Here is a paradox: Zygogramma suturalis, of which there are a lot in Donetsk this year, is eaten by everyone except Ambrosia artemisiifolia. In the spring, I met on various autochthonous cruciferous plants, the last time-in general on mullein. At ...
There are captions under (or above) the photos. Anything that isn't labeled as asparagus or jerusalem artichoke is Ambrosia artemisiifolia, and its ...
Good afternoon. I ask for advice from entomologists: do ground beetles eat slugs? types of ground beetles that eat slugs? ground beetle preferences (slug sizes)? and all that you can suggest about this. Problem: I decided to transfer my garden to ...
I don't see any reason for a dispute.The method of removing snow was not the most original during my search. The size of slugs I had was "tied" to ...
People, pliz, tell me-is it possible to bring out a Linden hawk moth at home? Does the caterpillar need to have soil for pupation?. What are some of these pitfalls? Thank you very much.
People, pliz, tell me-is it possible to bring out a Linden hawk moth at home? Does the caterpillar need to have soil for pupation?. What are some of ...
Maybe you know the answers to my questions about Swallowtail caterpillars:1. Does anyone eat Swallowtail caterpillars? I have on the site somewhere they disappear and not only large size. Large ones may leave to pupate. One of them, turning into a ...
So. Last fall, the swallowtail did not come out of the pupa and I prepared it for the winter in the refrigerator. The twig on which he pupated was ...
Excerpt from the catalog of Viktor Fet (he is attached below):Labeling error? Is there anyone from the Odessa region here? File/s: ___________________________.pdf size: 5.35 mb number of downloads: 357
Viktor Yakovich, thank you so much for responding! But is the labeling error completely eliminated? Because this is a very unusual find, completely ...
I didn't find a similar topic, so please enlighten me if you have any .Looking at the cocoons of bronzes (Potosia affinis), they developed in my soil, so the cocoons came out of the ground, and I noticed an interesting thing. some of the many ...
Depending on what is considered outstanding, the same aurata has a lot of color variations, from bright red to purple, some of them are very rare in ...
Since my friends in the next topic branch are interested in applied issues, I'm creating a new one.In the network caught here is a funny video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9VVzalSkjE&feature=youtu.beIt would be interesting to know what kind ...
This video was discussed on the forum more than once. This behavior is characteristic of many species of several different genera. Defining this ...
December 1, 2015:December 24, 2015:[attachmentid()=248277][attachmentid()=248281]December 31, 2015:If anyone did not understand - under the snow there is an anthill Formica pratensis (yes, "pancake" is still!), and this is the only remaining ...
From Pan's photo equipment came out the spitting image of a plantain.Well, what's wrong with this fly, a terrible sharp and only, and its librations ...
Due to the fact that boxwood forests are rapidly being destroyed by fire, I became interested in who lives in them? Searches for literature and questions from some colleagues, by and large, did not yield anything. It seems inconceivable that no one ...
boxwood warheads are quite moist, which provides fertile soil for various mollusks, and as a result, for predators such as various ground beetles. at ...
Specialists in this group, we need your advice. Personal correspondence.
Specialists in this group, we need your advice. Personal correspondence.
Beetles of the subfamilies Trichiinae, Cetoniinae, and Valginae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) Saratov regionA. S. SazhnevSaratov State Agrarian University named after N. I. Vavilov Saratov Branch of REOon the rights of the manuscriptModern studies of ...
Belarusian striped.Belarus, Belino village (Borisovsky district, Minsk region,)16.06.2012 Pictures:IMG_153733.JPG — (108.83к) IMG_153833.JPG — ...
In 2011, there was a message like this:"According to the Newspaper in Kiev, Kiev residents in the coming summer season complain of particularly painful insect bites in the parks of the capital and during outdoor recreation outside the city. The ...
See, (and yet, dear) Eno, most people do not really understand why you can stay up almost until dawn, i.e. do not understand your trouble. Just as ...
