Actually, the question is as old as the world-why are insects small?The Internet is full of bloggers who excitedly retell the same unconvincing stories. About the external skeleton, about the respiratory system and other fantasies.However, I wonder ...
It also seems to me that molting is the main problem of insects. It's about breathing... Let's say we consider the respiratory system of an ordinary ...
Greetings, gentlemen! I have two photos of Tmarus piger, taken two years apart and in two completely different places. In both photos, there is a spider with an ant, on which some small fly is sitting. If with an ant, there are no special questions ...
Figured it out)) These flies are from the Milichiidae family, keep close to predatory arthropods, mainly spiders, catbirds and predatory beetles, and ...
Every year, the neighboring topic becomes less relevant. The peak of global warming, which occurred at the end of the zero - beginning of the tenth years of this century, has passed, and despite the near-scientific fabrications of Western populists, ...
I did a little research today. I present it to you.1. Materials and methods...But in America, it is downloaded without problems, and data from all ...
Someone came across such a phenomenon - for one female, for example, two males "stuck" ?
From the point of view of the morphology of the sexual apparatus, there can be no double mating. Two edeaguses in one bursa will still not be able to ...
What is the best month to go to Costa Rica to catch beetles and butterflies?
What is the best month to go to Costa Rica to catch beetles and butterflies?
Osmium beeThis little fluffy bee is beautiful, peaceful and very useful.What is its usefulness? It is an excellent pollinator of flowers, and it does not matter whether ornamental plants or fruit plants, the presence of pollen and nectar is ...
These are some wrong South Ukrainian Eumenins that are released in September. Is it the third generation? This post was edited INO-24.10.2019 13: 18
According to colleagues, Camponotus vagus is found mainly in the Ryazan and Bryansk regions, in any case, we got individuals from there. We have started a little pro bono work on the study of microbial symbionts of these ants, and we even have the ...
I have never seen Vagusov in Moscow time. I haven't even heard of anyone finding it.In the south of the MO, in the area of Beloomut and Silver Ponds, ...
I appeal to specialists in wasps. I am a philistine in my own right, and I apologize in advance for my dilettantism.The fact is that for a month I have been observing a strange picture at a dacha in the Moscow region. In the gap between the boards, ...
Well, almost all sarcophagi have an alternation of gray and black, but pay attention to the nature of this alternation and the ratio of areas of both ...
I came back here from vacation. I was in a place I had long searched-between the Pushkin Mountains and the city of Ostrov-and here are some unexpected finds for me.1. Phaneroptera falcata - 1 female, 2 males.2. Conocephalus discolor - 1 female (the ...
I was in Izborsk yesterday. Plastinokrylov quite a lot met, 2 males took with them.In the fields there are many skates, for example Omocestus ...
Good evening,what methods are used to count insects? It doesn't seem possible at all. How accurate is the data?It is also interesting to study the influence of various environmental factors on the number and behavior of insects.And do they study the ...
I mean "computer time" is a term used when modeling on a computer, which reflects how long the processor worked.
Not exactly about the butterfly... Where is the closest place to Moscow to catch a deer beetle (Lucanus cervus)?
At the end of June, I found a deer beetle in Bolshoy Utrish, Krasnodar Territory.
I createda topic to share with you some accumulated observations in nature,some thoughts on new or forgotten ways to study living things, including insects.Perhaps sometimes there will be more artistic essays here Perhaps some completely "out of ...
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Good hour forumchane. Help please. I have a scan of the book Isaev A. Yu. and others. Coleoptera of the Middle Volga forest-steppe. But one page is missing - the list of barbel Cerambycidae, numbering from 102 to 137.Please drop .
well, nafik topic to start? - there is also a type of "scans of literature". I just happened to see it.
Dear colleagues!I was contacted by people who are engaged in checking the Red Book of insect species (Red Book of the Russian Federation). In general, I ask for help from anyone who feels interested and competent-for cooperation. We are talking ...
Actually, there is already such a thing - https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vo...lskij-Lelej.pdf and in the future, obviously, it will also be ...
Good afternoon! On the territory of Ukraine, especially in the center, in the Kiev region, several species of bark beetles began to massively destroy pine forests. Pine trees are dying for 20-30 years, as well as age-old giants. The tree begins to ...
I turned to environmentalists. The problem turned out to be complex.1. Climate change in the direction of warming and changes in the water table ...
Need help from a specialist on pukhoedov (Mallophaga)
Need help from a specialist on pukhoedov (Mallophaga)
Dear entomologists, Please share information about Stephanopachys linearis collection points in Georgia. I couldn't find any information on the Internet myself
It is doubtful that anyone here will answer you at points in Georgia. Personally, I know the closest point - ocd. Maikop (forest near the ring road), ...
