It so happened that I was lucky enough to collect ground beetles using comparable methods (@@Carabidae@@) in the same elements of the same agricultural landscape from the end of the 70s of the last century to the present, there were naturally gaps ...
Thank you, Tatiana Eduardovna! I didn't see this work. We have slightly different natural conditions and other model biotopes, but it is extremely ...
I remember that in the second half of the 90s I met swallowtails in Donetsk regularly in very large numbers. Often, when you looked out of the window, it would circle around the tops of the pyramidal poplars planted along the roadway. A dozen could ...
About mamamia This precision was there once, when they still sang the song "be a pioneer, always be ready" Gyrostabilization in Russian 90% ...
Let's share our experience about the wasp V. germanica, vulgaris, rufa dolichovespula vulgaris, media, silvestris, saxonica, etc. Your observations, studies, studied life cycle, nests and dr
Who knows in which primary source to find: collections of E. V. Nikolaeva, 2004.?
Can an andrena or megahila bee that has woken up and flown out to winter enter diapause again (in the dark, cool) and survive until spring if there is food?
You write about something that you have very little idea about. First, there are two alternative mechanisms of insect hibernation: either due to the ...
I suggest you discuss this topic. There is little literature on this subject, but the question is interesting. Chemists and hydrobiologists are invited to participate in the discussion.
In Myanmar, at a village bazaar.
I write an article and find myself thinking that I do not know what kind of word "pedicel" (as a segment of the antenna) and, accordingly, how to incline it. I decided to Google it. And what do I see? Who wants to do what he wants... declines it. ...
It's the same song with the gelActually, such "songs" are enough. For example, offhand: aerosol, corn, persol, roofing, and you can also collect a ...
First the dawn in August, then the aspen hawk moth at the end of September, and now the raspberry-September 13!!!!Miracles in the Urals - continue! Despite a very shitty summer!Before the pile, today on September 13, I also caught a female pigeon ...
Ruby's second generation again!!!!Today, September 7, I collected two fresh males!
Red-eyed peacock caterpillars emerged from their eggs. What is the best way to feed them? I gave a birch and an apple tree until they eat it(The post was edited by Alexanor - 02.06.2023 17: 54
They eat birch, as I expected, but they are capricious, it is important for them that the leaves stand vertically) A few pupated in July)
Dear forumchane! Tell me, please, the types of scoops whose caterpillars are monophages and eat only oak leaves.
It seems that somewhere they pointed out an aspen tree, but others doubted it.
do insects feel pain?If you tear off their wings
Да, но потомство такого самца имеет меньше шансов выжить - мамаша-то ...
Hello. I don't understand why Goliaths are in some kind of clay shell. "Is that how they pack them for transportation?" https://cloud.mail.ru/public/qFCq/UDP3TJ6tZ
H. z., what was there "for a clay shell", because now "there is no such page", but there is a suspicion that they mean built that they were cradles ...
What factors determine the presence of an insect on a particular plant, in addition to obvious reasons such as nutrition ?For example, mother-of-pearl glitter on nettles. Neither the adult butterfly nor its caterpillar feed on nettles. How then to ...
What factors determine the presence of an insect on a particular plant, in addition to obvious reasons such as nutrition ?For example, ...
Colleagues, I need to catch Bolitophagus reticulatus, can you tell me when it is best to catch them?I just looked through a bunch of birch tinder boxes and didn't find a single beetle. Maybe now is not the season for them?
Colleagues, I need to catch Bolitophagus reticulatus, can you tell me when it is best to catch them?I just looked through a bunch of birch tinder ...
This November, to a greater extent in the territory of Ukraine and the ETR, and to an even greater extent in the south of Ukraine, late-spring temperatures have been maintained for at least two weeks without a day. In the south of Mykolaiv, Kherson ...
I bought a plot of land, cleared it of weeds, and Kandyk appeared.Left over from the first owner of the site, after which two or three owners ...
Good morning to all! Can anyone tell you how long wasps and bees can survive without food and water?
In the barn, I "caught" a hornet's nest with 2 or 3 adult wasps in a plastic container. They lived there for 2 months without water or food. At the ...
I remembered an old topic that some impolite guest brought up here. Not so long ago, Dmitry Obydov told about his friend, who keeps many insects. Blaps fausti lived with him. So, the beetle lived in the aquarium for 16 (!) years. The owner was so ...
Why, everything is the same as in the living, but you don't have to run after them (spend energy) and it is better absorbed (softer), and it is ...
That's what happened. I found an unoccupied Agonum of the subgenus Europhilus on the last mattress last year and couldn't identify it. This was especially strange given the fact that all the representatives of the subgenus listed for the Moscow ...
It was quite strange for me to read all this, to be honest. I turned to Kirill Vladimirovich many times - both when preparing my dissertation, and ...