Dear colleagues! We really need information about residential colonies of the common hamster (Cricetus cricetus) from the regions of the former USSR to study the insects that live in its burrows. You can use exact coordinates, or simple crocs. I ...
I've heard that there are scoops in Southeast Asia whose males drink the blood of elephants, rhinos, buffaloes, and tapirs. They pierce the integument with a sharp proboscis. Females feed on the juice of plant fruits. Has anyone seen them?" Did you ...
And unless something prevents you from trolling harmless entomologists under your real name. The alternative version of the explanation will be less ...
As I wrote here in the next topic, yesterday we had the last day of the phenological summer. And although the weather was just wonderful: far beyond +20, sunny, windless, but when I heard a very active stridulation of some grasshoppers from the ...
On November 19, I was in that place again. That's it, the concert is over. But today I photographed a female of another species, well known for its ...
"the most plausible hypothesis concerns the role of oxygen in insect life. They breathe through the trachea, a system of tiny tubes that passively transport oxygen from the air to the body's cells. If the insects reach a large size, their oxygen ...
Well, okay, I persuaded, I predict: with a probability of 100%, the size of germanics of any caste and brood in the city of Nikolaev is not enough ...
By autumn, predatory insects become clearly visible against the background of withered drooping grass and dried earth, some of them are activated mainly at this time. Most noticeable are mantises, dragonflies, wasps, and large grasshoppers. Each of ...
Well, "rose of Carcharota", of course, in the subject. It may not be predatory, or even insect-like, but it's easy to bleed. How are the poppies ...
Two years ago, I learned that this species is listed in the red Books of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. It is written that it is very rare in the region, and its distribution is extremely fragmentary, the population that lived on the ...
You can add on your own, based on experience-wintering individuals are almost always megazmer females, they spend the winter in dry mouse burrows, if ...
Recently, two representatives of this species were caught. But there is very little information about them. I would like to know if it is possible to keep at home, how long they live ? Anyway, who knows anything about them? ...
Put it on the loggia, for example,and then I do not know-you need to keep it as low as possible.....You sow wheat and put it in the heat,you can ...
Related question: in the evenings on the site it is impossible to be outdoors. Caddisfly (butterflies) simply overcomes, flies in huge flocks, climbs everywhere. Can you somehow scare them off or lime them? Near a pond, apparently flying from there ...
I will, but only with delivery.
The habitat of the Field cricket Gryllus campestris was found in Davice. I would love to add them to the collection, but the reptiles sit in holes and hide in them at the slightest disturbance. You can't catch it in time. Especially in the midst of ...
To a person who stubbornly refuses to read and understand my elementary simple phrases, I am powerless to answer.Brrr..Somehow it does not look like ...
Short, it is also full, the content of previous episodes )) I do not believe. The behavior of vespins is an order of magnitude more complex than the behavior of eumenins (take at least a few types of rather complex intra-family communication, a much ...
Ezox, ish what you want!! Suddenly the idea will be stolen )))
On two occasions (23.08.2011 and 09.10.2013), Xylocopa sp.was observed in earthen burrows. (it was not possible to determine up to the species, or X. valga, or X. violacea). What is this, such an unusual nesting option or a winter burrow, like a ...
Oh, it's good that we have neither the laws of the Russian Federation nor the laws of Ukraine do not apply, but we don't have our own CC yet. So you ...
Colleagues, please help us with information on the current distribution of the imported Anobiidae species - Ozognathus cornutus - in Europe. Preferably with links to publications from the last 2-3 years.Thank you in advance, and photos of the bug ...
Colleagues, please help us with information on the current distribution of the imported Anobiidae species - Ozognathus cornutus - in Europe. ...
Once a great scientist ) I was told that individuals born in a nest, for example, social wasps, bees, or other similar insects, which are characterized by the periodic appearance of several individuals from the same cell, are not correctly called ...
So why should I remember, you yourself pointed out the author in the next topic. Or had he forgotten that, too? I specifically checked the chronology ...
