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pofluzhu chuut-slightly...We have all sorts of anomalies... I thought, " who is flying at great speed, and even opaque, unlike a dragonfly?" The "it" flew near the lilac tree, but then abruptly and very quickly flew in front of me, and then dived straight into the net. I couldn't believe my eyes... the" it " was there.. bedstraw hawk moth!! Unfortunately, it was very shabby, but I was amazed at ...
The catalogue search parameters now presented as toggle buttons which are apparently handier to use than former oversized drop-down lists. If anyone of you notice anything works better/worse, please comment right here or e-mail me.
Colleagues who live in Moscow, I would like to ask you for help. When applying for a research grant from the Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation (RGNF), it turned out that the period between registering the electronic version of the application on the RGNF website and providing the printed version is 1 week. We have registered the application, but I'm afraid that our mail may not be ready in ...
Senior Supporter Officer for Butterfly Conservation, Dorset Butterfly Conservation’s Head Office in Dorset (UK) has an opening for a Senior Supporter Officer. Butterfly Conservation is a leading wildlife charity working to conserve butterflies, moths and our environment. We have ambitious plans to significantly increase our supporter base as part of our vision for the future. We wish to ...
The feed plant (not on the photo) is Galinsoga ciliata, http://www.plantarium.ru/page/view/item/16915.html.
In Cumberland House Natural History Museum things go normally just as butterflies keep emerging from their cocoons. This process will last May to September in the museum butterfly house where a permanent high temperature kept. Other museum joys also include lectures on a local wildlife, Portsmouth riverbank dwellers, swamps, forests and urban areas. Aqua-ists will be happy to know more about ...
Hi! Grasshoppers will squeeze in here =) From Koktebel photo, especially interesting endemics are anadrimadusa Retovsky and kustolyubka Pontius.Anadrymadusa retowskiiThe second photo shows a female predimago and a smaller male larva. They were rarely found singly, only on stone slopes with sparse vegetation.Another interesting find is Pholidoptera pontica or Ph. pustupioles.These species live ...
Moths, like many other insects, are led by smells when they seek for food, egg-laying site and, certainly, a mate. University of Utah recent research reveals how moth males prepare themselves to take a flight towards females that effuse pheromones. Biologists arranged an olfactory experience in the course of which they blew pheromones about, so the treated moths would begin warming up their ...