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+1 Thank you for the photos!

Praying mantis-Choeradodis sp.

+1 Thank you for the photos!
Mantis-Choeradodis sp.

I join in the acknowledgements!
The praying mantis, to be more precise - C. servillei Wood-Mason, 1880

In continuation of the Colombian theme, I post mattresses with trophies.

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Roma, put out a camouflaged grasshopper-drug dealer)))) People will be interested.

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Of course, this is only a small part of what was found in Colombia. In total, seven containers were brought to Moscow, four of them from the Chief of Staff. And there are boxed copies. Everything will clear up after spreading the insects.
In general, it is a great miracle that the material was not taken away at all at the border, because the hand luggage was checked twice, and the luggage packed in polyethylene, we, in Sheremetyevo, received opened and clearly checked. Why the Colombian Customs officers didn't slam us on the spot will remain a mystery to me. They probably didn't have idiots transporting insects in containers in their lives , even though the Colombian law says "plant and animal products"in black and white.

In continuation of the Colombian theme, I post mattresses with trophies.

Sorry for the butterflies

Eh .. butterflies are a pity

"Sorry for the bee" You need to understand people

Eh .. butterflies are a pity

And don't just tell me, sadyugi, how you can treat poor little unfortunate insects who are not guilty of anything

Roman, this is simply indescribable! Gorgeous butterflies! Are you planning to sell?

This time I left my MARKovka at home. I was afraid that my legs would do it. All photos are made with an advanced soap box.
I suggest creating a new topic - a report on a photo hunt, then all the insects will remain alive, and there will be no one to regret.
Polyspornikovy grasshopper from Nats.Tatama National Park, Colombia.

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Provocative statements - that it's a pity for someone on mattresses-have no place in the topic about reports!!!I am grateful to the people who travel, catch,photograph, show and tell us about insects and the nature of other countries.The material will end up in the collections of different people and will delight the eyes and hearts of connoisseurs for many years to come!!!

This post was edited by Maksim M.-03.04.2012 21: 16

Polyspornikovy grasshopper from Nats.Tatama National Park, Colombia.

Markia sp.

Gorokhov will return from the expedition - I will show you a photo, M. B. will say up to the view. If the view is not new, of course.

Just published for similar groups
http://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vo..._1_Gorochov.pdf

This post was edited by Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg - 03.04.2012 21: 36

Photos of the outgoing week . A NASA satellite has taken new high-resolution photos of the Earth. It turned out a detailed image of the night planet with glowing lights of cities, roads, ships, and even I could see a small glowing dot in Ecuador ( I marked it on the photo). Most likely, it was our Uncle Vitya who put up the screen. Eh, while I'm here, and my soul is certainly with him. We wish him good luck and a good night .

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Hello, colleagues, amigos, amigos and boludos!)
Download photos while there is no cord. I spent the whole 2 months in Argentina - I am very happy. I brought 2 boxes of mattresses, and one and a half boxes of impaled flies. On the way, at the night bus stop, I stuffed another 50ml test tube of beetles in 10 minutes.))
Our customs authorities are now more strict with arrivals from most countries of South America - there is a flow of contraband useful products. Argentina-while apparently not so tough, just a little delayed and went further. Expensive country-Brazil and Peru are considered more expensive. They recommend cheap Bolivia, and I liked the neighboring wet forest in the north of the country better than the semi-deserts and mountain forests along Chile (but I didn't go south of bariloche), but in each place I found something special, except that it was a matter of quantity. Often the mattress was filled with beetles and eardrums in 2 days, and the butterflies were made by a friend. But there were sooo few moths, but beetles and bedbugs were normal. Except that all over the traveled land - a poor variety of species and 3 northern points often flew with the same species of crunches and ground beetles. Gas stations look particularly satisfying, but it is doubtful to catch them openly - police officers and drivers are teeming with them, and although they don't care - who knows why Argentina tightened control over collectors - illegal.
The life of people makes an ambiguous impression - everyone says-Bueno! - good and give a thumbs up in any situation. youth policy approved. many travel companies with backpacks, many artists and informals from neighboring countries. Simple Spanish people are very fond of picnics, they come with chairs and food, sit for 2-3-5 hours and instantly disappear-they gather very quickly)) Every second aunt has children on her hands or by the hand, and a thick ass (total meat eating affects, apparently, the variety of food in stores is minimal). but there is a lot of discussion about what is expensive and cheap-mostly (and when they talk about water, it's funny to listen - "lyayagva") But!! - the most frequent inscription everywhere is prohibido, for example, near the mountain-free, but all(!!!!) the country along the roads is fenced and says "propriedad privado, prohibido pasar" - do not pass. Everything is fenced! even empty desert areas. But you can also climb) Except along the berezhok rivers, and even then often close to the water, and it seems that all interesting natural places are private or state reserves. We traveled by bus and lived on campsites (hotels and car rental are unrealistically expensive, And from Buenos Aires to go for example to Salta by bus about 150 pupaars, but intercity buses are everywhere and at any time, and local commuter buses are fortunately inexpensive), so I did not appreciate the abundance of waterfalls, lakes and other things, but there were enough insects on any outskirts, - I was delayed every day)) Ку!

