If anyone is interested, I can share my observation - how pterostichus (P. niger) hunted ants at night.
Motley birds of this kind are generally not averse to eating meat. I constantly see them attacking and devouring their flower neighbors.Yes, and ...
I've been riding in the Ostrovsky district since I was very young - I was lucky enough to meet sabzh only this year (several individuals). So far, the species has been reported only from the extreme southwest of the region (Sebezhsky district), so ...
I'm currently working on the fauna of the Far East (Amur region). Yesterday, while looking through the report of the Pryamoptera of Russia, I found a ...
I'm talking about wing threat. In the video I watched there, when one fly runs next to another, it suddenly raises and lowers its wings up. I thought, where did this behavior come from, is it genetically programmed or not? And then recently I go ...
I'm talking about wing threat. In the video I watched there, when one fly runs next to another, it suddenly raises and lowers its wings up. I ...
People!!! For me, it's still a mystery, how do collections get, well, for example, barbels?Are these random finds? or are there any methods, traps, tricks, etc.???
For example, glycerol is a triatomic alcohol (3 OH groups), and propylene glycol contains 2 OH groupsExactly... Oh, then it's much more difficult to ...
Ordinary flies, the kind that are full of them, some of them drink blood, I mean, they sit down and bite, you don't know? (I somehow have an idea that they do this)To me this is due to the origin of the bloodsuckers interesting (After all, the ...
I didn't know. Pure intuition and professional skills)
I can't find any information about the reproduction of primiptera. It is about reproduction, not about development. If anyone knows , please share it. I will be grateful p. s. I'm not an expert in this topic, so I'm sorry if the question is ...
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Yesterday I saw flying mosquitoes in the winter forest!Location: Zelenograd (Moscow region), a forest park in the city center (behind MIET). There is a path through the forest, there are no houses or pipes nearby (at least a few hundred meters ...
Small dung beetles (Scarabaeidae, subfamily. Aphodiinae)
Caught a friend of Smerintus in Moscow. I straightened it out and noticed that it wasn't ocellatus. What types of Smertintus are found there? I'm leaning more towards caecus, what do you think?
Yes, indeed, it is true, they say, if you want the job to be done well, do it yourself.
Where do moth larvae get their water from?After all, there is no moisture in wool products, and dew does not fall on them either?
Water is certainly metabolic. For example, when keratin is digested, a water molecule is released along with the formation of a cysteine molecule. ...
Any information on sirfids is required. There is very little information on the Internet. I didn't really find anything in the library.Help anyone who can! Urgently!
Google gives out 279,000 sites for the word "syrphidae" and 374 for "sirfids"
It is possible that somewhere and told me about this amazing, in my opinion, insect. But in what topic - the search does not give anything. Yes, and Googling also led me to see how special it is, and I would like to know what kind of modification it ...
So there are a lot of them, bombers... But no one tried to compare, say, the development of its "bombarding" glands, to understand what they come ...
Why does a praying mantis girl eat her fiance after the wedding?
The mantis is an ambush predator, and if the males are still somewhat active, the females are usually very sedentary, and after mating they will not ...
friends, could you help me find the photo of nectarina millifera
Yes , I agree, Richards is a real expert! And how many species described....
It is known that budding colonies is one of the breeding options for social insects, but what happens when bees swarm is clear - the queen, which flies with a swarm, does not interfere with mating with males, but how are ants doing? Does the female ...
Well yes rather it is a drone polyploid obtained by disrupting cell division in chromosomes
We need descriptions of various insects. The average number of letters is 200, minimum 90 - maximum 450. It would be very good if the size, sex differences, ecology, larva, and similar species were indicated. Please do....please....at least provide ...
If there was anything in the library, I wouldn't ask questions or go to no at all !
Does anyone know how the female and male of the red ribbon bear differ in appearance?
Easy, I think, on the genitals. If pupae, then at the tip of the abdomen.And the imago also has the tip of the abdomen - the female has a pointed ...
Friends, I have a very practical interest in the habitat areas (sorry for the unscientific terms) of midges, well, mosquitoes to the heap, to the south, south-west, south-east of Moscow, about 150-300 kilometers. I want to identify for myself the ...
Yes, Crimea is a nice place.Especially for catching insects.Oleander hawkmoth is the dream of any insect lover.
What is the distribution of glaciers within the city of Moscow? Where and in what month is their greatest concentration observed?Already caught in Moscow and MO glaciers-share your knowledge and experience of their (glaciers) effective search!(Data ...
Yes, this is very interesting, I will try to make some inquiries. Although it seems to me that they are not here, well, I have never heard of ...
