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At the initiative of Nizhny Novgorod (and not only) comrades, signatures are collected under an open letter on the rules for handling grass cover and leaf litter in Russia. Before signing (or not signing) — I recommend that you read the full ...
At the initiative of Nizhny Novgorod (and not only) comrades, signatures are collected under an open letter on the rules for handling grass cover and ...
If you are somewhat tired and/or bored of online: For those tired of surfing online: an entomological seminar will be held on November 13 at 6 p.m. The speaker, Maxim Markhasev, will talk about the butterflies of the genus Parnassius of the ...
Photos from the last workshop:
Click an image to enlarge it. Last week, an insect fair was held in Japan The organizers of the event kindly asked not to take pictures or publish photos from the exhibition, and we respect the organizers — so, alas, the article will be short ...
Click an image to enlarge it. Last week, an insect fair was held in Japan The organizers of the event kindly asked not to take pictures or publish ...
Click an image to enlarge it.And once more time: "Reptilium" in MoscowWe have to relish some former industrial zone to get access to itBut there are some fun animals insideAnd some not-so-funny snakesThere are mice (protein-rich food for the ...
Click an image to enlarge it.And once more time: "Reptilium" in MoscowWe have to relish some former industrial zone to get access to itBut there are ...
A nice video from 2004 with Oleg Gorbunov and Vladimir Murzin visiting Alexander Gordon. It's nice to see respected people 20 years ago, even if the TV show was so-so: the guests could not make a clear story on the topic, and the show presenter ...
A nice video from 2004 with Oleg Gorbunov and Vladimir Murzin visiting Alexander Gordon. It's nice to see respected people 20 years ago, even if the ...
And yes! An entomological exhibition is taking place in Kotelnich too. And where is Kotelnich situated? Kotelnich is situated on the confluence of the two great Russian rivers — The Volga and The Oka. If fact, it's not. This one was about Nighny ...
And yes! An entomological exhibition is taking place in Kotelnich too. And where is Kotelnich situated? Kotelnich is situated on the confluence of ...
One of the foreign non-specialized websites has interesting material on the topic of what a professional entomologist does, is he afraid of insects or not, is he obliged to has at least a bachelor's degree or is there is enough forestry technical ...
One of the foreign non-specialized websites has interesting material on the topic of what a professional entomologist does, is he afraid of insects ...
February is a month of no travel. But for the brave ones, there is the right direction — Kotlas. An exhibition dedicated to insects has recently opened in Kotlas museum. There is a selection of specimens of insects of the region, macrophotos of ...
February is a month of no travel. But for the brave ones, there is the right direction — Kotlas. An exhibition dedicated to insects has recently ...
The "Russia 24 Nizhny Novgorod" TV channel in the "Breakfast with" TV show introduced an interview with Alexander Zatakovoy, a man who is seriously infected by entomology, but not only that! Of the videos that can be shared on our website, only ...
The "Russia 24 Nizhny Novgorod" TV channel in the "Breakfast with" TV show introduced an interview with Alexander Zatakovoy, a man who is seriously ...
There are proposals to correct existing taxa names of living organisms in order to change "inappropriate". For example, names of "controversial" persons, as well as words that can offend adherents of certain religions or speakers of certain ...
There are proposals to correct existing taxa names of living organisms in order to change "inappropriate". For example, names of "controversial" ...
Click an image to enlarge it. Last weekend we had pleasure to take part in the Moscow Insect Fair and Exhibition (and yes, it was 20th anniversary of such events in the Russian capital)…There were a lot of Lepidopterans, as it always has ...
Great report!
Yandex Maps analysts kindly shared with us the results of their study on frequency of animalistic names of Russian streets. We were shared the extended results for insect’s streets names. Below is the list of mosquito (mosquitos obviously are the ...
Yandex Maps analysts kindly shared with us the results of their study on frequency of animalistic names of Russian streets. We were shared the ...
