I read how varying the storage temperature of pupae was used to change the color of hatched butterflies. Has anyone done similar experiments? My work is somewhat related to radiation exposure. As soon as I find enough pupae of some banal nymphalid ...
Comrades, a very interesting topic, but unfortunately long forgotten. No one has experimented with such experiments by changing temperatures on ...
Hello everyoneThe South Russian tarantula is listed in the Red Data Book of the Ministry of Defense. It seems like they once caught it in the Lukhovitsky district, near the Silver Ponds and somewhere else. I want to ask experienced and knowledgeable ...
Fruitcake 05.03.2012 15: 59 URL #1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The South Russian tarantula is ...
It is known that it is not uncommon for insects to have imagos that can and cannot fly within the same species. In many cases (ants, aphids, female wasps, turtle cockroaches, etc.), the presence of forms that differ in their ability to fly in ...
Well, another interesting thing has surfaced: the dimorphism of Psophus stridulus females, possibly with a dispersal value: ...
Please tell me the literature in which you can find information about the pupal stage. About how and what processes occur .
In general terms, the question can be found in the book by V. A. Dogel "Zoology of invertebrates", pp. 372-374. This is a textbook for biofac ...
Good day to all. Maybe someone knows if there are peacocks in central Ukraine (more precisely in Cherkasy) region. I only started fishing in July, although I've been working on butterflies for 7 years. None of them have arrived. I used ...
I already asked look in the topic Buying-Selling-Exchanging insectson page 21 from post 1033 to 1042 incl. There's a bitof Luck
Does the Western May beetle occur in Russia? If so, what is its areal
I caught it in April in the Belgorod region; apparently, it is quite common there.
GEORISSIDAE (COLEOPTERA: HYDROPHILOIDEA – - A NEW FAMILY OF COLEOPTERA FOR THE FAUNA OF THE SARATOV REGIONA. S. SazhnevSaratov State University named after N. G. ChernyshevskyOn the rights of the manuscriptGeorissidae Laporte, 1840 – a small ...
so far, no one can say this, because the specialists have not seen it. I can't take a picture through mbs, because I have a photo with 52 holes in ...
Dear forumchane, I understand that you are already tired of questions like " who is this?", "what is it?", but if not you , then who else will bring the uneducated to reason (((I, as a veterinarian and generally a lover of all sorts of living ...
Konakovsky moss fence, even as!
Recently removed from Hyles euphorbiae all the "scaly" cover, as a result of the brow found on the front edge of the rear wing, at the base of the spike or claw, I do not know how to correctly.. so-its length is ~2 mm, mobile(like the dorsal fin of ...
By the way, I noticed that Google translates texts into English much better than into Russian, so I always use English translation.
8.08.199 some year caught us in Snezhinsk (north of the Chelyabinsk region) Catocala promissa! To the nearest oak trees 250-300 kilometers is the west of the Chelyabinsk region, chestnuts and ash trees we also do not smell (ash planting of course on ...
If in the pictures it is, then in the Moscow region (MO. Ramensky district, Khripan) it periodically arrives at the light in July. ...
I offer my version of the reasons why locust hortobionts have their foreheads tilted down and back:ftp://lib.herzen.spb.ru/text/ozersky_141_124_131.pdf
I offer my version of the reasons why locust hortobionts have their foreheads tilted down and ...
A male proserpine hawk moth was caught today on 20.05.2008 in Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk region, during the day on a wall under a street lamp, where it apparently arrived at night. Completely fresh. Previously, it was not registered in the north of the ...
From the Moscow region. It's a bit rare, I'll say it or I don't catch it purposefully..
I was in Altai this summer.Question: what did fresh urticaria and xanthomelas do at an altitude of 3000m, where there is snow in the summer, in large quantities?There are no forage plants nearby.Do the whole crowd fly so high and why?
Butterflies are not geese, and they do not voluntarily climb mountains higher than 6 thousand meters. And in the mountains starting from 1-1, 5-2 ...
At the beginning of September, to my great surprise, I found several humpback buffalo specimens (Stictocephala bisonia K. Y. or S. bubalis F.) in floodplain meadows in the vicinity of Samara. Prior to this, I was convinced from the books that this ...
Who else could have made such incisions?There have been suggestions that these are natural cracks in the crust, but you are probably right.
Good day to all. I was looking at photos of Madagascar butterflies, right here http://www.tury.ru/photo/id/659411#photo Much to my surprise, I found portraits of peacock's eye, Urticaria, and the admiral. The question is, what should they do there? ...
The plants under the butterflies also confused me:for example, well-recognized and completely non-tropical physostegia and buddleia.Buddleia is ...
I apologize if a similar question has already been raised, but I didn't find it.The Ussuri teliphon (Typopeltis amurensis)is a species of tailed spider(Thelyphonida).It is mentioned in many reports and reference books in reviews of the fauna of our ...
