Central, South and East Asia outside the former USSR

Wild mash is simple!

Nah, that's really cool! Then it is all brought in a divine form, mounted and works for many winters...

So ... winter... It's boring...
Pour it out... Four in the morning, only...

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Mosolov's catch, Dec2010, 50 years old, growing moon.
chopped small things, but there are also large ones in packages.
Sev.Thailand, a state bordering Burma.

Cocoonworms, limacodids, bombicides, cossids, hawkmothers can be defined

Cocoonworms, limacodids, bombicides, cossids, hawk moth can be identified

scoop is also possible

you can also use a dustpan

daytime users can also be identified.

You can determine everything, the question is-is it correct? In the scoops released by V. Kononenko under the auspices of Pinratana, there are quite a lot of indeterminate species. Isn't it? I don't remember who wrote the diaries, but somehow they don't often look at the types there. Thailand, especially sevenyi, is a very complex territory with a huge number of new species. One of the centers of biodiversity for many groups of butterflies.
Although of course, apparently on the daily 90 percent can be raised. Hardly in scoops. I think if you totally catch in different parts of Thailand-there will be about 50 percent of species that do not have a name (at least in the qualifiers). This may not be the case, but it's unlikely. Vladimir Konenko generally took the liberty of releasing the first guides on the scoops of Indochina. This is a huge step. But full reports are very far away. The group is huge. Its biodiversity in Indochina is nightmarish... Hundreds of new species, a huge layer of routine work...

This post was edited by Yakovlev - 19.01.2011 21: 03

You can determine everything, the question is-is it correct? In the scoops released by V. Kononenko under the auspices of Pinratana, there are quite a lot of indeterminate species. Isn't it?

I do not argue, but most of the bright types are easily identified. It is clear that among all the dullness there may be difficulties, but nothing is impossible!

* slaps her knee in frustration*
From zhezh! How I felt that everyone in Thailand should catch a scoop!

Let's go ... for the Butterflies!
Congratulations on the upcoming season! Welcome finds!!!
Pour it! We have Nolito...

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My last trip to Vietnam (May-June 2011). I take this opportunity to thank the management of the Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Center, which supported our project, and all our colleagues in the field!
Buzyamap National Park, border with Cambodia.

Photographed at the time of camping, a winged termite (Termitidae, Macrotermitinae).


forest road in the nature reserve


Our camp. Living under an awning. It was very unpleasant during thunderstorms.


lunch, also known as dinner


forest trail, pay attention to a large amount of litter-by the end of the wet season, it is almost gone


termites on a tree trunk (Hospitalitermes sp.)


the same termites


dipterocarp fruit, dipterocarp is a genus of dominant trees


since I am a "wrong" entomologist, I do not have a stain in my hands, but a jar of alcohol


the forest looks like a mosaic of dark areas and brightly lit glades




syroezhki, very close to our own




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Continuation of photos from Vietnam. Buzyamap National Park.

A small river. As I have already written, to my great surprise, by the second half of May, the wet season has not really started yet. At the height of the wet season, the river becomes impassable.



The river has a forest with developed undergrowth.


Fancy caterpillar.


The landscape is almost our forest. Clearings along the river are secondary-first there were clearings, then they were overgrown with bamboo, and then the bamboo died and burned out. The result is a stunning "orchid fields".


Orchids.



Vegetation in the clearing, everything is covered with abundant fall.


Individual giant trees.


Opinions are divided: either it's a parasite, something like broomrape, or an ephemeral plant whose foliage and flowers develop at different times.


Across the river is a primary dipterocarp forest, considered a climax community.



Again termites Hospitalitermes sp.



And this is the view from the hill, about 5 km from Cambodia.

So the summer passed
90 days in the field. 6 countries
returned from friendly Kazakhstan yesterday. Reports on Mongolia and Kazakhstan are somewhat later.

I continue my report on Vietnam.

Usually, bambuchatniki are considered to be confined to disturbed forest areas. But they are also found in the forest.



Digging for termites.


Under the cover of the forest.


The leech is on the substrate and already on me.



Lagerstroemia sp. - a large tree with constantly falling bark, perhaps this is an adaptation against epiphytes.


Diplopoda.


A large nutcracker. It's funny, but the Vietnamese believe that the tincture on these beetles has a miraculous effect on potency.


Such a guest came to our camp.



We fed him wild mangoes.


Eclectors.


Our camp is in good weather.


View from the mountain: the first row of hills is still Vietnam, and then-Cambodia.


Fishing with a lantern at night. This is the only way to collect most of my objects.