Austrian researchers found out that wings of the Great Orange Tip (@@Hebomoia glaucippe@@), an Asian butterfly of the Pieridae family, contain venom. It appears that its white wings beautifully designed with contrast red-orange are not meant only ...
Yvonne Esquilin saw Jesus image on @@Eacles imperialis@@'s back. The moth was resting on Yvonne's home in Georgetown, Texas, where she found it last week. “At first it looked like Jesus,” said Esquilin. “And I still think it looks ...
Holy crap! Diagnosis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
In 1997 an English alternative rock band The Verve released their best album “Urban Hymns” noted for the legendary song Bitter Sweet Symphony that became a worldwide hit and one of the greatest rock songs of all time. Another piece from this ...
The whole album is great! I must have played it a thousand times over.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation said that it has been unable to wipe out the @@Tuta absoluta@@ moth that was discovered late last year. As reported, the moth destroyed 90% of tomato crops in Yemen bringing losses about $350 ...
Peter! In garden stores, they also don't sell such things :) And if you watch/listen to the ad ...
Don't have a hundred friends, but have… a hundred ants nearby, so judged the Peruvian draughtsmen-cunning, deceiving the local ants. As scientists at Rice University, USA, found out, the caterpillars of the Adelotypa annulifera ...
Don't have a hundred friends, but have… a hundred ants nearby, so judged the Peruvian draughtsmen-cunning, deceiving the local ants. As ...
Meanwhile, in Nizhny Novgorod, Korney Chukovsky is remembered: residents of the Leninsky district complain about cockroaches that have bred in the district. Someone, like resident Olga, before appearing in her apartment, saw them only in the ...
Meanwhile, in Nizhny Novgorod, Korney Chukovsky is remembered: residents of the Leninsky district complain about cockroaches that have bred in ...
The Euro 2016 final held in the French city of Saint-Denis was marked not only by the long absence of the championship and the first goal, which was so eagerly awaited by all the fans and sympathizers, but also by the annoying flickering of ...
Not presumably, but there are scoops )) The photo shows the "Metalloid gamma" Autographa gamma. The species is a well-known gregarious migrant. ...
In Tyumen, where they are now suffering from a massive invasion of silkworms, the city quest "Find a butterfly"is coming to an end. The task is to take as many joint photos as possible with butterflies that appear daily in different places of the ...
In Tyumen, where they are now suffering from a massive invasion of silkworms, the city quest "Find a butterfly"is coming to an end. The task is to ...
The world-famous Taj Mahal mausoleum suffers from insects that leave excrement on the marble walls of the mosque. Chironomids Chironomus calligraphus leave black and green spots on the building's patterns, which turn a magnificent white ...
The world-famous Taj Mahal mausoleum suffers from insects that leave excrement on the marble walls of the mosque. Chironomids Chironomus ...
Stuart Curtis, 38-year-old father of three children of Carlisle, UK, was very surprised to find a live moth flying inside a sealed bag of spinach. “I went into Sainsbury’s on Tuesday to stock up after the bank holiday,” Curtis told the ...
All very simple - do not notice in the sample of the cocoon (chrysalis), and then the larva, somewhere inside bundles of spinach, from which, after ...
To meet the declining Californian butterfly @@Euphydryas editha bayensis@@, or rather its pupa, you should put yourself to Edgewood Park natural preserve in Northern California, turn your back to the sun and peer at the ground under your shadow. ...
Thank you for the tip-off, we will check.
How to say “butterfly” in !Xu bushman language or in Indian telugu? Easy. Just remember that Sorbian-Lower “mjatel” turns into “mjetel” when it's Sorbian-Upper, Cheyenne “hevavahkema” sounds quite different from Cornish tykki-Dyw, ...
People almost every day on this article walks (upon request). And the more because of the hill (at En version) ...
Japanese flautist Youkie Ota of the Odense Symphony Orchestra, Denmark, was honoured with a... butterfly that perched right upon the flautist's nose during an international flute competition. Pierre Sancan genuine fan? The butterfly fluttered ...
Papilionidae do differ :))) Say, Attacus atlas.........