Back in September, when I was in the courtyard of a house on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, 1, I noticed a certain graduate, or a pipe of a ventilation shaft (who can say what it is exactly - I will be very grateful). Pipe as a pipe, nothing special at first ...
Let me quote: "Among the large cockroach species that live everywhere, in warehouses, ships and mines, we should name the American cockroach ...
Hello.I recently read about the diet of the American crepuscular swift (they build nests BEHIND waterfalls), then he was puzzled. "Isn't it all flying in the air?"?? An ornithologist I know suggested that they might pick up insects from the surface ...
- OK. But the distribution of flying families, which is food for the twilight swift , is nonsense in my opinion. I would like confirmation. ...
Hello! During the literary game, the question arose: which of the insects that Prince Guidon turned into flies faster?The mosquito, of course, disappears. But there were disagreements about the bumblebee and the fly. I would like to hear the opinion ...
All bumblebees fly at about the same speed (with the same size), but different flies - very differently. The proposed Musca domestica is not a very ...
Do they exist?Can you scare an ant?Is tarantula aggression related to the emotion of anger?Is it possible to consider a bee circling over something blue like a flower as a manifestation of the emotion of hope?Can the search behavior of caddisfly ...
Interesting question. Where there is learning new things in terrain orientation, there should be emotions. It's like a male praying mantis being ...
Everyone knows the essence of Haeckel's theory that embryogenesis repeats phylogeny. If we look at the development of the butterfly and the stages of it, what do we see? The egg turns into a caterpillar, then the pupa turns into a butterfly and ...
Wow, what interesting conversations were held on the forum in the last decade! Not like the current one Still, even if it's late, I'll put in my ...
Please tell me the criterion by which you can distinguish between running and walking limbs (except for the length of the limb and the length of the leg members). With beetles, everything seems to be simple. Carnivores and herbivores, massive legs, ...
You just need to change the lens (at least for industriar-104) and make normal lighting, with a diffuser - then your eyes will cut through! And there ...
I thought I knew a lot about public wasps... until last night.I caught all sorts of animals on the balcony, including vespula workers. Mostly vulgaris who behave quite peacefully. But the evil Germanics, as it turned out, also caught up. Already ...
.. the venomous apparatus separated from the wasp functioned very efficiently - the muscles contracted, continuing to pump venom.And this ...
Finally I decided to ask a long-nagging question about Daphnis nerii. Everywhere it is written (Wikipedia, determinants, etc.) that this species is most often found on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus, the food plant of caterpillars is oleander, ...
Paysandisia archon. Sochi, 10.08.2022, 10 o'clock. Green area near the circus. They fly very beautifully. I caught two of them with my hands.This ...
Hello everyone. specialists!Caught under a willow tree caterpillar ocular hawk moth (Smerinthus ocellatus) most likely (?).Tell me, pliz, how to bring her home to the butterfly?A transparent cake box with leaves is suitable as a habitat? From the ...
I also think that I went down for pupation, a bucket with a neutral substrate like coconut, 15-20 centimeters will be enough for throwing up. Good ...
Faced with a problem in catching poplar iridescences, I fly to the tops of trees and tease with my appearance, I attached a net to a stick, but it didn't work out, they are very fast and didn't want to get caught(((Tell us your fishing methods, it ...
Lucky you. But Sergey will find this information completely useless.The message was edited INO-10.07.2022 19: 46
Hello everyone A few days ago, I found two young nests near the veranda door on the electrical line. It seems that they were made by the same queen, because when observing the wasp, I always see only one of the nests, she builds them as if in turn. ...
I met Polista today https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/118633602. Is it Polistes dominula? In St. Petersburg, this is the third observation of ...
I catch a lot of males every year, in the daytime, sometimes there were 10 pieces a day. I caught a female once, about 15 years ago, when she flew out from under my feet (she was resting during the day, and I scared her off while passing by). No ...
Is it possible to catch males on a female? If so, at what time of day?
Good afternoon! On the weekend I met an anthill with a large number of red forest ants. Moreover, their concentration was unrealistically high (the feeling that all the ants had come out of the anthill) and they seemed to envelop almost the entire ...
This is such a profession.
In a vegetable garden in the Krasnodar Territory on the Black Sea coast, in one night on April 3, small piles of loose earth appeared on the unearthed ground, filling the entire garden with sloshnyak. There are no obvious holes in the ground under ...
It's strange, because I clearly see minks, and in the first photo, too, a lot. Try re-photographing in good light conditions. The mound is also ...
Hello. I have a "banal" question: - What does it mean at this early spring time when two hives are circling each other in the air? Observed in the Pskov region.I have a few suggestions, but I don't want to guess.
Well, that's what I'm saying: some people think Aglais is a subgenus of Nymphalis, and I like that view. I, of course, am not an expert in ...
I caught a beetle in August on everyone's favorite DRL-250, it looks like a zoophobas, but there is a problem(outgrowths) and I can't understand what kind of species. Help with the definition. (Size: 1 cm+ -) Donetsk region, Kramatorsk district, ...
