A long-horned beetle (maybe Agpanthia villosoviridescens) crawls around on flower buds near the shore of Lake Baikal.
It’s winter here in present-day Boston, and working my way through these Russian summer photos is a unique form of torture for someone who’s never fully adjusted to winter being a season. It looks so warm and sunny and bright in the photos, and it’s so gray and cold outside. Augh. While I was busy longing for the eternal summers in our photos, I thought I’d put together a post of all the various Russian bugs we saw. I did one for Stolby Nature Preserve already, so this will be everything else. Now you can long for summer right along with me, or if you don’t like bugs, be grateful that summer is still a ways away.
A salticid waves hello from its perch on my finger, Ulan-Ude.A large black ant rests while foraging, Ulan-Ude.A grasshopper hides under the embellishments of an ornately-carved door at the Outdoor Ethnographic Museum, Ulan-Ude.A salticid perches atop a wooden beam at the Outdoor Ethnographic Museum in Ulan-Ude.A ladybug (perhaps Cocinella magnifica) on the shores of Lake Baikal.Two scarce large blues (Phengaris teleius) mate on a legume flower near Lake Baikal.Two long-horned beetles mate on a bed of flowers near Lake Baikal.A bee beetle (Trichius fasciatus) climbing on flower buds along the shores of Baikal.A brilliantly-colored crustacean shell, cast away by its owner on the shores of Lake Baikal.Half of a beetle shell, maybe from Cetonia magnifica, from along the shores of Baikal.A salticid found a park in Ulan-Ude.A Scallop Shell Moth (Rheumaptera undulata) rests on a window in St. Petersburg.A checkered blue butterfly (Scolitantides orion) rests on a granite step in Ulan-Ude.A horsefly perches on a wooden post at the Outdoor Ethnographic Museum, Ulan-Ude.A water snail slides over the reeds of a local pond in the countryside just beyond of Moscow.
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Great insect and spider shots! 🙂
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