Hello, colleagues, amigos, amigos and boludos!)
Download photos while there is no cord.

Traditionally, photos of mass graves are expected. I mean, mattresses.

So, I'll start with a messy report on Argentina.

life is difficult there...Dog meat as much as 6 am. pupaars...

as you can see, the bull does not contain a dog... Although Khvostenko sang " inside the dog is emptiness, inside the cow is horror and darkness..."

but with the help of some red and white (there are +1 photos) mushrooms, the nations live together

they live happily ever after

and creatively, here are the traces of their vital activity:






what is bika - I do not know, that is, I do not believe that it is just some kind of coffee...

everything is hard done by agriculture, and you can't get to the mountains through private territories...

while I think about what to show next, you can look at pennies


This post was edited by CosMosk-02.03.2013 14: 13

CONTINUED READING!!!!!!????!!!!!

to CosMosk: GRAFFITI!!!!

Argentina, the state of Neuquen - actually it is huge, ruta de siete Lagos-the road of seven lakes, along the mountains, between San Martin de losAndes (the beach in the first photo is right next to the bus station) and Bariloche. We didn't get to Bbariloche - and so the commertion was flooded, and there everything is well-known transport.node, border crossing, resorts... On this road, of course, it would be good to use your own car to stop where it is not enough. But there are not enough places for overnight stays - there are several goodies and campsites.








It reminds us of our Caucasian forest. Lilies, digitalis like in the country, bamboo...
On the branches in some places lies 10 centimeters of soil, resembling dry loose cement-what kind of weather are there?! - inflates eroding mountains...
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This post was edited by CosMosk-04.03.2013 01: 24

Alyumine, Neuquen State (upper S-W corner), Alyumine is a wonderful place))
There, too, aluminum satirids flew like a piece of foil spinning in the wind....


- here is the slope, the desert, oozing water, around intrazonal soft grass and weeds, who would have half thought that there are crayfish here!?)) -





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This post was edited by CosMosk-04.03.2013 01: 22

Neuquen itself is on the eastern border of its state, the bus station is good! I took a city bus there, drove to the village-town of Cinco Saltos (and you are already in the state of Rio Negro), and from there took a minibus to Lago Pellegrini - and found myself in a lake resort with free camping-socket, shower, roof, hearth. And if you get off early before reaching the resort - then a beautiful desert used for a landfill. The season was already a little empty, but there were still 4 types of goldenrods, pepsins, single and various bees. Acacia unrecorded variety!







