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On the leaves of the coastal bushes of Scaevola taccada larvae of cute yellow cockroaches come out at night



and adult insects


Somehow I found someone's library with a chewed-out hole


Probably from cockroaches, there seems to be no one else to put it off.

There are also often strange straight-winged animals (probably Mogoplistidae or something related) - also in the form of larvae (about 5 mm)


and adults (although, since they are wingless, it is only possible to understand the larva or imago by size - the length is about 25 mm without tserok)

Ghost crabs come to the beach at night (during the day they hide in holes in the sand, and the entrance is filled up and you can see it in the evening, when the crab has already gone out in search of food). Crabs are so small, the width of the shell is about 25 mm and smaller, light with oval eyes and without spikes on them



Larger (carapace about 60 mm) and darker, with spines on the eyes




They are very timid and at the slightest danger with great speed carried away from the spot of light from the flashlight in the sea or in the darkness of the beach.

Once I found a large, about 70 mm square (or rounded - which way to look) crab sitting near its burrow in the middle of the beach


From my careless movement, he immediately hid in it


and he came out only after I turned off the flashlight and walked about 10 meters to the side


I forgot to remove another type of crab - they are quite large, diurnal and live near the pier next to the restaurant.

Once, on the way to dinner, on the trail connecting the bungalow area with the restaurant, I found this woodlouse with two yellow spots on its bottom




The night lighting of the hotel's territory on the island is rather dim (a diesel generator is used as an energy source and low-power energy-saving lamps are used to save money), but some animals are also collected on these lamps. Once a winged termite with greenish wings arrived


However, before I reached the cell, the termite managed to throw them off. Puzzled by the search for a termite garden, I walked around in the area and, accidentally picking at the rotten part of the tree trunk, I found a bunch of such termites there



Judging by the jaws, it must be a soldier. And he seems to be blind...

The local ladybug Chilocorus flew to the lamp installed on the wall at the entrance to the bungalow ?nigritus


Also, local Aedes albopictus mosquitoes gather to the lamp (although, rather, to the body of a vacationer sitting under it).



They fly silently, bite delicately. Because of their smaller size and increased caution, it is quite difficult to swat them on yourself. They stick even during the day, when you are lying on a chaise longue in the shade.

Here is such a beetle (probably Scolytidae) flew to the lamp on the last evening on the island. It is about 1.5 mm long



This bug (most likely Cydnidae) I found him in the evening on the path from the bungalow to the restaurant, running under the lamps on the ground


One day I found the elytra of a large beetle on the path in front of the bungalow. One evening, as usual, I was walking through the bushes in search of animals when I heard a loud knock on the wall and something hard falling to the floor at the entrance to a neighboring bungalow. I went to look and saw the host of the elytra-Oryctes rhinoceros



This beetle is the largest insect in the Maldives that I have found, it is about 40 mm long. And the next morning I watched as the local crows dismantled such a beetle for spare parts...

On the bushes that frame the beach, at night it turned out to be quite multi-secome. Local goldeneye, unlike ours - "flattened"


The only cicada found on the island. I chased her for several days, until I managed to make a more or less successful shot


Green fly from under the tree. Sciapodinae, met at night

There are several types of hay eaters, all met at night. With huge eyes


Very tiny, with stripes on the wings


And here is such a strange one, with hairy wings, sitting on a dry banana leaf


In the evening, a faint, gentle chirping sounds can be heard from the crowns of the trees, very similar to the singing of our plate wings. Due to the lack of stairs, the adult grasshopper could not be found. But presumably its larva was found in the lower part of the crown of the Hibiscus tiliaceus tree during the day



Well, the main night horror-the spider Olios sp. (family Sparassidae). The carcass is about 30 mm long, with its legs comfortably occupying a small tea saucer



I met him several times in the same place, on a bush in the passage to the beach from our bungalow, bowed politely and walked away.

In general, the other spiders on the island are diurnal, small and cute (family Salticidae) and they are found exclusively on the bushes bordering the beach.
Male Hasarius adansoni



A female Menemerus ?bivittatus


Marpissa ?decorata



Carrhotus ?viduus, juvenile or female



Male Carrhotus viduus

During the day, there are also enough animals. I found three types of ants. Battered Camponotus sp., rather large


A little smaller and more beautiful - Cataglyphis sp., run with their abdomen up and very often change the direction of movement, so it is quite difficult to remove them


And very small ones


On the bushes along the beach during the day there are elegant green bees Ceratina sp.