What kind of fright does Zophobas look like on a barbel? Rather on flour krushchak (Tenebrio) - overgrown From what fright - I do not know, probably ...
Please dispel my doubts about the third and further features at this link?http://dez.ocy.ru/klop-seksualnost-posteln...pov-werber.htmlThank you to everyone who answered.
I don't know what's out there on this filthy pipe mixed with ads for Russophobia (most likely it would have already been blocked by Russia!), but for ...
V. E. Kipyatkov's famous book "The World of Social Insects" divides wasp nests according to the method of connecting honeycombs into stationary, phragmocytic and astelocytic ones without any bibliographic references, which is not surprising, since ...
I found the answer again by myself: https://hellas.bab2min.pe.kr/hk/kuttaros?l=enIt remains to be understood why in Greek, French and English it is ...
Can you tell me places where you can catch wine hawkmoth in Moscow and in neighboring cities? They don't fly everywhere. Besides, I don't mind learning some favorite place of any kind.
Hierophis, yes, indeed he is, thank you. Similar.Sea buckthorn is also good.
In bees, hereditary traits are transmitted through queens and drones.The productivity of a bee family is determined primarily by the ability of the uterus to lay a large number of eggs and the quality of worker bees. To improve the breed, beekeepers ...
I found out about the drone's mouthpiece:
I can't find any information on the ecological role of ground beetle metallic luster, and I can't think of it myself. Most of the species that I have met in Siberia have mostly only colored edging of the elytra and pronotum, but the species are ...
Yes, what is not clear here: that dried corpses cost a penny But seriously, this is a structural coloration due to the peculiarities of the cuticle ...
Dear experts, Whose larvae feed (can feed) on horsetail?The horsetail species is E. fluviatile. The shooting location is Saint Petersburg.I wonder who else can ? Any dippers...?
In the Stavropol Territory, a friendly team of entomologist enthusiasts is being recruited. The objectives are to create a long-term friendly team of researchers of the fauna of the Stavropol Territory, group and individual field trips, collection ...
In the Stavropol Territory, a friendly team of entomologist enthusiasts is being recruited. The objectives are to create a long-term friendly team of ...
I'll warn you right away, I don't know much about butterflies. On June 30, I found a butterfly cocoon in the ground, assumed that it was a Death's Head hawk moth, took it to my house, put it in a jar with earth to a depth of 15 cm and waited. On ...
Feed it to someone.
Has anyone met vanessa cardui this year in Moscow or the surrounding regions?
I met the Admiral yesterday (22.05.2021) in St. Petersburg. It looks fresh. We had a rather cold winter. Did you spend the winter or fly in?I flew ...
I've been thinking for a long time about which section to create this theme in, here or in"Hardware". In general, I am interested in shield beetles: real, tree, earth, turtles, I want to collect a collection of them. Although I occasionally look for ...
Yesterday I caught two Piezodorus liturgatus in a pine forest on the outskirts of the city, on a broom tree.
In connection with some statements by a prominent scientist that giant scolias, also known as maculata, cease their flight in the vicinity of Donetsk in mid-June. Hence the interenso, who ever met the last giant scolias? Personally, I met them ...
In Volgograd, the male was seen on May 2. The last time I caught a female was on August 21.
Hello! As you can already understand from my previous posts, I am looking for a marble bronzer in the Moscow Region. I myself live in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, and since I am a student, I cannot move freely in different parts of the region, I search the oaks ...
Lyugubris-irregular forest bronze It often descends to the level of the human head, and even generally sits on the flowers-it is easy to catch an ...
https://elementy.ru/novosti_nauki/432374/Ob...kkovymi_molyamiBy the way, I want to know what types of yucca are cultivated in Sochi; and whether this "Aloeliferous" Yucca aloifolia is widespread there. I couldn't understand it from the photos, ...
I don't know about Sochi, but we have some yucca trees growing and blooming in our front gardens, but they don't produce seeds.
Friends, in continuation of the topic of record holders in the world of insects, in particular beetles, I offer this survey. In fact, this question is very ambiguous.Let me start singing - I vote for the woodcutter-titan.
taken from http://www.giantbeetles.com/hercules/size/And the beetle will respond to you...
Tell me where, when and what kind of hawkmoth you can catch in the Leningrad region.
And now they are flying, or is it unlikely that I will find them?Now the "winter" moth brumata is finishing flying. A hawk moth in the pupal stage ...
Do mantises live in the Chita region?
Why do you need a refrigerator?...Thank you so much for the detailed and detailed answer!
In general, I wanted to ask knowledgeable people, but do faceted eyes have any advantages over simple ones? Once I did some math, and it turned out that simple eyes are better than faceted ones in all respects: they have a smaller size, lower power ...
What for? After all, they do not exist in nature. I recently observed my pet praying mantises - I saw another advantage of the faceted eye - it has ...