Gauchito Gil is an uncanonized folk saint. There are a lot of roadside flags, but this is one of the largest chapels.
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This post was edited by CosMosk-04.03.2013 01: 51

The state of Mendoza, from Mendoza itself also by commuter bus - to Potrerisos-where we were told there is the nearest campsite. And, here, the situation is-in any city, at the bus station or nearby, there is an Informacia turistica booth - they give free maps, answer questions, although not everyone knows about campsites and how much... Camping was expensive, and the area was a bit empty. I was only pleased with the spring riders with purple breasts, and flowering bushes on which there were plenty of different bees, wasps, swallowtails (these were not caught at once)...

normally, the valley is flooded - the poplar grove has dried up...






mimicry of a grasshopper under pompilida-pepsin


You can see a mountain in the snow - Aconcagua - the highest in South (and maybe north) America. I don't know what it is, but it's here somewhere )))


This post was edited by CosMosk-04.03.2013 01: 50

Registration in Kazakhstan was canceled from the beginning of June 2012, if you go for a period of no more than a month. I was pleasantly surprised when passing through customs...

strange - I went in August 2012 in the northern territory - from Saratov to Orenburg through Kazakhstan-the border guards gave information that you can 5 days without registration. But I went to Aralsk earlier-yes, as described - there were no problems with registration, you can grab a surprise for them in the office as a souvenir - they are like this, but even without it, there probably won't be any problems))

ладно,надо продолжать отчёт про аргентину, а то так и останется в ненаписанных архивах....

>>>background music<<<
Пропускаю точку Андино в штате Санта-Фе, т.к. там едва удалось найти обочину у реки, среди пестицидных сельхоз-полей, и фото нету интересных - одни цветочки.

- Перейду сразу к провинции Корриентес - деревня Риачуело рядом с городом, на реке Песоа. Близость города не чувствуется, вокруг тоже фермы, покоцанные переслески, заборы, но кэмпинг хорош - ночами безлюден и освещён, недорог и с хорошим лётом жуков в конце декабря.






вот обычный дневной улов:


а вот улов другого дня, крупняк и мелочь отдельно:



а вот жирные ночные конкуренты:



Сообщение было отредактировано CosMosk - 10.03.2013 20:48

Аргентина, Корриентес - продолжение:




а вот тут рядом песочек, где и были собраны все крупные скакуны-феоксанты...




ну и хватит здесь....

И конечно, меня очень тянуло поближе к экватору в сельву - в аппендикс в Пуэрто Игуасу (хотя лучше бы сразу ехали в Сальту и Ху*** [да-да, вы правильно подумали, как подумал и бот молбиола], Но на будущее-ловить вероятно лучше сразу в ХХй, а может и транзитом в Боливию,если цены самолётом туда дороже долл.на300 - потратить на автобус в Аргентине и переход границы.)


До Пто.Игуасу прямо вверх по карте ехать от Посадаса - начала аппендикса Аргентины. Думается на будущее вокруг Посадаса тоже можно хорошо задержаться, культурно, съездить юго-восточнее к побережью в НПарки болот, подобных Пантаналю. Но мы ехали прямиком дальше и с аррива-семикама мест в автобусе, видели как ландшафт становился холмистым, реки без берегов, полудачный сельский антропоген на все лады, но скорее бедноватый, территории корпораций. Густели деревья, и хотя многое вдоль шоссе вторично, много посадок сосны, но проезжали и заметные участки великолепного леса, который бы назвал сельвой.

Первый день и вечер провели в попытке найти приемлимый по цене отель-гестахуз. ((Облом.... Туризмо Дик!)) Заночевали у автострады, и это в Аргентине приемлимо.

а вот болото рядом с палаткой, куда не добрались газонокосильщики:


Разумееется, было ради чего ехать в Игуасу. Эх, уйти лубоко в лес до реки не удалось - уйти дальше опушки ну никак не получалось - насекомые!!! Одной рукой грибёшь, другой прихватываешь, а глаз уже следующих примечает...
А с проживанием - была даже попытка устроиться и у индейцев в деревне, зацепились и пошли, вроде поняв друг друга, за подошедшего поздороваться к газонокосильщикам индейца, спокойного внимательного еврокостюмированного.
Но в разбросанной на местности деревеньке, не так чтобы далеко от шоссе, но у многодетной лачуги, подруга что-то застремалась, да и дожди там немного портили феньшуй - красная глина не отмывалась даже от полэтилена...
В итоге, удалось найти частный кэмпинг-огород всего за 4 доллара, конечно же с такими же пробивными и приятнейшим хипарями-путешественниками))) Если кто поедет - могу дать адрес, а ориентриовочно - на тихой крутой улочке, в самом СВ углу междуречья Игуасу,немного выше, чем крайняя улица поворачивает на ЮВ, частный палаточный кэмпинг ЛяМодиста:

до мест лова было всего минут 30-40 пешком...