Fly from sem. Lauxaniidae



A small fly from the family. Chloropidae



Local Sarcophagidae


Very interesting fly Tinda sp. (Family Stratiomyidae) with bent wing tips, perched on the underside of leaves during the day


There is also such a green lion, Microchrysa sp.


Small, about 1.5 mm, hairy beetle from the family. Dermestidae


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I was chasing bedbugs all the time I was on the island. These creatures were very big-eyed and flew away as soon as I got close to them. However, one cloudy morning I was lucky (apparently, they did not have time to warm up and therefore were rather sluggish)



And this is a strange maggot, with a stick in the ass and scallops around the edges of the chest


There were also such beetles (probably Pentatomidae). And also very careful


This wasp is from podsem. Eumeninae checked holes in the hinges of sun beds on the beach



At the end of the path from the bungalow to the restaurant, the day before the illness, I found a colony of aphids on the top of a bush with a babbler larva on it. I thought that it would be nice to take a picture of the larva, but while I was ill, it managed to pupate


I decided to take pupari for myself out of grief, and after 2 days the fly Simosyrphus scutellaris was hatched. I didn't expect such a rapid metamorphosis



Also on the bushes of Scaevola taccada there are weevils Cratopus adspersus



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There are few butterflies on the island. There is such a Crambidae; in the list of butterflies of the Maldives, I did not find one, in Africa there is a similar species (Prophantis smaragdina, http://www.afromoths.net/species/show/13831)


A small and completely awkward leaf-wrapper moth


And the only caterpillar found on the island. Probably some kind of leaf wrapper



A few more small butterflies could not be photographed, so they escaped.

On a tinderbox growing on one of the trees, I found small beetles (probably from the family of the Russian Federation). Colydiidae)


And one evening I caught in flight a small (about 4 mm) pipefly Diocalandra sp.



On the left hind leg, you can see a tick traveling with the beetle.

Found a female ant cricket (family Myrmecophilidae)in the shower tray



In the bathroom, I also met a moth (family Psychodidae)


Here is such a fly from sem. Scatopsidae sat on the window


And this small bug I caught in a jar in a restaurant on the table. The staff and visitors pretended that nothing of the sort was happening


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Calotes-bloodsucker (Calotes versicolor). Very elegant (especially males) lizard with a long tail, funny runs on paths, climbs trees well. The blood doesn't suck



During the day, it is very difficult to catch it (with your hands or in the lens) - it is big-eyed and rather shy. At night they sleep on the bushes and you can safely touch it


Small geckos appear on the walls near the lamps at the entrance to the bungalow in the evening. Periodically they tweet quite loudly



I've always admired the design of gecko legs


There are mites (small red dots) between the scales.

Geckos are also found in trees


Well, flowers (which I managed to remove more or less normally).
Scaevola taccada


Morinda citrifolia


This is something unknown


Pseuderanthemum carruthersii

Somehow I found someone's library with a chewed-out hole

almost certainly, a cockroach rider got out of it - Evania ?appendigaster

almost certainly, a cockroach rider got out of it - Evania ?appendigaster

Yes, clearly non-standard hole

Continuation of South Korea.
Compared to Nikolai's photos, mine look rather pale...


1. Teleogryllus emma


2. Phaneroptera falcata


3. Phaneroptera nigroantennata


4. Phaneroptera nigroantennata


5. Ruspolia


6. Conocephalus gladiatus-female


7. probably his own male


8. Acrida cinerea


9. Acrida cinerea


10.


11.


12. Shirakiacris shirakii


13. Trilophidia annulata


14. Oxya japonica


15. Oxya japonica


16. Oedaleus infernalis


17. Oedaleus infernalis


18. Gastrimargus marmoratus


19. Atractomorpha lata


20. Atractomorpha lata


21. Tenodera aridifolia


22. Tenodera aridifolia


23. Platypleura kaempheri


24. Platypleura kaempheri


25. Diostrombus politus


26. Diostrombus politus


27. Bothrogonia ferruginea


28. Lycorma delicatula


29. - her (Lycorma delicatula) nymphs


30. Lygaeus equestris


31.


32.


33.


34. Anoplocnemis dallasi


35. aka


36.


