out, in vain.
In addition to the ubiquitous koenigs, cichruses and tribax teberdensis, an interesting beetle was found in sufficient numbers in relation to the traps that were not destroyed by some two - legged brainless animal, since about half of the traps were methodically pulled out. Thank God a few traps got mice and these traps disdained to destroy. That's the whole catch.
Here is a photo of these beetles. When they were wet, the elytra shone blue-green.
Now it's darkened on the ceiling, but still there is a greenish tint. Size 25 - 30 mm.

This is the Carabus (Tribax) apschuanus zorkae Novotný et Vořišek, 1988

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01.09.2010 21:20, sergey nyu

Good evening, everyone.
Yesterday I went to check the traps near Stavropol, which I last checked about two months ago. There were not many traps, the last Pachystus hungaricus fell into them in mid-June, then the heat went down, the last check at the end of June for this species did not give anything, and I went with a firm intention to remove these traps. And here.... in the first trap, the vinegar solution in which dried up completely, sat five!!! pieces of fresh Pachystus hungaricus in the rest a few more pieces. So instead of removing the traps, I reloaded these and added a dozen more today. "We will see" the result in a week. One thing is bad - half of the territory was burned, although the "Novomaryevsky glades" of the "Russian Forest" are considered a nature reserve. But this year, both the grass was mowed down and half of it was burned. I would like to tear off the hands of these "owners".
The photo shows copies for exchange, which I also mounted for myself.