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Insects biology and faunistics

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Changes in the composition and structure of Carabidae communities in a local agricultural landscape over a period of more than forty years (6) Evgeny Komarov

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 ...

26.11.2024 14:18 Evgeny Komarov

Thank you, Tatiana Eduardovna! I didn't see this work. We have slightly different natural conditions and other model biotopes, but it is extremely ...

Reasons for the change in the number of swallowtails (316) ИНО

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 ...

09.01.2024 12:26 excellens

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 wasps (186) Охотник за осами

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

01.01.2024 15:24 ярослав

Who knows in which primary source to find: collections of E. V. Nikolaeva, 2004.?

Question about diapause (4) apjj

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?

23.11.2023 20:35 ИНО

You write about something that you have very little idea about. First, there are two alternative mechanisms of insect hibernation: either due to the ...

Collecting water beetles (228) Black Coleopter

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.

08.11.2023 14:53 ИНО

In Myanmar, at a village bazaar.

Questions of morphological terminology (7) ИНО

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. ...

25.10.2023 11:42 AVA

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 ...

Callophrys rubi in mid-September in the Urals! (8) Sergey Rybalkin

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 ...

07.09.2023 18:49 Sergey Rybalkin

Ruby's second generation again!!!!Today, September 7, I collected two fresh males!

Aglia tau. How to feed the caterpillars? (7) Sergey Rybalkin

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

21.08.2023 22:54 Sergey Rybalkin

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)

Noctuidae associated with oak (7) Sergey Rybalkin

Dear forumchane! Tell me, please, the types of scoops whose caterpillars are monophages and eat only oak leaves.

11.08.2023 14:43 ИНО

It seems that somewhere they pointed out an aspen tree, but others doubted it.

Do insects feel pain? (178) мэррипопинс

do insects feel pain?If you tear off their wings

06.08.2023 15:27 ИНО

  Да, но потомство такого самца имеет меньше шансов выжить - мамаша-то ...

Dumb Questions (5) Андреас

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

06.08.2023 14:57 ИНО

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 ...

Preference issue (1) guest: Аристотель

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 ...

03.08.2023 14:56 guest: Аристотель

What factors determine the presence of an insect on a particular plant, in addition to obvious reasons such as nutrition ?For example, ...

Bolitophagus reticulatus (2) Jukoman

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?

22.06.2023 13:18 Dmitry Vlasov

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 ...

Positive temperature anomaly (5786) Hierophis

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 ...

03.05.2023 14:20 alex017

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 ...

How long can wasps and bees live without food and drink (10) SHURPOL

Good morning to all! Can anyone tell you how long wasps and bees can survive without food and water?

08.03.2023 22:58 adadurov

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 ...

Long-lived insects in the adult stage (37) Guest

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 ...

13.02.2023 13:59 excellens

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 ...

Is faunology an important aspect of entomology? (263) guest: omar

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 ...

19.01.2023 10:20 excellens

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 ...

"Frost-resistant" cockroaches (45) Pavel Morozov

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 ...

19.01.2023 9:31 excellens

Let me quote: "Among the large cockroach species that live everywhere, in warehouses, ships and mines, we should name the American cockroach ...

What species of insects do swifts eat? (5) Андреас

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 ...

14.12.2022 18:26 Victor Titov

- OK. But the distribution of flying families, which is food for the twilight swift , is nonsense in my opinion. I would like confirmation. ...

The Tale of Tsar Saltan from the entomologist's point of view (3) КаМея

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 ...

14.10.2022 17:17 ИНО

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 ...

Emotions of insects (43) sohatiy

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 ...

03.10.2022 11:48 Пуаро

Interesting question. Where there is learning new things in terrain orientation, there should be emotions. It's like a male praying mantis being ...

Contradictions in the stages of butterfly development with the possibility of this happening in a natural evolutionary way (18) Владимир2012

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 ...

07.09.2022 10:56 ИНО

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 ...

General entomology. Anatomy and physiology. Questions. (12) Трофим

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, ...

05.09.2022 7:08 ИНО

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 ...

Vespula germanica loses its sting like Apis mellifera (4) ИНО

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 ...

16.08.2022 18:06 AVA

  .. the venomous apparatus separated from the wasp functioned very efficiently - the muscles contracted, continuing to pump venom.And this ...