37. Halyomorpha halys


38.


39. Gonopsis affinis


40.


41. Riptortus clavatus or pedestris?


42. Sphedanolestes impressicollis

I forgot to write again that if you see errors in the signatures, let me know - it's not your business to mislead people. I didn't identify them by their identifier, and I'm not an expert on the entire entomofauna.
I'll dilute the insects with spiders, which I don't understand at all.


1. Nephilia clavata


2. Nephilia clavata


3. Araneus nordmanni


4. Araneus nordmanni


5. Araneus nordmanni


6.


7. the big spider


8. it's also on the bottom


9. like the same view, but from the south coast


10.


11.


12.


13.


14.


15.


16.


17.


18.


19. - a very large spider, after the picture instantly escaped, and the cocoon did not interfere at all. For scale - a thick branch with a thickness of 13 mm

After spiders, flies.
And also , I didn't check the validity of the names, so synonyms can easily slip through.


1. Helophilus virgatus


2. Phytomia zonata


3. Protocalliphora azurea


4. Stomorhina obsoleta


5. Stomorhina obsoleta


6. Ectophasia rotundiventris


7. Gymnosoma rotundatum


8.


9.


10.


11.


12. Conops


13. Tabanus mandarinus


14. Promachus yezonicus


15. Mantispa japonica - No longer flies


16. Metopius sp.


17. Oreumenes decoratus


18. some kind of Bombus


19. Xylocopa appendiculata circumvolans


20. Xylocopa appendiculata circumvolans

there weren't many beetles. I once found the head and chest of a barbel on the path, apparently the bird pecked, to my surprise, he decided - Anoplophora malasiaca


21. Blitopertha orientalis


22. Gametis jucunda


23. Gametis jucunda


24. Glycyphana fulvistemma


25. Popillia ?flavosellata


26. Popillia quadriguttata


27. Pseudotorynorrhina japonica


28. Lagria sp.


29. Cerogria jathinipennis


30. Chrysochus chinensis


31. Oides decempunctatus-met only once, but many at once


32. Oides decempunctatus


33. Physosmaragdina nigrifrons


34. Physosmaragdina nigrifrons


35. Chlorophorus diadema


36. Paracycnotrachelus longiceps

next - Lepidoptera. Not everyone wanted to pose. This is a mixture of " our " and south-eastern species; if you mess up the captions somewhere, don't kick them too hard


37.


38.


39.


40.


41.


42. Spoladea recurvalis


43.


44.


45.


46.


47.


48.


49. Myrteta angelica


50. Daimio tethys


51. Parnara guttata


52. Parnara guttata


53. Colias


54. Eurema hecabe


55. Pieris rapae


56. alcon?


57.


58.


59.


60.


61.


62. Everes argiades


63. Everes argiades


64. Lycaena phlaeas


65. Lycaena phlaeas


66. Rapala caerulea


67. Apatura ilia


68. Argynnis hyperbius - I met him once and couldn't get close


69. Neptis sappho


70. Polygonia c-aureum


71. Polygonia c-aureum


72. Vanessa cardui


73. Vanessa indica


74. Minois dryas


75. Minois dryas


76. Minois dryas


77. Myclesis gotama


78. Ypthima multistriata


79. Papilio xuthus

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I'm planning a trip to Vietnam in November. I'm thinking of catching some lepidoptera. Tell me, what is there with the laws in this regard, is it worth bothering? The trip is for a completely different reason, but there will be free time.

I'm planning a trip to Vietnam in November. I'm thinking of catching some lepidoptera. Tell me, what is there with the laws in this regard, is it worth bothering? The trip is for a completely different reason, but there will be free time.

I went there in April of the sixteenth year, caught not much, and there were no problems. Friends who went there, all say that even large batches were taken out of there without problems.

what about the laws in this regard, is it worth bothering?

Normally, I was there for the last time in the spring of this year.

There are unlikely to be any problems with export, but there may be problems with fishing if you get into a specially protected area.
Vietnam is very heavily militarized, especially in the north and islands, this should be borne in mind.

A little bit of Mongolia 2016. The southernmost Khovd aimag, the very beginning of spring. Terribly

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Hello everyone I will be in Thailand in February-March. I want to visit the South: khlong Phanom NP, Khao Lang NP. And North-Chiang Mai, Don Intanon NP.
I will be glad to have fellow travelers, as well as tips on hotels in hot spots, climate and seasonal landmarks. Share your experience, who has it - how to allocate priorities. Interested in butterflies and beetles.