Yes, it's interesting,but the same person found it and described it?I had an idea-since no one else has found it for more than a hundred years since ...
I came across a good site. The topic of traces of insects ' vital activity was repeatedly discussed at the forum. However, I didn't find any topics dedicated specifically to mines in my search. I suggest posting everything related to them here ...
"House" of the bagworm butterfly-PsychidaeFor " Excuse me, but what is it?" there is a topic: Classification of insects -> Who is it? ...
That's a mystery, isn't it?.. Last year, in a nearby square near the house, I heard for the first time one singer, this year there are already at least several of them. There is no directional microphone, no way to catch it. I walk around the tree, ...
Cicadetta montana is known from the vicinity of St. Petersburg, but only locally - on the Duderhof heights. This year, their exuviae were collected ...
Today, a female rhino was born. Will the males like Saturnia fly to the female?
There was also a sawmill behind the church-there was a logging yard, and that's where I fished. But, of course, not three-liter cans I remember the ...
This year we have an incredible number of visitors in Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk region! They fly right around the city and out of the city, almost knocking you down. I went out of town for more than 100 km, and on the highway I hit them everywhere with ...
Today, in 1 hour, I caught 17 mourning birds near a thin branch of willow dripping with juice. The most interesting thing is that I poured the bait ...
In autumn, the yellow moth butterflies look like yellow leaves and hide among them. Their legs, antennae and wing contours become reddish, similar to the red petioles of autumn leaves.Jaundice on the amorphous shrub and on a poplar leaf, Nikolaev, ...
what were they like in the summer???Apparently completely green, with brown paws
Hello! I would really like to hear everyone's opinion on this issue. Is it necessary to create micro-zapovedniks, these untouched islands of nature, or not? Where is the problem of creating them already acute? How do you need to organize them ...
The late Grebennikov (the last years of his life - N-sk) was a "fan" of this business - "micro-zapovedniks". M. B., you-there (well, in a "good" ...
Good evening dear forumchane!!!For a long time, I doubted whether or not to create such a topic, but still, I finally decided. Actually, here is the question: are there any representatives of the lepidopteran fauna on the New Siberian Islands, and ...
For Cosine, you were interested in how you can get to Novosibirsk, so I'll tell you this, perhaps interesting for you thing.My friend once again flew ...
To begin with - a list of higher raznoustykh without scoops and moths.Comments will be posted in a separate post.A. E. Blinushov, S. I. Ananyeva, M.E. Blinushova Mixed-whiskered lepidoptera of the Ryazan regionFrequency of occurrence: single (units) ...
..I understand, with nocturnals as it is more fun...- a joke of humor...
Hello! The other day, walking through the forest, I met about 3 species of weevils (judging by the color). I am interested in whether they can somehow be determined by their appearance (morphologically) or whether you need to pick at the genitals? ...
Hello! The other day, walking through the forest, I met about 3 species of weevils (judging by the color). I am interested in whether they can ...
When do butterflies "form" the sex of an individual? In the egg? Caterpillar (what ages)?
the sex of an individual is formed at the stage of fertilization. Accordingly, the eggs already have a certain sex.
About 20 thousand hectares of spruce will die in the Moscow region from bark beetles, if May is warm, said RIA Novosti on Thursday, Deputy Director of the federal state institution "Russian Center for Forest Protection" Alexey Bobrinsky.The bark ...
The typographer appeared and the settlement of fir trees, upturned or broken by last year's hurricane, began. I didn't manage to visit the places of ...
There are a lot of questions for specialists,so I decided to open the topic.where and how to find certain types of insects in the natural environment, especially their larvae and pupae.I think it would be good to know more precisely on which tree to ...
I remembered another plant - honeysuckle of the genus Lonicera!
I wonder if the bear eats earthworms and crustacean larvae. Being recently in the garden, I dug a compost pit, which I dug in the spring. So in the spring there were about 30 larvae of presumably cetonias. and the rhinos. I dug through 1.5 cubic ...
this is not an idle question . my house and vegetable garden is on the sand the garden is thirty centimeters covered with imported soil.More than 10 ...
Can you tell me if it is possible to find caterpillars, pupae or butterflies in mid-March(Ukraine-Zaporizhia region)?
I even could not think that there is something there after my "inspections" I did not notice a single scratch on the leaves)) But you really need to ...
I brought a live scarab to a friend from the Southern Military District of Kazakhstan as a gift. He put him in a bucket, threw some manure, and he rolled balls. A friend asks-do only females roll balls or not? and if it rolls - will there be larvae?
And where in Kazakhstan did they stay? I wish I had a little scarab to stare at!!! I'm in the Karaganda region in Pavlodar )
Interseno, who has any data or maybe their observations met on ringed centipedes regarding reproduction and the presence of parthenogenesis, especially in the Ukrainian population? I just now determined the sex by examining the sexual appendages ...
Interseno, who has any data or maybe their observations met on ringed centipedes regarding reproduction and the presence of parthenogenesis, ...