The hero of the day stayed for 48 hours in the ear of a 43-year-old Brit from Aylesbury, UK. Now it “oscares” on a bookshelf at the poor man's home. As BBC reports, Robert Fielding inadvertently pushed the moth deep into his ear canal ...
Yeah, almost 6 cm. In scope :)
The unique Yew-and-Boxwood Tree Grove in Sochi, Russia, is having a bad time as nearly all local boxwood trees (Buxus colchica) were destroyed by @@Cydalima perspectalis@@ larvae which feed on boxwood tree leaves. The moth was supposedly brought ...
Sorry for off-top, I'm still mainly Coleoptera man :) Insects happen to change behaviour in new area. Just an example. There was peaceful ordinary ...
This pic caused a great interest: excuse me, what is this? This terrific infernal thing outthrusting of a poor moth? Not the first come to mind. This is called coremata (Greek) which is originally means “feather duster”, an eversible scent ...
Sorry, that if you delete a comment that overwhelmed impression - a stunning discovery !!! In this article, I received answers to questions long been ...
Dutch photographer Johan J.Ingles-Le Nobel makes stunning macro photos of insects and more like this wonderful picture of the Blue Emperor swallowtail @@Papilio ulysses@@ wing shot at 20:1. For those who are curious about technical side, there are ...
Johan, thanks for your comment! Fixed.
Biologists wondered a lot why sloths known for their extraordinary inactivity came off trees... for a toilet procedures. Whilst these mysterious critters are evidently in more safe when staying atop rather then being down on the forest floor, ...
Biologists wondered a lot why sloths known for their extraordinary inactivity came off trees... for a toilet procedures. Whilst these mysterious ...
The Saint-Petersburg Ecology and Biology Centre “Krestovsky Island” bestows Alexey Kupriyanov Entomology Club that offers entomology classes for juniors and seniors. Alexey Kupriyanov graduated from the Saint Petersburg State University, the ...
The Saint-Petersburg Ecology and Biology Centre “Krestovsky Island” bestows Alexey Kupriyanov Entomology Club that offers entomology classes ...
Yet the summer getaway turns out to be the real deal. Whilst I'm peacefully chilling alone in a palm tree, gazing around, sipping something... appropriate, seeing no butterflies at all, local palm TV is playing all time classics The Cranberries ...
Yes, but at that moment someone reads aloud: I love you with palm sdunu, So as not to damage the pollen. Fly over the dune. Summer is coming to ...
Once our good twitter friend, entomologist Daniel Llavaneras (https://twitter.com/dllavaneras), came back from the expedition in the Andes and placed his Lepidoptera trophies, a dozen specimens inside an exicator, or simply relaxing chamber. Time ...
My advice to Daniel: always put some ethyl acetate on the exicator bottom, or as our Soviet school textbooks said, “Put a few crystals of thymol or ...
In April this year, a small group (my friend and fellow Thai) traveled to the north-east Thailand. We have an interest in the region plant Hoya (Hoya) and we were curious to see them in their natural habitat, and generally interesting all ...
Mota into their heads.
Wisconsin forestry officials appealed to people for help in fight against gypsy moth @@Lymantria dispar@@. People are asked to seek for and destroy gypsy moth eggs as the pest is awaited to start hatching over the next few weeks, according to the ...
Videos added. Animals feel anxious:)
Found on the web: a brief theological debate on never-ending “If we will get wings THERE (after death)?” The right one answers “I say, no any wings! You're just dying and that's all!..”
Cool!
ZooKeys 289 (2013) issue features the descriptions of two new moth species of the genus Ypsolopha from the Russian Far East. The authors of the study are Margarita Ponomarenko and Yuliya N. Zinchenko, Institute of Biology and Soil Science FEB ...
ZooKeys 289 (2013) issue features the descriptions of two new moth species of the genus Ypsolopha from the Russian Far East. The authors of the ...
United States Postal Service released a new spring stamp for big envelopes featuring spicebush swallowtail @@Papilio troilus@@. This is the third in a butterfly series that includes monarch @@Danaus plexippus@@ and Baltimore checkerspot ...