Colleagues, good day to all.I have been working on weevils in the South of Russia for many years.I am now actively collecting data on the distribution of the weevil Alcidodes karelini (Boheman, 1844) in the southern European part of Russia. This ...
South Ossetia, Tskhinval region, wasteland, 24,05,2013 Komarov Yu. V. and soon r-mail#inbox.ru I sent you an email, see your email addressThis post ...
Good time of day.So I'm sitting with the window open, I see an insect that looks like an ant, only 1-1.5 cm in size, flies into the window. He throws this on the windowsill and ... flies away. This is the second time this has happened. I put it in a ...
Well - defined road wasps are Auplopus carbonarius (Scopoli, 1763) [Pompilidae]. The spider's legs are bitten off after it is paralyzed. It makes ...
Are there any types of hematophagous ants? or something "around that"
Are there any types of hematophagous ants? or something "around that"
Hello,I wonder what kind of phenomenon (in the photo) we found Satis on the river in the Nizhny Novgorod region. A dead swarm of insects, and there are also dead insects inside the swarm.No one knows why this is so?
Hello,I wonder what kind of phenomenon (in the photo) we found Satis on the river in the Nizhny Novgorod region. A dead swarm of insects, and there ...
I took out the pupae after diapause before the new year. They've been lying there for two months, but the butterflies don't come out. Do they have a two-year generation period? Put them back in the refrigerator?
Yes, from the same catch, already eating mountain ash, only a few inactive
I'd like to set up a Malaise trap to collect.In some forest in Moscow and the Moscow Region, for a day or more, but I'm afraid they'll blow it up and steal it altogether.Tell me where you can install near Moscow and without fear for equipment
I'd like to set up a Malaise trap to collect.In some forest in Moscow and the Moscow Region, for a day or more, but I'm afraid they'll blow it up and ...
Insects ranging in size from 0.12 mm, smaller than the slipper infusoria, with a nervous system of several thousand neurons, sometimes completely devoid of a nucleus. without the heart and hemolymph, which have not changed in the last 120 million ...
It can move from cell to cell, as in tardigrades or rotifers. This also happens in nature. They probably have a fat body, as without it. I wonder if ...
Hello.Tell me, please, what stations/biotopes should you pay attention to in order to catch a bee wolf?Has anyone caught it in Moscow or the Moscow Region? Can you tell me a specific location?
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Good afternoon forumchane. Please help me I live in the Crimea in the city of Simferopol, and for the third day I have been looking for caterpillars. I was already in the botanical garden, in the forest on Kosagora, and in the area I had a lot of ...
Has anyone looked for L. dumi caterpillars? I'm going to look for them in late May or early June in the afternoon, can anyone give any instructions ...
This is now the only topic that is complex for the Stavropol Territory at the forum, and it includes:- expedition reports (not only current ones, but also earlier ones).- discussion of biological diversity;- discussion of ecology, biology, taxonomy ...
Report No. 7. " Surroundings of Kugulta village "(Stavropol Territory, Grachevsky district; 10.05.18)Quite an interesting trip.The link contains a ...
Hello. On the ornithological forum, a friend outlined the situation, hoping that they would help him. I can't take on information curation. Please give me some advice.
It lay open on the ground. - Do you need a photo of the pointed lower end in good resolution?"What kind of saturnia can there be in Bodaibo?"...This ...
Do insects (most likely all social things) have an analog of money? For example, the queen ant secretes pheromones and transmits them to special ants. And dalshete in turn share them with others forcing them to do useful work.Or are all actions ...
I think this is something far-fetched. What is the equivalent of money that insects can give?. Of course not.
I've never seen these animals. How do I collect them in the middle lane? They write that they live everywhere, but for some reason they didn't catch my eye, I probably don't look like that. It is interesting to observe the living and make some ...
Cool! Take a photo please - you can even try to take a picture on your phone through binoculars, sometimes you can see something coming out. I ...
Good day everyone! Help. We moved under NG to a new apartment, and here are hordes of insects, for the forum I took a picture and it seems like ants, but... who knows who it is and most importantly HOW to get rid of it? There are no forces, it seems ...
Oh, cool!We already have them, it turns out!
Hello,Can anyone suggest any insects that for representatives of the same genus would have a big difference (or even diversity) of habitats and / or lifestyle?
There are quite a lot of animals in the world (including us) that develop directly: they give birth or their eggs produce a miniature copy of their parents, with small deviations, and grow allo - or iso-metrically. In most cases, they are ground ...
I have no idea where on this forum to go with such things, so don't throw your slippers if the topic is in the wrong section.I think this site will help me.In general, the bottom line is this: for a little more than a week, plavunets has been living ...