I apologize in advance for bothering you.I am engaged in translating board games from English, and recently started translating the game "Hidden Empire" about the life of ants. I came across several terms that I would like to clarify with ...
"2. Virgin Queen" - winged females (still unfertilized). By analogy, winged males should also be present in the game Why, 'that would be fun - ...
last year, when I went to Lake Issyk-Kul, I saw a statue,this pack was in the form of a tennis player, and this tennis player,sorry, a crack formed between her legs, so the wasps settled there, they flew out, flew in, the family was powerful, and ...
great story, is there more?
Tell me, please, how long do grasshoppers sleep here?
I mean, concentration is more difficult, although they don't care - they don't have consciousness, which means they don't bother so stupidly Another ...
Dear orthopterologists and interested persons!I tried to make a rough list of European species of the genus Poecilimon:http://www.livejournal.com/users/kotbegemot/119945.htmlIt is completely raw, I would like to hear criticism, additions, ...
There is also a list of all the right-winged birds in Europe with their distribution by region.:Heller K.G., Korsunovskaya O.S., Ragge D.R., Vedenina ...
Dear entomologists,Tell me, pliz, is there any information about the dependence (in relation to the cardinal directions) in the direction of the "entrance" to the nest (as a structure) in insects (which, of course, have such structures)?Maybe there ...
What was required to prove!Thank you, hunter.
Fellow entomologists,I have two questions for you.1. Is it easy to confuse (distinguish) "in years" (i.e., when determining from external data without catching two types of bumblebees Bombus terrestris and Bombus lucorum? I read an article on their ...
comrades, how can I attract bumblebees for nesting in the spring, please chew them, and in the forest in what places to look,in burrows-no, there are ...
Recently, I noticed a sharp drop in the number of hawk moth and nymphalid caterpillars in Moscow! Bindweed, willow-tea, wild carrots, nettles-almost empty! This year, during the summer in Moscow, I met only a few nymphalid caterpillars! What can ...
The fact is that there are not so many butterflies whose caterpillars live in clusters.Well, there are peacock's eye and mottledwing on the nettle. A ...
In recent years, a sharp increase in the number of lasius negra ants has been observed in the Moscow, Voronezh, Vladimir, Tula, and Ryazan regions.Anthills appear mainly on the site of molehills, earth piles formed as a result of moles throwing out ...
Hmm, or maybe they have some form of community - interspecific? Were there females of both species in the "hybrid" anthills? I thought, if only ...
In our city, in Yaroslavl, black ants appear in the summer, it seems, at the end of July, at the beginning of August, which run on the asphalt, some with wings. I have long wanted to know what kind of ants they are, and where they come from?Don't ...
In our city, too, wingless female lasiuses have now appeared in large numbers-they are almost everywhere - on the highway, in gardens, in shops. If ...
Dear experts of the insect world!Sorry that the question is a little off topic, I just got desperate to find it on the Internet. The question is: where (in which country/region) are hornets not found? The North Pole is not meant to suggest a more or ...
I've been meaning to ask about that article for a long time.Is it true that as it is written there:1) " Building material hornets are made from the ...
Somewhere in another topic, I already wrote about the strange aggressiveness of Turkish stinging eardrums (compared to ours). The last trip only confirmed this. This was especially evident in the case of the Marmaris xylocopas, which are by no means ...
Yes, in our Far East, too, religiosa hissed like that. At first I didn't understand where the sound came from, but then I became interested and found ...
Nadys in to the topic " Who is this?" I threw a photo of a dragonfly taken (not by me!) somewhere in the United States (not Mexico). Unfortunately, the species identity of the dragonfly has not been established. Having searched the Internet myself, ...
Well, thanks to the only one who responded Small Internet research has led to the following results. There are really few types of beauties. By ...
People!!!Tell me what you can catch in August in the Middle Urals.Diurnal butterfly species,as well as their biotopes, are of interest.Please skip the Latin names.And then I absolutely do not have any material on this teme
tytaler I reset all the information with soap.
No one knows what butterflies are often found in Tuapse? And then I'm going to go there on vacation, and what to catch there is no idea! This post was edited by Bolivar - 01.06.2006 09: 58
Yes, that's nonsense! IMHO, P. machaon is not a species whose numbers (on a regional scale) can be threatened only by trapping, reasonable trapping, ...
Are there any participants who are interested in the life of social wasps, bumblebees, and bees?I am very interested in the experience of keeping families of bumblebees, P. germanica wasps, and polistov, observing them in nature and studying the ...
I think so.