Hello.In early August, I will be in the Tuapse region. Please tell me who can be caught there at this time. Mainly interested in beetles and butterflies. Maybe there are any places?I plan to bury the glasses, and also, if possible, put an ...
Hello.In early August, I will be in the Tuapse region. Please tell me who can be caught there at this time. Mainly interested in beetles and ...
folks does anyone know anything about this mustache guy!!!! where to look for it, on what, and generally knowing the place where it is exactly, since I was brought it from there today!!! I really like it... I would like a couple more pieces for the ...
On Komsomolsk Lake, in the light of a lantern flew. 24-го
Please tell me if there is a calendar, or at least an approximate date of the mating period of mayflies (mayflies) ? I want to collect them for the winter, freeze them and dry them for future use for my insectivorous birds.
Please tell me if there is a calendar, or at least an approximate date of the mating period of mayflies (mayflies) ? I want to collect them for the ...
Recently, we managed to capture caddisfly metamorphosis. Well, if someone can tell me more. Pictures:IMG_0465.jpg — (2.04 mb) IMG_0467.jpg — (2.02мб) IMG_0468.jpg — (2.01 mb) IMG_0475.jpg — (1.92 mb) IMG_0489.jpg — (1.94 mb) IMG_0497.jpg ...
Gorgeous! A rare sight, and the photos are good!
I apologize for creating a separate topic. But the weekend falls out and so I want to find Colias palaeno near Moscow in Tugolesye. Maybe someone caught there? I'm sure they did, of course. Interested in the timing of the summer well, can someone ...
I went to the Batkovskoe swamp on June 20, Colias palaeno was caught in a single specimen, a male and quite fresh. And I caught it on the road, ...
Can you tell me when and where you can meet different types of different-winged and equal-winged dragonflies in the middle zone of Ukraine? The field season is already starting, so I would really like to get some answers. Thank you all.
What kind of view is it?Shot in Pushkin's Catherine Park.Cordulia aenea, male
A question for the specialists. I searched the web, but didn't find the right information.Spiders of the family Hersiliidae, specifically the genus Hersilia (species H. caudata) - can they change color depending on the environment? Are there any ...
A question for the specialists. I searched the web, but didn't find the right information.Spiders of the family Hersiliidae, specifically the genus ...
Hello there!I've been looking for a rhino beetle for almost two years now,but I haven't had any success.Maybe someone has a recipe for bait for catching it?I will be grateful.P. S.Well, I will be glad to hear any hints or tips.))
In Pushkin in the garden of an agricultural woman found.This post was edited by Sokol - 28.05.2015 18: 40 Pictures:e4e1lvIyvNU.jpg — (29.14к)
Good afternoon!I'm interested in single bees. I want to create an apidological micro-journal at my dacha.http://www.osmia.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=...ff5840556bac06fCan anyone help with cocoons?
Good afternoon!I'm interested in single bees. I want to create an apidological micro-journal at my ...
I am looking for practitioners who are familiar with the corn moth and its biology. Interested in determining mass summer (traps, temperature, etc.)Sincerely, AlexanderThis post was edited by assa-v-04.03.2014 13: 31
I am looking for practitioners who are familiar with the corn moth and its biology. Interested in determining mass summer (traps, temperature, ...
Friends, please help me determine if not to the species, then at least to the genus (but better to the species).Photo here - http://www.vokrugsveta.ru/photo/image/6488/Made in Spain.I've seen motleywings with scary "spiders" on their wings, but with ...
The fly belonged to the mottledwing family, its specific name is Aciura coryli. In most species of this family, the wings are covered with clearly ...
Iolana iolas Ochsenheimer, 1816. Colleagues, what anyone knows about the mentions of this species on the territory of Ukraine.This type is never listed in the "domestic" regional lists for Ukraine. I found only one historical reference of the ...
Telitsa is a village in the Novoaneni district of Moldova. It is the administrative center of Telitsa Commune
Does the whole life of insects consist only of instincts and acquired reflexes? Can insects be called living mechanisms?
if insects are allowed, then so are you and me. because our whole life consists of " instincts and acquired reflexes." or did you mean innate?" ...