The scorpion hole. In the dark, scorpions sit half-out of their burrows and wait for prey. Unfortunately, they can see well and hide quickly when illuminated by a flashlight (the arrow shows a claw).


Predatory grasshoppers (Conocephalinae, Agraeciini).



Cockroach Allacta sp.


Large ptitseyad. Also afraid of the light, and does not like to be photographed.


Day. Down by the river.


Globitermes sulphureus termite garden.



Termite swarming (Macrotermitinae gen. sp.)

This year I visited southern China. For forty days from May to early July, my friends and I walked in the mountains of Yunnan Province near the border of China with Laos and Vietnam. There are mostly low mountains located here. The height of ridges and peaks, as a rule, does not exceed 3.5 km. There is no alpine zone, because the forest grows up to the very peaks, i.e. to heights of 3.5 km, sometimes a little more. This is typical of southern China. We visited several mountain ranges.
I'm not an entomologist and I don't collect insects. Therefore, I limited myself to photos of those organisms that were available to my camera. I post only insects. I shot soapbox, so the quality of some photos leaves much to be desired. Don't kick too hard. I would be grateful if you could help me identify the insects.

This post was edited by Evgenich - 07.08.2011 16: 01

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36) Cethosia biblis Drury, 1773
7) Heliophorus ila De Nicéville 1896 (some subspecies)

This post was edited by vasiliy-feoktistov - 07.08.2011 12: 27

2.3 Female Biston suppressaria

N37 - crested Mimopydna ?sikkima (? magna)

12 - Mecopoda sp.

Extension:
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This post was edited by Evgenich - 08/21/2011 18: 36

And the report on the trip to Mongolia in May of this year
is compiled by P. Kosachev (botanist), A. Shalimov (botanist), Vitalya (driver), Artur (my child) and me.
We visited the Gobi-Altai and Kobdo aimags. The success rate is very high - they will be published later and displayed on the site as publications.
Mileage 4,200 km. Estimate of 90 t. p
. photo by P. A. Kosachev.

This post was edited by Yakovlev - 14.08.2011 16: 36

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Report on a trip to Tuva in 2009 25.05-15.06.

"Herel around the clock" is 5!!!

And the report on the trip to Mongolia in May of this year
is compiled by P. Kosachev (botanist), A. Shalimov (botanist), Vitalya (driver), Artur (my child) and me.

Did you put a loaf on your belly?
I respect you.

Visited Bali (Indonesia) from October 4 to 14 of this year. It was a honeymoon trip, so not a particularly big catch. I used to fish with a net. This is the first time I've been to the tropics. Here. Don't judge me harshly









Thanks for your attention!

This post was edited by SergeyB - 10/15/2011 13: 31

Please tell me if heliocopris midas lives in southwestern India, in the Goa region.
Sincerely Vladislav

Please tell me if heliocopris midas lives in southwestern India, in the Goa region.
Sincerely, Vladislav

This will need to be checked

In Goa, it is warm and sunny, you can say hot. Daytime butterflies fly, it is difficult to catch them, but it is possible. The local population looks at catching insects benevolently, but it is not recommended to say that they die completely in the stain - this has a bad effect on karma. I found that beetles more or less decently fly to the light in one place, today I collected several ground beetles of Siagona sp., dung beetles, water lovers and floaters. Tomorrow we will visit there more prepared (this time we took only money and a duty stain). From the moths sucked exhausterom in the hotel a few moths.
I only saw the elephant droppings next to the elephants, I didn't dare approach the elephants - they are very healthy animals, and xs, what is on his mind - he behaves somehow strangely. So the final answer to the question "does heliocopris midas live in southwestern India, in the Goa region" can not yet be given.

This post was edited by Bad Den - 11/12/2011 20: 29

What's the current season? Is it raining?

Be careful with elephants, the beast is really unpredictable. Because of these cattle, we were not allowed to work in the most interesting place at night in Vietnam.

Now it's dry. +33 to +40

In Goa, it is warm and sunny, you can say hot. Daytime butterflies fly, it is difficult to catch them, but it is possible. The local population looks at catching insects benevolently, but it is not recommended to say that they die completely in the stain - this has a bad effect on karma. I found that beetles more or less decently fly to the light in one place, today I collected several ground beetles Siagons sp., dung beetles, water lovers and floaters. Tomorrow we will visit there more prepared (this time we took only money and a duty stain). From the moths sucked exhausterom in the hotel a few moths.
I only saw the elephant droppings next to the elephants, I didn't dare approach the elephants - they are very healthy animals, and xs, what is on his mind - he behaves somehow strangely. So the final answer to the question "does heliocopris midas live in southwestern India, in the Goa region" can not yet be given.