I've been curious since the summer.As you know, I'm a woodworker. Sawed birch plywood on the street, it is clear that sawdust sawed a lot. And so the wasps flocked to these sawdust. That is, specifically for sawdust, no jam, no honey, or any food ...
people, if you want to know about the OS, ask me,I'll tell you exactly what kind of os
I have the opportunity to go to Primorsko-Akhtarsk, which is on the Sea of Azov. But I'll go there if there's anything to catch. Who knows what there is or should be of beetles and butterflies that can be caught in the light? Parents say that the ...
I'll take a look during the hikes, maybe I'll find out what..
Is it possible to use the terms "phallus" or "penis"when talking about insects? Or is it just about animals?
The edeagus consists of 3 parts: the penis (medial part), the tegmen (often divided into a basal part (phallobase) and parameres attached to the ...
Here's a wonderful thing I apparently, but if it comes to that..Next week I'll be trying to catch Dolbinku Elegans again for a couple of nights. This time I want to catch one and leave it at least (if I catch it at all) alive to breed So please ...
Females can be distinguished from males by the antennae (in females it is thinner), by the abdomen.Below is a link to the Tony Pittaway ...
Kolegi, can you tell me where mass populations of Aporia have been found in the last three years? We didn't have much of it, but it didn't exist at all, and in the last three years it has even been replaced by P. brassicae, the bastard)
I would not say that the population in Estonia is so uneven. It is consistently abundant in suitable biotopes.
Here I have noticed more than once that some catocals have a pattern on the wings of different severity, that is, on the upper wings.I wonder what this is related to? Are these catocals gynandromorphs?It doesn't seem to be related to the scuff when ...
Hmm, but this is interesting: after all, the ancient Greeks called hermaphrodites what we call gynandromorphs.
Who knows what function the clippings on the outer edge of the mandibles serve?In particular, ground beetles of the genus Acinopus and Badister. Acinopus has tenderloins (1 pc.) on the right, and Badisters have tenderloins on the right and on the ...
2 AdamovIt might be worth looking at this article:Acorn J.H., Ball G.E.The mandibles of some adult ground beetles: structure, function, and evolution ...
The larvae of the bronzer have very well developed, but inactive legs, on a flat surface it moves on its back, with undulating movements of the back muscles. Please explain why! This post was edited by Lex - 17.04.2006 17: 26
Have you seen or smelled it?
when animating a 3D model of the Black Swallowtail caterpillar (Papilio polyxenes)http://www.ibiblio.org/e-notes/VRML/blaxxun/caterpillar.htm(only about 100kb with textures) I periodically squeeze it-stretch it and at the same time move it evenly to ...
I made her crawl properly!http://www.ibiblio.org/e-notes/VRML/blaxxun/caterpillar.htmtrue, I don't really like that butterflies don't flutter (like ...
There is an opinion that animals, uh-uh... those who live at high speed don't see anything slow, is that true? This post was edited by Lex - 12.04.2006 18: 49
Try to swat the fly and make a slightly sharp movement with your hand - you will see how it does not see. Maybe, of course, the hairs will smell the ...
And immediately I remember Australia... And its long-suffering legislation that restricts the import and export of living biological objects.www.membrana.ru/articles/global/2005/12/22/172000.html --"...Ant enemies are considered to be about 20 ...
Well, Melaloncha is not found here, I just wrote about Hypocera. About how they suddenly moved away from parasitism for the first time I heard from ...
I can't figure out what kind of insects are flying outside my window (at the second floor level). Since autumn ended prematurely in Moscow (the temperature dropped to about 0), some small insects have flown out en masse. They fly in a swarm ...
I think these are mosquitoes from the family Trichoceridae, or winter mosquitoes. They are quite common for such temperatures, and constantly form ...
Greetings to all.I decided to share a photo taken this summer. A fly with a parasite that looks like a small scorpion is sitting on my arm. I don't rule out that he wants my blood:-). Maybe someone from the pros will come in handy!Alexander. ...
And we isolated them from anthills in the Moscow region by sifting through a sieve
to Bolivar: About migrant hawkmoth.My supervisor spoke specifically about the loach hawk moth.The oleander hawk moth, as well as several other southern (Mediterranean) species, are characterized by migrations, but only a few specimens migrate, while ...
So, this species is not such an obligate phytophage? I didn't say that. Sometimes they still end up on the ground, but not far from the pines.You ...
What do you recommend reading about the biology and ecology of polar (tundra) bats?
I looked at the map. As for the main part of the range, it is certainly questionable. But there is also an incompleteness. In particular, the ...