Good afternoon!Reaper ants live at home. Watching them, I noticed a strange feature. When ants hold pupae or larvae, they keep jumping up and down. Why, why???link to the video, exactly this moment. The video is 7 seconds long
Right here.I get a little bit of text-plus 3-4 photos, no problem...
I often accidentally find caterpillars in a living or dead state on the road, near mangoes or other plants. I plan to live here for another year.I came across a Common baron right near the house ( dead). Now I grow and feed mango leaves to an ...
if there are settlements of tailors, there are definitely Arhopala - you can only bring it out by cutting the nest -you will have to feed everything
Good day to all!I bought it on the occasion of humus and found excellent larvae in it (see the picture). Since childhood, I dreamed of growing a butterfly out of caterpillars, kept them in jars, fed them, watered them, collected pupae - but nothing ...
Good day to all!I bought it on the occasion of humus and found excellent larvae in it (see the picture). Since childhood, I dreamed of growing a ...
I noticed a significant difference in the color of Formica sanguinea workers in two different populations. In one of them, the workers were bright red, the head and chest were completely red; in the second, the forehead, back of the head, and ...
I noticed a significant difference in the color of Formica sanguinea workers in two different populations. In one of them, the workers were bright ...
First the dawn in August, and then on August 23 aspen hawk moth, and even so fresh! Complete anomalies! Pictures:DSC00817.JPG — (2.22мб)
this explains everything. in the cold summer, the butterflies did not come out in their usual terms, now they warmed up and flew out.I ...
Today, August 10, I saw an almost fresh male zorka! The meeting point is around the city of Snezhinsk in the Chelyabinsk region. Is this the second generation, or the sooooo long first?Normally, they fly with us from about May 20 to June 20. There ...
And how do you like the freshest female A. cardamines AT an ALTITUDE of 3800 on the Koi-Jol pass in the Altai together with simonius? I've never ...
As an active collector of large coleoptera and to some extent an expert in this infinitely interesting field, I would like to share here a number of observations concerning the search for saproxilobiont species, in particular representatives of the ...
Colleagues,For the project report, you need a published reference to the Lucanus cervus find in the boreal part of European Russia. I've seen "Pskov ...
I found a caterpillar of some kossus yesterday. Can Kossus kossus, or Treetreeper Acossus terebra? The question is, where did it go? It seems too early to pupate, I remember once at the end of August in the early 90s I caught a huge caterpillar ...
Why was she spending the winter in the middle of summer?reached the maximum size, that's what I wanted )
Hello, My name is Todd Ugine, I'm an entomologist at Cornell University in the USA and am trying to collect all of the North American species in the ladybird genus Coccinella. One species in particular, Coccinella fulgida, is very difficult for me ...
Hello, My name is Todd Ugine, I'm an entomologist at Cornell University in the USA and am trying to collect all of the North American species in the ...
Colleagues, please tell us if the findings of Trichoferus campestris have been published in the Moscow Region. If yes, then throw a link to the work, pliiiz
In Yaroslavl region... Addition to the already published information: Tatar maple-brought out beetles without wintering at ALL. In the autumn of ...
Two females laid a couple of hundred eggs, now I feed the caterpillars of the first age. In the literature, it is written that the caterpillar overwinters. I don't want to get involved with the caterpillar wintering grounds.Question: can the ...
Most likely, the caterpillars will calmly reach pupation without wintering, and in 2-3 weeks there will be butterflies. However, it is smaller than ...
Hello. Please tell me about catching insects in the Caucasus.In mid-July, I will be in the area of Maykop in the mountains and in the village. Beregovoe, Krynitsa, near Gelendzhik.From the traps I plan to use buried glasses. You probably won't be ...
I once had a plastic bottle of povdol burst, with special effects... Definitely the yeast was superfluous.When manufacturing, it was necessary to ...