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However, this is the Genus Dendrolimus (Germar, 1812)Alexandr88, please rename the topic name and edit the title post: correct spelling of the title is a serious thing!And after that: there is no such species as Dendrolimus sibiricus, but there is a subspecies of silkworm Dendrolimus superans (Butler, 1877) ssp. sibiricus Tschetverikov, 1908.This post was edited by vasiliy-feoktistov - 12.07.2012 ...
Recent days I saw such one about 10—11 in the evening in Moscow region, Solnechnogorsky district, Andreevka village. It was flying over phloxes.
A number of species of woodlice (Ceratopogonidae) from the genera Atrichopogon and Forcipomyia (maybe some others) feed on the hemolymph of soft-coated insects. Your animal is just one of the ceratopogonids, but you can't tell from the photo.Thank you very much!
Supposedly, the smallest moth in the world is now at Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis. The other day senior museum scientist Steve Heydon was sorting insects collected during his expedition to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2006, and he suddenly spotted a tiny moth of about 1mm length just as the dot size at the end of this paragraph. Heydon says that this ...
Now you may search species in the Catalogue by families and any other taxon as well, beginning from genus and higher. In case if you choose both family and random taxon using auto-suggestions, the latter will be preferred as to the search results, whilst family ignored. Hooray! Now Satyrinae that systematized on the website as a subfamily, can be chosen separately from Nymphalidae family. Now ...
I've just moved all four, it would be great though to make it possible to identify all at once if it's such a group. However, soon there will be a feature connecting photos of one species.
Yes, this is the same specimen, or even species. I play with angles after the main ones are done :--)
Standard tip: Check your food inventory. There is a forgotten bag of cereals/dried fruits somewhere, and there zoophobas breed. They can also fly in/crawl in from the outside.
The British company Oxitec “updated” diamondback moths (Plutella xylostella) by sterilizing males to reduce crop loss. Oxitec researchers made genetically modified sterile males which are to mate with non-laboratory, “wild” females of the same species. Due to this modification, females of the next brood don't survive to adult stage. The company press-release reads that this is just ...