UPD: Thanks to Vanya for the tips on Indonesia, I had a great time in Ketamba. No 10 days of surfing in Bali can compare to Chalcosoma Atlas $)

Now in Sorong, Papua, we are building a catamaran for a trip to Raja Empat. In between, an interesting animal came across, I can't even determine up to the squad. It looks like a bug. But two pairs of thin wings that go under the elytra. I apologize, the photo is only of this quality.

You have a bedbug (Hemiptera) in your photo. By definition, I can't get to the type - I'm not an expert on this group.

Finally my dream came true...just communicate with nature, insects and do not kill anyone en masse, just as a souvenir for a good companion Laos, Thailand 2017 December.

View of Pakse and parts of the Bolaven plateau...

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And living in Laos has become much better ...I would say even better than in Russia...seven years ago, only tuk-tuks drove in cities, but now Hiluxs and Land Rovers...our country has recently experienced a complete setback.

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And only here and there in the countryside remained the flavor of old Laos...

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Laos.

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Kong Lor Cave and its inhabitants. On the way to the village of Na Hin, you can see a lot of butterflies.

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Unique natural biotopes of central Laos in the company of a pleasant companion

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The Entomological Special Forces net is resting this time

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Chiang Mai Garden.

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The Andaman Sea is the best place to finish your communication with the forest, crystal waterfalls and colorful butterflies...Hey fishy where are you? Banana Beach December 2017.

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I need the club's help. A trip to Singapore is planned! How do they treat fishing there and how to export it? Where can I go, go, or get out in a limited time?

Beauty, Roma! Your report is a cure for the soul tormented by Moscow!

How do they treat fishing there and how to export it?

I'd say never mind.
With a very Large Net, I did not run there, but jumping on all fours under bushes and turning stones/logs over did not cause any bad interest.

I'd say never mind.
With a very Large Net, I did not run there, but jumping on all fours under bushes and turning stones/logs over did not cause any bad interest.

Take a look at the map.
There are notionally intelligent forests-Bukit Timah and Sungei Buloh, plus botsad. The rest - zabubenny anthropogenic, although very well-groomed.

Thank you very much! The forest there is really a cat cried, but there seems to be a good island nearby Pulau Ubin...

In January of this year, I finally made it to Papua. And then for 5 years in Indonesia, and in the most interesting region for a biologist, and not been. We visited Sorong and the Raja Empat Islands, where we went on an inflatable catamaran with a 2.5 hp motor. The nature on the islands of Waigeo and Batanta is certainly gorgeous, you will not see this in Java or Sumatra. Lorikeets, eclectus everywhere, raja pegasus, sandpipers in the littoral, petrels in the sea...

I didn't shoot many insects. But what are they rich in? For a long time I thought that this was a mutant beetle with 2 pairs of transparent wings, until people enlightened me that this was a bug from the family of hemispherical scabbards.



Prosopocoilus bison man



Female Aegus chelifer?



When we were standing on the Trampoline, there were many large leafy horses of two types.





A small barbel.



Pestrianka? From Papua itself, 50 km south of Sorong. Roads in Papua are built chic, we rented a scooter to ride around the neighborhood. Jokowi, unlike Putin, will keep their promises. Said by the end of the 19th year will complete Transpapua highway and it goes, expensive chic, in Java and Sumatra trails of this quality is not enough.



The nominative subspecies Idea durvillei with Vaigeo is simply huge in size. Very massive view there.



Danaida.



A satyr.



There is a huge variety of dragonflies in Indonesia. Somehow we easily counted 10 species in one clearing. If you set a goal, you can take a bunch of gorgeous dragonflies. But I, a lazy person, did not set such a goal((





Erect wings.

The forum does not allow you to cram a lot of images into one message, so I had to split it into two...

Well, the most gorgeous cricket "made" the trip.





Ktyr.



Identifying undetermined babies is welcome! Well, not insects with your permission.

Peganka-raja. Half-duck, half-goose like that.



Ant house.



Skakunchik.

Palawan. Philippines. Very nice place. If the photos are loaded, I will write a full report...

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100dol.=5150 pesos...even more expensive than in Russia.

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