United States Postal Service released a new spring stamp for big envelopes featuring spicebush swallowtail Papilio troilus. This is the third in a ...
Years ago the Moscow publishing house “Izobrazitelnoye iskusstvo” brought out a series of butterfly-themed postcards in cooperation with artist Leonid Varsanofievich Aristov. Aristov is originally from Karpunikha village, Gorkov (now Nizhny ...
Uh-huh, thanks.
...thought the painted lady and headed right to Bolshaya Pokrovskaya street in Nizhny Novgorod. Where it was caught red-handed, naturally. Butterflies flew to Nizhny Novgorod (in Russian)
No biggies, won't take long. Month ago I already caught something, just one month to go.
The Committee on Rare and Endangered Wildlife Species of the Khabarovsk region advised that the next three relict species would be put on the Khabarovsk Red List — @@Sphecodina caudata@@, @@Shijimiaeoides divina@@ and @@Protohermes martynovae@@, ...
Marten reigns.
This Bannerghatta Butterfly Park is indeed a sinister site. Whilst the staff's cutting down attacking pterodactyls, this spider is just peacefully eating a butterfly, allegedly Red Pierrot, though it looks a bit different. Is the poor thing really ...
Vasily, thanks. So do I see this underside is not one of a red pierrot.
Hilarious video of the couple versus critter. The wife won, as you do. The critter is stunning too.
Thanks. The English version plays good. If put off all the damns, Mexico's heard. Will dig that further.
Buff-tip (@@Phalera bucephala@@) moth camouflaged as a broken twig, via @RiverExplorerUK, http://twitter.com/RiverExplorerUK/status/311415344566775808.
Buff-tip (Phalera bucephala) moth camouflaged as a broken twig, via @RiverExplorerUK, ...
The country's first butterfly park spread over 7.5 acres in Bannerghatta National Park, Bangalore, India, is a sweet home for 20 butterfly species, which are in thorough care there. Birds, on the contrary, are not quite welcome guests even as much ...
The country's first butterfly park spread over 7.5 acres in Bannerghatta National Park, Bangalore, India, is a sweet home for 20 butterfly species, ...
Luggages do vary and may include lot of things unimaginable to be carried — immense sofas, medieval marble mortars, even fireplace in its whole, not to forget insects... some of which yet happen to be forgotten to register, and turns out not ...
Luggages do vary and may include lot of things unimaginable to be carried — immense sofas, medieval marble mortars, even fireplace in its ...
Painted ladies, yellow admirals and monarchs sound kind of comic opera characters, yet the reality is way simpler. These are the common names of some of the butterflies of Ash Island in the abundant in wildlife estuary of the Hunter River, ...
Frankly I've got nothing against David Carter or Vanessa cardui:) Still it's not about being precise in naming the species, but the wordplay. The ...
The Moth's Eye is a new approach by Japanese manufacturer Asahi Glass Co., world's largest flat glass producing company. The strategy is based on the structure of the moth's eye, which is known to have no troubles with sun glares and reflections. ...
The Moth's Eye is a new approach by Japanese manufacturer Asahi Glass Co., world's largest flat glass producing company. The strategy is based on ...
“Demons and Butterflies—Weather predictability and predictions” public lecture by Richard A. Anthes will be held on February 21st at the UNM Conference Center, Albuquerque (US). Dr. Richard A. Anthes is a distinguished atmospheric scientist, ...
“Demons and Butterflies—Weather predictability and predictions” public lecture by Richard A. Anthes will be held on February 21st at the UNM ...
Japanese researchers from the University of Tokyo made male silkmoths (@@Bombyx mori@@) drive two-wheeled vehicle by distributing synthetic pheromone bombykol in a wind tunnel. Naturally bombykol is released by female silkmoths to attract mates. ...
Japanese researchers from the University of Tokyo made male silkmoths (Bombyx mori) drive two-wheeled vehicle by distributing synthetic pheromone ...