Catch butterflies closer to the beach (see the bushes 200 meters from the sea) or go to the Ghats. For port wine with papaya, ground beetles go right on the hotel balcony
. Tell the locals what's for the photo!!!!

This post was edited by swerig - 12.11.2011 20: 19

A short report on a trip to Goa (India)
We went with my wife, were there from 10 to 17 November this year. We stayed in a hotel «Resort Rio».
Initially, we planned to go to Thailand, Koh Samui or Phuket. But shortly before the planned departure, Bangkok began to flood and there were panic fears among relatives that everything would be washed away with all the islands. Therefore, we urgently had to change our plans.
My wife wanted to see the ocean, and I, if possible, to catch six-legged animals, well, so as not to be expensive. The Caribbean islands fell away because of the high cost, Sri Lanka-because of strict prohibitions on fishing for anything. The remaining option is Goa. I started reading about this place on the Internet. Some write: GOA (just like that, through caps) is paradise, on other sites – about all sorts of horrors and what the main thing is that things are not lost. Special thanks to swerig for his help in finding a tour and many practical tips about the local environment.
After landing at Dabolim Airport and passing through all the entry formalities, we drove to the hotel. Along the way, I looked out for dragonflies and butterflies flying over the road, read signs with poems on road signs (there were funny ones, such as" Drive carefully, there is no spare life "or"Don't drive like hell, put on a helmet"). I counted about a dozen species of butterflies, then lost my way. Having checked into the hotel, we realized that today "they won't let us eat here", so we moved to the nearest beach (Baga Beach) in search of a catering establishment and look around. The lawns on the hotel grounds were regularly watered and in this regard, life there was full of life-butterflies flew, bedbugs crawled. With difficulty restraining himself, he did not snatch the net and start fishing right from the main entrance, but limited himself to photographing.
It was dark when we returned from the beach, so it was possible to assess the intensity of summer in the light. Street lamps (outside of populated areas, on non-main roads and just paths), very rare, were long fluorescent lamps that illuminated a small area and apparently with a low level of radiation in the UV range, since there were very few insects hovering around them, even butterflies (including microbes) were practically absent.
The main preparations for the light were made in a cafe on the outskirts of Baga, where even some beetles flew. Moreover, the bulk of insects arriving at the light are all sorts of cicadas and small bedbugs.
During the "excursion" (in quotation marks, just took a taxi and went there-for economic reasons) to the spice plantation in the vicinity of Ponda, it was suggested to ride an elephant + take an elephant trunk shower. The elephant, which turned out to be a male in a very excited state, stood next to his litter and did not inspire confidence. Therefore, I examined the litter from afar, nothing large was crawling on it, and I decided not to go any closer (this is to the question of Heliocopris).
My wife and I chose to visit Arambol Beach (about 23 km from the hotel), we got there on a rented scooter, so the main fees are made on this beach.
The locals either didn't pay attention to the fact that I was swinging the net through the bushes, or they were interested in whether this net was used for fishing. In the aforementioned cafe, they asked if the insects I put in a closed plastic container would die. On the last day, one couple from Russia, after watching me, made a verdict – this is how they collect "pollen" (I mowed the bushes on the path to the Arambolskaya landmark-Banyan tree, under which a local authoritative Rastafarian meditates in clouds of hemp smoke, and then teaches wisdom to everyone who came to him).

List of collection points: http://g.co/maps/ukq8b
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Isn't that the elephant???

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Isn't that the elephant???

No, the one with normal tusks was

What kind of butterflies did I take a picture of, by the way?

This post was edited by Bad Den - 11/23/2011 00: 07

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in my opinion Eurema hecabe____446.jpg
Junonia atlites
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hard to see, but judging by the tails of Jamides celeno or Lampides boeticus

123.JPG -APPARENTLY KINGFISHER

123.JPG " probably Kingfisher  

The glass is half full!!!

Shells No. 258 - Conidae / Olividae. In conchology, I'm a big fan, especially since it looks like the individuals are juvenile.

A short report on a trip to Goa (India)
Next, photos of mattresses (all of them) well, just a photo (if someone can tell me more specific names of "sea reptiles", I will be grateful ):

artificial dustpan on the mattress - Eublemma anachoresis

Cambodia 2012

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Cambodia 2012

Did I ask you about the beetles?"

I've only seen it this way.

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