Recently I became interested in the butterfly Urania sloanus from Jamaica. On some English-language site, I came across information that it is generally considered extinct, since it was last caught in nature in 1894-95. I asked a friend who is also ...
Last week I saw a Urania butterfly on a German-language eBay auction, but of a completely unknown species, similar to Urania Boisduvali.
List of scavengers (Trogidae) Saratov regionA. S. SazhnevSaratov State Agrarian University named after N. I. Vavilov Saratov Branch of REOon the rights of the manuscriptThe Trogidae family includes about 300 species of world fauna [5]. In the fauna ...
If it is not difficult, could you post an image, I do not have this work at hand. Thank you.
Parasitologists from the Pasteur Institute (France) have discovered an unusual subspecies of the malarial mosquito.In sub-Saharan Africa, malaria kills about 710,000 people a year. The most dangerous form of the disease, caused by a parasite called ...
Wow=)) Such as bites - it will not seem enough=)))))))))))))
A couple of days ago, I sent another review and theoretical article to the collection published by our Department of Zoology-a bit adapted to the autonomous existence of a piece of the upcoming monograph. To be honest, I use the collection as a ...
There will be no corrections in this article, since it is in print, but I will take the comments into account when preparing the final text of the ...
On this site met last year the beetle malashka Semijulistus callosus. I would very much like to know what kind of distribution this beetle has. Whatthe larva feeds on, in general, the way of life. Thanks!
Much less often we have another species of this genus - Anthocomus equestris. Caught only twice, and both times on the fly in the city of ...
Today I posted another article on the Internet, which will be on paper in the cathedral collection. Unlike the article about the metaphenotype, this work of mine seems to me necessary, but not so interesting. It examines the environments of life and ...
I have identified both insects and plants in my time. The professor is quite normal in lectures, but he does not pretend to be pseudo-serious and ...
Good day to you Ladies and Gentlemen!The question of the possibility of gynogenesis in coleoptera interested me from the moment when I caught a pair: a female Dytiscus latissimus Linnaeus, 1758 and a male Dytiscus marginalis Linnaeus, 1758, which is ...
Did RippeR understand me completely correctly ? on gynogenesis, and latissimus "special case"
I wonder what is the situation in scientific entomology regarding ethology in the Russian-speaking sector, so to speak? Are there any scientific works in this area? Or is it assumed that everything is already known?
Hmm, yes, this is a more accurate method, so you can find the frequency of swings by idea and by buzzing. You can do this with a photo approximately ...
Please enlighten me, I have seen many times how insects (diptera mostly, it seems to me) cling to the tops of plants and die. Here, for example:(The wind was strong, not sharp). It feels like something has come out between the segments-hyphae? Or ...
Here is probably something similar, from Karelia. Also, until I read the topic, I didn't know that this was happening to them. Back in the spring, ...
It seems to me that bees have no identification of friend or foe.There are no prerequisites for this, millions of years of evolution lived without ...
Hello everyone.I spent the whole summer hunting the two butterflies listed above, and a couple of days ago I saw a mourning bird (near the pond). I saw it 3 times a day (I don't know if it's the same one), but I couldn't catch it. It doesn't appear ...
Swallowtail in the field north of Ramenskoye (M. O.) at the end of July this year was observed in abundance (caught 15 pieces), last year the same ...
...And at the same time, there is also no desire to call it a zone (so that tautology does not arise). Example:AreaThe Palearctic zone.What can this" area " in the title be replaced with? Because if you call it an area, a person will expect more ...
OK, we take on armament. Thank you all for your comments.
I would be grateful for a short popular story about the biology of the harlequin. What trees it lives on,its movement patterns,reproduction,any interesting details and observations, whether it needs protection... Thank you.
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Can you tell me why there are significantly fewer diurnal butterflies than nocturnal ones?Day - 30,000, and night-150,000.This post was edited by Slavyan-02.09.2010 16: 04
Sorry, I got it all mixed up.This post was edited by Slavyan - 02.09.2010 16: 03
I have long been interested in the question of how complex the visual apparatus of insects is, especially in terms of its recognition part. If anyone knows any examples where an animal is able to distinguish one from the other, then share
I read about the good eyesight of ktyri, but for some reason I didn't notice it myself. They can see well, since they catch insects in flight, but ...
Dear friends, Help me find a list of lamelliferous species in Russia or the former USSR.
As far as I understand, this is not quite the full version.
I met in the memoirs of one of the inmates of the Peter and Paul Fortress:"In the summer, with the onset of good weather, the inhabitants in my cell increased: together with me, five flies settled here, and I watched with interest their behavior and ...
Maybe beetles are more tenacious?
I would like to know the distribution area of the spider Micrommata virescens family.Sparassidae.
Thank you all, the other day I already noticed it, small, among the potatoes, on the ground, it's strange that I didn't notice it before, maybe it's ...