Daphnis nerii (40) коты

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, ...

10.08.2022 11:22 Ольга Титова

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 ...

Breeding of the hawk moth (5) gokenin

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 ...

05.08.2022 10:42 gokenin

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 ...

Catching Apaturas... (29) Сергей Касай

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 ...

10.07.2022 19:46 ИНО

Lucky you. But Sergey will find this information completely useless.The message was edited INO-10.07.2022 19: 46

Wasp nests (2291) Назар

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. ...

25.05.2022 15:28 AVA

I met Polista today https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/118633602. Is it Polistes dominula? In St. Petersburg, this is the third observation of ...

A. tau female. I can't catch it for a long time (13) Sergey Rybalkin

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 ...

09.05.2022 23:31 Mikhail_Manis

Is it possible to catch males on a female? If so, at what time of day?

Ants in spring (4) KingSnake

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 ...

25.04.2022 12:27 ИНО

This is such a profession.

What's it? (4) Авиа

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 ...

04.04.2022 23:34 ИНО

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 ...

Interactions and natural occurrences (13) Андреас

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.

31.03.2022 19:30 ИНО

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 ...

Help me to identify it (10) Сергей Касай

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, ...

31.03.2022 12:48 ИНО

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 ...

Is it true?.. (28) Kit

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.

21.03.2022 3:08 ИНО

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 ...

Terminology related to the architecture of hornet's nests. Stelocytic... (3) ИНО

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 ...

09.02.2022 16:29 ИНО

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 ...

Places and times of butterfly flying (658) Tyomochkin

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.

30.08.2021 20:36 Wave Storm

Hierophis, yes, indeed he is, thank you. Similar.Sea buckthorn is also good.

Honey bee (Apis mellifera) (21) Bio-Nom

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 ...

30.08.2021 0:20 Андреас

I found out about the drone's mouthpiece:

What is the ecological significance of the metallic shine of ground beetles? (3) Travanaft

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 ...

29.08.2021 11:09 ИНО

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 ...

Who eats horsetail? (2) Evgi

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...?

06.07.2021 19:41 ИНО

Recruitment to the Entomology Team. Stavropol Territory (1) Opatrum

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 ...

02.07.2021 18:52 Opatrum

In the Stavropol Territory, a friendly team of entomologist enthusiasts is being recruited. The objectives are to create a long-term friendly team of ...

Please advise me how to take care of a sick Noctuid (6) Aliceanxious

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 ...

19.06.2021 12:10 ИНО

Feed it to someone.

Number of nymphalids (235) bahurin

Has anyone met vanessa cardui this year in Moscow or the surrounding regions?

30.05.2021 18:57 Andrey Bezborodkin

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 ...

Pentatomoidea: search, gathering places, catching methods (14) Carpocoris sp

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 ...

20.05.2021 7:36 Carpocoris sp

Yesterday I caught two Piezodorus liturgatus in a pine forest on the outskirts of the city, on a broom tree.

Terms of ending the summer of giant Scolia (11) Hierophis

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 ...

16.05.2021 18:14 Ostracion

In Volgograd, the male was seen on May 2. The last time I caught a female was on August 21.

Potosia marmorata. Orekhovo-Zuyevsky district (3) Carpocoris sp

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 ...

20.03.2021 14:00 ИНО

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 ...

Pollinating insects of the aloe-leaved yucca (2) Андреас

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, ...

31.01.2021 21:14 ИНО

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.

Dynastes hercules vs. Titanus giganteus. Who, after all, is bigger (10) Black Coleopter

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.

05.12.2020 10:01 Kharkovbut

taken from http://www.giantbeetles.com/hercules/size/And the beetle will respond to you...

Hawk moth in Leningrad Region (5) Insect88888888

Tell me where, when and what kind of hawkmoth you can catch in the Leningrad region.

28.10.2020 18:40 Andrey Bezborodkin

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 ...

Mantises (184) guest: Скаут

Do mantises live in the Chita region?

20.10.2020 19:42 Hukolay

Why do you need a refrigerator?...Thank you so much for the detailed and detailed answer!

Faceted eyes - pros and cons (31) Глупая фея

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 ...

16.08.2020 19:46 ИНО

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 ...

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