Taki again decided to turn to the localsI observe this picture nowThe beetle was caught in the beginning of agusta, fed once every 5-6 days with ...
I read in B. F. Belyshev's Guide to Siberian dragonflies by imaginal and larval phases, 1983, that dragonfly larvae do not develop in Lake Baikal and are absent.To what extent is this true and, if so, what is the reason for it? This post was edited ...
Why go to Lake Baikal for dragonfly larvae) There are many of them in the reservoirs of the Moscow region.
Hello everyone.Who is interested in any insects from the Stavropol Territory?I'll be able to pick up books and look at local literature.I invite you to cooperate.It is possible to accompany you on an expedition if you come to visit us.I am fond of ...
Hello everyone.Who is interested in any insects from the Stavropol Territory?I'll be able to pick up books and look at local literature.I invite you ...
Hello dear forum visitors, this summer I'm hoping to get out to the Crimea and so I want to find out what are the relatively large and spectacular species of beetles(for example, black beetles or ground beetles).Thank you in advance!
I caught butterflies in Yakutia and for the first time I hear that there would be some problems.
What interesting orthoptera live there,there are acrids of the genus Truxalis, locusts of the genus anacridium,what interesting things are there?
Interesting things are mostly poorly perceived by insect lovers.
The dung beetle species Deltochilum valgum has shown scientists that herbivorous insects can become predators if the environment forces them to.http://www.membrana.ru/lenta/?9021
Bloodthirsty and locusts, the rear part of the pack consists of predatory individuals, and the front part of the pack is refugees.
Colleagues, all of you have probably noticed the weather anomalies of the last decade of spring and June. I need to catch about 100 horseflies in different districts of the Moscow region to work as part of the state task, but the weather does not ...
There is no difference, since they are mechanical carriers, not specific ones.
Good day to all! I have a maggot farm for fishing. I've been working for quite a long time, but I can't get a very large maggot in Alaska. At the output, I get a maggot weight of about 0.08-0.1 grams, a Pole of 0.14-0.16. I feed minced meat from ...
Good day to all! I have a maggot farm for fishing. I've been working for quite a long time, but I can't get a very large maggot in Alaska. At the ...
So, it's time to sum up the first decade of March. It turned out to be quite warm and sunny, the temperature at the daily maximum reached +12 degrees, which led to the release from hibernation of a large number of various insects and other ...
excellent photo
I read an article that if you catch an Andrena, which is parasitized by a female, keep it, wait, wait, hope that the female is fertilized, then you can get a male.Has anyone ever encountered male fanfishes in Russia?In the qualifiers, I read that ...
I read an article that if you catch an Andrena, which is parasitized by a female, keep it, wait, wait, hope that the female is fertilized, then you ...
I was thinking about a portable moth attractor that could be obtained at a high price from any hole in the world, fed with the most banal food sources and carried freely on an airplane, and my eye somehow caught on the currency's UV detectors. Their ...
In this case, alas and ah, but you will have to shine the lamp at least 20 watts, and preferably 100 or 200. What is the problem, there are no ...
Help the poor student! I need information on dead-eaters. I'm writing a thesis on this topic, but there's a snag with the information. I will be very grateful for any feedback.
2Zurchik Ican scan the theses of the 2nd regional conference "ecological and faunal research in the central Chernozem region and adjacent ...
In this topic, we identify insects that have distinguished themselves in any characteristics among their own kind. Adding new record holders (you can do it right along with the photo).The longest beetle is the titan woodcutter (Titanus giganteus). ...
It's a dead number for nothing. Probably tolstun steppe - 50 years no one can find it.Yes? ... - and Valentinus, in my opinion, meets him ...
I saw a couple of days ago such a deadly embrace. Filmed in the Moscow region. The victim is a kind of thick-winged fly Ectophasia crassipennis.The small "predator" is very similar to the one presented on the dipter.info Ceromya silacea, also from ...
Specifically, tachins usually have one larva per caterpillar, respectively, the rider larva (that's right, in Russian it's not wasps) eats the fly ...
Fellow coleopterists, please clarify the following question. In different subfamilies of scarabaeidae, and even in lucanids, there are very similar morphotypes of the male's prehensile apparatus: one horn on the head, and one or more horns on the ...
This is typical not only for dung beetles, but also for almost all horned beetles in general (including those horned with mandibles). And here it is ...
Hello Dear Forumchane! There is a chance to get a job in the Lavrentiya PIC of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. I want to try catching Barber traps there. What can you catch there...?
Thanks for the answer! I have carefully read your report on the expedition to these parts. I have very little experience in collecting entomological ...
If the bug didn't move, did it die or fall asleep ?
Depending on how long it does not move, if only a couple of minutes, it can pretend to be dead, bronzes are masters of this business.