ну а вот вид сразу на 3 государства из Пто.Игуасу с улицы 3х границ:


Сообщение было отредактировано CosMosk - 23.04.2013 06:23

The next point of our program was to have more nature and get away from such commercial centers as Iguazu... We drove 40 km to the VET.Libertad, on the reservoir and at night by touch found free municipal camping-water, shower, socket, roof over the hearth.


this spillway from the reservoir is nearby, it's probably a pity that they didn't get there...


A lifeless pine island with man-made depressed surroundings. But in the copse - nicho, the same morphids as in Iguazu...
nice green stuff, but no shit here!!!:

So, the last thing I can't scrap: Argentina, near Salta,
by mid-February.

In Salta itself grow baobabs (this flower, where there were bronzes) and much more, but nowhere else-a lot of police, and peaceful Indians. Women are cute! In general, the graffiti from the first post and the rest is all from Salta.
You can go to La Caldera, where we did not reach, having reached only the Caldera River, and in general, I was satisfied, although it was only a river floodplain, a roadside prom.garbage dumps and a forest belt (of course, the forest belt is the most interesting).






we also visited a couple of random points-where a random bus brought us, and although it was depressing - but for good reason, these zlatki, for example, came from an agro-wasteland.


But more specifically, you need to go to the suburbs of San Lorenzo-a private reserve-wet selva, apparently the confluence of the microclimate is such that there it is,but nowhere else, or, if there is, then it is inaccessible (as I already wrote - everywhere there is a total deflection of privado, and the lack of personal transport). In general, in this reserve, we secretly had fun several times, even with yellow plates. Here is such a place, an extreme bastion of commerce:

Beauty, not a report!

Total: Argentina, ticket for 2 months - 37 thousand rubles (visa is given without any fees for 3 months at once), living in the cheapest campsites with cooking with a boiling pot and a fire with supermarket products is the most inexpensive option. With transfers by bus (anyhow, where without preliminary plans and information), which are quite expensive, and inexpensive psychedelic bonuses (wine and tobacco) - all about still 45 thousand rubles. For two people.of course, it turns out less than it could have been. The amount of matrial is considerable, without special collection methods. Bonus - the inevitable in this country learned the basics of Spanish. And, once again, I am convinced that in this galaxy, for a match, everything can be obtained and resolved... In our country, it seems that everything is not so simple, although even if you have a language that just might lead you wrong. Do you have any sponsored travel partners?


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This post was edited by CosMosk - 10.03.2013 20: 58

CosMosk, after your reports from the view of the local nature, you get depressed for a long time!

Thank you very much!

Kostya, thank you

Don't worry my soul, fiddle-now I want a green hawk moth, a green bee, and giant fillies.
And then there's that black monster with spikes on its legs (haymaker?).


barko, I'm a little jealous - we have a minus 10 frost at night. In the kitchen, in a pot with a flower and country soil, the weevils woke up, and they had nowhere to fly. Poor devils.

This post was edited by Transilvania - 10.03.2013 23: 05

And my imagination was shaken by a grasshopper mowing under a wasp-pepsina.

And my imagination was shaken by a grasshopper mowing under a wasp-pepsina.

By the way, I can't help but wonder how widespread mimicry under the OS is in South America. A bunch of blacksmiths, cockroaches, just a few weeks ago found a mantis like this. I wonder why there is no such thing in the Old World?..

There are glass cases) In general, apparently, just because there are no such outstanding oss.

Yes, it seems that mimicry under the os is generally widespread, and even in our region, too
Generally Yu. America is better at ensuring the dynamism of development and the emergence of new forms, and there the diversity seems to be the greatest compared to Africa, Asia, Australia and the islands combined)